[INDOLOGY] Jyotishkarandaka with Sanskrit Commentary available at DLI

[David and Nancy Reigle]

Many thanks to Kumar Shankara for sending me the following information
about the availability of the *Jyotiṣkaraṇḍaka* with the commentary of
Malayagiri:

The above book is available at Digital Library of India.
Jyotiskarndkam Prakirnam.
<http://www.dli.gov.in/cgi-bin/metainfo.cgi?&title1=Jyotiskarndkam%20Prakirnam&author1=Vallabhachariya&subject1=Devotional&year=1928%20&language1=sanskrit&pages=268&barcode=99999990321959&author2=&identifier1=&publisher1=Ratlam.,Rishabhdev%20Swetamber%20Sanstha&contributor1=&vendor1=NONE&scanningcentre1=Banasthali%20University&slocation1=NONE&sourcelib1=Bharatiya%20Vidya%20Bhavan%20Library,%20Mumbai&scannerno1=&digitalrepublisher1=Digital%20Library%20Of%20India&digitalpublicationdate1=2012-08-00&numberedpages1=&unnumberedpages1=&rights1=OUT_OF_COPYRIGHT&copyrightowner1=&copyrightexpirydate1=&format1=%20&url=/data14/upload/0012/789>,
99999990321959. Vallabhachariya. 1928. sanskrit. Devotional. 268 pgs.

Although I tried searching for it at DLI under several other spelling
combinations, I would never have thought of trying this spelling.

My best to him,

David Reigle
Colorado, U.S.A.


On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 5:15 PM, David and Nancy Reigle <dnreigle at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear Artur,
>
> I was not sure if you were seeking only information from the Indian jyotiṣa
> siddhānta texts, i.e., astronomical texts proper. You say here that you
> are preparing a short paper on the traces of the knowledge of several
> astronomical cycles --- as reflected in Indian mythological narratives. If
> we include mythological narratives as possible sources of knowledge of
> astronomical cycles, there are more sources to draw upon. One such source
> is the writings of R. Shamasastry (died 1944), which I mention in case you
> have not already consulted them.
>
> Most relevant to the saros cycle are Shamasastry's 1938 book, *Drapsa:
> The Vedic Cycle of Eclipses, a Key to unlock the treasures of the Vedas*,
> and his 1940 book, *Eclipse-Cult in the Vedas, Bible, and Koran, a
> Supplement to the "Drapsa"*. David Pingree in his 1973 article, "The
> Mesopotamian Origin of Early Indian Mathematical Astronomy," discusses the
> five-year cycle taught in the *Jyotiṣa-vedāṅga*, and notes that there is
> no obvious parallel to this in the 18-year saros eclipse cycle (p. 8): "If
> we look in cuneiform texts for a five-year intercalation-cycle, we are
> frustrated." Shamasastry attempts to show that the Vedic texts, through
> their symbolism, do refer to a 19-year eclipse cycle that is parallel to
> the saros cycle. He begins his Preface to *Drapsa* as follows:
>
> "What is ascribed to the Vedic poets in the following pages is not a
> knowledge of mathematical astronomy which they never had, nor prediction of
> eclipses with mathematical accuracy which they never did. All that is
> claimed for them is a knowledge of the famous eclipse-cycle which they seem
> to have been using in common with the Chaldeans, Israelites, and other
> contemporary nations."
>
> I do not have the knowledge to evaluate Shamasastry's statements, and I
> list these books only as possible sources to check. What attracted me to
> his writings was his 1936 translation of the *Vedangajyautisha*. The
> *Jyotiṣa-vedāṅga* is so brief that many of its verses are enigmatic.
> Shamasastry said that the same system was taught in the Jaina astronomical
> texts, *Sūryaprajñapti*, *Jyotiṣkaraṇḍa* (or *Jyotiṣakaraṇḍaka*), and
> *Kālalokaprakāśa*. Using these Jaina texts he arrived at what he thought
> were satisfactory interpretations of the enigmatic verses of the
> *Jyotiṣa-vedāṅga*. Here in *Drapsa*, too, he used one of these, as he
> says in his Preface (p. vii):
>
> "In interpreting the seven Vedic Metres as Gnoman's shadow-measures of
> seven ordinary or intercalary months and of the solstices, my chief
> authority is the Jaina astronomical work entitled the 'Kālalokaprakāśa'
> on the Gnoman's shadow-measure of months and solstices, with which the
> Vedic metrical shadow-measures are identical."
>
> I would be happy to provide scans of any of these writings that I refer
> to. These are normally ones that I have already gathered, either in the
> original or as photocopies that I made of them, and include the writings of
> R. Shamasastry, David Pingree, the *Jyotiṣa-vedāṅga*, and the
> *Sūryaprajñapti* with Malayagiri's commentary. The exceptions here are
> the *Kālalokaprakāśa* and the *Jyotiṣakaraṇḍaka* with Malayagiri's
> commentary (I do have the Prakrit *Jyotiṣakaraṇḍaka*, but I need the
> edition with the Sanskrit commentary, apparently 1928). Despite decades of
> searching, and even contacting David Pingree about them while he was still
> alive, I have not yet been able to obtain these two texts. If anyone can
> provide me with photocopies or scans of them, I would be very grateful.
>
> Best regards,
>
> David Reigle
> Colorado, U.S.A.
>
>
>


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