[INDOLOGY] Sciences and Tantra

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On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 7:14 PM Agathe Keller via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Dear Matthew,
>
> Alsdorf’s article is indeed on combinatorics in the metrical literature,
> not in mathematics…
> as for combinatorics in music there is notably in French
>
> Patte, François. 2012. “Rythmes et Algorithmes.” In *Astronomy and
> Mathematics in Ancient India - Astronomie et Mathématiques de l’Inde
> Ancienne Actes de La Journée d’études Organisée Le 24 Avril 2009 à
> l’Université Libre de Bruxelles*, edited by Jean-Michel Delire, 159–174.
> Peeters.
>
> and recently
> Petrocchi Alessandra. 2018. “Music Theory, Mathematics, and Patterns of
> Innovation in the Saṅgītaratnākara.” *Asiatische Studien - Études
> Asiatiques* 72 (2): 395. https://doi.org/10.1515/asia-2016-0003.
>
> best
>
> Agathe
>
> From: Matthew Kapstein <mkapstei at uchicago.edu> <mkapstei at uchicago.edu>
> Reply: Matthew Kapstein <mkapstei at uchicago.edu> <mkapstei at uchicago.edu>
> Date: 9 April 2019 at 15:25:13
> To: Agathe Keller <kelleragathe600 at gmail.com> <kelleragathe600 at gmail.com>,
> Paolo Eugenio Rosati <paoloe.rosati at gmail.com> <paoloe.rosati at gmail.com>,
> Indology <indology at list.indology.info> <indology at list.indology.info>
> Subject:  Re: [INDOLOGY] Sciences and Tantra
>
> Thank you Agathe,
>
>
> I wasn't intending to refer to Indian mathematics broadly, but just to the
> application outside of mathematics per se. Besides poetic metrics and
> "tantric geometry", I imagine that the musicological literature offers some
> other examples, but i do not know them off hand.
>
>
> best,
>
> Matthew
>
>
> Matthew Kapstein
> Directeur d'études,
> Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes
>
> Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies,
> The University of Chicago
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Agathe Keller <kelleragathe600 at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, April 9, 2019 8:19:23 AM
> *To:* Paolo Eugenio Rosati; Matthew Kapstein; Indology
> *Subject:* Re: [INDOLOGY] Sciences and Tantra
>
> Dear Matthew,
>
> On the topic of combinatorics (including Pascal triangle), Piṅgala and his
> commentators  there is a classical article by Ludwig Alsdorf
>
>  Die Pratyayas. Ein Beitrag zur indischen Mathematik". Zeitschrift fur
> Indologie und Iranistik, 9 (1933), pp. 97-157; reprinted in: Albrecht
> Wezler (ed.), Ludwig Alsdorf: Kleine Schriften, Wiesbaden, 1974, pp.
> 600-660.
>
> This paper was translated into English by  Sarma, S. R. 1991. “The
> Pratyayas: Indian Contributions to Combinatorics.” Indian Journal of
> History of Science 26: 17–61.
>
> although much still needs to be investigated, there are quite a number of
> publications on this topic  actually…
>
> best
>
> Agathe
>
> From: Matthew Kapstein via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info>
> <indology at list.indology.info>
> Reply: Matthew Kapstein <mkapstei at uchicago.edu> <mkapstei at uchicago.edu>
> Date: 9 April 2019 at 14:49:06
> To: Paolo Eugenio Rosati <paoloe.rosati at gmail.com>
> <paoloe.rosati at gmail.com>, Indology <indology at list.indology.info>
> <indology at list.indology.info>
> Subject:  Re: [INDOLOGY] Sciences and Tantra
>
> Dear Paolo,
>
>
> Although it is not quite on tantra, there is a highly interesting article
> in modern Sanskrit on the relationship between Sanskrit analysis of poetic
> metre and Pascal's triangle. I do not have the full reference available in
> my present location, but it may be found in the introduction to the late
> Michael Hahn's edition of the ChandoratnAkara, which may be available on
> his academia page, if that is still accessible.
>
>
>
> In Buddhist tantra, quite a lot has been written on the mathematics of the
> KAlacakratantra. The late Edward Henning's webpage kalacakra.org has some
> useful material on this, as does Henning's book, KAlacakra and the Tibetan
> Calendar.
>
>
> There is also quite a lot on this in German, by Dieter Schuh, but
> exclusively concerned with the Tibetan legacy of the Indian sources and not
> with the Indian materials themselves.
>
>
> best,
>
> Matthew
>
>
> Matthew Kapstein
> Directeur d'études,
> Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes
>
> Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies,
> The University of Chicago
> ------------------------------
> *From:* INDOLOGY <indology-bounces at list.indology.info> on behalf of Paolo
> Eugenio Rosati via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, April 9, 2019 4:47:07 AM
> *To:* Indology
> *Subject:* [INDOLOGY] Sciences and Tantra
>
> Dear indologists,
>
> Can anyone points me out any study on Tantra in connection to sciences,
> mathematics and more specifically geometry?
>
> With the best wishes,
> Paolo
>
> --
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> *PhD in Asian and African Studies*
> (South Asia Section)
> *Italian Institute of Oriental Studies*
> 'Sapienza' University of Rome
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>
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> Agathe Keller
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> tel : +33 1 57 27 68 87
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> Université Paris 7 Laboratoire SPHERE UMR 7219
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>  10 rue A.Domont et L.Duquet
> 75013 PARIS
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