[INDOLOGY] Sūrya-siddhānta critical edition?

[Jonathan Silk]

Dear Colleague

I cannot pretend to the slightest knowledge of mathematics (Indian or
otherwise), but concerning the *Lalitavistara* and its Sanskrit text, I
might dare refer you to
https://www.academia.edu/83898564/Recent_Scholarship_on_the_Lalitavistara

Best, Jonathan Silk

On Mon, Apr 10, 2023 at 11:40 AM Jean Michel DELIRE via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Thank you very much, Lubomir, for uploading this edition, and David, for
> pointing to the book, which I will certainly use for my course on History
> of Indian mathematics (and astronomy).
> Also for this course, I am nowadays struggling with a part of the
> Lalitavistara, where the Buddha is showing his ability in numbers. His
> enumeration of powers of 10, from the *koṭi *to the *tallakṣaṇa*, is very
> clear. But things become obscure when he continues his enumeration with
> other (supposed) powers of 10. The problem is that he says that the next
> one, the *dhvajāgravatī*, is able to count all the sand of the Gaṅgā,
> while the sixth one, the *sarvanikṣepa*, is able to count all the sand of
> ten Gaṅgā. How is it possible if every unit equals the previous one
> multiplied by ten (and what else could it be) ? Apart from noting that this
> kind of enumeration and its use for counting the sand reminds very much
> Archimede's Sandreckoner, I must add that there are discrepancies between
> the two translations I know (de Foucaux 1988 (1884) and Goswami 2001) and
> also with the 'sanskrit' text of Śāntibhikṣu Śāstrī 1984. After this
> enumeration, comes a scale which rely the last unit, the
> *paramāṇurajaḥpraveśānugata*, to the yojana, by multiplying it by 7 ten
> times, and then again by 12, 2, 4, 1000 and 4, so that a yojana equals 710
> .12.2.4.1000.4 *paramāṇurajaḥpraveśānugatas*. And, of course, the Buddha
> asks if somebody can tell how many *paramāṇurajaḥpraveśānugatas* would
> contain a bowl of 1 yojana. Here again, the answer seems awkward for it
> amounts to 1028 while it should be more than 1041. Does anyone have an
> explanation for these mistakes, or know of a paper or a book which
> discusses these problems ?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Jean Michel
>
> *Jean Michel DELIRE*
> *Lecturer on History of mathematics - IHEB (ULB)*
> *Lecturer on **Science and civilisation of India - Sanskrit Texts - IHEB
> (ULB)*
> *Member of the Centre National d'Histoire des Sciences (KBR, Bruxelles)*
> *Member of the Société Asiatique (Paris)*
>
> Le lun. 10 avr. 2023 à 10:37, Lubomír Ondračka via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> a écrit :
>
>> I just uploaded the pdf of the book that David sent me:
>> https://archive.org/details/suryasiddhanta-shukla
>>
>> If anyone have the pdf of Sumatitantram that David writes about in the
>> next email, please send it to me, I would be happy to upload it on
>> archive.org as well.
>>
>> Best
>> Lubomir
>>
>>
>> On 09.04.2023 21:51, David and Nancy Reigle via INDOLOGY wrote:
>> > I was wondering if there is a critical edition of the
>> /Sūrya-siddhānta/.
>> > I could not find one. However, there is something very close to one,
>> > although it is not called a critical edition. It is Kripa Shankar
>> > Shukla's edition, /The Sūrya-siddhānta with the Commentary of
>> > Paramesvara/. Lucknow University: Department of Mathematics and
>> > Astronomy, 1957. For the text of the /Sūrya-siddhānta/, he gives full
>> > variant readings from manuscripts of the text as commented on by
>> > Mallikārjuna Sūri (1178 CE), Yallaya (1472 CE), and Rāmakṛṣṇa Ārādhya
>> > (1472 CE), besides from the printed edition of Raṅganātha's commentary
>> > edited by Jīvānanda Vidyāsāgara. He says that he also consulted the
>> > commentaries by Bhūdhara (1572 CE) and Tamma Yajvā (1599 CE) for
>> > deciding between certain readings. Of course, the text is based on the
>> > commentary by Parameśvara (1432 CE), which predates the commonly used
>> > commentary by Raṅganātha (1603 CE) by nearly two centuries. When he has
>> > chosen a reading different from Parameśvara's, he cites Parameśvara's
>> > reading as mū. pustake, for mūla-pustake.
>> >
>> > I did not find a digital copy of Shukla's edition online, but I have
>> > scanned the photocopy I made of it. Happy to send it to anyone who
>> wants
>> > it. Perhaps someone who knows how can upload it to the web.
>> >
>> >
>> > Best regards,
>> >
>> > David Reigle
>> >
>> > Colorado, U.S.A.
>> >
>> >
>> >
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