[INDOLOGY] Sūrya-siddhānta critical edition?

Mon Apr 10 13:12:24 UTC 2023

Thank you very much, Jonathan,

I didn't find anything in this article about the numerations, but it leads
to Burnouf's Lotus de la bonne loi, where I found that the great French
indologist dared to assign values to the units listed after the *tallakṣaṇa*.
Unhappily, this doesn't solve the other problems yet. The article also
points to Hokazono Koichi's modern edition of the Lalitavistara, which
could be very useful. I tried to find his volume I (containing chapter XII)
on Internet, but couldn't (at least on Google). Do you know how to find it
online ?

Best regards,

Jean Michel

Le lun. 10 avr. 2023 à 12:09, Jonathan Silk <kauzeya at gmail.com> a écrit :

> 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 7
>> 10.12.2.4.1000.4 *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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