[INDOLOGY] Sūrya-siddhānta critical edition?

Mon Apr 10 13:33:18 UTC 2023

Dear Jean Michel,

If no one already has a digital copy of Hokazono's edition of the
Lalitavistara, vol. 1, I can scan my photocopy of it later today.

Best regards,

David Reigle
Colorado, U.S.A.

On Mon, Apr 10, 2023 at 7:13 AM Jean Michel DELIRE via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> 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 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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