[INDOLOGY] Date and place of a manuscript

[Martin Gansten]

Dear Jean Michel,

I just tried Prof. Yano's Pancanga 
<https://www.cc.kyoto-su.ac.jp/~yanom/pancanga/index.html>, and it 
worked for me:

   AD 1771  9  18 Wednesday | JD (at noon)= 2368165 | Kali-ahargana= 1779699
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   Pancanga based on Suryasiddhanta (AD 1000 ca)
     at latitude=23.2, longitude=75.8
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  Indian date (luni-solar year and amanta month)  (*) local sunrise... 5h 56m
    (Nirayana True Longitude at sunrise. Sun:   5s  4d,  Moon:   8s 28d)
  year(atita):Saka 1693 |Vikrama 1828 |Kali 4872 | ayanamsa: 19d  5m
              Jovian(North):zubhakRt(36) |Jovian(South):khara(25)
  lunar month, paksa, and tithi(at sunrise):
        Bhadrapada Suklapaksa 10 (fraction = 0.497)
  solar month and day: Kanya   5 (samkranti: on 1771  9 14 at  0h 13m)
  naksatra.... U-asadha  /  karana...taitila     /  yoga...zobhana


Best wishes,
Martin Gansten


Den 2026-10-19 kl. 07:47, skrev Jean Michel DELIRE via INDOLOGY:
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> Some weeks ago, I submitted to your discernment the analysis of a 
> colophon I found in a manuscript from Kota, and I was not at all 
> disappointed by your answers.
> This colophon contains the following date : In the year 1693 (śake 
> ®1771 AD), bright half [of the month] Bhādra, in the tenth tithi, a 
> Wednesday, but I can't translate it into a precise A.D. date, because 
> Yano's program seems not to work on the net.
> Do you have better access to that program so that I could find the day 
> and month ?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Jean Michel Delire
>
> Le mer. 2 sept. 2026 à 11:34, Jean Michel DELIRE 
> <jeanmicheldelire at gmail.com> a écrit :
>
>     Dear Friends,
>
>     I recently received a copy of a manuscript from Kota, entitled
>     /rekhāgaṇitalaghubodha, /of which I attach the last folio, with
>     the colophon.
>     The date śake 1693 is given, which corresponds to 1771 AD,
>     compatible with the date of the Jaipur's /rekhāgaṇita/, with which
>     this manuscript offers some similarities.
>     My question concerns the word preceding the date, that is rāmā(or
>     śarmā ?)kabhūpāla. Does it indicate a king of that period and/or
>     does this word alter the date ? A place is also mentioned :
>     dillīnagare tu korāvakaṭake. Is korāva(or ba) a place near Delhi ?
>     Finally, does anyone know something about the author
>     miśramohanalāla, son of miśrahīrādhara ? And about malikhadvāla ?
>     I don't find anything in Pingree's /CESS/, except a mohanalāla,
>     who lived after 1850 (/CESS/, vol.5, p.317), which is a century
>     too late.
>
>     Best regards and thanks for your help,
>
>     Jean Michel Delire, Brussels
>
>
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