The editors of History of Science in South Asia are pleased to announce a new article that appeared a few days ago, "Garga and Early Astral Science in India" by
Marko Geslani, Bill Mak, Michio Yano, and Kenneth G. Zysk.  http://dx.doi.org/10.18732/H2ND44

Abstract

This article forms a preliminary report on the work by an international group of scholars on Garga, an important early authority on astral science (jyotiṣa). Reviewing past research on the texts associated with this figure, we focus especially on the earliest text, the Gārgīyajyotiṣa (ca. first century CE?), a compendium of material on astral and terrestrial omens, ritual, horoscopy, and astronomy, that prefigures Varāhamihira's well-known Bṛhatsaṃhitā. The contributions include text-critical observations based on select chapters, remarks on astral omens and their relevance to the possible dating of the text, and a discussion of the texts potential for the study of Hindu ritual. The article also begins to disambiguate the broader Garga corpus by including a chapter summary of a somewhat later Gargasaṃhitā, containing mainly astronomical materials.

This article concludes HSSA issue 5.1.  Issue 5.2, which  is in press, is a special themed issue, Transmutations: Rejuvenation, Longevity, and
Immortality Practices in South and Inner Asia, guest-edited by Dagmar Wujastyk, Suzanne Newcombe, and Christèle Barois.

Best,

Dominik Wujastyk

Editorial board member, HSSA.