Dear colleagues:

I am asking on behalf of a colleague who is not  a member of Indology listserv. I have excerpted his email below. 

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I’m writing to kindly ask whether you’ve come across, in Sanskrit—or any other South or East Asian—astronomical or primary sources, any description or reference to an astronomical instrument known in modern literature as an equatorium.

 

I’m also wondering if you’ve seen any diagrams in Sanskrit texts that depict planetary models enclosed by a graduated ecliptic circle. For reference, I’ve attached two examples of such diagrams from Arabic and Persian sources.

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I welcome any suggestions/comments on this.

With kind regards,

AJ

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Anuj MISRA, Ph.D (he/him) 

Max Planck Research Group Leader

RG: Astral Sciences in Trans-Regional Asia (ASTRA)

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG)

Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, GERMANY

Room 102, Harnackstraße 5

+49 30 22667 313

amisra@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

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Professor of the History of Science and the History of Knowledge

Institute for the History of Knowledge in the Ancient World

Department of History and Cultural Studies, Free University of Berlin

Arnimallee 10, 14195 Berlin, GERMANY

Room 205

+49 03 838 59046

a.misra@fu-berlin.de

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Affiliated External Researcher (2024─25)

Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies (CCRS)

University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, DENMARK

anuj.misra@hum.ku.dk

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Adjunct Senior Fellow (since September 2021)

School of Mathematics and Statistics | Te Kura Pāngarau

University of Canterbury | University of Canterbury

Christchurch, NEW ZEALAND

aj.misra@canterbury.ac.nz

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