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Archaic & the Exotic: Studies in the History of Indian Astronomical Instruments


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The Fifteen papers collected in this volume are related to the author's investigations into the history of astronomical instruments in India. This history, so far untouched by others, is dominated by two currents: on the one hand the resilience of certain archaic instruments that held sway for long, on the other the receptivity of Indian astronomers towards exotic instruments from other cultures. Hence the title: The Archaic and the Exotic. The first part of the volume seeks to define the context in which the author's studies on Indian instruments are undertaken and emphasises the need for a combined study of Sanskrit astronomical texts and the extant instruments, besides pictorial depictions of instruments, notably in Mughal miniature paintings. The four papers in part II are devoted to an 'archaic' instrument, namely the sinking bowl variety of water clock, its history, its technical specifications and a ritual connected to its installation. The astrolabe and the celestial globe are the exotic instruments received enthusiastically in India from the Islamic World. The five papers in part III deal with the history of the astrolabe in India: its promotion by Firuz Shah Tughluq, the dominant role played in its production by a family of instrument makers from Lahore under the patronage of the Mughal rulers, Sanskrit manuals composed on it, and certain individual specimens of the Indo-Persian and Sanskrit astrolabes. The last two papers, comprising part IV, deal with the history of the celestial globe in India and the globes crafted by two seventeenth-century instrument makers.

Table of Contents:
Preface; Indian Astronomical & Time-Measuring Instruments: A Catalogue in Preparation; Astronomical Instruments in Brahmaguptas Brahmasphutasiddhanta; Perpetual Motion Machines & their Design in Ancient India; Astronomical Instruments in Mughal Miniatures; The Bowl that Sinks & Tells Time; Announcing Time: The Unique Methodat Hayatnagar, 1676; Measuring Time with Long Syllables: Bhaskara Is Commentary on Aryabhatiya, Kalakriyapada 2; Setting up the Water Clock for Telling the Time of Marriage; Sultan Suri & the Astrolabe; The Lahore Family of Astrolabists & their Ouvrage; The Safiha Zarqaliyya in India; Yantraraja: The Astrolabe in Sanskrit; Katapayadi Notation on a Sanskrit Astrolabe; From al-Kura to Bhagola: On the Dissemination of the Celestial Globe in India; Two Mughal Celestial Globes; Index.

About the Author :
Sreeramula Rajeswara Sarma studied Sanskrit at Visva Bharati, Santiniketan, and Idology at Philipps University, Marburg, and taught Sanskrit at Aligarh Muslim Univerfsity until his retirement in 1997. Subsequently he has been editor of the Indian Journal of History of Science, and visiting professor at Kyoto University, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, and at Harvard.


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  • ISBN-13: 9788173045714
  • Publisher: Manohar Publishers and Distributors
  • Publisher Imprint: Manohar Publishers and Distributors
  • Height: 225 mm
  • No of Pages: 320
  • Weight: 564 gr
  • ISBN-10: 8173045712
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2008
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Studies in the History of Indian Astronomical Instruments
  • Width: 145 mm


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