A Descriptive Catalogue of the Sanskrit Astronomical Manuscripts Preserved at the Maharaja Man Singh II Museum in Jaipur, IndiaThis catalogue of the astronomical manuscripts preserved at the Maharaja Man Singh Museum provides a substantial part of the foundation for an extensive & penetrating analysis of the astronomical activities of Saw Jayasimha Maharaja from 1700 to 1743. Jayasimha collected Sanskrit manuscripts of traditional Indian astronomy, acquired Arabic & Persian manuscripts representative of the Muslim interpretation of Ptolemaic astronomy, built five observatories at which he employed both Hindu & Muslim observers, & produced a set of astronomical tables in Persian based on the Latin tables of Philippe de La Hire. |
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12 lines 27 avadhis 9 lines abdapa akṣabhā akṣāmśa apogee argument astronomical atha avadhis begins Bhaskara's Bhatta bhavati Candrarki carakhamḍaka catalogue CESS A5 Colophon on f composed Copied David Pingree dhruvanka eclipse Edited ends entry epact folia Formerly property ghatikās Grahalaghava horizontal idam idam pustakam Jagadbhuṣaṇa Jagannatha Samrat Jaipur Jayapura Jayasimha Jupiter Kāśī kendra Khasmohor lamkayojana likhitam idam lunar anomaly lunar apogee lunar node manuscript 152 marginal notes marginalia Mars mean longitude Mean motion table mean motions Mercury Moon mula Museum Nāgarī nakṣatras natvā note on f numbers Ownership note paramadina Pattra Post-colophon Price on f Pundarika jyotiṣa pupil Rāhu Rameśvara Saka śāke Ṣām samāptā samāptaḥ samvat Sanskrit Saturn Sawai Scorpius scribe has written second scribe shorter edge Similar table Suryapattra Suryasiddhanta syāt ṭīkā tithis Tulārāma Ulugh Beg varṣe Vāsanābhāṣya velocity Venus verse verso vertical Vyasa Writing parallel zodiacal signs
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Page vii - In the height of his passion for this Islamite concubine, he formally installed her as queen of half his dominions, and actually conveyed to her in gift a moiety of the personality of the crown, even to the invaluable library of the illustrious Jey Sing, which was despoiled, and its treasures distributed amongst her base relations.
Page xvii - A Handlist of the Arabic and Persian Astronomical Manuscripts in the Maharaja Mansingh II Library in Jaipur.
Page xvii - Bahura, Literary heritage of the Rulers of Amber and Jaipur, Jaipur 1976.
Page xvii - Indian and Islamic Astronomy at Jayasimha's Court," in DA King and G. Saliba, eds.. From Deferent to Equant. New York: NewYork Academy of Sciences, 1987, pp. 313-328 (pp. 313 and 326, fn. 4). 26D. Pingree, "Sanskrit Geographical Tables.
Page xvii - N. Bahura. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Maharaja of Jaipur Museum. Jaipur: Maharaja of Jaipur Museum. 1971, pp.
Page 144 - TABULAE ASTRONOMICAE In quibus Solis Lunae reliquorum Planetarum Motus ex ipsis observationibus nulla adhibita Hypotesi traduntur habenturque praecipuarum Fixarum in nostro Horizonte Conspicuarum positiones.
Page 141 - ... yadrsam pustakam drstva tadrsam likhitam maya | yadi suddham asuddham va mama doso na vidyate 2 srlrajajayasimhena idam pustakam likhapitam paropakarartham.
Page xi - This contains computations of the longitudes and latitudes of the Moon and the planets and...
Page xi - Shdht and computations according to the same authority of a lunar eclipse on 28 May 1732 and of a solar eclipse visible at Jayapura on 20 May 1734.
Page 74 - Table of the equations of the manda of the Sun, the Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, and Saturn for 10° to 90° of argument at intervals of 10°.