Body and Cosmos
Studies in Early Indian Medical and Astral Sciences in Honor of Kenneth G. Zysk
Published on 15. October 2020
Book
Hardback
448 pages
978-90-04-43669-5 (ISBN)
Description
Body and Cosmos is a collection of articles published on the occasion of the 70th birthday of Professor Emeritus Kenneth G. Zysk. The articles revolve thematically around the early Indian medical and astral sciences, which have been at the center of Professor Zysk's long and esteemed career within the discipline of Indology.
The volume is divided into three parts. The first part is devoted to the medical sciences, the second part to the astral sciences, and the third part to cross-cultural interactions between India and the West, which runs like an undercurrent throughout the work of Professor Zysk.
The articles are written by internationally renowned Indological scholars and will be of value to students and researchers alike.
The volume is divided into three parts. The first part is devoted to the medical sciences, the second part to the astral sciences, and the third part to cross-cultural interactions between India and the West, which runs like an undercurrent throughout the work of Professor Zysk.
The articles are written by internationally renowned Indological scholars and will be of value to students and researchers alike.
Reviews / Votes
"The volume is at its strongest when authors work across disciplines to show the relationships between different types of scholarship in precolonial India that are often treated as distinct from each other. Many of the essays convey results from ongoing collaborative research, editorial, and translation projects, which advertise eagerly anticipated future publications.(...) Overall, the volume provides specialist readers with a set of focused essays about a wide array of scholastic topics in premodern India and occasionally further afield. When interactions across cultures are presented, it is largely within an "East-West" framing. Contributions from scholars working with Persian sources as well as from scholars participating in the broader turn toward vernacular languages in South Asian studies would have been appreciated. Kenneth Zysk's work on Tamil Siddha medicine shows that Classical Indologists trained in Sanskrit have much to contribute to these discussions. - Eric Moses Gurevitch, Asian Medicine 18 (2023).More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
794 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-43669-5 (9789004436695)
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Persons
Toke Lindegaard Knudsen, Ph.D. (2008), Brown University, is Associate Professor of Mathematics at the State University of New York at Oneonta. He has published on astronomy and mathematics in ancient and medieval India, including The Siddhantasundara of Jnanaraja: An English Translation with Commentary (Johns Hopkins, 2014).
Jacob Schmidt-Madsen, Ph.D. (2019), University of Copenhagen, is a postdoctoral researcher in Indology at the same university. He specializes in the history of South Asian board games and has written on the origins of the games of caupa? and gyan caupa?.
Sara Speyer, M.A. (2017), University of Copenhagen, works as an Ayurvedic therapist. She is also part of an international research group working on the Gargiyajyoti?a, an ancient text on astral sciences, her focus being the section on animal omens.
Jacob Schmidt-Madsen, Ph.D. (2019), University of Copenhagen, is a postdoctoral researcher in Indology at the same university. He specializes in the history of South Asian board games and has written on the origins of the games of caupa? and gyan caupa?.
Sara Speyer, M.A. (2017), University of Copenhagen, works as an Ayurvedic therapist. She is also part of an international research group working on the Gargiyajyoti?a, an ancient text on astral sciences, her focus being the section on animal omens.
Content
Preface
List of Figures and Tables
Part 1 Introduction
1 Kenneth G. Zysk and the University of Copenhagen
?Erik Reenberg Sand
2 Kenneth G. Zysk as the Narains Remember Him
?Kamal Sheel
Part 2 History of Medicine
3 Agni and Soma Revisited: A Primordial Ayurvedic Concept?
?Vitus Angermeier
4 Humoral Constitutions in the Carakasa?hita
?Philipp Maas
5 Diachronic Migration of Ancient Indian Medical Literature: Divisions and Paratextual Elements in the Carakasa?hita
?Cristina Pecchia
6 A New Translation of Carakasa?hita, Vimanasthana, Chapter 1, Based on the Vienna Critical Edition
?Dominik Wujastyk
7 On the Textual History of the Susrutasa?hita, (2): An Anonymous Commentary and Its Identified Citations
?Andrey Klebanov
8 On Attaining Special Powers through Rasayana Therapies in Sanskrit Medical Literature
?Dagmar Wujastyk
9 Karman, Prayascitta, and Disease: A Reading of the Karmavipaka Digression in Madhavacarya's Parasaramadhaviya
?Mikael Aktor
10 Plagues and Brahmins: Did a Combination of Epidemics and Ideology Empty India's Cities?
?Johannes Bronkhorst
11 Allegory and History, Life and Embodiment
?Anthony Cerulli
Part 3 Astral Sciences
12 The Ritualization of Omens in Late Vedic Ritual: A Consideration of Early Evidence
?Marko Geslani
13 The Ramaya?a and the Yugas
?Luis Gonzalez-Reimann
14 The Size of the Universe in Indian Astronomy
?Michio Yano
15 Trigonometry through Geometry: Bhaskaracarya's Generation of Sines
?Krishnamurthi Ramasubramanian and Clemency Montelle
16 Mathematics and Presentation of Eclipse Diagrams in Sanskrit Astronomy
?Kim Plofker
17 Numerical Systems Followed in Grantha Manuscripts
?Saraju Rath
Part 4 Interactions across Culture and Time
18 Inventing the Pothi: The Adoption and Spread of a New Manuscript Format in Indian Buddhism
?Stefan Baums
19 Indian Physicians in Greco-Roman Literature?
?Klaus Karttunen
20 Greco-Indian Astrological Theories on Conception and Childbirth: Chapters Three and Four of Minaraja's V?ddhayavanajataka
?Bill M. Mak
21 Modern Sa?khya: Plurality of Sa?khya Traditions in Modern India
?Knut A. Jacobsen
The Works of Kenneth G. Zysk
Index
List of Figures and Tables
Part 1 Introduction
1 Kenneth G. Zysk and the University of Copenhagen
?Erik Reenberg Sand
2 Kenneth G. Zysk as the Narains Remember Him
?Kamal Sheel
Part 2 History of Medicine
3 Agni and Soma Revisited: A Primordial Ayurvedic Concept?
?Vitus Angermeier
4 Humoral Constitutions in the Carakasa?hita
?Philipp Maas
5 Diachronic Migration of Ancient Indian Medical Literature: Divisions and Paratextual Elements in the Carakasa?hita
?Cristina Pecchia
6 A New Translation of Carakasa?hita, Vimanasthana, Chapter 1, Based on the Vienna Critical Edition
?Dominik Wujastyk
7 On the Textual History of the Susrutasa?hita, (2): An Anonymous Commentary and Its Identified Citations
?Andrey Klebanov
8 On Attaining Special Powers through Rasayana Therapies in Sanskrit Medical Literature
?Dagmar Wujastyk
9 Karman, Prayascitta, and Disease: A Reading of the Karmavipaka Digression in Madhavacarya's Parasaramadhaviya
?Mikael Aktor
10 Plagues and Brahmins: Did a Combination of Epidemics and Ideology Empty India's Cities?
?Johannes Bronkhorst
11 Allegory and History, Life and Embodiment
?Anthony Cerulli
Part 3 Astral Sciences
12 The Ritualization of Omens in Late Vedic Ritual: A Consideration of Early Evidence
?Marko Geslani
13 The Ramaya?a and the Yugas
?Luis Gonzalez-Reimann
14 The Size of the Universe in Indian Astronomy
?Michio Yano
15 Trigonometry through Geometry: Bhaskaracarya's Generation of Sines
?Krishnamurthi Ramasubramanian and Clemency Montelle
16 Mathematics and Presentation of Eclipse Diagrams in Sanskrit Astronomy
?Kim Plofker
17 Numerical Systems Followed in Grantha Manuscripts
?Saraju Rath
Part 4 Interactions across Culture and Time
18 Inventing the Pothi: The Adoption and Spread of a New Manuscript Format in Indian Buddhism
?Stefan Baums
19 Indian Physicians in Greco-Roman Literature?
?Klaus Karttunen
20 Greco-Indian Astrological Theories on Conception and Childbirth: Chapters Three and Four of Minaraja's V?ddhayavanajataka
?Bill M. Mak
21 Modern Sa?khya: Plurality of Sa?khya Traditions in Modern India
?Knut A. Jacobsen
The Works of Kenneth G. Zysk
Index