Thank you very much, Lubomir, for uploading this edition, and David, for pointing to the book, which I will certainly use for my course on History of Indian mathematics (and astronomy). Also for this course, I am nowadays struggling with a part of the Lalitavistara, where the Buddha is showing his ability in numbers. His enumeration of powers of 10, from the *koṭi *to the *tallakṣaṇa*, is very clear. But things become obscure when he continues his enumeration with other (supposed) powers of 10. The problem is that he says that the next one, the *dhvajāgravatī*, is able to count all the sand of the Gaṅgā, while the sixth one, the *sarvanikṣepa*, is able to count all the sand of ten Gaṅgā. How is it possible if every unit equals the previous one multiplied by ten (and what else could it be) ? Apart from noting that this kind of enumeration and its use for counting the sand reminds very much Archimede's Sandreckoner, I must add that there are discrepancies between the two translations I know (de Foucaux 1988 (1884) and Goswami 2001) and also with the 'sanskrit' text of Śāntibhikṣu Śāstrī 1984. After this enumeration, comes a scale which rely the last unit, the *paramāṇurajaḥpraveśānugata*, to the yojana, by multiplying it by 7 ten times, and then again by 12, 2, 4, 1000 and 4, so that a yojana equals 710 .12.2.4.1000.4 *paramāṇurajaḥpraveśānugatas*. And, of course, the Buddha asks if somebody can tell how many *paramāṇurajaḥpraveśānugatas* would contain a bowl of 1 yojana. Here again, the answer seems awkward for it amounts to 1028 while it should be more than 1041. Does anyone have an explanation for these mistakes, or know of a paper or a book which discusses these problems ?
Best regards, Jean Michel *Jean Michel DELIRE* *Lecturer on History of mathematics - IHEB (ULB)* *Lecturer on **Science and civilisation of India - Sanskrit Texts - IHEB (ULB)* *Member of the Centre National d'Histoire des Sciences (KBR, Bruxelles)* *Member of the Société Asiatique (Paris)* Le lun. 10 avr. 2023 à 10:37, Lubomír Ondračka via INDOLOGY < [email protected]> a écrit : > I just uploaded the pdf of the book that David sent me: > https://archive.org/details/suryasiddhanta-shukla > > If anyone have the pdf of Sumatitantram that David writes about in the > next email, please send it to me, I would be happy to upload it on > archive.org as well. > > Best > Lubomir > > > On 09.04.2023 21:51, David and Nancy Reigle via INDOLOGY wrote: > > I was wondering if there is a critical edition of the /Sūrya-siddhānta/. > > I could not find one. However, there is something very close to one, > > although it is not called a critical edition. It is Kripa Shankar > > Shukla's edition, /The Sūrya-siddhānta with the Commentary of > > Paramesvara/. Lucknow University: Department of Mathematics and > > Astronomy, 1957. For the text of the /Sūrya-siddhānta/, he gives full > > variant readings from manuscripts of the text as commented on by > > Mallikārjuna Sūri (1178 CE), Yallaya (1472 CE), and Rāmakṛṣṇa Ārādhya > > (1472 CE), besides from the printed edition of Raṅganātha's commentary > > edited by Jīvānanda Vidyāsāgara. He says that he also consulted the > > commentaries by Bhūdhara (1572 CE) and Tamma Yajvā (1599 CE) for > > deciding between certain readings. Of course, the text is based on the > > commentary by Parameśvara (1432 CE), which predates the commonly used > > commentary by Raṅganātha (1603 CE) by nearly two centuries. When he has > > chosen a reading different from Parameśvara's, he cites Parameśvara's > > reading as mū. pustake, for mūla-pustake. > > > > I did not find a digital copy of Shukla's edition online, but I have > > scanned the photocopy I made of it. Happy to send it to anyone who wants > > it. Perhaps someone who knows how can upload it to the web. > > > > > > Best regards, > > > > David Reigle > > > > Colorado, U.S.A. > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > INDOLOGY mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > [email protected] > https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology >
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