Dear Colleague I cannot pretend to the slightest knowledge of mathematics (Indian or otherwise), but concerning the *Lalitavistara* and its Sanskrit text, I might dare refer you to https://www.academia.edu/83898564/Recent_Scholarship_on_the_Lalitavistara
Best, Jonathan Silk On Mon, Apr 10, 2023 at 11:40 AM Jean Michel DELIRE via INDOLOGY < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > [email protected] > https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology > -- Prof. dr. J.A. Silk Leiden University Leiden University Institute for Area Studies, LIAS Matthias de Vrieshof 3, Room 0.05b 2311 BZ Leiden website: www.OpenPhilology.eu copies of my publications may be found at https://leidenuniv.academia.edu/JASilk
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