scispace - formally typeset
Journal ArticleDOI

The Candrārkī of Dinakara: A Text Related to Solar and Lunar Tables:

Aditya Kolachana, +8 more
- 05 Sep 2018 - 
- Vol. 49, Iss: 3, pp 306-344
Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
An edition of the text, a literal translation, and detailed technical commentary are presented, intended to give guidance on how to construct a calendar for any desired year and geographical circumstances.
Abstract: 
A set of tables devoted to the sun and the moon, titled the Candrārkī (“Related to the moon and sun”), was compiled in Sanskrit by Indian astronomer Dinakara along with a short accompanying text, i

read more

Citations
More filters
Book ChapterDOI

Content and classification of table texts

Clemency Montelle, +1 more
TL;DR: This chapter broadly outlines two different aspects of the genre of Sanskrit astronomical table texts: the mathematical models underlying their construction and the chief approaches to their taxonomy.
Journal ArticleDOI

A Critical Edition of the Candrārkī of Dinakara: A Text Concerning Solar and Lunar Tables

Aditya Kolachana, +8 more
TL;DR: A set of tables devoted to solar and lunar phenomena entitled the Candrārkī was prepared in Sanskrit by the sixteenth-century Indian astronomer Dinakara as mentioned in this paper, which instructed the user how to extract and manipulate the tabular data to construct their own calendar for any desired year and geographical circumstances.
Book ChapterDOI

The evolution of the table-text genre

Clemency Montelle, +1 more
TL;DR: The early development of Sanskrit astronomical tables described in Section 1.5 blossomed by the mid-second millennium into the profuse variety of table-text types categorized in Section 2.3, whose typical components were analyzed in more detail in Chapter 4.1.