The Sanskrit and Arabic Sources of the Pra艣natantra Attributed to 狈墨濒补办补峁囜弓丑补
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Martin Gansten
Lund University
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Year: 2014 | Doi: 10.18732/H23W27
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The highly popular Pra艣natantra attributed to 狈墨濒补办补峁囜弓丑补 of 碍腻艣墨 (fl. late 16th century) and sometimes regarded as the third volume of his T膩jikan墨laka峁囜弓h墨 is shown to depend for its basic structure on an abridged Sanskrit version of the Kit膩b fi l-mas膩示il wa-l-a岣膩m by Sahl ibn Bishr (early 9th century), apparently authored by 厂补尘补谤补蝉颈峁僪补 in the 13th century, to which quotations primarily from Sanskrit astrological works in the classical Indian style have been added, resulting in a hybrid of Indian and Perso-Arabic interrogational astrology.
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