Calendars, Compliments, and Computations
Journal name: History of Science in South Asia
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The journal 鈥淗istory of Science in South Asia鈥� (HSSA) publishes high-quality research on the history of science, focusing on South Asia but also welcoming studies on broader cultural influences. It adopts a broad definition of 鈥渟cience鈥� and encourages theoretical discussions and offers open access. Although initially supported by the Sayahna Foundation, it is now aided by the University of Alberta and 脡rudit.
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Anuj Misra
University of Copenhagen
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Year: 2023 | Doi: 10.18732/hssa95
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Various studies in recent times have shown how sociohistorical proclivities played an important role in the acceptance or rejection of cross-cultural ideas in Mughal scientific discourses. The cultural patronage of the Mughal courts financed the production and propagation of certain scientific texts deemed intellectually and politically expedient. Among such texts were two seventeenth-century astronomical table-texts, Mull膩 Far墨d's Persian Z墨j-i 艩膩h Jah膩n墨 and its Sanskrit translation in Nity膩nanda's 厂颈诲诲丑腻苍迟补蝉颈苍诲丑耻, both produced at the court of the Mughal Emperor 艩膩h Jah膩n.
In this paper, we present, for the very first time, a comparative survey of the canon (text) of these two works to reveal the intimacy between the translated Sanskrit and its Persian original. The paper includes brief biographies of both astronomers, a summary of the salient features of the canons, a description of the manuscripts utilised and our transcription and transliteration schemes, along with a detailed comparison of the individual chapters in these canons. We also provide separate appendices with discussions on select aspects from these chapters. We note that this paper forms the first part in a two-part study, with a second forthcoming paper surveying the tables in these two texts (accompanied with mathematical annotations).
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