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Body and Cosmos
Studies in Early Indian Medical and Astral Sciences in Honor of Kenneth G. Zysk
Series: - Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Series, Volume: 20
Body and Cosmos is a collection of articles published on the occasion of the 70th birthday of Professor Emeritus Kenneth G. Zysk. The articles revolve thematically around the early Indian medical and astral sciences, which have been at the center of Professor Zysks long and esteemed career within the discipline of Indology.
The volume is divided into three parts. The first part is devoted to the medical sciences, the second part to the astral sciences, and the third part to cross-cultural interactions between India and the West, which runs like an undercurrent throughout the work of Professor Zysk.
The articles are written by internationally renowned Indological scholars and will be of value to students and researchers alike.
The volume is divided into three parts. The first part is devoted to the medical sciences, the second part to the astral sciences, and the third part to cross-cultural interactions between India and the West, which runs like an undercurrent throughout the work of Professor Zysk.
The articles are written by internationally renowned Indological scholars and will be of value to students and researchers alike.
Toke Lindegaard Knudsen, Ph.D. (2008), Brown University, is Associate Professor of Mathematics at the State University of New York at Oneonta. He has published on astronomy and mathematics in ancient and medieval India, including The Siddhntasundara of Jnarja: An English Translation with Commentary (Johns Hopkins, 2014).
Jacob Schmidt-Madsen, Ph.D. (2019), University of Copenhagen, is a postdoctoral researcher in Indology at the same university. He specializes in the history of South Asian board games and has written on the origins of the games of caupa and gyn caupa.
Sara Speyer, M.A. (2017), University of Copenhagen, works as an yurvedic therapist. She is also part of an international research group working on the Grgyajyotia, an ancient text on astral sciences, her focus being the section on animal omens.
Jacob Schmidt-Madsen, Ph.D. (2019), University of Copenhagen, is a postdoctoral researcher in Indology at the same university. He specializes in the history of South Asian board games and has written on the origins of the games of caupa and gyn caupa.
Sara Speyer, M.A. (2017), University of Copenhagen, works as an yurvedic therapist. She is also part of an international research group working on the Grgyajyotia, an ancient text on astral sciences, her focus being the section on animal omens.
"The volume is at its strongest when authors work across disciplines to show the relationships between different types of scholarship in precolonial India that are often treated as distinct from each other. Many of the essays convey results from ongoing collaborative research, editorial, and translation projects, which advertise eagerly anticipated future publications.(...) Overall, the volume provides specialist readers with a set of focused essays about a wide array of scholastic topics in premodern India and occasionally further afield. When interactions across cultures are presented, it is largely within an East-West framing. Contributions from scholars working with Persian sources as well as from scholars participating in the broader turn toward vernacular languages in South Asian studies would have been appreciated. Kenneth Zysks work on Tamil Siddha medicine shows that Classical Indologists trained in Sanskrit have much to contribute to these discussions. - Eric Moses Gurevitch, Asian Medicine 18 (2023).
Preface
List of Figures and Tables
1 Kenneth G. Zysk and the University of Copenhagen
âErik Reenberg Sand
2 Kenneth G. Zysk as the Narains Remember Him
âKamal Sheel
3 Agni and Soma Revisited: A Primordial Äyurvedic Concept?
âVitus Angermeier
4 Humoral Constitutions in the Carakasaá¹hitÄ
âPhilipp Maas
5 Diachronic Migration of Ancient Indian Medical Literature: Divisions and Paratextual Elements in the Carakasaá¹hitÄ
âCristina Pecchia
6 A New Translation of Carakasaá¹hitÄ, VimÄnasthÄna, Chapter 1, Based on the Vienna Critical Edition
âDominik Wujastyk
7 On the Textual History of the SuÅrutasaá¹hitÄ, (2): An Anonymous Commentary and Its Identified Citations
âAndrey Klebanov
8 On Attaining Special Powers through RasÄyana Therapies in Sanskrit Medical Literature
âDagmar Wujastyk
9 Karman, PrÄyaÅcitta, and Disease: A Reading of the KarmavipÄka Digression in MÄdhavÄcÄryaâs ParÄÅaramÄdhavÄ«ya
âMikael Aktor
10 Plagues and Brahmins: Did a Combination of Epidemics and Ideology Empty Indiaâs Cities?
âJohannes Bronkhorst
11 Allegory and History, Life and Embodiment
âAnthony Cerulli
12 The Ritualization of Omens in Late Vedic Ritual: A Consideration of Early Evidence
âMarko Geslani
13 The RÄmÄyaá¹a and the Yugas
âLuis González-Reimann
14 The Size of the Universe in Indian Astronomy
âMichio Yano
15 Trigonometry through Geometry: BhÄskarÄcÄryaâs Generation of Sines
âKrishnamurthi Ramasubramanian and Clemency Montelle
16 Mathematics and Presentation of Eclipse Diagrams in Sanskrit Astronomy
âKim Plofker
17 Numerical Systems Followed in Grantha Manuscripts
âSaraju Rath
18 Inventing the Pothi: The Adoption and Spread of a New Manuscript Format in Indian Buddhism
âStefan Baums
19 Indian Physicians in Greco-Roman Literature?
âKlaus Karttunen
20 Greco-Indian Astrological Theories on Conception and Childbirth: Chapters Three and Four of MÄ«narÄjaâs Vá¹ddhayavanajÄtaka
âBill M. Mak
21 Modern SÄá¹khya: Plurality of SÄá¹khya Traditions in Modern India
âKnut A. Jacobsen
The Works of Kenneth G. Zysk
Index
List of Figures and Tables
Part 1 Introduction
1 Kenneth G. Zysk and the University of Copenhagen
âErik Reenberg Sand
2 Kenneth G. Zysk as the Narains Remember Him
âKamal Sheel
Part 2 History of Medicine
3 Agni and Soma Revisited: A Primordial Äyurvedic Concept?
âVitus Angermeier
4 Humoral Constitutions in the Carakasaá¹hitÄ
âPhilipp Maas
5 Diachronic Migration of Ancient Indian Medical Literature: Divisions and Paratextual Elements in the Carakasaá¹hitÄ
âCristina Pecchia
6 A New Translation of Carakasaá¹hitÄ, VimÄnasthÄna, Chapter 1, Based on the Vienna Critical Edition
âDominik Wujastyk
7 On the Textual History of the SuÅrutasaá¹hitÄ, (2): An Anonymous Commentary and Its Identified Citations
âAndrey Klebanov
8 On Attaining Special Powers through RasÄyana Therapies in Sanskrit Medical Literature
âDagmar Wujastyk
9 Karman, PrÄyaÅcitta, and Disease: A Reading of the KarmavipÄka Digression in MÄdhavÄcÄryaâs ParÄÅaramÄdhavÄ«ya
âMikael Aktor
10 Plagues and Brahmins: Did a Combination of Epidemics and Ideology Empty Indiaâs Cities?
âJohannes Bronkhorst
11 Allegory and History, Life and Embodiment
âAnthony Cerulli
Part 3 Astral Sciences
12 The Ritualization of Omens in Late Vedic Ritual: A Consideration of Early Evidence
âMarko Geslani
13 The RÄmÄyaá¹a and the Yugas
âLuis González-Reimann
14 The Size of the Universe in Indian Astronomy
âMichio Yano
15 Trigonometry through Geometry: BhÄskarÄcÄryaâs Generation of Sines
âKrishnamurthi Ramasubramanian and Clemency Montelle
16 Mathematics and Presentation of Eclipse Diagrams in Sanskrit Astronomy
âKim Plofker
17 Numerical Systems Followed in Grantha Manuscripts
âSaraju Rath
Part 4 Interactions across Culture and Time
18 Inventing the Pothi: The Adoption and Spread of a New Manuscript Format in Indian Buddhism
âStefan Baums
19 Indian Physicians in Greco-Roman Literature?
âKlaus Karttunen
20 Greco-Indian Astrological Theories on Conception and Childbirth: Chapters Three and Four of MÄ«narÄjaâs Vá¹ddhayavanajÄtaka
âBill M. Mak
21 Modern SÄá¹khya: Plurality of SÄá¹khya Traditions in Modern India
âKnut A. Jacobsen
The Works of Kenneth G. Zysk
Index