Science and society in the Sanskrit world
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Science and society in the Sanskrit world
（Sir Henry Wellcome Asian series, v. 21）
Brill, c2023
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- Personal reflections on the intellectual life of Christopher Z. Minkowski: Recollections from Ithaca / Anne Blackburn
- Śāstradīpaka : Christopher Minkowski and the Boden Professorship / Anand Venkatkrishnan
- Introduction / Christopher T. Fleming
- Part I. The vedic world: 1. When cows sacrifice : the meaning of Vedic tūpara / Barbora Sojková
- 2. A sūkta of the Paippalāda Atharvaveda about the symptoms and causes of tetanus / Elizabeth Tucker
- 3. Another, unrecognized, cvi construction in the Rigveda, with cautionary remarks on the supposed origin of the construction / Stephanie W. Jamison
- 4. Hann iti han / John J. Lowe
- Part II. Astral and medical sciences: 5. A meru as a mathematical tool / Takanori Kusuba
- 6. Calculation and correction for the mean position of the planets in the Jyotirmīmāṃsā / Setsuro Ikeyama
- 7. Integrating logarithm concepts into syntheses of Sanskrit, Muslim and European astronomy in 18th-century Jaipur / Clemency Montelle and Kim Plofker
- 8. Cyclical time in Brahmanical India : origin and development / Johannes Bronkhorst
- 9. Caraka on the human being : a new translation of Carakasaṃhitā, Śārīrasthāna, Chapter 1 / Dominik Wujastyk
- Part III. Statecraft and jurisprudence: 10. To kill or not to kill : The Hermeneutics of the ethical axiom ahiṃsā / Patrick Olivelle
- 11. Ascetics as royal advisors in the Mahābhārata / Valters Negribs
- 12. Real settlement and constructed wilderness? Grāma and araṇya revisited / Frederick M. Smith
- 13. Forest people in the Kauṭilīya Arthaśāstra / Thomas R. Trautmann
- Part IV. Sanskrit intellectuals and their communities: 14. Guardians of truth : commentarial interventions in support of the heroes of the Sanskrit epics / Robert P. Goldman
- 15. Disruptive readings : Sanskrit literary commentary as translation / Deven M. Patel
- 16. Debating God in the Delta : Trimūrti, transcendence and hierarchy in late Advaita Vedānta / Jonathan Duquette
- 17. Gotmāi's suit : A Brahman woman of property in seventeenth century Western India / Rosalind O'Hanlon
