The Sanskrit Astronomical Table Text Brahmatulyasāraṇī: Numerical Tables in Textual Scholarship

The 17th-century Brahmatulyasāraṇī is a rich repository of information about Indian mathematical astronomy and its genres of scientific writing in Sanskrit. This painstaking critical edition, translation, and technical analysis of the work includes detailed technical background about its content and relation to the seminal 12th-century astronomical handbook Karaṇakutūhala. This book explores important contextual information about the role and study of numerical tables in pre-modern astronomy, as well as the many challenges arising from critically editing numerical data in the Indian astral sciences.

Anuj Misra, Ph.D. (2016), University of Canterbury, is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellow at the University of Copenhagen. His research focuses on medieval and early-modern exchanges in Sanskrit astral sciences and has contributed articles and book-chapters examining Islamicate influences in Sanskrit astronomy. Clemency Montelle, Ph.D. (2005), Brown University, Professor in the School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Canterbury, New Zealand, has research interests in the mathematical history of early cultures of inquiry and has contributed books and articles on the subject. Kim Plofker, Ph.D. (1995), Brown University, is Associate Professor of Mathematics at Union College, NY. Her research on Indian science and its Islamic and European counterparts includes Mathematics in India (Princeton, 2009) and Sanskrit Astronomical Tables (with Clemency Montelle; Springer, 2018).