Chapter 1. Mean planets and the śakābdasaṃskāra -- Chapter 2. Obtaining smaller guṇas and hāras -- Chapter 3. Computation of the khaṇḍa, dhruva, etc. of the Moon -- Chapter 4. Obtaining the hārakas for the planets -- Chapter 5. Examination of the revolution numbers etc -- Chapte…
Karaṇapaddhati of Putumana Somayājī is an important text of the Kerala School of astronomy and mathematics, probably composed in the 16th century. In the Indian astronomical tradition, the karaṇa texts are essentially computational manuals and they often display a high level of …
This book presents the basic fundamentals of descriptive archaeoastronomy and its application to the astronomical descriptions found in ancient Indian scriptures. Archaeoastronomy is a branch of positional astronomy that helps to determine the epochs of ancient astronomical alig…
