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Tantrasaṅgraha of Nīlakaṇṭha Somayāji with Yuktidīpikā and Laghuvivṛti of Śaṅkara (An elaborate exposition of the rationale of Hindu Astronomy) Critically edited with Introduction and Appendices
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Tantrasaṅgraha of Nīlakaṇṭha Somayāji with Yuktidīpikā and Laghuvivṛti of Śaṅkara (An elaborate exposition of the rationale of Hindu Astronomy)
Critically edited with Introduction and Appendices - Language of Original Text
- Sanskrit
- list of authors
- Nīlakaṇṭha Somayāji
- Śaṅkara
- list of editors
- K. V. Sarma
- Subject
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Mathematics
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- Description
- Kerala School
- Language of Edited Volume
- English
- Sanskrit
- Publisher
- Vishveshvaranand Vishva Bandhu Institute
- issue
- 10
- Date Issued
- 1977
- Source
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Manuscripts of the Text of Tantrasahgraha (TS):
A. Ms. 3810 of the Vishveshvaranand Institute Library, Hoshiarpur.
B. Ms. No. 543-B of the Sanskrit College Library, Tripunithura (Kerala) - paper transcript of a palmleaf manuscript in Malayalam script.
C. Ten palmleaf manuscripts, all in Malayalam script, containing both the text and the commentary Laghuvivṛti, had been used in the preparation of the edition thereof through the Trivandrum Sanskrit Series, No. 188, (Trivandrum, 1958), and designated क to ञ. -
TS Commentary in verse:
A. Ms. No. R. 2505 of the Govt. Oriental Manuscripts Library, Madras - paper transcript in Devanāgarī, copied in 1918 from a palmleaf manuscript in Malayalam script which belonged to the Deśamaṅgalam Manakkal, a house of scholarly nampūtiri brāhmins in Central Kerala.
B. Ms. No. C. 1375 of the Oriental Research Institute and Manuscripts Library, Kerala University, Trivandrum
C. Ms. No. 16932-B of the said Kerala University Manuscripts Library.Value Annotations
- Description
- B. Ms. No. C. 1375 is a palmleaf manuscript in the Malayalam script of which there is a paper transcript also in the said Library, being No. T. 746.
- abstract
- The Tantrasaṅgraha is a major work of Nīlakaṇṭha Somayāji (A.D. 1444-1545), one of the eminent Kerala astronomers of mediaeval times. It is a full-fledged text on Hindu astronomy which deals, in eight chapters, with the more important aspects of the discipline, including the Mean and True planets, Gnomonic and related computations, Lunar and Solar eclipses, the phenomenon of Vyatīpāta when the Sun plus Moon is equal to 180°, Reduction to observation of planetary positions (Dṛkkarma) and the Elongation of the Moon's horns (Candra-śṛṅgonnati). It incorporates also new methodologies and corrections introduced by the author towards accurate astronomical computation. The text of the Tantrasaṅgraha is edited here critically, along with two commentaries, of which the first commentary called Yuktidīpikā gives an elaborate exposition of mathematical and astronomical concepts and computations, in simple verses. Since, however, this commentary extends only through chapters I-IV, a second commentary called Laghuvivṛti has been added for the rest of the work. This latter commentary, which is concise and matter of fact, has already been issued through the Trivandrum Sanskrit Series, No. 188, (Trivandrum, 1958), but in the present publication, its edition has been made more reliable and critical by the employment of two highly accurate manuscripts.
