Body and Cosmos

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 Siddhāntasundara of Jñānarāja: 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 caupaṛ and gyān caupaṛ. Sara Speyer, M.A. (2017), University of Copenhagen, works as an Āyurvedic therapist. She is also part of an international research group working on the Gārgīyajyotiṣa, an ancient text on astral sciences, her focus being the section on animal omens.

Preface

List of Figures and Tables

Part 1 Introduction



1 Kenneth G. Zysk and the University of Copenhagen

 Erik Reenberg Sand



2 Kenneth G. Zysk as the Narains Remember Him

 Kamal Sheel



Part 2 History of Medicine



3 Agni and Soma Revisited: A Primordial Āyurvedic Concept?

 Vitus Angermeier



4 Humoral Constitutions in the Carakasaṃhitā

 Philipp Maas



5 Diachronic Migration of Ancient Indian Medical Literature: Divisions and Paratextual Elements in the Carakasaṃhitā

 Cristina Pecchia



6 A New Translation of Carakasaṃhitā, Vimānasthāna, Chapter 1, Based on the Vienna Critical Edition

 Dominik Wujastyk



7 On the Textual History of the Suśrutasaṃhitā, (2): An Anonymous Commentary and Its Identified Citations

 Andrey Klebanov



8 On Attaining Special Powers through Rasāyana Therapies in Sanskrit Medical Literature

 Dagmar Wujastyk



9 Karman, Prāyaścitta, and Disease: A Reading of the Karmavipāka Digression in Mādhavācārya’s Parāśaramādhavīya

 Mikael Aktor



10 Plagues and Brahmins: Did a Combination of Epidemics and Ideology Empty India’s Cities?

 Johannes Bronkhorst



11 Allegory and History, Life and Embodiment

 Anthony Cerulli



Part 3 Astral Sciences



12 The Ritualization of Omens in Late Vedic Ritual: A Consideration of Early Evidence

 Marko Geslani



13 The Rāmāyaṇa and the Yugas

 Luis González-Reimann



14 The Size of the Universe in Indian Astronomy

 Michio Yano



15 Trigonometry through Geometry: Bhāskarācārya’s Generation of Sines

 Krishnamurthi Ramasubramanian and Clemency Montelle



16 Mathematics and Presentation of Eclipse Diagrams in Sanskrit Astronomy

 Kim Plofker



17 Numerical Systems Followed in Grantha Manuscripts

 Saraju Rath



Part 4 Interactions across Culture and Time



18 Inventing the Pothi: The Adoption and Spread of a New Manuscript Format in Indian Buddhism

 Stefan Baums



19 Indian Physicians in Greco-Roman Literature?

 Klaus Karttunen



20 Greco-Indian Astrological Theories on Conception and Childbirth: Chapters Three and Four of Mīnarāja’s Vṛddhayavanajātaka

 Bill M. Mak



21 Modern Sāṃkhya: Plurality of Sāṃkhya Traditions in Modern India

 Knut A. Jacobsen



The Works of Kenneth G. Zysk

Index