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Montelle and Plofker. Sanskrit Astronomical Tables

Clemency Montelle and Kim Plofker wrote the first book to treat Sanskrit table texts as a genre. Before it, tables were described one at a time in catalogues; here it is shown how the genre took shape, how a sarini differs from a karana and from a siddhanta, and why a fifteenth-century computer...

Makaranda Sarini, 1923 edition

Makaranda, son of Ananda, composed his tables at Kashi (Benares) in 1478 — Saka 1400. He says so himself in the first verse: 'based on the Surya Siddhanta school of thought, properly for the benefit of the world.' The tables circulated widely and for four centuries were the principal computational...