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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
The complete Descriptive Catalogue of the Sanskrit Manuscripts on Jyotisa, in the Library of the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal, is now made available to the public in two parts, of which Part I was published in 1945 and Part II, with the Editor's Remarks and a General Index, is now going to be published. The complete catalogue was made by the late MM. Dr. Haraprasad Sastrī, C.I.E. The task of revising and editing it was entrusted to me. The complete catalogue has been divided into the four following sections:
I. Ganita (Astronomy and Mathematics) II. Samhita (Natural Astrology)
III. Hora (Horoscopy, Divination, etc.) IV. Palmistry and Bodily Peculiarities
Pages
1-110
111-152
153-587
583-592
As to the first section, Ganita, the manuscripts comprise works on Hindu Astronomy and Mathematics. The most notable ones in astronomy are the Vedangajyotisa, the Aryabhaṭīya called the Aryabhaṭasiddhānta, and the other Siddhantas or the Hindu scientific works in astronomy, and books of astronomical tables. The Vedangajyotiṣa has a tradition true for about 1400 B.C., and the Aryabhaṭīya is to be dated at 499 A.D. In the interval of about 1900 years there is no extant history of the development of the science in India. On this point the editor wants to draw the attention of the new researchers.
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The Vedangajyotiṣa gives us an astronomy of fiveyearly luni-solar cycle. A peculiar lunar month of Magha,1
1 P. C. Sen Gupta, On Solstice Days in Vedic Literature, in J.R.A.S. Bengal, Vol. IV, pp. 419-21.
