The Jaina School of Astronomy

Sukumar Ranjan Das

The Jaina School of Astronomy

Vol. 8 · No. 1March - 1932pp. 30–42English

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“The Jaina astronomical treatises correspond in many respecta 10 the Jyotisa Vedanga, presumably the oldesl specimen of Indian astronomi. cal literature, and may, if minutely examined, yield valuable material for the general history of Indian ideas.®”

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Bee Weber, Indian Studies, 1887, x, 254f.
Y Hvure Jyotimg by BudhBkars Dvivedi and Jyotisa ઈટ? ત 05 1,818 Chote 1.8.
Chandegyu Upanisad, vii, 1, 2, 3, 4.
Vijusuneyt Samhita, xxx, 10, 20; Taittiriya 2... iv, હ.
Makdniddese, p. 382.

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Mount Meru 6

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Jyotisa Vedanga
Siddhantas
Bodhdyana Srauta Siitre
Sarpaprajiapti
Tcheou-Pei

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Jainas 149

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Vol. 8 · No. 1

1–20Sasanka, king of BengalRadha Govinda Basak 21–29The Eastern CalukyasDhirendra Chandra Ganguly 30–42The Jaina School of AstronomySukumar Ranjan DasCurrent article 43–48Some Cosmological Ideas of the JainasAmulya Chandra Sen 49–53Domicile of the Author of the Bhagavata PuranaAmar Nath Roy 54–63Studies in the KautiliyaNarendra Nath Law 64–84Early Vritism and NarayanIya WorshipMrinal Das Gupta 85–92The Gupta EraDhirendra Nath Mukherji 93–110A Buddhist Manuscript at GilgitNalinaksha Dutt 111–113A Quotation from the HrdayadarpanaP. K. Gode 113–116A Note on a remark of Yuan ChwangRamashankar Tripathi 117–120Macedonian Month-Name in a Brahmi InscriptionHarit Krishna Deb 121–164Mohenjo-daro and the Indus Valley CivilizationNarendra Nath Law 165–220The English Translation of the KautiliyaNarendra Nath Law 221–223The Soma or Sauma Sect of the SaivasChintaharan Chakravarti 224–227KasakrtsnaKshitish Chandra Chatterjee 228–230Nalanda Stone Inscription of YasovarmadevaA. K. Mrithyunjayan 231–240Select Contents of Oriental Journals

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