Body and Cosmos: Studies in Early Indian Medical and Astral Sciences in Honor of Kenneth G. Zysk

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-43669-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 20, 434 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 870 g

Reihe: Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Series

Body and Cosmos is a collection of articles published on the occasion of the 70th birthday of Professor Emeritus Kenneth G. Zysk. The articles revolve thematically around the early Indian medical and astral sciences, which have been at the center of Professor Zysk’s long and esteemed career within the discipline of Indology.

The volume is divided into three parts. The first part is devoted to the medical sciences, the second part to the astral sciences, and the third part to cross-cultural interactions between India and the West, which runs like an undercurrent throughout the work of Professor Zysk.

The articles are written by internationally renowned Indological scholars and will be of value to students and researchers alike.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lindegaard Knudsen, Toke

Schmidt-Madsen, Jacob

Speyer, Sara

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Kosmologie, Urknalltheorie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 Ayurvedic Concept?

Vitus Angermeier

4 Humoral Constitutions in the Carakasa?hita

Philipp Maas

5 Diachronic Migration of Ancient Indian Medical Literature: Divisions and Paratextual Elements in the Carakasa?hita

Cristina Pecchia

6 A New Translation of Carakasa?hita, Vimanasthana, Chapter 1, Based on the Vienna Critical Edition

Dominik Wujastyk

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

Andrey Klebanov

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

Dagmar Wujastyk

9 Karman, Prayascitta, and Disease: A Reading of the Karmavipaka Digression in Madhavacarya’s Parasaramadhaviya

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 Ramaya?a and the Yugas

Luis González-Reimann

14 The Size of the Universe in Indian Astronomy

Michio Yano

15 Trigonometry through Geometry: Bhaskaracarya’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 Minaraja’s V?ddhayavanajataka

Bill M. Mak

21 Modern Sa?khya: Plurality of Sa?khya Traditions in Modern India

Knut A. Jacobsen

The Works of Kenneth G. Zysk

Index