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(Nanzan University, 2018)In the period of the establishment and expansion of sultanates in South and Southeast Asia, the hunt was a central narrative event during which an observed omen was instrumental to found a new city. Such narratives were ...
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(Centre for Comparative Literature, School of Humanities, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, 2018-01)-
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(Berghahn, 2018-03)The domestication and use of animals is an integral part of the history of technology, as beasts were used to improve the efficiency of agricultural, military, and transportation activities. Individuals and social groups ...
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(Springer Nature, 2018-03)The ascensional difference (cara) and the prāṇakalāntara are to be applied to the [longitude of the] end of the desired zodiacal sign (rāśyanta) which is corrected for the movement of equinox (ayanacalana). The result thus ...
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(Springer Nature, 2018-03)Let the heap of days (dharādinaugha), and the difference in the revolutions of the Moon and its apogee be mutually divided. Then, from these results, the guṇakāras and hārakas associated with the Moon’s anomaly (candra-kendra) ...
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(Springer Nature, 2018-03)The hypotenuse of the gnomon (palaśruti) is obtained by taking the square root of the sum of 144 (bhavaka) and the square of the mid-day shadow [of the gnomon] on the equinoctial day (viṣuvaddina).1 The mid-day shadow on ...
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(Springer Nature, 2018-03)Based on a thorough examination of the position of the planets at the time of eclipses, planetary conjunctions, and so on, the revolution numbers etc. [of the planets] in a kalpa have to be conceived of for achieving ...
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(Springer Nature, 2018-03)The product of 200 (jñānīndra) and the [śakābda]-guṇakāras, beginning with dhana (9), has to be added to or subtracted from the product of the [śakābda]-hāras [of the planets], beginning with manda (85), and their respective ...
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(Springer Nature, 2018-03)Here the author emphasizes the importance of actual observations of the celestial objects through the measurement of their shadows etc. in determining their longitudes and latitudes. In the case of the Sun, the measurements ...
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(Springer Nature, 2018-03)May the diameter be multiplied by four, kept separately at several places, and divided by the odd numbers 3, 5, 7 etc. [The results] may be sequentially applied negatively and positively to the diameter multiplied by four. ...
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(Springer Nature, 2018-03)May the guru, an embodiment of intelligence and bliss, keep ever rising in the space of my heart, like the Sun dispelling the darkness of ignorance.
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(Springer Nature, 2018-03)The above verse defines the mandakendrahārakas of the planets. It may be recalled that the mandakendra is the difference between the planet and its mandocca (apogee). The mandakendra-guṇakāras and the mandakendrahārakas ...
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(Springer Nature, 2018-03)The true epicycle Circumference in minutes (sphuṭavṛttakalās) of the Sun is 03 (gānam ) and that of the Moon is 07 (sthānam) always (in all the quadrants). The [dimensions of the] circumferences of the manda and the śīghra ...
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(Duke University Press, 2018-04)he independent Maratha kingdom of Chhatrapati Shivaji was founded in the mid-seventeenth century, when the sultanates of the Deccan were defending against the expansionist Mughal empire. The Mughals slowly anchored themselves ...
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(Wiley, 2018-05)Architectural history informed the colonial government in their creation of an Indian empire, helped the self‐fashioning of the princely states, and eventually became the source of national narratives for the countries of ...
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(Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies (LLIDS), 2018-06)While postmodernism never had1 a specific manifesto, it is usually identified with the following themes: contradiction, randomness, excess (Lodge); self-reflexiveness, metafiction, eclecticism, redundancy, multiplicity ...
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(Indian Academy of Sciences, 2018-08)In an effort to search observational records of stars in the Indian astronomical texts, we have compiled all bright stars in various texts from Sūryasiddhānta to Siddhāntadarpan̟a by Candraśekhara Sāmanta of the 19th ...
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(Department of History & Classics, University of Alberta, 2018-08)set of tables devoted to solar and lunar phenomena entitled the Candrārkī was prepared in Sanskrit by the sixteenth-century Indian astronomer Dinakara. Along with the tables, Dinakara composed a short accompanying text ...
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(Cambridge University Press, 2018-10)In the medieval world of Islamic kingdoms, the Friday sermon in the name of the reigning sultan (khutba) and the striking of coins (sikka) have been thought of as universal declarations of sovereignty. Yet, the sultanates ...
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(Sage Publication, 2018-12)A set of tables devoted to the sun and the moon, titled the Candrārkī (“Related to the moon and sun”), was compiled in Sanskrit by Indian astronomer Dinakara along with a short accompanying text, intended to give guidance ...
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