Body and cosmos : : studies in early Indian medical and astral sciences in honor of Kenneth G. Zysk / / edited by Toke Lindegaard Knudsen, Jacob Schmidt-Madsen, Sara Speyer.

• Superior document: Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Series ; volume 20
• TeilnehmendeR: Knudsen, Toke Lindegaard,; Speyer, Sara, 1968-; Schmidt-Madsen, Jacob,; Zysk, Kenneth G.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Sir Henry Wellcome Asian series (Brill Academic Publishers) ; v. 20..
• Physical Description: 1 online resource :; illustrations (some color)

"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 Prof. 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 Prof. Zysk. The articles are written by internationally renowned Indological scholars and will be of value to students and researchers alike"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Kenneth G. Zysk and the University of Copenhagen / Erik Reenberg Sand -- Kenneth G. Zysk as the Narains remember him / Kamal Sheel -- Agni and Soma revisited : a primordial Ayurvedic concept? / Vitus Angermeier -- Humoral constitutions in the Carakasam?hita / Philipp Maas -- Diachronic migration of ancient Indian medical literature : divisions and paratextual elements in the Carakasam?hita / Cristina Pecchia -- A new translation of Carakasam?hita, Vimanasthana, chapter 1, based on the Vienna critical edition / Dominik Wujastyk -- On the textual history of the Susrutasam?hita, (2) : an anonymous commentary and its identified citations / Andrey Klebanov -- On attaining special powers through Rasayana therapies in Sanskrit medical literature / Dagmar Wujastyk -- Karman, Prayascitta, and disease : a reading of the Karmavipaka digression in Madhavacarya's Parasaramadhaviya / Mikael Aktor -- Plagues and Brahmins : did a combination of epidemics and ideology empty India's cities? / Johannes Bronkhorst -- Allegory and history, life and embodiment / Anthony Cerulli -- The ritualization of omens in late Vedic ritual : a consideration of early evidence / Marko Geslani -- The Ramayan?a and the Yugas / Luis Gonzalez-Reimann -- The size of the universe in Indian astronomy / Michio Yano -- Trigonometry through geometry : Bhaskaracarya's generation of sines / Krishnamurthi Ramasubramanian and Clemency Montelle -- Mathematics and presentation of eclipse diagrams in Sanskrit astronomy / Kim Plofker -- Numerical systems followed in Grantha manuscripts / Saraju Rath -- Inventing the Pothi : the adoption and spread of a new manuscript format in Indian Buddhism / Stefan Baums -- Indian physicians in Greco-Roman literature? / Klaus Karttunen -- Greco-Indian astrological theories on conception and childbirth : chapters three and four of Minaraja's Vr?ddhayavanajataka / Bill M. Mak -- Modern Sam?khya : plurality of Sam?khya traditions in modern India / Knut A. Jacobsen.