[HinduCalendar] Fwd: David Pingree's and Eric Forbes' papers on Mesopotamian influence on Indian astronomy

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--- On Thu, 28/5/09, Avtar Krishen Kaul <jyotirved wrote:

 

Avtar Krishen Kaul <jyotirved

[HinduCalendar] Fwd: David Pingree's and Eric Forbes' papers on

Mesopotamian influence on Indian astronomy

hinducalendar

Thursday, 28 May, 2009, 7:45 AM

 

 

 

 

 

 

Abhinavagupta, " Sunthar Visuvalingam " <suntharv@.. .>

wrote:

 

You can find the full text of David Pingree's paper " The Mesopotamian Origin

of Early Indian Mathematical Astronomy " at

 

http://articles. adsabs.harvard. edu//full/ 1973JHA.. ...4....1P/ 0000001.000.

htm

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<http://articles. adsabs.harvard. edu/full/ 1973JHA.. ...4....1P/ 0000001.000.

htm

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and also another relevant paper (in PDF) by Eric G. Forbes, " Mesopotamian

and Greek influences on Ancient Indian Astronomy and on the work of

ÂryabhaTa at

 

http://www.new. dli.ernet. in/rawdataupload /upload/insa/ INSA_1/20005af8_

150.pd

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Sunthar

 

[Follow-up on my comment (below) on Francesco's post (26 May 2009) at

 

http://groups. / group/Abhinavagu pta/message/ 5047

 

Rest of this thread at Koenraad's post (26 May 2009) at

 

http://groups. / group/Abhinavagu pta/message/ 5051]

 

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Francesco,

 

I've temporarily changed the setting to allow members to upload files, and

will change it back to moderator only after you post the link to the

uploaded file(s).

 

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Sunthar

 

 

Francesco Brighenti

Tuesday, May 26, 2009 10:07 AM

Abhinavagupta

[Abhinavagupta] Re: Secrets of the Earth

 

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Indeed, on pp. 72-74 of his paper uploaded at

 

http://www.ejvs. laurasianacademy .com/ejvs0703/ ejvs0703article. pdf ,

 

Witzel therein supplies a terse yet dense discussion of the wrong (according

to his views) dating of the VJ at 1400 BCE. To this effect, he also cites a

paper by the well-known world espert of jyotihshastra (Sanskrit astral and

mathematical literature), David Pingree, which I have loaded on my PC (D.

Pingree, " The Mesopotamian Origin of Early Indian Mathematical Astronomy, "

_Journal for the History of Astronomy_ 4 [1973], pp. 1-12). I'd like to

upload a copy of this paper on the Files section of the Abhinavagupta List,

but, due to some restriction set up by the Moderator, this is not allowed to

me (and I cannot even attach it to a message to the List because I don't use

an e-mail program, but write my messages directly on the Web instead). If

Sunthar wants, I can e-mail a copy of this paper directly to him as a PDF

attachment, and he can then add it to the List's Files section. In the

meanwhile, you can read Witzel's faithful summary of Pingree's arguments

against the dating of the VJ at 1400 BCE on p. 73 of the paper whose link I

have provided above.

 

I'd like to see your detailed counter-arguments against Pingree & Witzel's

conclusions, Koenraad. Same w.r.t. Avtar Krishen Kaul's post archived at

 

http://groups. / group/Abhinavagu pta/message/ 5036 ,

 

for, as far as I can see, his " super-high " chronology for the Vedas and the

Mahabharata almost entirely rests on the assumption that the VJ was composed

circa 1400 BCE.

 

Kindest regards,

 

Francesco

 

[Response to Koenraad's post (26 May 2009) at

 

http://groups. / group/Abhinavagu pta/message/ 5044]

 

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