Learning With Spheres : The goladhyaya in Nityananda’s Sarvasiddhantaraja (Paperback)

1. Introduction, 1.1 Indian astronomy: a brief overview, 1.2 The Sarvasiddh?ntar?ja, ‘The King of all siddh?ntas’, 1.3 The Gol?dhy?ya in Nity?nanda’s Sarvasiddh?ntar?ja, 2. Manuscript Sources and Stemma, 2.1 Catalogues, holding institutions, and manuscript sigla, 2.2 Metadata, structure, and content of the manuscripts, 2.3 Stemma of the manuscript witnesses, 2.4 Editorial Notes, 3 Critical Edition, 4 Edited Sanskrit text and its English translation , 5 Critical Notes and Technical Analyses, A Nity?nanda’s geodetic method vis-a-vis al-B?r?n?’s method to calculate the Earth’s radius, B The cosmography of the Pur??as, C Numbering of verses in the critical edition vis-a-vis the eight manuscripts of the gol?dhy?ya in Nity?nanda’s Sarvasiddh?ntar?ja.