Author: Jagjivan Ganeshji Jethabhai
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Calendar
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
100 Years' Indian Calendar
Author: Jagjivan Ganeshji Jethabhai
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Calendar
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Calendar
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Calendars of India
Author: Dr Vinod K. Mishra
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass
ISBN: 8120842766
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Calendars are created by civilisations to give meaning to the continuous flow of time according to their world-views. Over the past millennia, India has developed it's own unique collection of many calendars for regulating it's religious and cultural life. The current book presents a comprehensive account of their structure and relative importance at the present time and places them in the context of other calendars prevalent outside India. Suggestions have also been made for making some changes to bring them in line with our current astronomical knowledge. This book will be very useful to students and anyone who is curious about calendars.
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass
ISBN: 8120842766
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Calendars are created by civilisations to give meaning to the continuous flow of time according to their world-views. Over the past millennia, India has developed it's own unique collection of many calendars for regulating it's religious and cultural life. The current book presents a comprehensive account of their structure and relative importance at the present time and places them in the context of other calendars prevalent outside India. Suggestions have also been made for making some changes to bring them in line with our current astronomical knowledge. This book will be very useful to students and anyone who is curious about calendars.
The Indian Calendar
Author: Robert Sewell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hindu calendar
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hindu calendar
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
The Siddhantas and the Indian Calendar
Author: Robert Sewell
Publisher: Asian Educational Services
ISBN: 9788120603646
Category : Hindu calendar
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
Being A Continuation Of The Author`S Indian Chronograph, With An Article By The Late Dr. J.F. Fleet On The Mean Place Of The Planet Satum.
Publisher: Asian Educational Services
ISBN: 9788120603646
Category : Hindu calendar
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
Being A Continuation Of The Author`S Indian Chronograph, With An Article By The Late Dr. J.F. Fleet On The Mean Place Of The Planet Satum.
Indian calendar: scientific aspects
Author: C. K. Raju
Publisher: C. K. Raju
ISBN: 8190916130
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Today children learn their birthday only on the Christian calendar, because colonial education, being church education, teaches that calendar as its first lesson. That Gregorian calendar is inferior and unscientific, e.g. with haphazard months of 28, 29, 30, and 31 days, unrelated to any natural cycle. But children are NOT taught any alternative, on the “blinkered horse” strategy, to prevent a comparison, and force them to accept that inferior but propagandist calendar. This book explains how the Indian calendar provides a superior and scientific alternative, on which children can learn their जन्मतिथि, and why तिथि ≠ day. Children will also learn how to determine the dates of Indian festivals such as Holi and Diwali, puzzling since moveable on the Christian calendar. And perhaps stand up and question why the dates of the two secular Indian festivals are defined only on the Christian calendar. Indian astronomy, since ancient times, was scientific, and this book focuses on those scientific aspects, also explaining how science was missing in Graeco-Roman and Western tradition until the 16th c. Ever since the Vedanga Jyotish, the word jyotish meant scientific timekeeping, through astronomy, though the word jyotish is today confounded with phalit jyotish or astrology. A season missing on the Gregorian calendar is the rainy season vitally important for Indian economy, culture, and for the entire reproductive cycle on the subcontinent.
Publisher: C. K. Raju
ISBN: 8190916130
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Today children learn their birthday only on the Christian calendar, because colonial education, being church education, teaches that calendar as its first lesson. That Gregorian calendar is inferior and unscientific, e.g. with haphazard months of 28, 29, 30, and 31 days, unrelated to any natural cycle. But children are NOT taught any alternative, on the “blinkered horse” strategy, to prevent a comparison, and force them to accept that inferior but propagandist calendar. This book explains how the Indian calendar provides a superior and scientific alternative, on which children can learn their जन्मतिथि, and why तिथि ≠ day. Children will also learn how to determine the dates of Indian festivals such as Holi and Diwali, puzzling since moveable on the Christian calendar. And perhaps stand up and question why the dates of the two secular Indian festivals are defined only on the Christian calendar. Indian astronomy, since ancient times, was scientific, and this book focuses on those scientific aspects, also explaining how science was missing in Graeco-Roman and Western tradition until the 16th c. Ever since the Vedanga Jyotish, the word jyotish meant scientific timekeeping, through astronomy, though the word jyotish is today confounded with phalit jyotish or astrology. A season missing on the Gregorian calendar is the rainy season vitally important for Indian economy, culture, and for the entire reproductive cycle on the subcontinent.
Calendrical Calculations Millennium Edition
Author: Edward M. Reingold
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521777520
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
This book makes accurate calendrical algorithms readily available for computer use.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521777520
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
This book makes accurate calendrical algorithms readily available for computer use.
A Descriptive Catalogue of Indian Astronomical Instruments
Author: Sreeramula Rajeswara Sarma
Publisher: tredition
ISBN: 3748227833
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
The large masonry instruments designed by Sawai Jai Singh and erected in his five observatories in the early eighteenth century mark the culmination of a long process of development in astronomical instrumentation. But what kind of astronomical instruments were used in India before Jai Singh's time? Sanskrit texts on astronomy describe the construction and use of several types of instruments. Are any of these extant in museums? Such questions led me to an exploration of nearly a hundred museums and private collections in India, Europe and USA for about a quarter century. The present catalogue is the outcome of this exploration. This catalogue describes each instrument in the context of the related extant specimens, while laying special emphasis on the interplay between Sanskrit and Islamic traditions of instrumentation. Therefore, each instrument type is organized in a separate section identified by the letters of the alphabet. These sections begin with introductory essays on the history of the instrument type and its varieties, followed by a full technical description of every specimen, with art historical notes. Moreover, all engraved data are reproduced and interpreted as far as possible. In some 4300 pages, it contains 600 entries, with introductory essays and long extracts from two important Sanskrit texts, namely Mahendra Sūri's Yantrarāja and Padmanābha's Dhruvabhramādhikāra, along with English translations. Following a suggestion that a shorter version of the Catalogue, consisting of all the introductory essays and appendices, but excluding the catalogue proper, would be easier for the general reader to handle, this Abridged Version has been prepared. The pagination here remains the same as in the Catalogue. Those who wish to read about individual instruments can always consult the Catalogue.
Publisher: tredition
ISBN: 3748227833
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
The large masonry instruments designed by Sawai Jai Singh and erected in his five observatories in the early eighteenth century mark the culmination of a long process of development in astronomical instrumentation. But what kind of astronomical instruments were used in India before Jai Singh's time? Sanskrit texts on astronomy describe the construction and use of several types of instruments. Are any of these extant in museums? Such questions led me to an exploration of nearly a hundred museums and private collections in India, Europe and USA for about a quarter century. The present catalogue is the outcome of this exploration. This catalogue describes each instrument in the context of the related extant specimens, while laying special emphasis on the interplay between Sanskrit and Islamic traditions of instrumentation. Therefore, each instrument type is organized in a separate section identified by the letters of the alphabet. These sections begin with introductory essays on the history of the instrument type and its varieties, followed by a full technical description of every specimen, with art historical notes. Moreover, all engraved data are reproduced and interpreted as far as possible. In some 4300 pages, it contains 600 entries, with introductory essays and long extracts from two important Sanskrit texts, namely Mahendra Sūri's Yantrarāja and Padmanābha's Dhruvabhramādhikāra, along with English translations. Following a suggestion that a shorter version of the Catalogue, consisting of all the introductory essays and appendices, but excluding the catalogue proper, would be easier for the general reader to handle, this Abridged Version has been prepared. The pagination here remains the same as in the Catalogue. Those who wish to read about individual instruments can always consult the Catalogue.
The Indian Review
Author: G.A. Natesan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 1088
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 1088
Book Description
Evolution and Science of Indian Hindu and Other Calendars
Author: Mr RAJESH KUMAR CHOPRA
Publisher: ANURADHA PRAKASHAN
ISBN: 9391873820
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
About the Book This book is about the evolution of different Calendar Systems from Sumerian to Gregorian and their logic, history, science. Many allied topics such as the eclipse, are explained, with real-life examples. Facts like, why a month has 28, 29, 30 or 31 days are explained with reasons and chronology. The book is a must also for all Indians, who will find answers to almost all queries regarding Indian and Hindu calendars. "A festival falling on different dates (of a Gregorian calendar) in different years is a common feature of all religions. For Hindus, the Holi Festival may occur on any day from March 1 to March 29; for Muslims, the Id may happen on any day of the year, whereas for Christians, the Easter Sunday may occur from March 22 to April 25,..." The author R. K. Chopra is a Mining Engineer, retired from the post of Director from a multi-billion dollar turnover company.
Publisher: ANURADHA PRAKASHAN
ISBN: 9391873820
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
About the Book This book is about the evolution of different Calendar Systems from Sumerian to Gregorian and their logic, history, science. Many allied topics such as the eclipse, are explained, with real-life examples. Facts like, why a month has 28, 29, 30 or 31 days are explained with reasons and chronology. The book is a must also for all Indians, who will find answers to almost all queries regarding Indian and Hindu calendars. "A festival falling on different dates (of a Gregorian calendar) in different years is a common feature of all religions. For Hindus, the Holi Festival may occur on any day from March 1 to March 29; for Muslims, the Id may happen on any day of the year, whereas for Christians, the Easter Sunday may occur from March 22 to April 25,..." The author R. K. Chopra is a Mining Engineer, retired from the post of Director from a multi-billion dollar turnover company.
Calendrical Calculations
Author: Edward M. Reingold
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108546935
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 663
Book Description
An invaluable resource for working programmers, as well as a fount of useful algorithmic tools for computer scientists, astronomers, and other calendar enthusiasts, The Ultimate Edition updates and expands the previous edition to achieve more accurate results and present new calendar variants. The book now includes coverage of Unix dates, Italian time, the Akan, Icelandic, Saudi Arabian Umm al-Qura, and Babylonian calendars. There are also expanded treatments of the observational Islamic and Hebrew calendars and brief discussions of the Samaritan and Nepalese calendars. Several of the astronomical functions have been rewritten to produce more accurate results and to include calculations of moonrise and moonset. The authors frame the calendars of the world in a completely algorithmic form, allowing easy conversion among these calendars and the determination of secular and religious holidays. LISP code for all the algorithms is available in machine-readable form.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108546935
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 663
Book Description
An invaluable resource for working programmers, as well as a fount of useful algorithmic tools for computer scientists, astronomers, and other calendar enthusiasts, The Ultimate Edition updates and expands the previous edition to achieve more accurate results and present new calendar variants. The book now includes coverage of Unix dates, Italian time, the Akan, Icelandic, Saudi Arabian Umm al-Qura, and Babylonian calendars. There are also expanded treatments of the observational Islamic and Hebrew calendars and brief discussions of the Samaritan and Nepalese calendars. Several of the astronomical functions have been rewritten to produce more accurate results and to include calculations of moonrise and moonset. The authors frame the calendars of the world in a completely algorithmic form, allowing easy conversion among these calendars and the determination of secular and religious holidays. LISP code for all the algorithms is available in machine-readable form.