Yavanajataka

The Yavanajātaka (Sanskrit: yavana 'Greek' + jātaka 'nativity'. ^[1]

22 relations: Alexandria, Asian Educational Services, Bhāskara I, Byzantine Empire, David Pingree, Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures, Harvard Oriental Series, Helaine Selin, Hindu astrology, Horoscope, Indo-Greek Kingdom, K. V. Sarma, Paulisa Siddhanta, Romaka Siddhanta, Rudradaman I, Sanskrit compound, Shaka era, The Shape of Ancient Thought, Utpala (astronomer), Vedanga Jyotisha, Western Satraps, Yona.
Hindu astrological texts

Alexandria

Alexandria (الإسكندرية; Ἀλεξάνδρεια, Coptic: Ⲣⲁⲕⲟϯ - Rakoti or ⲁⲗⲉⲝⲁⲛⲇⲣⲓⲁ) is the second largest city in Egypt and the largest city on the Mediterranean coast.

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Asian Educational Services (AES) is a New Delhi, India-based publishing house that specialises in antiquarian reprints of books that were originally published between the 17th and early 20th centuries.

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Bhāskara I

Bhāskara (commonly called Bhāskara I to avoid confusion with the 12th-century mathematician Bhāskara II) was a 7th-century Indian mathematician and astronomer who was the first to write numbers in the Hindu–Arabic decimal system with a circle for the zero, and who gave a unique and remarkable rational approximation of the sine function in his commentary on Aryabhata's work.

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Byzantine Empire

The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centered in Constantinople during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.

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David Pingree

David Edwin Pingree (January 2, 1933, New Haven, Connecticut – November 11, 2005, Providence, Rhode Island) was an American historian of mathematics in the ancient world.

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Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures

Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures is an encyclopedia edited by Helaine Selin and published by Kluwer Academic Publishers in 1997, with a second edition in 2008, and third edition in 2016.

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Harvard Oriental Series

The Harvard Oriental Series is a book series founded in 1891 by Charles Rockwell Lanman and Henry Clarke Warren.

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Helaine Selin

Helaine Selin (born 1946) is an American librarian, historian of science, author and book editor.

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Hindu astrology

Hindu astrology, also called Indian astrology, Jyotisha (translit-script) and, more recently, Vedic astrology, is the traditional Hindu system of astrology.

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Horoscope

A horoscope (or other commonly used names for the horoscope in English include natal chart, astrological chart, astro-chart, celestial map, sky-map, star-chart, cosmogram, vitasphere, radical chart, radix, chart wheel or simply chart) is an astrological chart or diagram representing the positions of the Sun, Moon, planets, astrological aspects and sensitive angles at the time of an event, such as the moment of a person's birth.

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Indo-Greek Kingdom

The Indo-Greek Kingdom, or Graeco-Indian Kingdom, also known as the Yavana Kingdom (also Yavanarajya after the word Yona, which comes from Ionians), was a Hellenistic-era Greek kingdom covering various parts of modern-day Afghanistan, Pakistan and northwestern India.

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K. V. Sarma

Krishna Venkateswara Sarma (1919–2005) was an Indian historian of science, particularly the astronomy and mathematics of the Kerala school.

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Paulisa Siddhanta

The Pauliṣa Siddhānta (literally, "The scientific-treatise of Pauliṣa Muni") refers to multiple Indian astronomical treatises, at least one of which is based on a Western source. Yavanajataka and Paulisa Siddhanta are Hindu astrological texts.

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Romaka Siddhanta

The Romaka Siddhanta, literally "The Doctrine of the Romans", is one of the five siddhantas (doctrine or tradition) mentioned in Varahamihira's Panchasiddhantika which is an Indian astronomical treatise. Yavanajataka and Romaka Siddhanta are Hindu astrological texts.

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Rudradaman I

Rudradāman I (r. 130–150) was a Śaka ruler from the Western Kshatrapas dynasty.

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Sanskrit compound

Sanskrit inherits from its parent, the Proto-Indo-European language, the capability of forming compound nouns, also widely seen in kindred languages, especially German, Greek, and also English.

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Shaka era

The Shaka era (IAST: Śaka, Śāka) is a historical Hindu calendar era (year numbering), the epoch (its year zero) of which corresponds to Julian year 78.

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The Shape of Ancient Thought

The Shape of Ancient Thought: Comparative Studies in Greek and Indian Philosophies is a book by the American writer Thomas McEvilley, published in 2001 by Allworth Press.

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Utpala (astronomer)

Utpala, also known as was an astronomer from Kashmir region of present-day India, who lived in the 10th century (or according to one theory, in the 9th century).

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Vedanga Jyotisha

Vedanga Jyotisha, or Jyotishavedanga, is one of earliest known Indian texts on astrology (Jyotisha). Yavanajataka and Vedanga Jyotisha are Hindu astrological texts and Sanskrit texts.

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Western Satraps

The Western Satraps, or Western Kshatrapas (Brahmi:, Mahakṣatrapa, "Great Satraps") were Indo-Scythian (Saka) rulers of the western and central parts of India (extending from Saurashtra in the south and Malwa in the east, covering modern-day Sindh, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh states), between 35 and 415 CE.

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Yona

The word Yona in Pali and the Prakrits, and the analogue Yavana in Sanskrit and Yavanar in Tamil, were words used in Ancient India to designate Greek speakers.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yavanajataka

Also known as Sphujidhvaja, Yavana-jātaka, Yavanajātaka, Yavaneshwara, Yavanesvara, Yavaneswara, Yavaneśvara.

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