Sahl and the Tājika Yogas: Indian transformations of Arabic astrology
(2011) In Annals of Science 68. p.531-546- Abstract
- This paper offers a positive identification of Sahl ibn Bishr’s Kitāb al-ʾaḥkām ʿalā ʾn-niṣba al-falakiyya as the Arabic source text for what is perhaps the most characteristic feature of the medieval Perso-Indian style of astrology known as tājika: the sixteen yogas or types of planetary configurations. The dependence of two late sixteenth-century tājika works in Sanskrit – Nīlakaṇṭha’s Tājikanīlakaṇṭhī and Gaṇeśa’s Tājikabhūṣaṇa – on Sahl, presumably through one or more intermediary texts, is demonstrated by a comparison of the terminology and examples employed; and the Indian reception of Arabic astrology is discussed, including reinterpretations of technical terms occasioned partly by corrupt transmission.
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- Gansten, Martin LU and Wikander, Ola LU
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- 2011
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- Contribution to journal
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- keywords
- Sahl, Tajika, Sanskrit, Arabic, astrology, Nilakantha, Tajikabhusana, Tajikanilakanthi
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- Annals of Science
- volume
- 68
- pages
- 531 - 546
- publisher
- Taylor & Francis
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- wos:000296972300007
- scopus:84857240880
- ISSN
- 0003-3790
- DOI
- 10.1080/00033790.2010.533349
- language
- English
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- yes
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- The information about affiliations in this record was updated in December 2015. The record was previously connected to the following departments: Centre for Theology and Religious Studies (015017000)
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