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EMESAS · Early Modern Exchanges in Sanskrit Astral Sciences

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Период: 2019-11-01 → 2021-12-31
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Early Modern Exchanges in Sanskrit Astral Sciences

The early modern period of Indian history saw a major transformation in the intellectual traditions of Sanskrit sciences. For Sanskrit astronomers, the royal patronage of the Mughal courts (1526–1857) brought them in direct contact with their Persianate counterparts as they both jostled for imperial sponsorship. The Mughal emperors instituted translation projects that offered the opportunity of employment or endorsement to a newly emergent class of professional astronomers and bilingual interpreters. It is in this competing cosmopolitan world of Mughal India that Sanskrit astronomy truly begins to engage with Islamicate (Arabic and Persian) ideas. The complex discourses that followed were shaped by the power struggles of language, culture, and identity as medieval Islamicate astronomy was now cast into the language of Sanskrit mathematical poetry. Within the global discourse of history of science, the Indian contribution remains marginally represented and insufficiently studied. While recent scholars have highlighted the mathematical developments in Indian astronomy of the early modern period (ca. 1500–1800), and others have written about the sociocultural context of the Indo-Persianate Mughal India, these studies have been largely composite and synoptic in their scope. An acute requirement has been the availability of critical and comparative studies of primary sources in Sanskrit and Indo-Persian astronomy of early modern India; in particular, of those Sanskrit texts that were highly influenced by Islamicate ideas of the time. The project 'Early Modern Exchanges in Sanskrit Astral Sciences' (EMESAS) has taken the first steps in this direction by studying an important corpus of Sanskrit and Indo-Persian texts from early seventeenth-century Mughal India and bringing out comparative critical editions (with annotated English translations and technical expositions) of selected chapters from these texts. The aim of this project has been to identify and analyse certain 'knowledge elements' (like computational methods, geometrical arguments, astronomical suppositions, etc.) found in these texts that typify the process of transformation of Islamicate astronomy into Sanskrit. More generally, this project has offered new insights into the phenomenon of transmission and translocation of knowledge between cultures. By critically studying a well-defined corpus, this project has also shown how structural changes in the knowledge systems of a society are a transformative phenomena shaped by the cognitive, cultural, and linguistic diversity of its pluralistic past. This observation offers the cosmopolitan perspective that is needed today to fight historical revisionism, cultural parochialism, and zealous traditionalism.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

During the period of Mughal rule (1500 to 1800 CE) in early modern India, traditional Sanskrit astronomers actively engaged with Islamic (Ptolemaic) astronomy for the very first time. The EMESAS project proposes to study the canonical works (siddhāntas) of three Sanskrit astronomers from the early 17th century: Nityānanda, Munīśvara, and Kamalākara. The aim of this study is to find and analyse 'knowledge elements' found in their texts that are of Islamic origin, e.g., computationalmethods, geometrical arguments, astronomical models, diagrammatic proofs, etc. In doing so, the EMESAS project will contextualize the process of transmission, reception, assimilation, and adaptation of Islamic ideas in medieval Sanskrit astronomy.The Centre for the Study of Indian Science (CSIS), hosted by the Department of Cross-Cultural and Religious Studies at University of Copenhagen (UCPH), specializes in research on different aspects of Indian astral sciences like saṃhitā (omens), horā (astrology), and gaṇita (mathematical astronomy). This makes CSIS ideally suited to host the EMESAS project.Under the supervision of Prof. Kenneth Zysk, the head of CSIS, the EMESAS project will examine Nityānanda's 'Sarvasiddhāntarāja' (1639 CE), Munīśvara’s 'Siddhāntasārvabhauma' (1646 CE), and Kamalākara’s'Siddhāntatattvaviveka' (1658 CE). The research expertise at CSIS will enable this project to ask challenging questions: What motivated Sanskrit authors to discuss Islamic astronomical theories? What kind of technical explanations, mathematical vocabularies, and cultural tropes did Sanskrit authors adopt in accepting (or rejecting) foreign ideas? How did the scientific milieu of early 17th century Mughal India influence the development of Sanskrit astronomy? To answer these questions, the EMESAS project will develop a unique interdisciplinary approach that brings together philological, historical, and mathematical methods of analysis.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

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