Index
agni
agni/soma polarity
17–18
in Āyurvedic medicine
16
in Vāgbhaṭa, the Aṣṭāṅgasaṃgraha, and the Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā
16–17
meaning of
18–19
relation to Vedic ritual
16
allegoresis
212–214, 225–226
allegory
and historiography
210–211
in Sanskrit literature
215–217
amṛta
155–157
Ānandarāya
209
family of
220
Jīvānandanam on
219, 221
Ānandarāyamakhin, see Ānandarāya
Anirvāṇ
influences on
415
Lizelle Reymond on
413
views of
410–414
appeasement, see śānti
Āryabhaṭa I
cosmology of
267
numerical system of
324–326
Āryabhaṭa II
numerical system of
327
Āryabhaṭīya
267
astrology
transmission of
235
astronomy
transmission of
235
avatāra
of Viṣṇu
251
Āyurveda
heterodoxy and orthodoxy in
369–370
in Vṛddhayavanajātaka
371–372
in Yavanajātaka
371, 373, 376
parallels to Jyotiṣa
369–372, 376, 384–385
base circle
279
Bhadrakalpikasūtra
356–357
Bhāskara I
on the size of the sky
270
Bhāskara II
279
Bhāskarācārya, see Bhāskara II
bhuja, see doḥ
bile, see doṣas
bites
27
bodily constituents, see dhātus
Brāhmaṇical
ideology
184
ideology and endogamy
202–203
ideology and epidemics
202
views of āśramas
186
views on cities
185
views on trade
192
Brahmarṣi Viśvātmā Bāvrā
views of
416–418
Bṛhajjātaka
374, 375, 378, 383, 384
Carakasaṃhitā
textual transmission of
52, 54, 60
chedyaka
282
Compendium of Caraka, see Carakasaṃhitā
concentric spheres
in Copernicus
267
in Eudoxus
267
cosmology
Buddhist
276
Purāṇic
271, 276
dāna
237
day
lord of, see dinapa
deflection, see valana
deurbanization
ideological causes of
187, 190–191, 193
economic causes of
190–193
epidemic causes of
193–194
dharma
Brāhmaṇical
250
Buddhist
250
in Dharmaśāstra
250
in the Purāṇas
250
Jain
250
dhātus
15
dinapa
268
divination
appeasement of omens
238
Atharvan relationship to
238
classificatory schemes for
236
in ancient Indian religion
235
incorporation into Vedic ritual
236
“ritualization” of
236
taxonomy of
237, 246
Varāhamihira’s classification of
237
doḥ
286–287
doṣas
16, 37, 39n12, 40n13, 46, 363
classification of in Carakasaṃhitā
33–34
doctrine of
16
in Āyurvedic medicine
15
in Vimānasthāna 8.95–100
42–49
eclipse diagram, see parilekha
Ekottarikāgama
347, 356
elements
five, see mahābhūtas
epidemics
in Eurasia
194–195
in India
196, 198
in Indian literature
198–201
in the Roman world
197
fever
treatment of
23
fire, see agni
five elements, see mahābhūtas
Galen
365–367
gaṇita, see Siddhāntas, division of
gifting, see dāna
gola, see Siddhāntas, division of
Greco-Indian medical traditions
contact between
363–364, 367
no common origin of
363
guṇa
35, 46, 48
according to Cakrapāṇidatta
36–37
Gupta Empire
190–192
half-arc formula
298, 300–301
Hippocratic
corpus
364
system
363
horā
371n8, 372, 373, 374, 377n25, 378, 379, 383, 384, 385
horeśa
268
hours
lord of, see horeśa
humors, see doṣas
insects
classification of
27
janmalakṣaṇa
375
jarāvyādhi
145
Jīvānandanam
as allegory
210
as embodied history
210, 222
as epidemiology
210, 228–229
authorship of
209n2
characters in
210–211
structure of
223–224
Jyotiṣa
heterodoxy and orthodoxy in
370–371
parallels to Āyurveda
369–372, 376, 384–385
jyotpatti
279, 281
Munīśvara on
281–282
Kali Yuga, see yuga
Kāpil Maṭh
founder of
409–410
views of
410
Kapila
412n20, 414
karman
166
results of
171, 174
types of
173, 175–176
karmavipāka
174–175
as arthavāda
172–173
definition of
170–171
karmic doctrine
in Dharmaśāstra
166
in Theravāda
167
in Upaniṣads
166–167
koṭi
286–287
kramajyā
286
language
Aramaic
344
Gāndhārī
345, 350–353, 356
Sanskrit
347, 352–353, 358, 359
lateral, see koṭi
Life Delighting, see Jīvānandanam
liminal phrases
as markers of text division
58–59
in manuscripts
65–66
in printed editions
64–65
patterns of
63
Mādhavācārya
168–169
Mādhavīya, see Parāśaramādhavīya
Mahābhārata
as a text of history
260
mahābhūtas
15
mahāśānti
240, 242, 243, 247
manuscript format
concertina
359n5
pothi
343–344, 351, 356–357, 358–359
scroll
344–348, 350, 355, 357–359
manuscript tradition
Bamiyan
352–357, 358–359
Central Asia
350–352, 359
Gandhāra
344–348, 355, 357–359
medhyarasāyana
145
medicinal plants
classification of
26
Meru
Āryabhaṭa on size of
271
in Purāṇic cosmology
272
migration
diachronic
53–54
of knowledge
52–53
of texts
53, 58–59, 66
synchronic
53–54
Mīnarāja
371n7, 373, 384
morbific factors, see doṣas
namburbi rituals
236
Nārada
explains practice of austerities
255
Nirvāṇānanda, see Anirvāṇ
numerals
Brāhmī
317–319
Grantha
328–334
Kharoṣṭhī
319
origin of Brāhmī
321
Tamil
331
numerical system
akṣarapalli
324–328
aṅkapalli
329
bārākhaḍi
328
bhūtasaṃkhyā
323–324, 325
kaṭapayādi
324–327
omenology
236
omens, see divination
oral
instruction
348
performance of texts
55–56, 58
tradition
356, 358
transmission
347, 352, 359
Parāśaramādhavīya
brahmakūrca in
180–181
karmavipāka in
170–175
prārabdhakarman in
175–180
prāyaścitta in
175–177
paratext
54–55, 58–59
evident
58
hidden
58
parilekha
Brahmagupta on
309–310
Ibn al-Haytham on
305
in Babylonian records
304
in Hellenistic astronomy
304
phlegm, see doṣas
planets
rotations of according to Al-Bīrūnī
274–275
rotations of according to Āryabhaṭa
268–269
rotations of according to Brahmagupta
273
prakṛti
36n9, 37n10, 39, 44
prārabdhakarman
curing diseases caused by
178–180
means of stopping
175–178
prāyaścitta
166
Ptolemy
267
puruṣa
definition of
271
rasāyana
in Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā
147
in Aṣṭāṅgasaṃgraha
148
in Bhaiṣajyaratnāvalī
150
in Bower Manuscript
149
in Carakasaṃhitā
142
in Siddhayoga
149
in Suśrutasaṃhitā
146
in Vaṅgasenasaṃhitā
149
Rāma
as avatāra of Viṣṇu
251
placed in the Tretā Yuga
251
Rāmāyaṇa
no connection to history
260
yuga of
251, 252, 253
sadātura
37n10, 38
Śāhajī
209, 221, 226–227
court of
228
Śambūka
story of
254–256
Sāṃkhya
diverse traditions of
408–409
modern revival of
408–409
non-differentiated
412
śānti
definition of
239
manuals of
240
rituals of
236
saumya, see soma
script
Aramaic
344–345, 358
Brāhmī
319–320, 344–345, 352, 354–355, 357, 358–359
Gilgit Bamiyan type 1
354–355, 357
Grantha
317, 328
Gupta
354, 357
Kharoṣṭhī
345, 347, 351, 353–355, 358
“Section on Specific Knowledge”, see Vimānasthāna
Siddhāntas
division of
281
Siddhāntasārvabhauma
281
Siddhāntaśiromaṇi
279
siddhi
140, 148n33, 149, 150, 161
sin
intentional
169–170
unintentional
169–170
sine
direct, see kramajyā
generation of, see jyotpatti
production of, see jyotpatti
śivā guṭikā
148, 149, 150
sky
size of
268–269
soma
150–151, 153, 154, 155
agni/soma polarity
17–18
in Āyurvedic medicine
16
in Vāgbhaṭa, the Aṣṭāṅgasaṃgraha, and the Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā
16–17
meaning of
18–19
relation to Vedic ritual
16
translation of saumya
19
stings
27
Suśrutasaṃhitā
367
hitherto unknown commentary on
104
textual history of
104
*Suśrutavyākhyā
commentarial style of
108–109
formal description of
105–107
texts quoted in
118
variants of root text in
116–118
sūtikāgṛha
375
sūtikavidhi
375
tapas
of Śambūka
255
Tetrabiblos
267
text division
54–57
as textual interpretation
57
external
56
Internal
56
markers of
58–59, 66
textual
reception
53
transmission
53
translation
theory of
81–83
trigonometric rules
in the Golādhyāya
279
Upaniṣads
on water, breath, and fire doctrines
16
upright, see doḥ
urban Brahmins
in the Arthaśāstra
188–189
in the Kāmasūtra
189–190
in the Mahābhārata
187–188
utkramajyā
287
Vādamārga
as section of Carakasaṃhitā
60
liminal phrases in
60–70
Vaiṣṇavism
251
vājīkaraṇa
141, 142
vāksiddhi
143–144, 147n24, 159
valana
306, 311
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa, see Rāmāyaṇa
Vāsanābhāṣya
279, 283
Vedavatī
story of
253–254
versine, see utkramajyā
Vidyāraṇya, see Mādhavācārya
Vimānasthāna
Cakrapāṇidatta’s commentary on
84
critical edition of
78–80
meaning of
83–85
translation of 1
87–99
translation of 8.95–100
42–49
Vṛddhayavanajātaka
cited in Jyotirnibandha
373
cited by Varāhamihīra
372
conception and birth in
373–376
date of
372
medical elements in
377–383
water, see soma
weekdays
order of
267, 268
planetary
267
wind, see doṣas
worms
classification of
27
writing material
birch bark
343, 345, 348, 350–351, 355, 357–359
copper plates
359n5
leather
344–345, 348
palm leaf
343, 349–355, 358–359
paper
343, 350–351
papyrus
344–345
wood
350n20, 351
Yavanajātaka
374, 375, 377n25
yavanas
370, 371, 372, 373
yojana
definition of
271
yuga
268
Dvāpara Yuga
251, 252, 255, 256, 257–260
end of
256–257
in the story of Śambūka
252
Kali Yuga
250–251, 252, 255
Kṛta Yuga
251, 252, 255
Tretā Yuga
251, 252, 253, 255, 256, 257–260
system of
250