Selections From Resources For Historical Research On Ancient India

APPENDIX G ABBREVIATIONSOF RESOURCE MATERIALS ON ANCIENT INDIA EXCERPT FROM THE STORY OF THE THREE PERIODICITIES ASTRONOMY, TIME AND THE CALENDAR IN INDIA A historical perspective

COMPILED BY KOSLA VEPA, YUGABDA 5111, DWITIYAH PARAARTHA, SWETAH VARAHA KALPA, VAISAKHA PRATIPADA ASWI

A

Archaeological Survey of Western India ; particularly, vol. IV (1876-9) where the caves used in the present work are described, though not too well, even with the supplementary aid of Burgess’s Buddhist Cave Temples. Aryabhatiya of Aryabhata 1b

AA

Aitreya Aranyaka

AB

Aitareya Brahmana; translation by A. B. Keith, in HOS 25.

AIAM

Ancient Indian Astronomy and Mathematics

ASIA

Annual Bibliography of Indian Archaeology (Leiden).

ABORI . AA

Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute (Poona)

AGP

Agni Purana

AI

Ancient India (Archaeological Dept.

AK

The Arthasastra of Kautilya (otherwise known as Chanakya, Vishnugupta, and Kautilya). Ed. T. AlBiruni’s India trans. Ed. Sachau, 2 vol. London 1910 ; 2 vol. in one. London 1914. AlBiruni Amarakosha Antiquity, a Quarterly Review or Archaeology, founded by the late O. G. S. Aryabhata Siddhanta of Aryabhata Ia Aryabhattiya The Ashtadhyayi of Panini by Srisa Chandra Vasu The Atharva-veda, mostly from W. D. Whitney’s translation, HOS. 7-8 ; also the selections Bulletin de I’Ecole Francaise de L’extreme Orient Brahmanda Purana Brahmasputa Siddhanta Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (of the University of London). Brihat Aranyaka Upanishad Brihat Parasara Horasastra Baudhayana Dharmasutra Bhagavad Gita Bhagavata Purana Brahma Purana

ALB AM ANT ASA AB AP AV BEFEO BRP BS BSOAS BRU BHP BD BG BHP BRP 132

Aitreya Aranyaka Publication, nos. 1-11).

BRVP BRD BASOR CESS CHI CII CHUP CSIR

Brahma Vaivarta Purana Brihad Devata Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research. Census of the Exact Sciences in Sanskrit, by David Pingree, in 5 volumes, series A The Cambridge History of India, vol. I, “Ancient India E. J. Rapson, Cambridge 1922, 1935. Corpus Inscriptorum Indicum Chandogya Upanishad Council of Scientific and Industrial Research

DKA DHI

F. E. Pargiter : “ The Purana text of the Dynasties of the Kali Age” Louis de la Vallee Poussin : “ Dynasties et histoire de L’Inde depuis Kanaka jusqu’aux invasions musulmanes “ (Paris 1935).

DN

Digha-Nikaya (Pali Text Society’s edition).

DP

Dictionary of Panini , SM Katre

ED

H. M. Elliot (ed. J. Dowson) : “ The history of India by its own historians; the Muhammadan period” (8 vol. London 1867 + ).

EI

Epigraphica Indica

FLEET

J. F. Fleet : “ Inscriptions of the early Gupta kings and their successors” (Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum III, Calcutta 1888). A revision has been announced, but not yet published, nor the supplementary volume of Satavahana and other epigraphs. Indian Council of Historical Research Annual published since 1953 by the Publications Division of the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, New Delhi; compiled by its Research and Reference section. This gives the statistics and general information of interest for the whole country.

ICHR INDIA

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IA IHQ IJHS INSA ITM

Indian Antiquary Indian Historical Quarterly Indian Journal of History of Science Indian National Science Academy L. de la Vallee Poussin : “L’lnde aux temps des Mauryas et des barbares, Grecs, Scythes, Parthes et Yue-Tchi” (Paris 1930).

ITSING

Trans. J. Takakusu (Oxford, 1896) of I-tsing’s Record of the Buddhist Religion as practised by India and the Malay Archi pelago. I-tsing spent 16 years in India, mainly to study monastic life and administration ; of these, ten years circa 675-685 CE at Nalanda.

GP

Garuda Purana

HV

Harivamsa

JAOS

Journal of the American Oriental Society

JASB

Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal three series, the society having once been changed into the ‘Royal Asiatic Society’, and afterwards merely the ‘Asiatic Society*). The numismatic supplements to the middle series are paged separately.

JESHO

Journal of the social and economic History of the Orient; published at Leiden under the editorship of an international board

JOR

Journal of Oriental Research, Madras (from the Kuppuswami Sastri Research Institute, Mylapore, Madras).

JRAS LB1

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of London Laghu Bhaskariya of Bhaskara I

LB2 KU KBU KeU

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Lilavati of Bhaskara II Katha upanishad Kausitaki Brahmana Upanishad Kena Upanishad Kurma Purana L’Inde Classique by Louis Renou and Jean Filliozat Linga Purana A journal for the study of anthropology. Mahabharata Mahabhãskaryam of Bhäskara I Markandeya Purana Matsya Purana J. W. McCrindle : “Ancient India as described by Megasthenes and Arrian “ (Calcutta 1926, badly reprinted from IA 1876-77). T he text was published as selections of the quota tions or reports of Megasthenes which survive in Strabo, Diodorus Siculus, and others by E. A. Schwanbeck, Bonn 1846. For Diodoros, I have used the edition by Dindorf and Latin Naradiya siksha Otto Neugebauer Padma Purana Panchasiddhantika Project of History of Science, Philoosphy, andCulture in Indian Civilizations Paitamaha Siddhanta Paulisa Siddhanta Raghu Vamsa Ramayana Rajamriganka by Bhoja Rig Veda Samhita Romaka Siddhanta Sankhya Karika Sanskrit English History, Vaman Shivram Apte Satapatha Brahmana (contains Brihat – Aranyaka Upanishad) Sacred Books of the East by Max Mueller Siddhanta-darpanam of Nilakantha Somayãji Siddhanta Shiromani Siva Purana SuryaSiddhanta Taitreya Upanishad Tantrasamgraha Upanishad Varahamihira Vaiseshika Sutra Vamana Purana Varaha Purana Vayu Purana Vedartha dipika VIshnu Purana Vishnudharmottara Purana (contains Paitamaha Siddhanta) Vrhannaradhiya Purana Yuktibhasa