Pingree David. Census of the exact sciences in Sanskrit: Series A: Volume 2

American Philosophical Society, 1971. — 160 p. — (Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society 86).CESS will consist of two series: Series A will contain articles on the authors arranged in the order of the Sanskrit alphabet, and Series B articles on the books (mainly in Sanskrit, though some non-Sanskritic Indian material is included) arranged in the same manner. A concluding volume will contain tables of astronomical parameters, genealogical stemmata of authors and scribes, and indices of scribes and of proper names. The core of CESS is formed by the entries in the catalogues listed on pp. 26-32 of this volume, supplemented by printed texts (noted in the articles on the relevant authors and books) and the entries in the bibliography on pp. 4-25 of this volume. As new catalogues of manuscripts, editions of texts, and items for the bibliography are constantly appearing, and as material unwittingly omitted from the present lists will undoubtedly turn up, supplements will be included in the subsequent volumes of CESS. The index in the final volume will, of course, facilitate reference to these supplements.The article on each author will first give as much information as is available on his date, ancestry, locale, religious affiliation, and social position; it will then list his works relevant to jyotihsastra and, under each work, list its commentators, its manuscripts and editions, and any discussions of it; finally, there will be given a table of its contents and those passages in it which inform us about the author. In the case of dharmasastra works dealing with the relationship of astrology to proper human behavior and in the case of texts (mainly faina) on cosmology the references are not intended to be complete; it is felt that it is sufficient, by and large, to draw the reader's attention to this extensive material that both depends upon and has inlluenced jyotihsastra proper. The articles on books will either consist of a simple reference to the author, if he is known (he can then be looked up in Series A); or, if he is not known, there will be a full discussion of the date and locale of the work, a table of its contents, and a list of manuscripts, editions, and studies. All references to items in the bibliography, it should be noted, are abbreviated to the name of the author (the first and middle names are represented by initials) followed by the year of publication in square brackets; if the author published more than one item in any particular year, the first in the bibliography will be denoted by an a following the date, the second by a 6, and so on. If a bibliographical item is to be found in one of the supplementary lists, the series letter and volume number (e.g., A 3) in which that supplementary list is found will be prefixed to the code.