Body and cosmos : studies in early Indian medical and astral sciences in honor of Kenneth G. Zysk / edited by Toke Lindegaard Knudsen, Jacob Schmidt-Madsen, Sara Speyer.

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]

xiii, 433 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Kenneth G. Zysk and the University of Copenhagen / Erik Reenberg Sand -- Kenneth G. Zysk as the Narains remember him / Kamal Sheel -- Agni and Soma revisited : a primordial Ayurvedic concept? / Vitus Angermeier -- Humoral constitutions in the Carakasamhitā / Philipp Maas -- Diachronic migration of ancient Indian medical literature : divisions and paratextual elements in the Carakasamhitā / Cristina Pecchia -- A new translation of Carakasamhitā, Vimānasthāna, chapter 1, based on the Vienna critical edition / Dominik Wujastyk -- On the textual history of the Suśrutasamhitā, (2) : an anonymous commentary and its identified citations / Andrey Klebanov -- On attaining special powers through Rasāyana therapies in Sanskrit medical literature / Dagmar Wujastyk -- Karman, Prāyaścitta, and disease : a reading of the Karmavipāka digression in Mādhavācārya's Parāśaramādhavīya / Mikael Aktor -- Plagues and Brahmins : did a combination of epidemics and ideology empty India's cities? / Johannes Bronkhorst -- Allegory and history, life and embodiment / Anthony Cerulli -- The ritualization of omens in late Vedic ritual : a consideration of early evidence / Marko Geslani -- The Rāmāyana and the Yugas / Luis González-Reimann -- The size of the universe in Indian astronomy / Michio Yano -- Trigonometry through geometry : Bhāskara's generation of sines / Krishnamurthi Ramasubramanian and Clemency Montelle -- Mathematics and presentation of eclipse diagrams in Sanskrit astronomy / Kim Plofker -- Numerical systems followed in Grantha manuscripts / Saraju Rath -- Inventing the Pothi : the adoption and spread of a new manuscript format in Indian Buddhism / Stefan Baums -- Indian physicians in Greco-Roman literature? / Klaus Karttunen -- Greco-Indian astrological theories on conception and childbirth : chapters three and four of Mīnarāja's Vrddhayavanajātaka / Bill M. Mak -- Modern Sāmkhya : plurality of Sāmkhya traditions in modern India / Knut A. Jacobsen.

Includes bibliographical references and index.