HINDU ASTRONOMY

1. Controversy
2. G.D. Cassini, Le Gentil, Bailly.
3. Laplace and Playfair.
4. Davis and Sir W. Jones
5. Bentley
6. Colebrooke
7. Legitimate research

8. Main texts
9. Break in continuity
10. Periods tabulated
11. The earlier periods
12. The later periods
13. Astronomical features of the periods

14. Arrangement
15. Views on astronomy
16. The Rig Veda
17. Other Sarhhitas
18. Subsidiary Vedic texts
19. The Jatakas
20. The Mahabharata
21. The Ramayana
22. The Puranas

23. The Jyotisha Vedanga
24. The Suryaprajnapti

25. General
26. The nakshatras
27. Stars and Constellations
28. The year
29. Months and seasons
30. Solstices and equinoxes.
31. Precession
32. Vedic chronology
33. The planets
34. Rahu and Ketu
35. Week-days
36. Heliacal risings and settings.
37. Cycle of Jupiter.
38. Mount Meru

39. Types of evidence.
40. Statements of Hindu writers.
41. Greek technical terms.
42. Greek theorems

43. Sources of information
44. Unknown astronomers.
45. Pulisa
46. Aryabhata.
47. Varaha Mihira.
48. Brahmagupta.

49. Introduction.
50. General notions.
51. The earth.
52. The prime meridian.
53. Celestial coordinates.
54. Angular units of measurements.
55. Kinds of time.
56. Days.
57. Months.
58. The Year.
59. Cycles.
60. Epochs.
61. The ahargana.
62. Precession.
63. Star lists.
64. Instruments.

65. Trigonometry.
66. Form of presentation of rules.
67. Definitions.
68. Rules and problems.
69. Ascensional difference.
70. The lagna.
71. Length of day.
72. Mean motions of planets.
73. Epicycles.
74. The Hindu scheme.
75. The two epicycles.
76. Equations of the center.
77. Latitude
78. Parallax.
79. Lunar eclipses.
80. Solar eclipses.
81. Projection of eclipses.

82. General.
83. Early formal astronomy hardly representative.
84. Syncretism of the later period.
85. Vedic chronology.

1. Astrology.
2. Hindu astronomical deities.
3. Tables.
4. Bibliography.
5. Additional notes.

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