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- Al-Biruni, India ed Edward Sachau, (Lahore, West Pakistan,
1962).
This is Al-Biruni's most celebrated work. It is a geographic,
historical, ethnographic, and scientific review of the condition
of India in Al-Biruni's time. There is a great deal of useful
astrological information in it, as well as other important
things. Al-Biruni's dates are given on the Library of Congress
card, as 973 A.D.-1048 A.D. This book is still used as a
reference book on Indian civilization.
- Sphujidhavaja The Yavanajataka ,ed David Pingree 2 Vols,
(Cambridge, MA,Harvard University Press,1987).
The title means "The Horoscopy of the Greeks". This book
contains the text, a most excellent translation, and a superb
commentary on this seminal and transitional work of Hindu
Astrology. It demonstrates absolutly the origins of this
art in the teaching of the hellenistic astrologers of the
late classical period in the mediterranian basin. If we
take the Carmen Astrologicum of Dorotheus of Sidon as a
good example of where hellenistic astrology was at the beginning
of this cultural transmision, and perhaps Al-Biruni's Book
of Instruction as a central position on its trajectory,
the landing place has to be this work of Sphujidhavaja's.
Hence it is listed as contributing to our understanding
of arabic astrology as well as indian, simply because arabic
astrology occupies the middle of the arc of transmission.
The emblem Pingree has chosen for vol I nails down the intellectual
dependence. It is by Varahamihira, the father of Indian
Astrology, "For although the Greeks are barbarians, they
have brought this science to perfection, and so are honored
as sages; how much more honorable, then, is an astrologer
who is a Brahmana!"
Brhatsamhita 2, 14
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