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Body and Cosmos is a collection of articles published on the occasion of the 70th birthday of Professor Emeritus Kenneth G. Zysk. The articles revolve thematically around the early Indian medical and astral sciences, which have been at the center of Professor Zysks long and esteemed career within the discipline of Indology.
The volume is divided into three parts. The first part is devoted to the medical sciences, the second part to the astral sciences, and the third part to cross-cultural interactions between India and the West, which runs like an undercurrent throughout the work of Professor Zysk.
The articles are written by internationally renowned Indological scholars and will be of value to students and researchers alike.
The volume is divided into three parts. The first part is devoted to the medical sciences, the second part to the astral sciences, and the third part to cross-cultural interactions between India and the West, which runs like an undercurrent throughout the work of Professor Zysk.
The articles are written by internationally renowned Indological scholars and will be of value to students and researchers alike.
Price: $184.00
Pages: 434
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Series
Publication Date:
15 October 2020
ISBN: 9789004436695
Format: Hardcover
"The volume is at its strongest when authors work across disciplines to show the relationships between different types of scholarship in precolonial India that are often treated as distinct from each other. Many of the essays convey results from ongoing collaborative research, editorial, and translation projects, which advertise eagerly anticipated future publications.(...) Overall, the volume provides specialist readers with a set of focused essays about a wide array of scholastic topics in premodern India and occasionally further afield. When interactions across cultures are presented, it is largely within an East-West framing. Contributions from scholars working with Persian sources as well as from scholars participating in the broader turn toward vernacular languages in South Asian studies would have been appreciated. Kenneth Zysks work on Tamil Siddha medicine shows that Classical Indologists trained in Sanskrit have much to contribute to these discussions. - Eric Moses Gurevitch, Asian Medicine 18 (2023).
Toke Lindegaard Knudsen, Ph.D. (2008), Brown University, is Associate Professor of Mathematics at the State University of New York at Oneonta. He has published on astronomy and mathematics in ancient and medieval India, including The Siddhntasundara of Jnarja: An English Translation with Commentary (Johns Hopkins, 2014).
Jacob Schmidt-Madsen, Ph.D. (2019), University of Copenhagen, is a postdoctoral researcher in Indology at the same university. He specializes in the history of South Asian board games and has written on the origins of the games of caupa and gyn caupa.
Sara Speyer, M.A. (2017), University of Copenhagen, works as an yurvedic therapist. She is also part of an international research group working on the Grgyajyotia, an ancient text on astral sciences, her focus being the section on animal omens.
Jacob Schmidt-Madsen, Ph.D. (2019), University of Copenhagen, is a postdoctoral researcher in Indology at the same university. He specializes in the history of South Asian board games and has written on the origins of the games of caupa and gyn caupa.
Sara Speyer, M.A. (2017), University of Copenhagen, works as an yurvedic therapist. She is also part of an international research group working on the Grgyajyotia, an ancient text on astral sciences, her focus being the section on animal omens.