[INDIA / ISLAM] The Hindu calendar as described in Al-Bîrûnî's Masudic Canon. (Reprinted -offprint- from private circulation from Journal of Near Eastern Studies, Vol. XXIV, No. 3, July 1965.
[INDIA / ISLAM] The Hindu calendar as described in Al-Bîrûnî's Masudic Canon. (Reprinted -offprint- from private circulation from Journal of Near Eastern Studies, Vol. XXIV, No. 3, July 1965.
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Details
- Year of publication
- 1965
- Place of printing
- Chicago - USA
- Author
- Edward S. Kennedy, Susan Engle, Jeanne Wamstad.
- Pages
- 0
- Publishers
- University of Chicago
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Keyword
- Asia (Other), Middle East
- Binding description
- Soft cover
- State of preservation
- Very Good
- Languages
- English
- Binding
- Softcover
- First edition
- True
Description
Original yellow wrappers. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In English. pp. [274]-284. This paper is a contribution to Birûnî's one of the major works in Arabic titled "Al-Qânûn al-Masûdî", a treatise calendars devoted to calendars and chronology. The chapter begins with a definition of the Saka Era. Birûnî then states two rules, the first for converting a date given in one of the three calendars common in the countries of medieval Islam into the equivalent Indian date, the second for performing the inverse operation, conversion from an Indian into a Western date. The epochs of the Arkand Zij (the Khandakhâdyaka and the Kaliyuga are given in this, the hierarchies of periods used in Indian chronology are defined, and the astronomical parameters assembled by us in Section 2 below are presented." Six copies in OCLC 494511865, 469404461.
