APPENDIX G ABBREVIATIONSOF RESOURCE MATERIALS ON

ANCIENT INDIA

EXCERPT FROM THE STORY OF THE THREE PERIODICITIES

ASTRONOMY, TIME AND THE CALENDAR IN INDIA

A historical perspective

COMPILED BY KOSLA VEPA, YUGABDA 5111, DWITIYAH PARAARTHA,

SWETAH VARAHA KALPA, VAISAKHA PRATIPADA

ASWI Archaeological Survey of Western India ; particularly, vol. IV (1876-9) where the caves
used in the present work are described, though not too well, even with the
supplementary aid of Burgess’s Buddhist Cave Temples.
A Aryabhatiya of Aryabhata 1b
AA Aitreya Aranyaka
AB Aitareya Brahmana; translation by A. B. Keith, in HOS 25.
AIAM Ancient Indian Astronomy and Mathematics
ASIA Annual Bibliography of Indian Archaeology (Leiden).
ABORI . Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute (Poona)
AA Aitreya Aranyaka
AGP Agni Purana
AI Ancient India (Archaeological Dept. Publication, nos. 1-11).
AK The Arthasastra of Kautilya (otherwise known as Chanakya, Vishnugupta, and Kautilya).
Ed. T.
ALB AlBiruni’s India trans. Ed. Sachau, 2 vol. London 1910 ; 2 vol. in one. London 1914. AlBiruni
AM Amarakosha
ANT Antiquity, a Quarterly Review or Archaeology, founded by the late O. G. S.
ASA Aryabhata Siddhanta of Aryabhata Ia
AB Aryabhattiya
AP The Ashtadhyayi of Panini by Srisa Chandra Vasu
AV The Atharva-veda, mostly from W. D. Whitney’s translation, HOS. 7-8 ; also the selections
BEFEO Bulletin de I’Ecole Francaise de L’extreme Orient
BRP Brahmanda Purana
BS Brahmasputa Siddhanta
BSOAS Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (of the University of London).
BRU Brihat Aranyaka Upanishad
BHP Brihat Parasara Horasastra
BD Baudhayana Dharmasutra
BG Bhagavad Gita
BHP Bhagavata Purana
BRP Brahma Purana

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 BRVP Brahma Vaivarta Purana
BRD Brihad Devata
BASOR Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research.
CESS Census of the Exact Sciences in Sanskrit, by David Pingree, in 5 volumes, series A
CHI The Cambridge History of India, vol. I, “Ancient India E. J. Rapson, Cambridge 1922, 1935.
CII Corpus Inscriptorum Indicum
CHUP Chandogya Upanishad
CSIR Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
DKA F. E. Pargiter : “ The Purana text of the Dynasties of the Kali Age”
DHI Louis de la Vallee Poussin : “ Dynasties et histoire de L’Inde depuis Kanaka
jusqu’aux invasions musulmanes “ (Paris 1935).
DN Digha-Nikaya (Pali Text Society’s edition).

DP Dictionary of Panini , SM Katre

ED H. M. Elliot (ed. J. Dowson) : “ The history of India by its own historians; the
Muhammadan period” (8 vol. London 1867 + ).

EI Epigraphica Indica
FLEET J. F. Fleet : “ Inscriptions of the early Gupta kings and their successors” (Corpus
Inscriptionum Indicarum III, Calcutta 1888). A revision has been announced, but not yet
published, nor the supplementary volume of Satavahana and other epigraphs.
ICHR Indian Council of Historical Research
INDIA Annual published since 1953 by the Publications Division of the Ministry of Information &
Broadcasting, New Delhi; compiled by its Research and Reference section. This gives the
statistics and general information of interest for the whole country.
IA Indian Antiquary
IHQ Indian Historical Quarterly
IJHS Indian Journal of History of Science
INSA Indian National Science Academy
ITM L. de la Vallee Poussin : “L’lnde aux temps des Mauryas et des barbares, Grecs, Scythes,
Parthes et Yue-Tchi” (Paris 1930).
ITSING Trans. J. Takakusu (Oxford, 1896) of I-tsing’s Record of the Buddhist Religion as practised
by India and the Malay Archi pelago. I-tsing spent 16 years in India, mainly to study
monastic life and administration ; of these, ten years circa 675-685 CE at Nalanda.
GP Garuda Purana
HV Harivamsa
JAOS Journal of the American Oriental Society
JASB Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal
three series, the society having once been changed into the ‘Royal Asiatic Society’, and
afterwards merely the ‘Asiatic Society*). The numismatic supplements to the middle
series are paged separately.
JESHO Journal of the social and economic History of the Orient; published at Leiden under the
editorship of an international board
JOR Journal of Oriental Research, Madras (from the Kuppuswami Sastri Research Institute,
Mylapore, Madras).
JRAS Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of London
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KU Katha upanishad
KBU Kausitaki Brahmana Upanishad
KeU Kena Upanishad
KP Kurma Purana
L’Inde Classique by Louis Renou and Jean Filliozat
LP Linga Purana
MAN A journal for the study of anthropology.
MBH Mahabharata
MB1 Mahabhãskaryam of Bhäskara I
MARP Markandeya Purana
MATP Matsya Purana
MEG J. W. McCrindle : “Ancient India as described by Megasthenes and Arrian “ (Calcutta
1926, badly reprinted from IA 1876-77). T he text was published as selections of the quota
tions or reports of Megasthenes which survive in Strabo, Diodorus Siculus, and others by
E. A. Schwanbeck, Bonn 1846. For Diodoros, I have used the edition by Dindorf and Latin
NS Naradiya siksha
ON Otto Neugebauer
PP Padma Purana
P5S Panchasiddhantika
PHSPC Project of History of Science, Philoosphy, andCulture in Indian Civilizations
PMS Paitamaha Siddhanta
PS Paulisa Siddhanta
RV Raghu Vamsa
RAMA Ramayana
RB Rajamriganka by Bhoja
RV Rig Veda Samhita
RS Romaka Siddhanta
SK Sankhya Karika
SEDA Sanskrit English History, Vaman Shivram Apte
SB Satapatha Brahmana (contains Brihat – Aranyaka Upanishad)
SBE Sacred Books of the East by Max Mueller
SD Siddhanta-darpanam of Nilakantha Somayãji
SDS Siddhanta Shiromani
SP Siva Purana
SS SuryaSiddhanta
TU Taitreya Upanishad
TS Tantrasamgraha
UP Upanishad
V Varahamihira
VS Vaiseshika Sutra
VAMP Vamana Purana
VARP Varaha Purana
VAYP Vayu Purana
VEDD Vedartha dipika
VP VIshnu Purana
VDP Vishnudharmottara Purana (contains Paitamaha Siddhanta)
VRNP Vrhannaradhiya Purana
YB Yuktibhasa

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