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Some Gems of Sanskrit Literature

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Some Gems of Sanskrit Literature

Dr. Umesh Kumar Singh, Research Associate, Centre for Indic Studies
University of Massachusetts, USA.
umeshvaidik@gmail.com

Background Te x t s o n F o o d s c i e n c e

These texts were collected during our research project entitled “Science &
Name of Text Author Details
Technology in Ancient Indian Texts (STAIT)” . Mainly our focus was to भोजनकु तूहलम् ी रघुनाथ Book on cookery
explore unpublished or non-translated manuscripts and texts on
engineering and chemical sciences or Ancient Indian Rasa-śāstra. We
ेमकु तूहलम् ेमशमा 12 Chapter book on veg. & non-veg.
food.
started our search from Jaipur Collection in first year of our project and in
this year we sought Scientific manuscripts of Sampūrṇānda Sanskrit
सूपशा म् सुकेश Cookery

University (SSU), Varanasi. We have plan to publish these books in many मानसो लास सोमे र It’s a collection of different subjects &
volumes for easier availability to scholars. food to.
त क प पाराशर
Te x t s o n Ve t e r i n a r y S c i e n c e s
Unpublished manuscript on Takra.
Which is used as medicinal food.
पाकदपणम् महाराजा नल Known as most ancient book on food .
Name of Text Author Details
मृगपि शा म् हंसदेव of 14th This is oldest documentation पाकावली Manuscript No- 45305 of SSU, It Deals with medicinal food.
Author unknown.
Century on Indian animals and birds,
क ण पाकशा Food science found in Puranas and
both wild and pets. Madhavnidan etc.
गज हण कारः नारायण दीि त Taming the elephant
अ शा म् नकु ल Book on horse-keeping Te x t s o n Wa r f a r e
अ वै कम् जयद Book on horse-keeping
Name of Text Author Details
का यपसंिहता का यप Book on Snakes and treatment
िशव-धनुवद भगवान् िशव Archery & warfare
of their venom
यैिनक शा म् देव King of This book deals with bird वािश धनुवद मह ष विश Archery & warfare
कु माऊँ hunting and use of Hawk for नीित कािशका वैश पायन Archery & warfare
war purpose कोद डम डनम् अ ात Unpublished Manuscript on Archery
ह यायुवद पालका य Big text on cure for Elephants धनु व ािवलासम् Unknown Archery & warfare
गजशा म् पालका य Same ख गपरी ा आचाय शा गधर Archery & warfare
ह रहर चतुर गम गोदावर िम Deals with Horses & Elephants क ण धनुवद Archery & warfare
for war purpose.
अ दपण व दी िम ा Unpublished manuscript
Conclusions
मात गलीला नीलक ठ Sports of elephants
क ण पशुशा After our wide survey we found that still lots of Scientific manuscripts in India are non-translated and needs
to be edited. There are many texts in languages in other than Sanskrit. We found many texts in Avadhi

Te x t s o n E n g i n e e r i n g
Language who deals with Ayurveda and easy to memorize because they are written in poetic form. There is
an strong need to explore these texts to welfare of humanity.

Name of Text Author Details Acknowledgements

अंशुबोिधनी मह ष भर ाज Spectroscopy
िवमानशा मह ष भर ाज
I am very thankful to my project supervisors Prof. Balram Singh, Director, Centre for Indic Studies,
Aeronautics University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth,USA & Dr. Girish Nath Jha who an Associate Professor in Special
र दीिपका मह ष भर ाज Ceramics Centre for Sanskrit Studies, JNU & Mukesh & Priti Chhattar Distinguished Prof. of History of Science in
समरा गण सू धार राजा भोज
Centre for Indic Studies, University of Massachusetts. They supported me very much to make this
Architecture & engineering collection. I express my gratitude to VC,s of Sampurnanand Sanskrit University, Varanasi Prof. Kutumba
Shastri(Ex) & Prof. Vrinda Prasad Mishra who gave me permission to access the Sarasvati Bhavan
युि क पत राजा भोज Architecture & engineering Manuscript Library. I pay special thanks to Chief Librarian Mr. Suryakant Yadav who provided most of the
facilities of University library.

अ व कािशका It’s a revelation by Bibliography

Subbraya Shastri
Ayachit S. M. (Tr.) 2002. Kashyapiya Krishi Sukti (A Treatise on Agriculture by Kashyapa). Agri-History Bulletin No. 4. Asian Agri-History Foundation, Secunderabad- 500009, Andhra Pradesh, India.
Bhattacharya, Śrī Jīvānanda Vidyāsāgara (Ed.) 1893. Aśvavaidyakam: A Treatise on Veterinary Science (Aśvavaidyakam by Jayadatta & Aśvacikitsitam by Nakula) Siddheśvara Yantrālaya, Calcutta,

Te x t s o n A g r i c u l t u r e
India.
Chaudhuri, S. P. Ray (Tr.) 1936. Kṛṣi-Saṅgraha, Imperial Bureau of Soil Science. England, Monthly Bulletin No. 59.
Childress, David Hatcher. 1991. Vimana: Aircraft of Ancient India, Adventures Unlimited Press.
Dongre, Dr. Narayan Gopal & Nene, Dr. Shankar Gopal, Maharṣi Bharadvāja’s Anśubodhinīśāstram: Cosmology and Physics of Nuclear Particles in Ancient India.Triangle Concepts 5/82 Uma
Shankar Society, Behind Mahesh Society, Bibwewadi, Pune- 411037, India.

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Edgerton, Franklin (Tr.) 1931. The Elephant-Lore of The Hindus, Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut, U. S. A.
Gopalan, S. (Ed.) 1952. Aśvaśāstram by Nakula, T.M.S.S.M. Library, Tanjore, Tamilnadu, India.
H.S. Mukunda, S.M. Deshpande, H.R. Nagendra, A. Prabhu, and S.P. Govindaraju, 1974. A critical study of the work “Vymanika Shastra”, Scientific Opinion. Indian Institute of Science,
Bangalore-560012 (Karnataka).
Josyer G. R. 1973. Vymaanika-Shaastra: Aeronautics by Maharshi Bharadwaaja. International Academy of Sanskrit Research, Mysore-4, India.
Josyer G. R. 1979. Diamonds, Mechanisms, Weapons of War, Yoga Sutras. International Academy of Sanskrit Research, Mysore-4, India.

का यपीय कृ िषसूि ः का यप
Kanjilal, Dileep Kumar 1985. Vimana in Ancient India : Aeroplanes Or Flying Machines in Ancient India, Sanskrit Pustak Bhandar, Calcutta, India.

Biggest text on agriculture

Mishra, Godāvara (Ed.) 1950. Harihara Chaturaṅgam, Madras Government Oriental Series- XVVI, Chennai, India.
Muni, Shri Yariraja Sampathkumara (Ed.) 1933. Kashyapa Samhita, Kabira Printing Works, Chennai, India.

in Sanskrit
Nene Y. L. 2007. Glimpses of the Agricultural Heritage of India. Asian Agri-History Foundation, Secunderabad- 500009, Andhra Pradesh, India.
Pākāvalī, MS. No. 45305 at Sampurnanand Sanskrit University, Varanasi.
Rajpurohit, Dr. Bhagawati Lal (Ed. & Hindi Tr.) 2008. Yuktikalpataru of Śri Bhojarāja, Pratibha Prakashan, Delhi-110007

िव व लभः च पािण िम Agriculture & Horticulture

Sadhale Nalini & Nene Y. L. (Eds) 2008. Mirga.pakshi.shastra. Asian Agri-History Foundation (AAHF), Secunderabad-500009, Andhra Pradesh, India.
Sadhale, Nalini (Tr.) 1999. Krishi-Parashara (Agriculture by Parashara). Agri-History Bulletin No. 2. Asian Agri-History Foundation, Secunderabad - 500009, Andhra Pradesh, India.

कृ िष-पराशरः पराशर
Sadhale, Nalini (Tr.) 2004. Vishvavallabha (Dear to the World: The science of Plant Life). Agri-History Bulletin No. 5. Asian Agri-History Foundation, Secunderabad - 500009, Andhra Pradesh.

Agriculture & Horticulture

Sarma, E.R. Sreekrishna (Ed.)1968. Gajagrahanaprakara (A metrical work dealing with catching and training of elephants) Sri Venkateswara University, Oriental Research Institute, Tirupati.
Saxena R. C., Choudhary S. L., and Nene Y. L. 2009. A Textbook on Ancient History of Indian Agriculture. Asian Agri-History Foundation (AAHF), Secunderabad 500009; and Rajasthan Chapter of AAHF,

कृ िषका डम् पराशर

Udaipur 313002. India.

This is an unpublished
Sharma & Mishra, Śri Pāvanī Prasād (Hindi Tr.) & Shri Brahmashankar (Ed.) Reprint 2007. The Lohasarvasvam of Śri Sureśwara, Chaukhamba Bharti Academy, Varanasi-221001, India.
Sharma, G. Venkatachala (Ed. & Tr.) 1931. Anśubodhinīśāstram, Messrs. Faredun Kershasp Dadachanji & Ramniklal Ratanlal Mody, Solocitors, Medows street, Fort, Bombay, India.

manuscript of SSU, Varanasi

Sharma, Shivadatta (Ed.) 1894. Hastyāyurvedaḥ, Anandashram Mudranalaya, Pune, India.
Shastri, Brahmarshi Subbraya 1955. Aptattvaprakāśikā, Shilpa Sansara (Magazine), Pune, India.
Shastri, K. S. Subrahmanya (Ed. & Tamil Tr.) 1958. Gajaśāstram of Palakāpya Muni, Saraswati Mahal Library, Tanjore, Tamilnadu, India.

कृ िषशासनम् दशरथ शा ी
Shastri, Mahāmahopādhyāya Haraprasāda (Ed. & Tr.) 1910. Śyainika Śāstram: A Book on Hawking, Asiatic Society of Bengal, Calcutta, India.
Shastri, T. Ganapati (Ed.) 1910. The Mātaṅgalīlā of Nīlakaṇṭha, Trivendrum Sanskrit Series-10, Travancore Government Press, Trivendrum, Kerla, India.

वृ ायुवदः सुरपाल
Shastri, T. Ganapati (Ed.) 1924. Samarāngaṇa-Sutradhāra of Maharajadhiraja Bhoja, Oriental Institute, Baroda.

Agriculture & Horticulture

Shrigondekar, G. K. (Ed.) 1939. Mānasollāsa of King Someśvara, Vol. 1 & 2, Baroda Oriental Institute, Baroda, Gujrat, India.
Singh, Dr. Umesh Kumar (Ed.) 2010. Mṛgapakṣiśāstram. Parimal Publications, 27/28 Shakti Nagar, New Delhi-110007, India.

बृह संिहता तगत आचाय वराहिमिहर

Singh, Dr. Umesh Kumar (Ed.) 2010. Ratnapradīpikā. Parimal Publications, Shakti Nagar, New Delhi-110007, India.

Indigenous agricultural
Singh, Srinarayan (Tr. Hindi) 1971. Krishi-Parashara. Jayabhārata Press, Ramnagar, Varanasi, India. 80pp.
Sundaracharya M.(Tr.) 1927. Mirga-pakshi-shastra or Science of Amimals and Birds, Kalahasti, Andhra Pradesh, India.

वृ ायुवद knowledge
Svāmī, Brahmamuni Parvrājaka, (Ed. & Hindi Tr.) 1958. Bṛhadvimānaśāstra (Maharṣi Bhāradvāja Praṇīta) , Sāravadeśika Ārya Pratinidhi Sabhā, Dayānanda Bhavana, Rāmalīlā ground, New Delhi-
110002, India.
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क ण वृ ायुवद पुराण इ या द म ा Indigenous agricultural

Wojtilla, Harrassowit, Gyula, Wiesbaden, 2006. History of Krsisastra : a history of Indian literature on traditional agriculture. 91 pp.
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