Astrologie—2

L’astrologie, entre la Grèce et l'Asie
Comment et pourquoi comparer?

Caterina Guenzi et Marcello Carastro

19 janvier 2010

“The relative seclusion from the West which the Aryans had enjoyed in northern India for centuries after their invasions was broken shortly before 513 B. C., when Darius the Great conquered the Indus Valley. In the ensuing six centuries, save for a century and a half of security under the Mauryan emperors, North India was subjected to the successive incursions of the Greeks, the Sakas, the Pahlavas, and the Kusanas. An important aspect of this turbulent period was the opportunity it afforded of contact between the intellectuals of the West and India. This opportunity was not missed.

In the period from 500 to about 230 B. C. — under the Achemenid occupation and during the reigns of Candragupta Maurya, Bindusara, and Asoka — Indian astronomy was introduced for the first time to some reasonable Babylonian methods, and astrologers were led to show an interest in more significant phenomena than the naksatras. A luni-solar calendar was propounded in the Jyotisavedânga of Lagadha who probably wrote in the fifth century B. C. This calendar is described also in the Arthasâstra of Kautilya [AS II, 20] …”

pingre_astrology_india_iran.pdf, p. 231

David E. Pingree (1933–2005) était le maître incomparable de l'histoire des mathématiques, de l'astronomie et de l'astrologie dans l'Inde ancienne.

 

Textes mis en lecture

Dossier Astrologie. Les textes les plus pédagogiques sont indiqués par un astérisque.

*fz_yavanajataka.pdf — Francis Zimmermann, Les aspects médicaux du Yavanajâtaka (traité sanskrit d'astrologie), Sudhoffs Archiv, Band 65, Heft 3 (1981), pp. 299–305.

*pingree_astrology_india_iran.pdf — David Pingree, Astronomy and Astrology in India and Iran, Isis, Vol. 54, No. 2 (Jun., 1963), pp. 229-246.

pingree_decans_horas.pdf — David Pingree, The Indian Iconography of the Decans and Horâs, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, Vol. 26, No. 3/4 (1963), pp. 223-254.

*pingree_greekAstrology_india.pdf — David Pingree, From Astral Omens to Astrology. From Babylon to Bîkâner, Roma, Instituto Italiano per l'Africa et l'Oriente, 1997, Chapter 3, Babylonian Omens and Greek Astrology in India, pp. 31–38.

*pingree_hellenophilia_science.pdf — David Pingree, Hellenophilia versus the History of Science, Isis, Vol. 83, No. 4 (Dec., 1992), pp. 554-563.

pingree_planetary_images.pdf — David Pingree, Indian Planetary Images and the Tradition of Astral Magic, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, Vol. 52 (1989), pp. 1-13.

pingree_planets.pdf — David Pingree, Representation of the planets in Indian astrology, Indo-Iranian Journal, Volume 8, Number 4, December 1965, pp. 249–267.

pingree_puranas_jyotihsastra.pdf — David Pingree, The Purāṇas and Jyotiḥśāstra, Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 110, No. 2 (Apr. - Jun., 1990), pp. 274- 280.