The Date and Nature of Sphujidhvaja's Yavanajātaka Reconsidered in the Light of Some Newly Discovered Materials
Bill M. Mak. History of Science in South Asia 1, 2013, 1-20.
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Open access. Shows that Pingree's dating of the Yavanajātaka rests on readings the manuscripts do not carry, and that the celebrated "earliest Indian zero" was Pingree's own conjectural insertion.
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- "Vedic Astrology": the Term
- For the state of the evidence on when horoscopic technique appears in Sanskrit.
- Greek Loanwords in Sanskrit Astrology
- For the loanwords surviving as evidence independently of the dating dispute they are usually cited alongside.
- The Yavanajātaka and its Dating
- Shows that the dating rests on Pingree's own emendations and that the celebrated zero was a conjectural insertion.