The oriental astronomer
Subtitle: being a complete system of Hindu astronomy, accompanied with a translation and numerous explanatory notes : with an appendix
Contributors: Hoisington, Henry Richard, 1801-1858
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I
Publisher: American Mission Press
Published: 1848
Place of publication: Jaffna
Language: eng
Number of pages: 177
Subjects: Hindu astronomy
Other titles: Complete system of Hindu astronomy, being a translation of the foregoing work; Parakitham
Notes: Advertisement signed: H.R. Hoisington.

English translation from the Tamil translation from the Sanskrit language of "Parahitam." English translation follows Tamil translation (in Tamil script) with separate title page and pagination. Introduction (p. [1]-18, 2nd count) has English and Tamil language in opposing columns on each page.

Parahitam, the original work in Sanskrit, the author of which has not been traced, is said to have been translated into Tamil by Uḷḷamuḍaiyān, from which the English translation was made by H.R. Hoisington. cf. Brit. mus. Catalogue. Suppl.

Reproduction of the original from the Huntington Library.