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Jyotisha (astronomy and astrology)

Source: Google Books: Studies in the History of the Exact Sciences (Astronomy)

Ghaṭikāyantra (घटिकायन्त्र) or simply Ghaṭikā refers to a “water clock” used for telling the time, according to Āryabhaṭa’s Āryabhaṭasiddhānta.—(Cf. Brāhmasphuṭasiddhānta verse 22.41 and Sūryasiddhānta verse 13.23).—Accordingly, “One should get a hemispherical bowl made of copper, 10 palas in weight, six aṅgulas in height, and twelve aṅgulas in diameter at the top. At the bottom thereof, let a hole be made by a needle eight aṅgulas in length and 1 pala in weight. This is the ghaṭikā-yantra, (so named) because it is filled by water in a period of 60 palas (i.e. one ghaṭī). Any copper vessel made according to one's liking with a hole in the bottom, which sinks into water 60 times in a day and night, is the water instrument called Kapāla”—(Kripa Shankar Shukla’s translation).

Note: Shukla obviously thught that this passage describes two different instruments, called respectively Ghaṭikā-yantra and Kapāla-yantra. But the fact is that these are two different methods of producing one and the same Ghaṭikā-yantra. The first method is to take ten palas’ weight of copper and with that to produce a hemispherical bowl, having a height of six aṅgulas and an upper diameter of twelve aṅgulas. There should be a fine perforation a t the bottom of the bowl. The small size of the perforation is defined in a peculiar manner.—(Cf. Mahārandhra or Pṛthucchidra)

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Jyotisha (ज्योतिष, jyotiṣa or jyotish) refers to ‘astronomy’ or “Vedic astrology” and represents the fifth of the six Vedangas (additional sciences to be studied along with the Vedas). Jyotisha concerns itself with the study and prediction of the movements of celestial bodies, in order to calculate the auspicious time for rituals and ceremonies.

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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Ghaṭikāyantra (घटिकायन्त्र).—See घटीयन्त्र (ghaṭīyantra).

Derivable forms: ghaṭikāyantram (घटिकायन्त्रम्).

Ghaṭikāyantra is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms ghaṭikā and yantra (यन्त्र).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Ghaṭikāyantra (घटिकायन्त्र).—(thus to be corrected, [Pañcatantra] 212, 4), and

Ghaṭikāyantra is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms ghaṭikā and yantra (यन्त्र).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Ghaṭikāyantra (घटिकायन्त्र):—[=ghaṭikā-yantra] [from ghaṭikā > ghaṭ] n. = ṭī-y, [Pañcatantra iv, 1, 8/9] ([varia lectio] ghāṭ).

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Ghaṭikāyaṃtra (ಘಟಿಕಾಯಂತ್ರ):—[noun] a mechanical or electronic device used for measuring and indicating time by means of pointers moving over a dial or by displaying the numerical figure that changes every minute or second.

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Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.

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Partial matches: Ghatika, Yantra.

Starts with: Ghatikayantraghatanavidhi.

Full-text (+11): Katikaram, Tamra, Ghatikachidra, Ghatika, Nisa, Dyu, Tamrapatra, Dyunisha, Ghatiyantra, Majjana, Jalamajjana, Kapalayantra, Puraka, Paniya, Ardhavritta, Nisravaka, Nisrava, Shanku, Prasruta, Chayakala.

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