Kautukani, Kautukāni: 1 definition
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In Hinduism
Jyotisha (astronomy and astrology)
Source: academia.edu: Tessitori Collection I (astronomy)Kautukāni (कौतुकानि) is the name of a work classified as literature dealing with astronomy, astrology, divination, medicine. The Kautukāni (in Sanskrit) is included in the collection of manuscripts at the ‘Vincenzo Joppi’ library, collected by Luigi Pio Tessitori during his visit to Rajasthan between 1914 and 1919.—The Kautukāni contains extraordinary recipes and prescriptions phrased with the syntactic pattern ‘if this or this would be done (optative), then this or this happens’. The processes at work are grinding, heating and mixing various products. These are plants or plant-products, animal products or alchemical recipes: [...] The redactor of the present work introduces it as based on the Uḍḍīśa (Uḍḍīśatantra) by Nāgārjuna. Nāgārjuna uses the uḍḍīśa as a source in his Kakṣapuṭa and the Kakṣapuṭa deals with Kautukas. But they do not correspond. Nāgārjuna’s Yogaratnamālā which also deals with procedures enabling one to achieve extraordinary aims and healing of bodily disorders also represents the same trend, but is not identical with our text which would then be a kind of idiosyncratic Kautakasāroddhāra
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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Kathasaritsagara (the Ocean of Story) (by Somadeva)
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