Eade's work while a good introduction is surpassed by several
newer and more comprehensive Thai books on the subject. He
does provide a really nice glossary and good sample texts. It
provides examples from colophons from Northern Thailand;
however, it is useless for literary references to omens,
auspicious dates, Siamese material, etc. Furthermore, the
entire issue of the "second" and "third" stages of
astrological influence on Southeast Asian systems is elided.
There are also several Khmer and Siamese systems which are
well-known by practitioners in the region which are not
mentioned by Eade. Still, despite these limitations, it is a
good book and a fun read.
I checked out the on-line program a couple of years ago and it
didn't seem to work. In fact, it didn't even open when I
checked more recently. I just went back doing it by hand. What
program did you use? Can you provide technical assistance?
Best,
jm
---- Original message ----
>Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 14:03:34 +0700
>From: "Eisel Mazard" <Parajanaka@...>
>Subject: [palistudy] SEA Calendrical systems, E.J. Brill
>To: "Willem Paling" <willem.paling@...>,
palistudy@yahoogroups.com, "Michel Lorrillard"
<lorrilla@...>, "Phillip Ernest"
<sarebbestato@...>
>
>In response to the query posted on my website, Michel Lorrillard
>(EFEO) was kind enough to put into my hands the "brief but
>compendious" work by J.C. Eade, _The Calendrical Systems of
South-East
>Asia_.
>
>This is an exceedingly enjoyable work on an exceedingly technical
>subject. The author is clearly aware that most in his (limited)
>audience will have no aptitude for math, and he takes
tremendous care
>to make each stage of each equation
>pellucid-to-the-point-of-pandering.
>
>For those who don't want to do the math by hand, the author
has also
>provided a (macintosh) computer programme at the following
location:
>
>ftp://coombs.anu.edu.au/coombspapers/otherarchives/asian-studies-archives/seasia-archives/software
>
>I will (eventually) incorporate some notes and diagrams
expanding on
>Eade's work (providing some things he omits to do, e.g., a
glossary
>and some over-arching diagrams of how the different numeral-base
>systems interlock, etc. --but not reproducing any of his own
diagrams,
>which I would consider intellectually dishonest, etc.).
>
>I should also like to mention in passing that I have found
several
>truly excellent articles by Michael Vickery in the past few
weeks, and
>I would very much like to obtain a list of his complete works
(or to
>have his e-mail address to ask him for the same directly) so
that I
>might work my way through them all.
>
>E.M.
>
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>Yahoo! Groups Links
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Dr. Justin McDaniel
Dept. of Religious Studies
2617 Humanities Building
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521
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