Selected publications

Books

The Jewel of Annual Astrology: A Parallel Sanskrit-English Critical Edition of Bala­bhadra’s Hāyana­ratna. Leiden: Brill, 2020. 1044 pp.

De tidiga upaniṣaderna [The Early Upaniṣads]. Nora: Nya Doxa, 2005. 368 pp. Co-authored with Dr Måns Broo.

Patterns of Destiny: Hindu Nāḍī Astrology (doctoral thesis, Lund Studies in History of Religions). Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International, 2003. 218 pp.

Bhagavad-Gītā: vishet och yoga [The Bhagavad-Gītā: Wisdom and Yoga]. Stockholm: Norstedts, 2001; Månpocket, 2002; second, revised edition: Nora: Nya Doxa, 2008. 208 pp.

Peer-reviewed original articles

‘Platikos and moirikos: Ancient Horoscopic Practice in the Light of Vettius Valens’ Anthologies’. International Journal of Divination and Prognostication 4.1 (2023), 1–43.

‘On the Nativities of Two Indian Rulers’. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft 170.2 (2020), 491–495.

‘A Note on the Indian Planetary Exaltations and their Greek-Language Sources’. History of Science in South Asia 9 (2020), 77–82.

‘Samarasiṃha and the Early Transmission of Tājika Astrology’. Journal of South Asian Intellectual History 1.1 (2019), 79–132.

‘Origins of the Tājika System of Astrological Aspects and Dignities’. History of Science in South Asia 6 (2018), 162–199.

‘Notes on Some Sanskrit Astrological Authors’. History of Science in South Asia 5.1 (2017), 117–133.

‘The Sanskrit and Arabic Sources of the Praśnatantra Attributed to Nīlakaṇṭha’. History of Science in South Asia 2 (2014), 101–126.

‘Astrologi mellan vetenskap och religion’ [‘Astrology Between Science and Religion’]. Finsk tidskrift 2/2012, 47–59.

‘Balbillus and the Method of Aphesis’. Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 52 (2012), 587–602.

‘Some Early Authorities Cited by Tājika Authors’. Indo-Iranian Journal 55:4 (2012), 307–319.

‘Sahl and the Tājika Yogas: Indian Transformations of Arabic Astrology’. Annals of Science 68:4 (2011), 531–546. Co-authored with Dr Ola Wikander.

‘The Bhagavadgītā Path of Yoga’. Journal of Vaishnava Studies 2/9 (2001), 215–225.

Conference contributions

‘Ars, Technē, Śāstra, ʿIlm: What’s in a Name?’ Astrology as Art, eds. N. Campion and J. Zahrt, 11–18. Ceredigion: Sophia Centre Press, 2018.

‘Nāḍī Divination and Indian Astrology’. Scientific Literature in Sanskrit, eds. S. R. Sarma and G. Wojtilla, 147–160. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 2011.

‘Placidean Teachings in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain: John Worsdale and Thomas Oxley’. Astrologies, ed. N. Campion, 109–124. Lampeter: Sophia Centre Press, 2011.

‘Reshaping Karma: An Indic Metaphysical Paradigm in Traditional and Modern Astro­logy’. Cosmologies, ed. N. Campion, 52–68. Lampeter: Sophia Centre Press, 2010.

Research review articles

‘Hinduism: Astrology’. Oxford Bibliographies Online, Oxford University Press, 2014.

Book chapters

‘Realism and Idealism in Rāmānuja’s Self-Body Metaphor’. Studies in the Ontology of the Bhagavad Gītā, eds. S. Tsoukalas and G. Surya. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 2015.

‘Sex i hinduismen: från askes till extas’ [‘Sex in Hinduism: From Asceticism to Ecstasy’]. Sex – för Guds skull [Sex – For God’s Sake], eds. A. Geels and L. Roos, 103–125. Lund: Studentlitteratur, 2010.

Encyclopaedia entries

‘Indian Astrology’. Astrology through History: Interpreting the Stars from Ancient Meso­potamia to the Present, ed. W. E. Burns. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2018.

‘Jean-Baptiste Morin de Villefranche’. Astrology through History: Interpreting the Stars from Ancient Meso­potamia to the Present, ed. W. E. Burns. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2018.

‘Primary Directions’. Astrology through History: Interpreting the Stars from Ancient Meso­potamia to the Present, ed. W. E. Burns. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2018.

‘Tājika Astrology’. Astrology through History: Interpreting the Stars from Ancient Meso­potamia to the Present, ed. W. E. Burns. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2018.

‘Modern Astrologers’. Brill’s Encyclopedia of Hinduism, vol. 5, 535–541. Leiden: Brill, 2013.

‘Astrologers’. Brill’s Encyclopedia of Hinduism, vol. 3, 217–221. Leiden: Brill, 2011.

‘Astrology and Astronomy (Jyotiṣa)’. Brill’s Encyclopedia of Hinduism, vol. 2, 281–294. Leiden: Brill, 2010.

‘Divination’. Brill’s Encyclopedia of Hinduism, vol. 2, 743–747. Leiden: Brill, 2010.

‘Navagrahas’. Brill’s Encyclopedia of Hinduism, vol. 1, 647–653. Leiden: Brill, 2009.