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Parashar Gita (Sanskrit: पराशर गीता, Romanised: Parāśara-Gītā) also written as Parashara Geeta is the collection of the philosophical dialogues and discourses between the Vedic sage Parashara and King Janaka of Mithila. It is one of the sixty - four Gita texts mentioned in the ancient Indian scriptures. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Written in Sanskrit in the usual Sloka format, it consists of forty-two verses divided into five chapters. [1] [2] Thus, it is a brief but an important treatise on predictive part of Hindu astrology whose authorship is not known even though it is presumed that it was written by ardent followers of Parashara. [3]
Parashara (Sanskrit: पराशर; IAST: Parāśara) was a maharishi and the author of many ancient Indian texts. He is accredited as the author of the first Purana , the Vishnu Purana , before his son Vyasa wrote it in its present form.
The Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra (Sanskrit: बृहत् पराशर होरा शास्त्र; IAST: bṛhat parāśara horā śāstra; abbreviated to BPHS) is the most comprehensive extant Śāstra on Vedic natal astrology, in particular the Horā branch (predictive astrology, e.g. horoscopes). [1]
Jaimini Sutras, also known as Upadesa Sutras [1] [2] is an ancient Sanskrit text on the predictive part of Vedic Astrology, attributed to the sage Jaimini, the founder of the Purva Mimamsa branch of Vedic philosophy, a disciple of Vyasa and grandson of Parashara.
These sixteen sub-divisional charts which are one of the four dimensions of astrology are a basic ingredient of Hindu astrology, and each sub-divisional chart is firstly required to be studied independently and then collectively as one. M. Ramakrishna Bhat is of the opinion that drekkana is not a Sanskrit word but borrowed from the Greek. [1]
Hora Ratna, [1] a treatise on the predictive part of Hindu astrology, was written in the usual Sanskrit Slokas - format by Bala Bhadra sometime during the reign of the Muhghal Emperor Shah Jahan. [2] Whereas the opinion of Parashara prevails much more in North of India, in South India the method of Bala Bhadra, who was influenced by Garga , is ...
Laghu Parashari, a treatise on dasha, is based on Parashara's Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra [1] and is the simplest and most widely-followed system. Ancient Hindu astrologers seem to have confined their exercises to the seven planets: [2] the Sun, the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn; the lunar nodes Rahu and Ketu are rarely mentioned.