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February 2008) (Learn how and when to remove this message) A jyotiḥśāstra ( treatise on jyotisha ) is a text from a classical body of literature on the topic of Hindu astrology , known as Jyotiṣa , dating to the medieval period of Classical Sanskrit literature (roughly the 3rd to 9th centuries CE).
Jyotisha, states Monier-Williams, is rooted in the word Jyotish, which means light, such as that of the sun or the moon or a heavenly body. The term Jyotisha includes the study of astronomy, astrology, and the science of timekeeping using the movements of astronomical bodies.
The basic concept of Nadi Astrology is "Nadi" (nāḍi).There are 150 Nādis in a sign or Rāshi (Rāsi); one sign is 30 degrees of the zodiac 360. Twelve signs of the zodiac are grouped into three categories: Moveable (Chara), Fixed (Sthira), and Dual (Dvisvabhāva) signs.
April 2015) (Learn how and when to remove this message) Horā ( Sanskrit : होरा) [ 1 ] ) is a branch of the Indian system of astrology known as Jyotiṣa . It deals with the finer points of predictive methods, as distinct from Siddhānta ( astronomy proper) and Saṃhita ( mundane astrology ).
(Learn how and when to remove this message) Bhrigu as per the Bhrigu Stotram The Bhṛgu Saṃhitā is a Saṃskṛta astrological ( Jyotisha ) treatise attributed in its introduction to Bhrigu , one of the " Saptarshis " ("seven sages") of the Vedic period.
The second Abbasid caliph, Al Mansur (754–775) founded the city of Baghdad to act as a centre of learning, and included in its design a library-translation centre known as Bayt al-Hikma 'House of Wisdom', which continued to receive development from his heirs and was to provide a major impetus for Arabic-Persian translations of Hellenistic ...
The tājika jyotiṣ, or tājika śastra, that is, the tājika system of astrology, is one of the three systems of Indian astrology as applied to individual charts (horoscopes). [1]
Astrology consists of a number of belief systems that hold that there is a relationship between astronomical phenomena and events or descriptions of personality in the human world.