hora
होरा horaAn astrological 'hour' or division of the rashi; a loanword from the Greek hora, and a mark of the yavana origin of horoscopic jyotisha in India.
Where this term appears
- What is Jyotisha? Scriptures
Greek hora becomes Sanskrit hora , the hour, the ascendant, and by extension the whole natal art, horashastra .
- The Navagraha: The Nine Planetary Powers Deities
… the Greek loan-words that survive in Sanskrit astrology to this day: hora for the hour, from the Greek hora , kendra for the angle, from kentron , and others.
- Meaning and the Measure of Time Treatise
The vocabulary confirms it from the inside: later Indian astrology runs on loanwords, hora from the Greek hora , kendra from kentron , the very names of the zodiac signs carried over from Greek.