jataka
जातक jatakaHoroscopic, or natal, astrology: the casting of a horoscope from the heavens at birth. It developed in the early centuries of the Common Era under Greek influence and is distinct from the older calendrical jyotisha.
Where this term appears
- What is Jyotisha? Scriptures
Yavana is the Sanskrit for Greek, from "Ionian." Jataka means nativity.
- What is the Ramayana? Scriptures
In the Buddhist Dasaratha Jataka , preserved in the Pali tradition, Rama appears as a Bodhisattva, a being on the path to Buddhahood, and key elements of the familiar plot, including Ravana himself, fall away e…
- The Navagraha: The Nine Planetary Powers Deities
The astronomer-astrologer Varahamihira, writing in the sixth century, put the principle at the very head of his manual of horoscopy, the Brihat Jataka .
- Meaning and the Measure of Time Treatise
The technical name in Sanskrit is jataka , the science of the birth-moment.
- The Story That Would Not Stay Still Treatise
Set it beside a Buddhist version, the Dasaratha Jataka , where the relationships among the characters are rearranged so far that, in some tellings, Sita is cast as Rama's sister, and beside Valmiki's Sanskrit, …
- The ground under the ground Treatise
It sits thick in the Buddhist storybooks, the Jatakas , where "the king of Benares" is almost a fixed epithet, a byword for a great and prosperous capital.