jyotisha
ज्योतिष jyotishaThe Vedanga of astronomy and timekeeping. In its oldest form, the Vedanga Jyotisha, it is a ritual calendar for fixing the times of sacrifices; the later horoscopic astrology (jataka) is a separate and much later development.
Explained in depth in What is Jyotisha?Where this term appears
- Shruti and Smriti: what counts as Hindu scripture? Scriptures
…honetics), Chhanda (meter), Vyakarana (grammar), Nirukta (etymology), Jyotisha (astronomy), and Kalpa (ritual procedure), the technical scaffolding that lets the Veda be recited and used correctly.
- Eighty-five titles and no text: the Saura tantras and how a tradition disappears Lineages
The two roads of the Sun, the uttarayana and the dakshinayana , are set out on the site in the Sun's two roads; what jyotisha made of them is this.
- The Mahamrityunjaya Mantra Worship
In the practice of jyotisha , Hindu astrology, the Mahamrityunjaya is the great protective remedy, the one prescribed above all others when a chart is read as carrying the shadow of apamrityu , untimely death, …
- The Navagraha: The Nine Planetary Powers Deities
The oldest astronomical text of the tradition, the Vedanga Jyotisha , tracks only the Sun and the Moon.
- Meaning and the Measure of Time Treatise
This is jyotisha , the astronomy Vedanga, the science of the lights of the heavens.
- The Limbs Treatise
And jyotisha , the science of the heavens, of astronomy and timekeeping, which fixed the hour and the day on which a rite could be performed.
- Reading the Hindu Calendar Treatise
It is arithmetic, and the Indian astronomers who refined it, the tradition running from the Vedanga Jyotisha of Lagadha through the Surya Siddhanta , were among the finest the ancient world produced.
- Runanubandha, the debts we are born into Treatise
…t is developed most fully now not in the philosophical schools but in Jyotisha , Indian astrology, where runanubandha names the karmic threads read between two charts to explain the pull between people, the dif…