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Brihat Jataka, Sanskrit edition

The Sanskrit text of the Brihat Jataka in Devanagari, without translation or commentary. We keep it for one reason: the translations disagree. Where Vijnanananda and Subrahmanya Sastri differ, only the original settles it — and it settles it not by continuous reading but by checking a single...

Brihat Jataka with Bhattotpala's commentary, translated by V. Subrahmanya Sastri

This edition is worth more than the other translations for one reason: it carries the commentary of Bhattotpala (tenth century), the oldest that survives. Sanskrit verse often admits two readings, and a translator must choose silently; Bhattotpala chooses aloud and explains why. The table of...

Brihat Jataka of Varahamihira, translated by Swami Vijnanananda

The Brihat Jataka is Varahamihira's chief work (sixth century) and the foundation of all later Indian natal astrology. Nearly every later treatise — the Jataka Parijata, the Sarvartha Chintamani, the Phaladipika — either restates its rules or argues with them, so reading the later books without...