Brihat Samhita of Varahamihira, translated by Chidambara Iyer
The Brihat Samhita is Varahamihira's second large book and of an entirely different kind from the Brihat Jataka. A samhita speaks not of a person's fate but of a country's and a year's: omens, rains, harvests, earthquakes, comets, architecture, gems, rites. What matters for our work is something...
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