The Jataka Bharanam is a compendium of natal astrology; the title means 'the ornament of the jataka'. A 1952 edition in Devanagari, from the jyotisha collection on archive.org. There is no text layer fit for searching. The book is kept here as a primary source: late compendia are useful because...
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The Hora Sara is ascribed to Prithuyasas, and ascribed by himself: in the colophon of each chapter he calls himself the son of the immortal Varahamihira. That is how the book reads — as a continuation of his father's, written by someone who knew it from the inside. The frame is the same as the...
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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...
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