In 1628 Nityananda rendered Mulla Farid's Zij-i Shah Jahani into Sanskrit. This is a rare case: two computational traditions, Indian and Islamic, meeting not in paraphrase but in one text, where one can watch the one digest the other. Misra examines the chapter on spheres line by line: Sanskrit...
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The Jyotisha Siddhanta Sangraha is a collection of siddhantic material — that part of jyotisha which speaks of computation rather than interpretation. Siddhanta and jataka are different crafts in the Indian tradition: the first computes where a planet stands, the second says what that means. Our...
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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 Daivagya Kamadhenu is a Sanskrit compendium of jyotisha. The title means literally 'the wish-granting cow of the astrologer' — the tradition's name for a book one turns to for any answer. The edition comes from the jyotisha collection on archive.org, in Devanagari. Its text layer was recognised
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A Sanskrit edition of the hora shastra. The editor states plainly where the text comes from: three palm-leaf manuscripts, whose colophons give the name of the commentary. The palm-leaf tradition is not the printed one. Manuscripts diverge among themselves, and an edition that names its sources and...
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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...
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