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Jyotisha, states Monier-Williams, is rooted in the word Jyotish, which means light, such as that of the sun or the moon or heavenly body. The term Jyotisha includes the study of astronomy , astrology and the science of timekeeping using the movements of astronomical bodies.
The basic concept of Nadi Astrology is "Nadi" (nāḍi).There are 150 Nādis in a sign or Rāshi (Rāsi); one sign is 30 degrees of the zodiac 360. Twelve signs of the zodiac are grouped into three categories: Moveable (Chara), Fixed (Sthira), and Dual (Dvisvabhāva) signs.
April 2015) (Learn how and when to remove this message) Horā ( Sanskrit : होरा) [ 1 ] ) is a branch of the Indian system of astrology known as Jyotiṣa . It deals with the finer points of predictive methods, as distinct from Siddhānta ( astronomy proper) and Saṃhita ( mundane astrology ).
The system of human marks finds a mention in various jyotisha-shastra and dharma-shastra texts, but it emerged as an independent shastra (field of study) with the composition of various texts collectively called the samudrika-shastras (IAST: Sāmudrika-śāstras).
The Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra (Sanskrit: बृहत् पराशर होरा शास्त्र; IAST: bṛhat parāśara horā śāstra; abbreviated to BPHS) is the most comprehensive extant Śāstra on Vedic natal astrology, in particular the Horā branch (predictive astrology, e.g. horoscopes). [1]
The Catechism of the Catholic Church maintains that divination, including predictive astrology, is incompatible with modern Catholic beliefs [121] such as free will: [115] All forms of divination are to be rejected: recourse to Satan or demons, conjuring up the dead or other practices falsely supposed to "unveil" the future.
February 2008) (Learn how and when to remove this message) A jyotiḥśāstra ( treatise on jyotisha ) is a text from a classical body of literature on the topic of Hindu astrology , known as Jyotiṣa , dating to the medieval period of Classical Sanskrit literature (roughly the 3rd to 9th centuries CE).
Bhrigu as per the Bhrigu Stotram. The Bhṛgu Saṃhitā is a Saṃskṛta astrological treatise attributed in its introduction to Bhrigu, one of the "Saptarshis" ("seven sages") of the Vedic period.