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Ashtamangala prasnam is a certain type of practice of the prasna branch of Hindu astrology. The terminology indicates the use of eight (ashta) auspicious (mangala) objects in its practice.
The text is notable for presenting very large integers, such as the lifetime of the current universe being 4.32 billion years. [46] The ancient Hindu texts on Jyotisha only discuss timekeeping and never mention astrology or prophecy. [47] These ancient texts predominantly cover astronomy, but at a rudimentary level. [48]
The word Mangala is ancient, first appearing in the Rigveda (2nd millennium BCE), and mentioned by grammarian Patanjali (~2nd century BCE), but not as an astrological term, rather to mean "auspicious-successful" (siddha) structure in literary arts. Panini too mentions it in verse I.3.1 in a similar context. [13]
The text was first printed in the Telugu script. The reference to Andhra Bhasha, Urdu or Persian , Turushka, Sukkani, Rahu Kala, and other things show that he came after the sixteenth century. His use of the words Udyoga, got job, mud-cleaning, Smarta, Nadi and Vinadi, Sarasa-sallapa (a peculiar Telugu expression), Tyajya Kala and others prove ...
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). Only the most important ones exist in scholarly editions or translations, while many remain unedited in ...
Gargiya-jyotisha (IAST: Gārgīya-jyotiṣa), also known as Garga-samhita (IAST: Garga-saṃhitā), is a 1st-century Indian Sanskrit-language astrological treatise attributed to Garga. The oldest extant text of the Indian astrology ( jyotiḥśāstra ), it is written in form of a dialogue between Garga and Kraushtuki.
A list of them is first found in the Vedanga Jyotisha, a text dated to the final centuries BCE [citation needed]. The Nakṣatra system predates the influence of Hellenistic astronomy on Vedic tradition, which became prevalent from about the 2nd century CE.
Mūla ('root'; Devanagari मूल/मूळ, Telugu: మూల, Tamil: மூலம்) is the 19th nakshatra or 'lunar mansion' in Jyotisha and corresponds to the stars: λ Sco, υ Sco, ε Sco, μ1 Sco, θ Sco, κ Sco, ι1 Sco, and ζ1 Sco.