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The Jyotish caste comprises individuals who traditionally practiced astrology. According to many sources, these individuals were originally considered part of the Brahmin caste . They were said to have originated from Shakadweepa or Sakaldweep , and hence were referred to as Sakaldweepiya or Shakadweepi Brahmans.
The tājika jyotiṣ, or tājika śastra, that is, the tājika system of astrology, is one of the three systems of Indian astrology as applied to individual charts (horoscopes). [1]
Jyotir Math is the uttaramnaya matha or northern monastery, one of four cardinal institutions established by Adi Shankara, the reviver of Vedic Sanatana Dharma. [1] Shankara's four principal disciples, Padma-Pada, Hasta-Malaka, Suresvaracharya and Totakacharya were assigned to these four learning centers in the north, south, east and west of India. [3]
He was born in the year 1955 in the holy city of Varanasi, India.Upadhyay is Head of the Department of Jyotish center at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi.He is a Ph.D holder in astrology from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi and teaches Jyotishi (astrology) in SVDV, BHU as Professor. [1]
Jyotisha, states Monier-Williams, is rooted in the word Jyotish, which means light, such as that of the sun or the moon or a heavenly body. The term Jyotisha includes the study of astronomy , astrology, and the science of timekeeping using the movements of astronomical bodies.
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).
Gargiya-jyotisha is the oldest extant text of the Indian astrology (jyotiḥśāstra), [1] composed around 25 CE. [2]Mahabharata 13.18.25–26 (Anushasana Parva) refers to the 64 divisions of a work of Garga, a description identical to given in the second chapter of the Garga-jyotisha.
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.