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A tithi is defined as being 1 / 30 of a lunar month, and each day was reckoned to have a tithi. However since there are more tithis in a yuga than civil days, a tithi is omitted every 61 days (kṣaya tithi). Also since the period of a tithi is slightly less than a civil day, and extra tithi would be added at the end of a yuga.
Tajika Neelakanthi (IAST: Tājikanīlakaṇṭhī) is a treatise on the predictive part of Hindu astrology written in Sanskrit Slokas by the celebrated authority on Tajika shastra, Neelakantha, son of Ananta Deva, on the basis of many earlier works of Samar Singh and others.
In astrology, the ascendant, lagna or rising sign at a specified moment (like the moment of birth of a child) is the rāśi on the eastern horizon at that particular moment. The ascendant is specific to a particular time and place.
In Vedic astrology, the basic tenet of astrology was integrated with celestial events and thus was born various branches of Vedic astrology and the Panchānga. In simple terms, "Panchānga" means the Day, Nakshatra (Star), tithi, Yoga and Karana every day. It is a mirror of the sky.
The Vedic astrology is primarily based on the calculation of mathematical points. For instance, the Yoga , also referred to as the fifth part of Panchangam, is the sum of the combined longitudes of the Sun and Moon.
There are various systems of Ayanamsa that are in use in Hindu astrology (also known as Vedic astrology) such as the Raman Ayanamsa [3] and the Krishnamurthy Ayanamsa, [1] but the Lahiri Ayanamsa, named after its inventor, astronomer N.C. Lahiri, is by far the most prevalent system in India.
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The work covers the wide and complex range of predictive astrology. The brevity employed in its composition is noteworthy. In an article titled "On the Authenticity of the (Modern) Brhat Parasara Hora Sastra" published in the July and August 2009 issues of The Astrological Magazine, Bengaluru, the Vedic astrologer Shyamasundaradasa writes that