Jyotisha

9 articles filed under Jyotisha.

Page of the Śakunaśabdapraśasti on timing acts by the rising syllable
JyotishaNovember 27, 2025

The Breath as Oracle: Lunar and Solar Currents

The Śakunaśabdapraśasti teaches svarodaya, the science of breath as divination—reading which nostril flows, which syllable rises, to answer questions about health, war, travel, and birth.

Page of the Hastasaṃjīvana mapping planets to the fingers of the hand
JyotishaNovember 26, 2025

Reading the Hand: A Planet on Every Finger

A 18th-century palmistry text maps the entire cosmos onto the hand, turning fingers into planets and the palm into a working divination system for reading time, fortune, and the body of the cosmos.

Page of the Narapatijayacaryā on the power of breath and vowels in war
JyotishaNovember 23, 2025

Vowel Divination for Kings: The Science of Victory

Five vowels — a, i, u, e, o — and the fate of kingdoms. That is the premise of the Narapatijayacaryā, a treatise on svarodaya, the science of vowel divinatio...

Opening of the Hillājadīpikā defining the hillāja term
JyotishaNovember 17, 2025

Calculating a Lifetime: The Hillāja Method

The Hillājadīpikā calculates lifespan from the Sun's position at the full moon. Its six grades, from excellent to destroyed, rest on specific planetary configurations in exaltation or debilitation.

Verses of the Grahaṇagaṇita on lunar computation and intercalary months
JyotishaNovember 15, 2025

Eclipse Arithmetic: Predicting When the Moon Vanishes

Indian eclipse mathematics: three pages of algorithmic verse predicting when the Moon vanishes and emerges from Earth's shadow.

Yantra page of the Candronmīlana mapping vowels to colors and shapes
JyotishaNovember 08, 2025

The Alphabet as a Cosmos: Sound, Shape, and the Body

Each Sanskrit vowel and consonant carries a color, geometric shape, and cosmological placement. The Candronmīlana maps the alphabet as a complete system of creation.

Page of the Sūryasiddhānta commentary defining pala, ghaṭikā, and nāḍī time units
JyotishaNovember 02, 2025

The Sūryasiddhānta's Cosmic Clock: From Breaths to Kalpas

A mathematical commentary on cosmic time, showing how the Sūryasiddhānta measures every scale from human breath to the ages of Brahma in one continuous chain of multiplication.

Page of the Sūryabhāṣya on adding and subtracting positive and negative quantities
JyotishaOctober 30, 2025

Ancient Algebra Knew Negative Numbers — and Infinity

The Sūryabhāṣya explains negative numbers through debt and credit, defines multiplication and division sign rules, and describes infinity as that which remains unchanged by addition.