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Library · Teachers · Mantreswara · medieval South India (date uncertain)

Mantreswara: the Phaladeepika

The most widely used South Indian book of horoscopy, kept on its own: friendships including the nodes, the great persons counted also from the Moon, the yogas round the Moon and Sun, the kartaris, Kesari and Sakata, the wealth and fortune yogas, the 66 sign exchanges, the twenty-four house yogas, debilitation cancelled, the shadow point Mandi, and transits. 3 chapters, 2,000 words.

  1. The book and its foundationsMantreswara and the Phaladeepika, the 1950 translation used, and the foundations it lays: friendships (including the nodes, which the BPHS does not give), the minimum strengths, the gems as planetary attributes, Mars in the houses, and the women's chapter.598 words
  2. The yogasPhaladeepika VI–VII: the great persons from the ascendant and the Moon, Sunapha to Kemadruma and the cancellations Mantreswara records, the Sun's yogas, the kartaris, Kesari and Sakata, the Moon from the Sun, Vasumat and Amala, Lakshmi, Gauri and Saraswati, the 66 exchanges, the 24 house yogas with Harsha, Sarala and Vimala, Adhi from the ascendant or Moon, and the cancellation of debilitation.818 words
  3. Mandi and transitsPhaladeepika XXV–XXVI: the shadow points Mandi, Yamakantaka, Ardhaprahara and Kala at fixed parts of the day and night, and the rules of transit from the Moon — Saturn's results house by house, the good houses, and what they mean for the 'seven and a half years'.584 words

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