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“Wealth is the star for wealth; what will the stars do?”
— Kautilya, Arthashastra IX.4

Library · Teachers · Nilakantha Daivajna, court astrologer to Akbar · 1587, Mughal court

Nilakantha: the Tajika Nilakanthi

The annual chart kept on its own: how Arabic astrology reached Sanskrit and became Tajika, Nilakantha's two-part book of 1587, and the method of the year — the solar return, the Muntha, the five office-holders and the year's lord, the Tajika aspects and yogas of application and separation, the sahams and the compressed dasha — with what has and has not been checked against the Sanskrit. 2 chapters, 1,441 words.

  1. From Baghdad to Akbar's courtWhere Tajika came from: Greek astrology carried into Arabic, Sahl ibn Bishr in the ninth century, the first Sanskrit Tajika of Samarasimha in the thirteenth, and Nilakantha's Tajika Nilakanthi of 1587 in two parts; later Tajika books; and the state of the sources.543 words
  2. The chart of the yearThe method of the Varsha-tantra as it is generally taught: the solar return, the Muntha, the five office-holders, the Tajika aspects, Ithasala and Isharapha with their orbs, the Punya saham and the compressed dasha — worked for the example chart's 2026 birthday, with the unchecked steps marked.898 words

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