Ashtakavarga
Ashtakavarga — what it is, what it added, and what we retired from it.
Ashtakavarga — C. S. Patel and C. A. S. Aiyar.
Edition consulted: First impression 1957, Bombay.
What kind of text this is
Modern compilation-with-translation from multiple manuscripts, several previously unpublished; sourced with institutional permission from Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, the Oriental Institute Baroda, and the Asiatic Society of Bombay.
What it contributed
ashtakavarga-yavana-source — novel. Minaraja’s Brihatyavanajataka manuscript used as a source for the Ashtakavarga chapter.
Puts the Yavana line inside the sources of the technique usually called most distinctively Indian.
trikona-shodhana-fork — novel. Two schools of Trikona-shodhana, both worked and printed; the first adopted.
Affects Sodhya Pinda, which the vault’s Jupiter-transit argument rests on. Shipped code must state its school.
origin-claim-declined — novel. 1957 Bombay foreword: ‘it may be a moot point whether she rocked the cradle of astrology’.
The antiquity claim declined from inside the tradition - a concession, not an attack.
print-both-when-divided — refinement. Where schools differ, work the example both ways and print both.
A method worth adopting wholesale, and the second text in a row to demonstrate it.
Reading the text yourself
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