Varshaphal, or The Hindu Progressed Horoscope

Varshaphal, or The Hindu Progressed Horoscope — what it is, what it added, and what we retired from it.

Varshaphal, or The Hindu Progressed Horoscope — B. V. Raman.

Edition consulted: 2nd ed. 1941, Raman Publications, Bangalore.

What kind of text this is

Single modern author, stable.

What it contributed

tajika-is-perso-arabic — novel. Lists Hadda, Harshasthana, Trirasyadhipathi and sect - Hellenistic dignity doctrine arriving by the Arabic route.

Upgrades the Perso-Arabic transmission in the lineage note from unverified to vocabulary-attested. Two Greek transmissions, eleven centuries apart.

antiquity-defence-by-redefinition — novel. Concedes Tajaka is later, redefines ‘later’, then asserts 500 BC.

The antiquity defence caught in the act, in three sentences, in print.

What we do not carry from it

ch. I art. 4 — Unevidenced 500 BC claim, arrived at by redefining ‘later’ rather than by argument.

Reading the text yourself

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