Guest guest Posted March 25, 2005 Report Share Posted March 25, 2005 Dear list members, I can now see that Sanjay Rath must be confusing the shastyamsa with the nadiamsa: in the D-150, there are indeed 1800 divisions in the whole zodiac, and each the lagna does take 48" to cross a nadiamsa. But as far as I know, no version of Parasara uses or mentions the D- 150. Best wishes Graham , "Graham Fox" <fox.graham@w...> wrote: > > Hello group members, > I have just acquired the book "Varga Chakra", which is very useful > and helps me to understand the underlying principles behind the > different methods of varga construction (Brahma varga = > straightforward harmonics as in Western astrology; Shiva vargas = > vargas with breaks or jumps, etc) > However, in Sanjay Rath's chapter on the shastyamsa (p. 134), I > don't understand why he says first (which of course I knew) that the > the shastyamsa is one-sixtieth division of a sign measuring 30' of > arc, and then goes on to say that "There are a total of 1800 > shastyamsa in the zodiac with sixty in each sign. As a time measure, > the average time taken for Lagna to traverse a shastyamsa is 48 > seconds. Thus the smallest measure of time used by Parasara is 48 > seconds when this shastyamsa shall change." > Surely, 12 signs x 60 divisions = 720 (not 1800), and the average > time taken for a change of lagna in shastyamsa is therefore 2 > minutes. Am I right, or have I misunderstood something? > Thank you for any clarification > Graham Fox Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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