Guest guest Posted March 31, 2006 Report Share Posted March 31, 2006 Hi RR, I hope this is the way we refer to any work, a work become classic if they still remain relevant? Plus BPHS as scripted by parashara is the 1st known book on Jyothisyha just like Ramayana the 1st ever written epic/classic. Brihat Jataka can be also called a classic but can also fall under the Compendium label if label is the issue here. as BJ brings in what several streams, and astrologers before Varahamihra had had. there is a BPHS translated by Madura krishnamurthy shastry of Rajamundry [near Ram Mandiram, Krishna nagar] who has in similar lines just brings the different versions of BPHS in one place/book he has done several such translations and his Ayanamsa is like TARUNS 2deg 3 min 25 sec ahead of Lahiri. I liked yr reply 1st time on the Nodes u sent an hr or so ago, at least could make rahu and ketu of it [head or tail] so please confirm if my definition of a classic is wrong? I am not as well read or experienced just some 25 odd yrs in this and STILL LEARNING. Prashant crystal pages <jyotish_vani wrote: Prashanta, Do you consider Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra and Brihatjataka (some spell it as Brihajjataka) by Parashara and Varahamihira as "jyotish" classics? RR , Prashant Kumar G B <gbp_kumar wrote: > > Hi RR, > > as usual I am not sure what u meant to convey by this reply, u can better expand on this. > > I am sure u agree with divya's reply to Nalini on the purpouse of the ORIGINAL QUESTION on rahu, ketu in line with that like others I wrote 2 mails, as arjun has. > basically the classics r the main source and whaever adjustments need to be done with the, time, socio-political, region specific changes r anyway built-in by ur sages to be a guidline whole making any forecasts. > > Prashant SURRENDER JOYFULLY TO THE WILL OF THE ULTIMATE DIVINITY AND RELISH THE TASTE OF ABSOLUTE BLISS. Visit your group "" on the web. Prashant New Messenger with Voice. Call regular phones from your PC and save big. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 31, 2006 Report Share Posted March 31, 2006 Prashant, You are asking the wrong person! "Classic" to this individual is just a moving duck. What is classics to us may not have seemed the same to Balabhadra who in 16th century had a different perspective of what came earlier! Same applied to Kalidasa or other earlier writers. As I understand it, Jyotish came to us mortals through possibly several modalities Revealed through direct transmission, channeling etc Empirical and observation-based examination through a combination of downloaded vidya and some of it eventually tested -- no workbooks preserved, though! Tested and mostly so in recent years (1800+). The Rao and Raman Gharana had been most vocal in disseminating this information and hence deserve our gratitude and pranaams even to the chagrin of some others who might think that they had a better story to tell, if only they were born a few decades earlier or could get interested in astrology sooner! As they say in astrological parlance -- TIMING is everything! ;-) The label what is "Classic" and what is not has been a big deal for a lot of individuals, more so lately and they may try to use emotion- charged language to somehow highlight and deify what is ancient and what they consider classical and the rest that is not, but just because someone is old does not automatically make it more authentic and must be carefully examined. I shall not qualify further or raise any rabble on this matter at this time! I have written on this and related matters earlier. Arguably, there would be many different views about the authenticity of classics or for that matter, discussions about the horoscopes of mythical figures born thousands of years earlier. As a practicing astrologer and active participant of similar fora who has seen 'interesting' variant opinions on birthcharts of individuals born only a few decades within where we are now and some of these data provided by astrologers, young and old and some psychics even -- a horoscope of even a revered God, particularly a GOD born thousands of years ago hardly, I repeat HARDLY represents valid DATA for making astrology's premise stick in any temporal context! Is Rama or Krishna, Hanumaan or Shiva or Vishnu higher than the planets and astrology or are we getting too confused? RR , Prashant Kumar G B <gbp_kumar wrote: > > Hi RR, > > I hope this is the way we refer to any work, a work become classic if they still remain relevant? > Plus BPHS as scripted by parashara is the 1st known book on Jyothisyha just like Ramayana the 1st ever written epic/classic. > > Brihat Jataka can be also called a classic but can also fall under the Compendium label if label is the issue here. > as BJ brings in what several streams, and astrologers before Varahamihra had had. > there is a BPHS translated by Madura krishnamurthy shastry of Rajamundry [near Ram Mandiram, Krishna nagar] who has in similar lines just brings the different versions of BPHS in one place/book > he has done several such translations and his Ayanamsa is like TARUNS 2deg 3 min 25 sec ahead of Lahiri. > > I liked yr reply 1st time on the Nodes u sent an hr or so ago, at least could make rahu and ketu of it [head or tail] > > so please confirm if my definition of a classic is wrong? I am not as well read or experienced just some 25 odd yrs in this and STILL LEARNING. > > > Prashant > > crystal pages <jyotish_vani wrote: Prashanta, > > Do you consider Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra and Brihatjataka (some > spell it as Brihajjataka) by Parashara and Varahamihira as "jyotish" > classics? > > RR > > > , Prashant Kumar G B > <gbp_kumar@> wrote: > > > > Hi RR, > > > > as usual I am not sure what u meant to convey by this reply, u > can better expand on this. > > > > I am sure u agree with divya's reply to Nalini on the purpouse of > the ORIGINAL QUESTION on rahu, ketu in line with that like others I > wrote 2 mails, as arjun has. > > basically the classics r the main source and whaever adjustments > need to be done with the, time, socio-political, region specific > changes r anyway built-in by ur sages to be a guidline whole making > any forecasts. > > > > Prashant > SURRENDER JOYFULLY TO THE WILL OF THE ULTIMATE DIVINITY AND RELISH THE TASTE OF ABSOLUTE BLISS. > > > > > > > > > > Visit your group "" on the web. > > > > > Terms of Service. > > > > > > > > > Prashant > > > New Messenger with Voice. Call regular phones from your PC and save big. > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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