Commercial Software Features (PL 5 in india)

February 9, 2003

Namaste friends,

Ernst referred to my free Vedic astrology software for windows - "Jagannatha

Hora Lite". Its commercial version - "Jaggannatha Hora" - is about to be

released. This software will be sold at a competitive price compared to other

commercial software (I am planning to price it at $200) and it will start

shipping once Jupiter becomes direct in April. It does include an atlas. It

includes about 500,000 places in USA and 2,000,000 places outside of USA. This

software is the result of my efforts over 6 years. I had to offer a lot of

flexibiliy in calculations without confusing the novice and I could strike a

balance after a lot of careful thought and planning.

A new "lite" version of it (Jagannatha Hora Lite 5.0) will be released in March

and will be free. An early edition of the lite version is shipping with the

"Achyuta Jyotish Workshop" CD as a bonus. This lite version is exactly the same

as the commercial version, with atlas missing and a lot of calculations

disabled. You can use it to get an idea of the look & feel of the commercial

software to be released in April.

When it comes to the range of calculations and flexibility, I can confidently

say that there is nothing like this software in the market now. If you want to

be notified when the software formally shops shipping in April, please send an

email to pvr (AT) charter (DOT) net at your convenience.

The following is the list of features in the commercial software. This may not

really be the complete list though.

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Divisional Charts

- Twenty two divisional charts, (rasi, navamsa, D-2, D-3, D-4, D-5, D-6, D-7,

D-8, D-10, D-11, D-12, D-16, D-20, D-24, D-27, D-30, D-40, D-45, D-60, D-108

and D-144)

- Five different variations of hora (D-2) charts, four different variations of

D-3 charts, two different variations of D-8 charts, two different variations of

D-11 charts, three different variations of D-30 charts, two different variations

of D-108 charts

- Amsa rulers of planets as per Parasara in shodasa vargas

- Nadyamsas of planets using the uniform division and non-uniform Chandra Kala

Nadi division (nadi names used by C.G. Rajan as well as Santhanam's translation

of Chandra Kala Nadi are listed)

- Bhava/chalit chakra using various house division schemes (rasi houses, equal

30 deg houses, equal houses based on 9 nakshatra padas, Sripathi/Porphyry,

Krishnamoorthy/Placidus, Koch, Regiomontanus, Campanus, axial rotation scheme,

Polich/Page, Alcabitus)

- In houses, ascendant can be configured as the start or middle of first house

Planets and mathematical points

- Nine planets, 3 outer planets, Gulika, Mandi and other 9 upagrahas

- Lagna, bhava lagna, hora lagna, ghati lagna, sree lagna, indu lagna, vighati

lagna, pranapada lagna, varnada lagna, other 11 varnadas

- For vyatipata, two definitions can be chosen from and Gulika, Mandi, Kala etc

can be chosen to rise at the start/middle/end of the respective portions.

Starting of the day can be at sunrise or 6 am LMT

- Arudha lagna and other 11 arudha padas of houses

- Graha arudhas of 9 planets (and dual graha arudhas too)

- Kunda (used in birthtime rectification)

- Deha sphuta, prana sphuta, mrityu sphuta and trisphuta of Prasna Marga

Basic Calculations

- Dates from 5400 BC to 5400 AD can be entered using the Gregorian or Julian calendar

- A built-in atlas contains about 500,000 places in USA and 2,000,000 places outside USA.

- Longitudes, latitudes and distances of planets and the three speeds are shown

- Taras owned and occupied by planets (using the navatara system)

- Special taras (karma, samudayika, sanghatika, jaati, desa etc)

- Nakshatra aspects of planets

- Latta (kick) of planets on nakshatras

- Special tithis (Janma tithi, dhana tithi, bhratri tithi, matri tithi etc)

- Chara karakas

- Brahma, Rudra and Maheswara in a chart

- Thirty six sahamas (sahams)

- Planets in mrityu bhaga and Moon's pushkara bhaga (definitions of Saravali and

Phala Deepika are both included)

- Mrityu bhaga degree value can be configured as the start/middle/end of the fatal portion

- Tithi, yoga, karana, weekday, nakshatra, lunar year, lunar month, hora, kaala,

sunrise, sunset and ayanamsa of a chart

- For finding horas and weekdays, day can be taken to start at sunrise or at 6 am LMT

- In addition, hora and kaala are shown as per the standard time also (for some prasna purposes)

- In addition to hora, the sign corresponding to the 5-minute division of hora

is also given (useful in prasna)

- Bhinna AshtakaVarga (BAV), Sodhita (reduced) ashtakavarga and Prastara

AshtakaVargas (PAV's) of all the nine planets can be found in all the

divisional charts

- Sodhya pindas can be computed in all the divisional charts

- For each divisional chart, the time to be subtracted or added in order to

change the lagna in the divisional chart is displayed at one mouse click

- Lahiri ayanamsa, Raman ayanamsa, Deva-datta ayanamsa, Krishnamoorthy ayanamsa,

Usha-Shashi ayanamsa, Fagan ayanamsa and tropical system (no ayanamsa) can be

used. User can define his/her own custom ayanamsa also.

- Geocentric or topocentric positions can used. True or apparent planetary

positions can be used. Mean or true nodes can be used.

Strengths

- Shadabalas

- Ishta phala and kashta phala

- Vimsopaka balas of shadvarga, sapta varga, dasa varga and shodasa varga

- Vaiseshikamsas of shadvarga, sapta varga, dasa varga and shodasa varga

- Basic avasthas (states) based on age, alertness and mood

- Sayanadi avasthas of activity

- For avasthas of alertness and mood, one can use any divisional chart

- For relationships used in avasthas and vimsopaka bala, it is possible to

configure the relationships of rasi chart to be used always or the

relationships in the relevant divisional charts. It is also possible to

configure the permanent or compound relations to be used.

- Pancha vargeeya bala (of Tajaka)

- Dwadasa vargeeya bala (of Tajaka)

- Harsha bala (of Tajaka)

- Ability to identify 184 different yogas in a rasi chart or a divisional chart

Dasas

- It is possible to use various kinds of years in dasas - (1) 365.2425-day

years, (2) 360-day years, (3) years with use-defined number of years (e.g.

327-day years), (4) solar years with Sun's angle taken as a measure of time,

(5) 360-tithi years with the Sun-Moon angle progress taken as the measure of

time

- Variations of Vimsottari dasa can be computed from Moon's star, lagna's star,

kshema tara, utpanna tara, adhana tara, Mandi's star, Gulika's star and

Trisphuta's star

- Other nakshatra dasas include Ashtottari dasa, Kalachakra dasa, Yogini dasa,

Dwisaptati sama dasa, Shattrimsa sama dasa, Dwadasottari dasa, Chaturaseeti

sama dasa, Sataabdika dasa, Shodasottari dasa, Panchottari dasa, Shashtihayani

dasa, with help on their applicability

- Tribhagi variation available in Vimsottari dasa and most other nakshatra dasas

- Rasi dasas include Narayana dasa (of all divisional charts, with complete

flexibility regarding the strengths of houses/planets, i.e. software determines

the strengths, but the user can alter all the determinations of the software if

he wishes to experiment), Sudasa, Drigdasa, Lagna kendradi rasi dasa,

atmakaraka kendradi rasi dasa, Trikona dasa, Chara dasa (of Parasara), Chara

dasa (of K.N. Rao), Yogardha dasa, sthira/chara/ubhaya Paryaaya dasas of all

vargas, shoola dasa (of all 12 houses), Niryaana shoola dasa, Brahma dasa,

Sthira dasa, Rudramsa Mandooka dasa, Navamsa dasa, Varnada dasa

- Other dasas include Moola dasa (from lagna alone or from lagna/Moon or from

lagna/Moon/Sun), Tara dasa, Atmakaraka kendradi graha dasa, Patyayini dasa,

Sudarsana Chakra dasa, Tithi Ashtottari dasa and Tithi Yogini dasa

- Division upto mahadasas, antardasas, pratyantardasas, sookshma-antardasas,

prana-antardasas and deha-antardasas

- Ability to locate the mahadasa, antardasa, pratyantardasa, sookshma-antardasa,

prana-antardasa and deha-antardasa running at the time of an event, given the

date, time and timezone of the event

- Ability to cast the dasa pravesh chart (period commencement chart) for the

commencement of any mahadasa, antardasa, pratyantardasa, sookshma-antardasa,

prana-antardasa or deha-antardasa and look at the divisional charts, longitudes

etc, panchanga in the commencement chart

Transits

- Ability to list transits in houses from lagna, Moon, navamsa lagna and navamsa Moon

- Ability to clafssify the transits of planets based on tara, murthi and house-based vedha

- Ability to look at the ashtakavarga scores and kakshya scores of planetary

transits taking any natal divisional chart as the reference and any divisional

chart in transit

- Ability to identify transits in special taras (karma, samudayika, sanghatika,

jaati, desa etc) or naksahtra aspects of transit planets on them

- Ability to identify latta (planetary kick) in transit on important nakshatras

- Ability to *search* when a required planet (e.g. Jupiter) came x deg y min

(e.g. 1 deg 0 min) behind/after the position of a natal planet (e.g. natal Sun)

or a natal sahama (e.g. vivaha sahama) or the beginning of a sign before/after a

given date (e.g. today)

Chakras

- Kalachakra from Sun's star in natal chart and lagna's star in annual charts

(with the ability to configure any other star as the seed)

- Kota chakra/durga chakra from natal Moon's star (with the ability to configure

any other star as the seed)

- Sarvatobhadra chakra

- Ability to view two charts superimposed on each other (one can be natal

navamsa and the other can be transit dasamsa, for example)

Annual Charts

- Tajaka annual/monthly/2.5-day/5-hour/25-min/2-min charts

- In Tajaka charts, true solar motion or mean solar motion can be used

- When compressing dasas for Tajaka charts, lagna/Moonstar can be used or it can be progressed

- Sunrise chart of Tajaka annual/monthly/2.5-day/5-hour/25-min/2-min charts

- Annual/monthly.daily Tithi Pravesha (TP) charts (Vedic soli-lunar calendar

equivalent of the Tajaka system)

Mundane

- Ability to set a chart in "swearing-in" mode and compress dasas to any number

of years or any number of days

- Solar new year chart and solar new month chart (with all dasas compressed to the year/month)

- Annual Full Moon chart and monthly Full Moon chart (with all dasas compressed to the year/month)

- Lunar new year/month/day chart (with all dasas compressed to the year/month/day)

- Financial new year chart (with all dasas compressed to the year)

- Ability to find the last/next conjunction of any two planets and compress

dasas to the period between two successive conjunctions

- Ability to find when a planet changes rasi/nakshatra/navamsa before/after a

given date and compress dasas to the period when the planet stays in that

rasi/nakshatra/navamsa

- Ability to find the last/next lunar eclipse, local solar eclipse and global solar eclipse

Miscellaneous

- Cast the progression chart by progressing Sun by one division as per any

divisional chart (e.g. 1 degree with D-30 progression, 3 deg with D-10

progression etc)

- In a prasna chart, allow a number to entered in 1-108 range and find the rasi

and navamsa of prasna lagna from it

- In a prasna chart, allow a number to entered in 1-249 range (KP) and find the

rasi, nakshatra and sub of the prasna lagna from it

- In a prasna chart, allow a number to entered in 1-1800 range (KP) and find all

the position of prasna lagna in all the sixteen divisional charts from it

- One can add a user defined amount of time to a given chart (e.g. 144 years) to

go to the next lifecycle and cast a fresh chart for the next life cycle (this is

useful for mundane charts like the chart of USA)

Krishnamoorthy Paddhati (KP)

- Find the nakshatra lords and sub lords (upto 5 levels of subs - subs,

sub-subs, sub-sub-subs etc) of all planets and house cusps

- List the planets and house cusps occupying the nakshatra or sub (upto 5 levels

of subs) of a given planet

Panchanga

- Show the panchanga of a day, including the date, weekday, end time(s) of

tithi(s), end time(s) of yogas(s), end time(s) of karana(s), Rahu kalam, Gulika

kalam, Yama gandam, sunrise, sunset, moonrise, moonset, the time when Moon

changes sign and the end times of 24 horas in the day

- Ability to make the panchanga for a month

- Ability to create the ephemeris for a month

- Ability to find the detailed planetary transits for a month. This includes the

date/time when a planet changes rasi/nakshatra and the date/time when a planet

aspects another planet exactly. Here the partial aspects described by parasara

are also considered (i.e. all planets aspect the 7th, 4th, 8th, 5th, 9th, 3rd

and 10th from them). So the exact date/time when Mercury has an exact 8th

aspect on Jupiter (albeit a partial aspect, as opposed to full aspect) can be

found, for example.

Learning Aids

- List of a planets in "marana karaka sthana" in a chart and the houses occupied

and owned by them is given at a mouse click

- Permanent, temporary and compound relationships of planets can be displayed

within a chart using an intuitive color code

- Pachakadi relationships of planets and signs can be analyzed and listed out for a given chart

- Own signs, exaltation signs, debilitation signs and moolatrikonas of planets

can be highlighted to aid beginners

- Graha drishti and rasi drishti of planets can highlighted to aid beginners

- Argala and virodha argala can highlighted to aid beginners

Conveniences

- One can customize all the colors used in the software

- One can increase or decrease the font size

- One can customize the header of the chart printouts to give his/her address, phone number etc

- One can use the south Indian regular, south India irregular, north India and

east Indian chart styles

- One can view planet names and chart names in charts in ten Indian languages, instead of English

- One can enter some notes and save them

- Two charts are displayed all most calculations (rasi and navamsa by default).

In the mixed chart style mode, one can view the same chart in two chart styles

(e.g. north Indian and south Indian styles). It is useful in collaboration

between astrologers used to different styles.

- There are A LOT OF customizable options and user preferences in the software,

but all of them come with default values that are recommended by me. Novices

need not bother about them, but experts can experiment with them.

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If you want to be notified when the software formally shops shipping in April,

please send an email to pvr (AT) charter (DOT) net at your convenience.

May Jupiter's light shine on us,

Narasimha

> Dear Rishikesh,> there are bootlegged version of Parashara light on the

street in> India, but not of the newest version. It is best not to take

advantage> of this theft from Parashara's light. Narasimha's Hora Lite is an>

excellent software for the price- free! It is a very worthy software. If> you

want somehing more involved than that with an atlas and all, for> 189.95 you

can get my Kala, which is no lesser software than Parasharas> light. You can

download a Demo at www.vedic astrology.net> > Jai Ram,> Ernst Wilhelm> > than

that> > > yogiman90 <yogiman90>

[yogiman90] > Sunday, February 09, 2003 11:59 AM> To:

vedic astrology> [vedic astrology] PL 5 in india> > >

Dear Friends > > If any one here from India , using the Parashara Light 5 >

software with Vedic Bookshelf ,kindly guide me as to how to obtain it > and at

what price etc...? > > They gave me an estimate of 21000 for PL5 +

bookshelf,which is bit > too costly for beginner like myself. If people know of

> cheaper/dscounted versions ,i would be grateful for the information. > >

Rishikesh

February 10, 2003

JAYA JAGANNATHA!

Dear Narasimha,

Namaste.

I have been using the beta version og JHora for years now and I'm very satisfied

with it. As a side thought, I would suggest adding two features which maybe will

fit in before release:

1. Vighati calculation for Janma or transit charts

2. Navamsa position of Pranapada.

Also, with Pasnchangas, whne you are giving detailed transits for a month, it

may be useful to include when the planet gets retrograde and direct also.

If you need any help in writing the help files/user manual or customer support,

I'm ready to share some of my time for it as I think it is indeed an excellent

software.

May Lord Jagannatha bless you.

Yours,

Gauranga Das Vedic Astrologer gauranga (AT) brihaspati (DOT) net Jyotish Remedies:

WWW.BRIHASPATI.NET Phone:+36-309-140-839

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Narasimha P.V.R. Rao

vedic astrology

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