Lat & Long in ancient times: To Sarajit

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Dear Sarajit,

Thanks for ur kind email. My confusion was that i had just received the

information that in olden times the zero longitude was reckoned from UJJAIN

(for westerners it is in india) and now it is Greenwich.

So i was thinking if their is something missing that i dont know of (which

Anantji has illuminated me now) otherwise i was thinking that the co-ordinates

of Madras etc in olden times and now would be different thereby giving us

different birth charts if we took a chart of native born in madras now and

compared it to same in olden times.

 

Anantji pointed out nicely that it is taken care of now.

 

Thanks for ur mail

best

SJ

Sarajit Poddar <sarajit (AT) (DOT) org> wrote:

|| Jaya Jagannath ||Dear Sunil,

 

The longitude and latitude is just dividing the surface of earth into

coordinates so that a place can be reckoned. Longitude is required for finding

the exact time at that location or rather the LMT on the basis of which all

calculations are performed and hence even though it is arbitrary, it is useful.

The latitude controls the season as the Sun goes uttarayana and daskshinayana

and is more astronomically important than the longitude.

 

Thus it does not matter where the longitudes were, the latitudes would have been the same.

 

Btw no questions are foolish.

 

Best Wishes

 

Sri Jagannath Center

 

 

Sarajit Poddar

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