JH71 Drigdasa change - to Narasimhaji

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Dear Narasimhaji,

Thanks for informing me about the default language setting!

 

Regarding your comment:

 

" Regarding drigdasa, I disagree. There is no need to add my name. My

contribution in the 2008 articles is in the judgment rules of the

dasa and not in the calculations. JHora gives calculations and not

judgments. The calculations are exactly as interpreted by Santhanam

in his translation of BPHS and, in fact, I expect anybody to

translate the same way. If somebody else in future interprets

Parasara differently and that interpretation is added to JHora, then

we can think of qualifiers/adjectives to the name. For now, there is

no need for any additional qualifiers/adjectives apart from

Parasara's name. "

 

I remain unconvinced. For a layperson like myself, the entire

judgement + calculation is a black box. You have made some change

that makes Parasara's Drigdasa show up differently. It was not a bug

in your software, but a *change in the algorithm*. That change:

(a) Was a non-obvious one, because hundreds of astrologers, many of

them excellent, including yourself, were unable to detect any

problem from 1999-2007, either in its theory or in its results(!!).

It is not as if the change is minor - in my case, it changes the

dasas significantly, I am assuming it does so in many other cases as

well. So this change is NOT a fine tuning, but has major impact.

(b) Required you to present your change at a conference and get the

assent of your peers and gurus before you brought it into your

software.

Both of the above, in any other field, would *require* that you

label this change as significant and identify it distinctly. By

simply " sliding " it in, it looks like it is a bug fix or an

optimization and it is neither of the two, but a significant

algorithmic change of major impact.

 

As always, this is JMHO. I still think both algorithms should be

shown and attributed in JH 7.1, while only the one of your choice

should be recommended.

 

 

Thanks,

 

Sundeep