Lal Kitab's treatment to births outside India

[Guest guest]

Friends,

 

I have added an article to the Files Section about how LalKitab treats the horoscopes of people born outside India. This was included in the recently held LalKitab seminar in Delhi.

 

A word of caution - this approach works only for Lal Kitab methodology. For Vedic astrology, you must take the "classical" approach for making the horoscope. I will cite an example and the differences between the two approaches (LK and Vedic) within a day or two.

 

Thanks to BhuwanJee for including the link to daylight savings time.

 

Respectfully,

Rajinder Bhatia

 

 

[Guest guest]

Respected Bhatia jee,

 

I have gone through your note in the file section. Here are my

observations on it.

 

[ 1 ] Till Sept 1941 , quite a few cities in India followed what is

known as the old Railway time. This time was the Local Mean Time of

Madras , which is 5hrs 21mts ahead of the GMT. Hence Madras was

taken as a reference point by Pt. Roop Chand Joshi ji otherwise

there is nothing sacrosanct about choosing Madras as a reference

point.

 

[ 2 ] Before the first ephemeris were published by shri NC Lahiri in

1951 , the entire ascendant calculations were based on

the `palabha' system as enumerated in a Sanskrit text `Grahlaghav'.

{tp.sh 1}. Most of the panchangs carried `lagna sarani' calculated

on this system.

 

[ 3 ] Since the `palabha' system is too tedious to work out ,{and I

know through my own experience } the `lagna sarini' were prepared

for only a few important places in India from where the panchangs

were published ; places like Banaras , Ujjain , Delhi etc.

Therefore , the ascendants based on those `sarinis' would be of as

if the birth has taken place at those latitudes.

 

[ 4 ] It was only after the introduction of the ephemeris that the

ascendant could be conveniently calculated for the exact latitude

of the birthplace.

 

[ 5 ] The ascendant is not only dependant on the time of birth ,

the latitude of the place is also important. Even if we convert the

time for a birth in Ottawa { Can } to the Madras time , there will

be a difference of approx 17deg . in the ascendant , because Madras

is at 13N4 and Ottawa at 45N24 ; and it is a huge difference. The

ascendant might move to the next sign. With higher latitudes the

difference would keep increasing even further.

 

[ 6 ] Now that the computer software is available , through which we

can have all the accuracy we want , we do not have to necessarily

follow the old method , which was created because there was no

other alternatives available.

 

[ 7 ] We have come a long way since then ….from `panchanglagna

sarini' … to ephemeris … to computer programs . Lets use them and

be accurate.

 

With regards and naman to all gurujan

 

bhuwan

 

 

 

 

 

lalkitab , Rajinder Bhatia

<rajinderbhatia2002> wrote:

> Friends,

>

> I have added an article to the Files Section about how LalKitab

treats the horoscopes of people born outside India. This was

included in the recently held LalKitab seminar in Delhi.

>

> A word of caution - this approach works only for Lal Kitab

methodology. For Vedic astrology, you must take the " classical "

approach for making the horoscope. I will cite an example and the

differences between the two approaches (LK and Vedic) within a day

or two.

>

> Thanks to BhuwanJee for including the link to daylight savings

time.

>

> Respectfully,

> Rajinder Bhatia

>

>

>

>

>