4/9/2024 0 Comments Astrology history in![]() While genethlialogy or natal astrology ( jātaka) and catarchic or electional astrology ( muhūrta) have Hellenistic roots, the third branch-interrogations or horary astrology ( praśna)-may have originated in India, from where it then spread west. Judicial astrology, in turn, comprises three main branches. The latter fact demonstrates the theoretical primacy of astrology as the most complex and systematic discipline of prognostication within Indian culture. The Indian “science of lights” ( jyotiḥśāstra also jyotiṣa, jyautiṣa) is composed of gaṇita (calculation) and phalita (prognostication), the former category corresponding approximately to “astronomy” in modern terminology, the latter to “astrology.” The present article deals with phalita, which is subdivided into horā (judicial astrology), based on the casting of horoscopes, and saṃhitā (natural astrology), which includes divinatory techniques not necessarily involving the heavenly bodies. ![]()
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