Hindu astrology
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astrology originating from Ancient India
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- astrology
- Main subject
- natal chart
- Image
- Hindi Manuscript 683, folio 66b Wellcome L0023887.jpg
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- Commons category
- Indian astrology
- topic's main category
- Category:Hindu astrology
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- facet of
- sidereal year
- Stack Exchange tag
- hinduism.stackexchange.com/tags/astrology
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Encyclopedic overview
Hindu astrology, also called Indian astrology, jyotisha (Sanskrit: ज्योतिष, romanized: jyotiṣa; from jyót 'light, heavenly body') and, more recently, Vedic astrology, is the traditional Hindu system of astrology. It is one of the six auxiliary disciplines in Hinduism that is connected with the study of the Vedas.
The Vedanga Jyotisha is one of the earliest texts about astronomy within the Vedas. Some scholars believe that the horoscopic astrology practiced in the Indian subcontinent came from Hellenistic influences. However, this is a point of intense debate, and other scholars believe that Jyotisha developed independently, although it may have interacted with Greek astrology.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hindu astrology” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.