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A colleague has requested my help with a manuscript of an Indian horoscope (exact provenance currently unknown) cast for a native born in the mid-19th century. It's a longish thing, a scroll measuring seven metres, and contains a number of calculations, including da?? periods. The latter are not Vi??ottar? but are said to be based on a text called Gaur?j?taka, in the form of a dialogue between ?iva and P?rvat?, and somehow related to svarodaya-??stra (divination based on breath). The periods are assigned to the seven planets plus R?hu (no Ketu). At present I haven't looked deeper than that. Has anyone heard of this text? I confess it's new to me.

Martin Gansten wrote:A colleague has requested my help with a manuscript of an Indian horoscope (exact provenance currently unknown) cast for a native born in the mid-19th century. It's a longish thing, a scroll measuring seven metres, and contains a number of calculations, including da?? periods. The latter are not Vi??ottar? but are said to be based on a text called Gaur?j?taka, in the form of a dialogue between ?iva and P?rvat?, and somehow related to svarodaya-??stra (divination based on breath). The periods are assigned to the seven planets plus R?hu (no Ketu). At present I haven't looked deeper than that. Has anyone heard of this text? I confess it's new to me.

I had heard of Swara in horary astrology but this was new.The book does indeed exist:

http://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/medren ... rentpage=2

Monier-Williams p370 lists this as a -Noun for a work
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http://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.d ... akRSNa.jpg

A book of same name was published by Khemraj:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/s ... clnk&gl=in

Thanks very much, Pankaj! I didn't doubt the existence of the text, but couldn't find much information about it. Some googling of my own also revealed a few published editions and translations, as well as a reference to gaur?j?taka-nak?atr?yurd?ya or 'longevity calculation based on asterisms according to Gaur?j?taka'. But the manuscript link you provided (apparently to one chapter of the text, on ari??a or misfortune/fatality) may be the most useful finding so far. Thanks again!

Martin Gansten wrote:Thanks very much, Pankaj! I didn't doubt the existence of the text, but couldn't find much information about it. Some googling of my own also revealed a few published editions and translations, as well as a reference to gaur?j?taka-nak?atr?yurd?ya or 'longevity calculation based on asterisms according to Gaur?j?taka'. But the manuscript link you provided (apparently to one chapter of the text, on ari??a or misfortune/fatality) may be the most useful finding so far. Thanks again!

Got the Gauri jataka from Venkateshwar pres ( Rs 10) but it only deals with effect of planets in various houses from moon.Seems to be accurate enough but does not contain effects of Ketu( only Rahu is listed that too not for 2nd and 8th).
No Dasa effects or longevity.

dharmakarmasute dharme candr?cca patitastam? ?
janmak?le n?pa?caiva v?ddhak?le mah?dhan? ?

?a??he ca dv?da?e r?hu?candr?cca patito yadi ?
r?jar?jasya mantr? sy?ddhandh?nyasam?kula? ?


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Thanks for sharing this information, Pankaj. I suppose there must be another work with the same title, or else a section of the same work not included in the Venkateshwar Press edition.