[INDOLOGY] 'Vedic' astrology

[Bill Mak]

Martin, not exactly. This was precisely my point. Dikshit did refer to horoscopy under Vedic astrology. See “Jātaka branch of astrology” under “Atharva jyotiṣa” in the section Vedaṅga (Vol.1 p.97-98). Things might have come to the forefront in recent time, but such ideas have certainly been around.

Bill

> On Nov 15, 2016, at 3:36 PM, Martin Gansten <martin.gansten at pbhome.se> wrote:
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> Just to clarify (since I was the one to mention the recent origins of the term as used today): what is new, and to the best of my knowledge began in North America, is the use of 'Vedic astrology' to describe the Indian version of horoscopic astrology, or horāśāstra. I may be wrong, of course, but I have never seen any publication by an Indian practitioner prior to the 1990s referring to his (or, occasionally, her) art using that phrase, whereas today it is rampant.
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> Martin
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> 
> Den 2016-11-15 kl. 21:09, skrev Bill Mak:
>> Since Dikshit’s work first came out in Marathi 1896, the idea of Vedic astrology certainly cannot be said to be new.
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