Yes, Indian Astrology or Bharateeya Astrology or any other term would have been good. I agree. I am not here to justify the term Vedic Astrology. I was trying to clarify only that the qualifier Vedic serves the purpose of distinguishing it from Western Astrology.

Thanks Martin for giving the lead, " the term was coined in North America in the 1980s and then exported to India, where it first appeared in the 1990s." for those who might want to see who of all did coin this wrong or right term.

It would be an interesting study to see how many terms all over the world, the meanings of the titles of categories are not very much the same as the abhidhEyArthas /mukhyArthas of the words in the titles. What you call Chinese or Japanese could have contributions from India What you call American could have contributions from pre-colonial America and many parts of the world. I guess there must already be very good studies on such an obvious and easily imaginable topic.

On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 1:58 PM, Martin Gansten <martin.gansten@pbhome.se> wrote:

To me, the really interesting phenomenon is when Tājika, which in its own source texts admits to being of mleccha or yavana origin and based on 'Persian-language' (actually, almost exclusively Arabic) works, is claimed as a branch of 'Vedic astrology'.

Patrick, I'd be very interested to hear more about your exchanges with 'Vedic astrologers' at some point. To the best of my knowledge, the term was coined in North America in the 1980s and then exported to India, where it first appeared in the 1990s.

Martin Gansten

Den 2016-11-09 kl. 09:10, skrev Valerie Roebuck:

I prefer the expression ‘Indian Astrology’, since the tradition was certainly not restricted to Hinduism either.

Valerie J Roebuck

Manchester, UK

On 9 Nov 2016, at 00:27, patrick mccartney <psdmccartney@gmail.com> wrote:

Robert,

The term 'Vedic astrology' is certainly interesting. I have been contacting astrologers in the West who use this term on their websites. Their responses as to what they actually mean by it are revealing of a certain discomfort and cognitive dissonance. One particular respondent said they did not like the term but it was something of an 'industry standard', so not using the term was counter productive to their own vocational interest. They also said that 'Hindu astrology' sounded even 'less authentic'. This is while knowing that the predictive aspects of 'Vedic astrology' developed well past the Vedic period.

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