The book is an inspiring compilation of interesting and informative articles on the various characteristics of Indian Astrology. Taking the reader on an exhilarating excursion into the computational, contentious and captivating topics, the book includes some special predictive inputs, peculiar to Kerala, apart from the narration of amazing anecdotes associated with some of its astrologers and astronomers. Surveying in brief the lands contribution to the astrological erudition, it delineates on some of the eminent scholars it had produced in the past.Discussing the causes, it presents a case for astrological acumen and presents some posers to predictors to ponder and pursue their investigation. Peripheral in profoundity and pleasing in procedural parlance, the book can serve as a perennial guide to any practitioner besides enlightening the student and engaging the scholar.
Contents
1. A Case for Astrology - Astrology and its Relevance to the Modern Scientific World 2. How, Why and When of Astrology 3. Ancient Indian Wisdom and Modern Science 4. Navagrahas in the Journey of Life 5. Eclipses of the Sun and Moon 6. Sunspots and Astrology 7. A Rare celestial event - Transits of Mercury and Venus across the disc of the Sun 8. A Date with Mars 9. Once in a Blue Moon 10. The Rules for reckoning leap year 11. Finding the weekday 12. Kalaganitha - A brief history of time 13. The Concept of Adhika Masa - or Intercalary month 14. Kalaganana of the ancients - Some constituents of Panchang 15. Length of the year for Udu dasa calculations 16. Facts and fallacies of marriage compatibility 17. Astronomers and astrologers of Kerala 18. Talakkulathur Bhattathiri - The Astrological genius of Kerala 19. Machatt Narayanan Elayath -The astrological wizard of Kerala 20. Some of our Prasna treatises 21. Ashtamangalaprasna - A Unique horary system of Kerala 22. Devaprasna - An introduction; 23. Tamboola Prasna - A unique tool of divination of Kerala astrology 24. Dasadhyayee - The scintillating Commentary for Brihatjataka 25. The Thirteenth constellation 26. Hindu Astrology and other astrological systems in the world 27. Epilogue About the Author:
V.S. Kalyanraman is a mathematician and amateur astronomer by training, a bureaucrat by profession and a student of astrology by passion, the author had his traditional training in astrology in his teens, under a couple of doyens of Gurus of yesteryears, with a vow not to turn a professional. Commencing his career as a teacher in Kerala completed it as a Senior Class I officer of the Government of India. After a stint of story writing in Tamil in the fifties, turned to serious study of Saiva Siddhanta, Philosophy, Psychology, Vedic Mathematics, Bharateeya Ganitha Sastra, Jyothisha (astronomy), the various astrological systems, Vastu Sastra, Vedic Numerology and allied disciplines, under various masters of repute. As a freelancer, though was contributing on varied topics, occasionally to various magazines in English, Tamil and Malayalam, mostly under disguise, for decades and has received many awards and accolades, would prefer to remain, anonymous and a student, till his last breath.
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