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Yavanajataka
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Yavanajataka

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  • What's your sign?
    astrology
    / In India

    …Yavaneshvara and versified as the Yavanajataka by Sphujidhvaja in 269/270. Early translators translated directly the 12 signs of the Western zodiac into Sanskrit and adopted that system alongside extant astrological considerations. The techniques of Indian astrology (jyotisha) are thus similar to those of its Hellenistic counterpart. But the techniques were…

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    …Yavaneshvara and versified as the Yavanajataka by Sphujidhvaja in 269/270. Early translators translated directly the 12 signs of the Western zodiac into Sanskrit and adopted that system alongside extant astrological considerations. The techniques of Indian astrology (jyotisha) are thus similar to those of its Hellenistic counterpart. But the techniques were…

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