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Tags : vedic astrology, Vimsottari Dasa, Atharva-Veda,

Categories : Vedic Astrology,

The antiquity of Indian Astrology is as remote as the Vedas. It forms one of the Angas of the Atharva-Veda. The Jyotish-Shastra (Astrology), as mentioned in the Atharva-Veda, consists of one hundred and sixty five verses only. In fact, the whole of the Jyotish-Shastra then consisted, was on observing the movements of the Sun, the Moon, their passage through the constellations (Nakshatras), and assigning a certain significance to them, and was then made more applicable to a Mundane Astrology than to a judicial one. It will thus be seen that the origin of the present day Astrology is to be found in the Atharve-Veda-Jyotish, the probable date of which, according to Dixit and others, is 900 to 1500 B.C.

There are many kinds of Dasas, Parashara, in his book, has mentioned about 42 of them, but of these Vimsottari Dasa is the most popular, with which we are for the present concerned in this book. In the choice of any particular type of Dasa, the criterion must be that of experience and Vimsottari has answered this test.