The Texts

Bṛhat Pārāśara Horā Śāstra

बृहत्पाराशरहोराशास्त्र

Attributed to Maharṣi Parāśara (traditional) · Received text is a layered compilation — core placed around the 7th–8th century CE, with substantial later interpolation

The fullest systematic treatise of Hindu natal astrology and the spine of the tradition as practiced today — read here with open eyes about its layered, late-compiled textual history.

Phaladīpikā

फलदीपिका

Mantreśvara · 13th–16th century CE (date debated); South India

A tightly versified predictive manual — the text the practicing tradition actually reaches for on houses, yogas and transits.

Jaimini Upadeśa Sūtrāṇi

जैमिनि उपदेशसूत्राणि

Attributed to Maharṣi Jaimini (traditional) · Date genuinely uncertain — scholarship treats the sūtras’ age as unsettled

The aphoristic foundation of the Jaimini system — sign-based aspects, movable significators and rāśi daśās — a method distinct from the Parāśari mainstream.

Sūrya Siddhānta

सूर्यसिद्धान्त

Traditionally revealed by Sūrya to Asura Maya (a frame story, not an author) · Received text c. 800 CE (further revised toward c. 1000); an older core of c. 400 CE is known only through Varāhamihira’s summary

The classic treatise of Hindu mathematical astronomy — the text whose definitions the traditional pañcāṅga vocabulary descends from.

Tājika Nīlakaṇṭhī

ताजिकनीलकण्ठी

Nīlakaṇṭha Daivajña · Completed 1587 CE (Śaka 1509) at Kāśī

The defining manual of Tājika (annual-chart) astrology — varṣaphala as the tradition knows it is this book.

Praśna Mārga

प्रश्नमार्ग

A Nampūtiri Brahmin of the Panakkāṭṭu house (name transmitted as Nārāyaṇan), with his own commentary · Written 1649 CE at Edakkāṭ, near Talassery, Kerala

The most systematic horary treatise in the tradition — Kerala praśna practice codified in thirty-two chapters.

Bṛhat Jātaka

बृहज्जातक

Varāhamihira · 6th century CE (c. 505–587, Ujjayinī)

Varāhamihira’s compact masterwork — the most-commented natal text in Sanskrit, and one of the firmest dates in the whole corpus.

Bṛhat Saṃhitā

बृहत्संहिता

Varāhamihira · 6th century CE

The 6th-century encyclopedia of the natural and ominous world — the single best window into what early jyotiṣa actually held.

Laghu Jātaka

लघुजातक

Varāhamihira · 6th century CE

Varāhamihira’s own compact abridgment of the Bṛhat Jātaka, long used as a teaching text.

Sārāvalī

सारावली

Kalyāṇavarma · c. 800 CE; scholarly estimates span the 7th–10th centuries

The great expansion of natal astrology between Varāhamihira and the medieval systematizers — the classical seat for planets-in-signs at full length.

Horāsāra

होरासार

Attributed to Pṛthuyaśas, named in its colophons as Varāhamihira’s son · Traditional attribution; if genuine, later 6th century CE — independent scholarly confirmation is lacking

A natal manual in the Varāhamihira orbit, with independent birth-star and yoga chapters.

Uttara Kālāmṛta

उत्तरकालामृत

Attributed to "Kālidāsa" — not credibly the classical poet · After the 16th century CE (internal evidence); South India

The tradition’s favorite lookup compendium — exhaustive significator lists per planet and house, under a famous borrowed name.

Sarvārtha Cintāmaṇi

सर्वार्थचिन्तामणि

Veṅkaṭeśa (Veṅkaṭeśvara) Śarmā · Conventionally placed 13th century CE — thinly evidenced

A detailed house-centric treatise, prized for its house-lord and yoga chapters.

Jātaka Pārijāta

जातकपारिजात

Vaidyanātha Dīkṣita (South India) · Completed Śaka 1347 = 1426 CE (author placed 14th–15th century)

A late-classical synthesis counted among the tradition’s five great natal texts — currently unverifiable in our corpus copies.

Vedāṅga Jyotiṣa

वेदाङ्गज्योतिष

Attributed to Lagadha · Astronomical content describes c. 1400–1200 BCE; the extant text’s composition is disputed and may be centuries later

The oldest stratum of Indian computational astronomy — yuga-based tithi and nakṣatra arithmetic, the pañcāṅga’s deepest ancestor.

Yavanajātaka

यवनजातक

Sphujidhvaja · Pingree dated the versification to 269/270 CE from a prose original of 149/150 CE; Mak (2013) showed those date-verse readings rest on emendation and redated the text to c. 4th–6th century CE

The key early witness of Greco-Indian horoscopy in Sanskrit — and the corpus’s most instructive dating dispute, stated here with both sides.

Vṛddha Yavanajātaka

वृद्धयवनजातक

Mīnarāja · Pingree placed c. 300–325 CE; that anchor depended on a chronology Mak overturned, so the absolute date is open

The largest early natal compendium — roughly eight thousand verses parallel to Sphujidhvaja.

Muhūrta Cintāmaṇi

मुहूर्तचिन्तामणि

Rāma Daivajña, of the Kāśī daivajña family associated with Nīlakaṇṭha · Completed 1600 CE (Śaka 1522) at Kāśī

The primary electional text in continuous pañcāṅga use — more of this app’s registered muhūrta decisions trace to it than to any other single work.

Praśna Tantra

प्रश्नतन्त्र

Attributed to Nīlakaṇṭha Daivajña (the Tājika author) · 16th century CE by attribution; the received text reaches us through modern editions

Horary astrology in the Tājika manner, with worked examples in the modern editions.

Camatkāra Cintāmaṇi

चमत्कारचिन्तामणि

Bhaṭṭa Nārāyaṇa · c. 14th century CE per its modern commentator — thinly evidenced

108 verses — each of the nine planets through the twelve houses — read here in a comparative edition that quotes many parallel authorities per placement.

Saṅketa Nidhi

सङ्केतनिधि

Rāma Dayālu, of Amritsar · Completed 1860 CE — a nineteenth-century work, often mistaken for older

A nineteenth-century predictive digest in verse, synthesizing the classical tradition.

Bhṛgu Saṃhitā

भृगुसंहिता

Attributed to Maharṣi Bhṛgu (traditional) · Extant material of very uncertain date — surviving manuscripts run 16th–19th century; the printed volumes we hold are modern compilations

The famous Bhrigu reading tradition — held here as one genuine old nāḍī-style print beside modern Hindi compilations, and the roster keeps them apart.

Nārada Saṃhitā

नारदसंहिता

Attributed to Nārada (traditional) · Compilation of uncertain date; the extant text is cited by the 14th century (before 1365 CE)

A jyotiṣa compendium spanning elections, pañcāṅga doctrine, nakṣatra lore and omens.

Garga Saṃhitā

गर्गसंहिता

The held text is the Vaiṣṇava Purāṇic Garga Saṃhitā, not the astrologer Garga’s work · Held text: a Kṛṣṇa-devotional work of uncertain, likely early-modern date. The astrological Vṛddha-Gārgīya Jyotiṣa (c. 1st century CE; Zysk dates its composition around 25 CE) is NOT in our corpus

A cautionary entry: the "Garga Saṃhitā" we hold is the Vaishnava devotional purāṇa, not the ancient astrological Garga — recorded so the mistake is never repeated silently.

Vasiṣṭha Saṃhitā

वसिष्ठसंहिता

Attributed to Vasiṣṭha (traditional); held as the Vṛddha-Vasiṣṭha compilation · Extant compilation of very uncertain date — no scholarly consensus located

A mundane-astrology and observance compendium in the Vasiṣṭha attribution line.

Deva Keralam (Candra Kalā Nāḍī)

देवकेरलम् / चन्द्रकलानाडी

Achyuta of Kerala; a further ~5,800 ślokas under the name Veṅkaṭeśa in the received manuscripts · Date genuinely open — Achyuta left no internal clues to lineage, place or period; nāḍī manuscript provenance is weak by class

Over nine thousand verses of Kerala nāḍī readings keyed to fine zodiacal divisions — transmitted with the weak manuscript provenance typical of the genre, and we say so.

Bhṛgu Nandi Nāḍī

भृगुनन्दिनाडी

Nāḍī palm-leaf tradition attributed to the Bhṛgu lineage; known solely through R.G. Rao’s 20th-century presentation · Underlying leaves undatable in any scholarly sense; the transmission we hold is modern

Jupiter-centric nāḍī progression readings in R.G. Rao’s modern transcription.

Jyotiṣa Phala Ratnamālā (Kṛṣṇīyam)

ज्योतिषफलरत्नमाला

Kṛṣṇa Miśra · Unsettled — an early (4th–6th century) attribution circulates with the manuscript tradition but is uncorroborated in scholarship we located

A rare independent witness to the Jaimini computational tradition outside the sūtras themselves.

Āryabhaṭīya

आर्यभटीय

Āryabhaṭa · Composed 499 CE (author born 476)

The fountainhead of the siddhāntic schools of Indian astronomy and mathematics.

Pañcasiddhāntikā

पञ्चसिद्धान्तिका

Varāhamihira · 6th century CE

Varāhamihira’s summary of the five astronomical schools of his day — the only window into the older Sūrya Siddhānta.

Siddhānta Śiromaṇi

सिद्धान्तशिरोमणि

Bhāskara II (Bhāskarācārya) · Composed 1150 CE (author born 1114)

The high-water mark of classical Indian mathematical astronomy.

Grahalāghava

ग्रहलाघव

Gaṇeśa Daivajña · Epoch 1520 CE

The dominant working handbook of early-modern pañcāṅga computation in North and West India.

Karaṇa Kutūhala

करणकुतूहल

Bhāskara II · Epoch 1183 CE

Bhāskara’s practical computation handbook.

Tantrasaṅgraha

तन्त्रसङ्ग्रह

Nīlakaṇṭha Somayājī (Kerala school) · Composed 1501 CE

The Kerala school’s revision of planetary theory.

Siddhānta Darpaṇa

सिद्धान्तदर्पण

Sāmanta Candraśekhara (Pathani Samanta), Odisha · Completed 1869; printed 1899

The last major naked-eye observational siddhānta — the tradition auditing itself against the sky.

Vākya Karaṇa

वाक्यकरण

Anonymous; Tamil country · c. 1282–1306 CE (Kuppanna Sastri & K.V. Sarma’s estimate)

The base text of the Tamil vākya-pañcāṅga tradition.

Makaranda Sāriṇī

मकरन्दसारिणी

Makaranda, son of Ānanda, at Kāśī · Epoch 1478 CE

The most popular table set of the saura-pakṣa — pañcāṅga manufacture as tables.

Jātaka Tattva

जातकतत्त्व

Mahādeva (Pāṭhaka lineage, Ratlam; 1842–1888) · Nineteenth century — first published 1871, the author’s completion chronogram falls in 1874

Aphoristic natal rules (tattvas) — a prized 19th-century systematization of the classical corpus.

Śrīpati Paddhati

श्रीपतिपद्धति

Śrīpati · Mid-11th century CE (fl. c. 1019–1066)

The computational backbone of later natal astrology — house cusps and planetary strengths, from the astronomer the "Śrīpati house system" is named after.

Bhāvārtha Ratnākara

भावार्थरत्नाकर

Rāmānuja (a South Indian astrologer — not the Viśiṣṭādvaita philosopher) · Uncertain — no scholarly placement located

Numbered house-lord aphorisms — a compact digest the modern tradition leans on.

Ṣaṭpañcāśikā

षट्पञ्चाशिका

Attributed to Pṛthuyaśas (the same traditional son-of-Varāhamihira attribution as Horāsāra) · If the attribution holds, later 6th century CE — confirmation lacking

The classic fifty-six-verse horary primer.

Daivajña Vallabha

दैवज्ञवल्लभ

Attribution internally contradictory — the opening names Śrīpati, closing verses name Varāhamihira; treated as apocryphal · Uncertain

A horary classic with the fullest statement of the ten planetary avasthās.

Mānasāgarī

मानसागरी

Attributed to Mānasāgara / Janārdana Harji (by report, of Gujarat) — effectively unknown · Uncertain; some trace the text to the 16th century

The popular predictive manual much north-Indian folk practice reads placements through — held here with a documented modern overlay to steer around.

Muhūrta Mārtaṇḍa

मुहूर्तमार्तण्ड

Nārāyaṇa Daivajña · Completed 1571 CE

A compact electional manual with the author’s own commentary.

Muhūrta Gaṇapati

मुहूर्तगणपति

Gaṇapati (daivajña) · Not established — an early-modern muhūrta compendium; our copy is the 1885 Naval Kishore lithograph

A large muhūrta compendium in the Kāśī style.

Kāla Prakāśikā

कालप्रकाशिका

Southern electional compendium; underlying author unestablished · Uncertain — no established scholarly dating for the Sanskrit text; known through N.P. Subramania Iyer’s 1917 English translation

The standard southern electional compendium in English dress — and one of the most decision-bearing texts in our muhūrta research.

Bṛhad Daivajña Rañjanam

बृहद्दैवज्ञरञ्जनम्

Rāmadīna (Rām Dīn Pāṇḍeya) · Not established — a late Sanskrit-Hindi digest, known through the Khemraj and 1924 Gangavishnu prints

A practical astrologer’s omnibus of doṣa catalogs and predictive miscellany — valuable to us precisely as a digest.

Jātakābharaṇa (Jātaka Bharaṇam)

जातकाभरणम्

Attributed to Ḍhuṇḍhirāja (Vārāṇasī lineage) · Usually placed 15th–16th century CE; the attribution is conventional

A versified natal text with Hindi commentary in our copy.

Jātaka Candrikā

जातकचन्द्रिका

Veṅkaṭeśa Paṇḍita (son of Yajñeśvara Dīkṣita) · Uncertain — no scholarly placement located; known in English through B. Suryanarain Rao’s 1900 translation

A short Parāśari-school primer distilling house-lord results for students.

Vivāha Vṛndāvana

विवाहवृन्दावन

Keśavārka (Keśavāditya, son of Rāṇiga) · Pre-modern marriage-muhūrta classic; precise date not established in scholarship we located

The dedicated classic of marriage election.