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Daivajña Vallabha

दैवज्ञवल्लभ

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

On the dating: The work’s own verses disagree about its author; scholarship marks the Varāhamihira attribution as doubtful.

What this text is

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

Horary chapters — disease, lost articles, journey questions — plus the ten planetary states (dīpta, svastha, mudita and kin) overlapping Ṣaṭpañcāśikā.

Its role in this app

Praśna corroboration and the avasthā vocabulary beside BPHS.

Editions our research holds

  • main

    Modern English e-text, uncredited.

    in copyright — read for verification only, never republished · scan quality: good

Readings on this site cite texts at chapter level, with verse numbers only where our research verified the passage in a named edition. How conflicts between texts are resolved is documented on the conventions page.