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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 · jataka
On the dating: The filiation to Varāhamihira rests on the text’s own chapter colophons; scholarship has not independently confirmed the author or date.
What this text is
A natal manual in the Varāhamihira orbit, with independent birth-star and yoga chapters.
Fundamentals including junction (gaṇḍānta) widths at 1.14, planets in houses (ch. 21), daśā chapters, longevity, yogas (ch. 19), and a birth-star results chapter (28).
Its role in this app
Seats planets-in-houses (ch. 21), daśā and longevity material, and an independent third lineage for the 27-star birth-star one-liners (ch. 28). Its 1.14 one-ghaṭikā junction width anchors our finding that the classics measure gaṇḍa-mūla at the junction, not across the whole star; its 19.8 merges Moon- and lagna-kendras into a fourth computable Kemadruma form (recorded, unimplemented); its translator’s notes are the only in-corpus route to Jātaka Pārijāta’s daridra-yoga variants.
Editions our research holds
santhanam-english
R. Santhanam translation — the workhorse.
in copyright — read for verification only, never republished · scan quality: good
ebharatisampat-alt
Alternate scan, PDF only.
copyright status unclear — treated as in-copyright
What our reading found
Findings from this project's own verification passes — recorded because a source's defects are part of citing it honestly.
Its per-sign chapters are daśā-phala — results of planetary periods, not natal placements — by the text’s own chapter frame; citing them as planets-in-signs is a category error our verify pass caught. The printed Mars sequence in ch. 21 carries no 3rd-house clause.
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.