The Texts · Essential Classical Extensions
Sārāvalī
सारावली
Kalyāṇavarma · c. 800 CE; scholarly estimates span the 7th–10th centuries · jataka
On the dating: Estimates genuinely disagree: Ajay Mitra Shastri 628–730, Sudhākara Dvivedī c. 628, D.C. Bhattacharya c. 750, S.B. Dikshit c. 899. Commonly cited as roughly 800 CE.
What this text is
The great expansion of natal astrology between Varāhamihira and the medieval systematizers — the classical seat for planets-in-signs at full length.
Around 54 chapters: planets in signs and houses in detail (chapters 22–23 and neighbors), planetary states, extensive yogas including the rāja yogas, lunar yogas, and women’s charts.
Its role in this app
The classical seat for large parts of our planets-in-signs and yoga categories; 26 verses are line-pinned (chapters 22–23 complete with colophons). It also taught us a protocol lesson: Kalyāṇavarma names signs by synonym, so an early "ungreppable" verdict was a query failure — recorded so nobody concludes "absent" from one query again.
Editions our research holds
santhanam-master
R. Santhanam translation — Devanāgarī ślokas legible, English layer mojibake.
in copyright — read for verification only, never republished · scan quality: poor
santhanam-vol-2
Santhanam vol. 2, PDF only.
in copyright — read for verification only, never republished
vol-1
Alternate vol. 1 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.
The corpus has no clean Sārāvalī reading text — no usable English layer and no second-volume full-text. A cleaner Sārāvalī is the corpus’s single highest-value acquisition.
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.