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Uttara Kālāmṛta
उत्तरकालामृत
Attributed to "Kālidāsa" — not credibly the classical poet · After the 16th century CE (internal evidence); South India · compendium
On the dating: References to Andhra-bhāṣā, Persian/Urdu words, Turuṣka and Rāhu-kāla place the work after the 16th century; a South-Indian astrologer, possibly the "Abhinava Kālidāsa" of the Vyāsācala tradition, is the plausible author.
What this text is
The tradition’s favorite lookup compendium — exhaustive significator lists per planet and house, under a famous borrowed name.
Dense kārikā-style sections: significations (kārakas) for each planet and house at unmatched length, house-lord effects, special ascendants, daśā notes and miscellany.
Its role in this app
Seats significations in our foundations/kāraka material and parts of the house-lord matrix. Load-bearing in the viparīta decision: its commentary explicitly excludes the market’s "own dusthāna" variant (so that engine option is labeled unattested), and its grahabhāvaphala v. 22 states a fourth, genuinely independent viparīta definition — recorded, unimplemented.
Editions our research holds
ps-sastri-hindi
P.S. Sastri Hindi edition — unusually clean Devanāgarī.
in copyright — read for verification only, never republished · scan quality: good
ps-sastri-english
P.S. Sastri English, PDF only.
copyright status unclear — treated as in-copyright
j108-santhanam
Santhanam edition, PDF only.
in copyright — read for verification only, never republished
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.