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Mark wrote: .......
Thank you! I have put together a personal list of Jyotish terminology but I always seem to be hitting some new Sanskrit term that baffles me. It seems like half the struggle in understanding Jyotish is comprehending the Sanskrit words left untranslated as much as the core astrological concepts themselves.

I don?t suppose anyone has ever compiled a Sanskrit-English dictionary of Jyotish astrological terms have they? I think I would be the first buyer!

Mark
save the money.
Try here
http://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/apte/

eg: udu

http://dsalsrv02.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/p ... splay=utf8


1. ???? u?u? : (page 41)
= ??? 1 P. (????, ????, ?????, ???????, ????) 1 To go.-2 To strike or knock down.
???? u?u????? f., ??? n. [???-?? ???] 1 A lunar mansion; a star; ???????????????????????????? R.16.65.-2 Water (said to be n. only).-Comp.-??????? The moon. ??? The constellation
much more forgiving one:



http://spokensanskrit.de/index.php?scri ... rection=AU

PD

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Mark wrote:Thanks Martin. You have probably told me this before but which specific article(s) from David Pingree are you deriving this information about Jyotish from?
Not from an article, but from his 1981 book Jyoti???stra: astral and mathematical literature, published in the History of Indian Literature series (Harrassowitz).
Maybe he does have that belief regarding an ancient core text lost to us. However, he freely acknowledges the current version of the BHPS must have numerous interpolations and cannot all be traced back in this way.
I was referring to this statement of his:
Also we know that Udu Dasa system is older than Varaha Mihira because Satyacarya, whom Varaha Mihira admired and quoted from extensively, used Vimshottari Mahadasa and Prithuyasasha the son of Varaha Mihira though writing on Mula Dasa also includes a short chapter on Udu dasa in Hora Sara.

Var?hamihira does quote (lost texts by) Satya, but not on the Vi??ottar? system; so Shyamasundara's only reason to connect Satya with that system is that he takes the attribution of other, later texts to Satya at face value. The attribution of the Hor?s?ra to P?thuya?as (sic -- not P?thuyasa?a) is similarly dubious.
I don?t suppose anyone has ever compiled a Sanskrit-English dictionary of Jyotish astrological terms have they? I think I would be the first buyer!
I do sympathize, but there are no specialized dictionaries/glossaries that I'm aware of. Some astrological authors include glossaries in their books; but the selection, explanations and orthography may vary a good deal.
https://astrology.martingansten.com/

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Mark wrote:
I don?t suppose anyone has ever compiled a Sanskrit-English dictionary of Jyotish astrological terms have they? I think I would be the first buyer!
For those of us who aren't familiar with Sanskrit, I've generally found any word whose meaning I needed to know in the 20 page "Hindu Astrology Terminology" section in the back of Richard Houck's The Astrology of Death. (Groundswell Press, 1994) The 20 pages are in a small font double column arrangement. This little "dictionary" has been my saviour many times over the years. There are approximately 1700 entries which cover any term we'll find in the English translations of Indian astrological texts. I've even had to look up such basic terms as "jataka." (judgement of a nativity)

Houck's book is still available from Amazon sellers here in the U.S.
http://www.snowcrest.net/sunrise/LostZodiac.htm

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Martin Gansten wrote: Though with explanations such as A method of timing events for the entry Udu Dasa, it may not be the source of illumination that Mark was looking for. ;) Houck is no better here: Alternate method of timing events.
All right, Martin, your next project: The Master Encyclopedia of Indian Astrology including full and complete definitions of all terms and concepts from available texts

Actually, this isn't a bad idea! Unfortunately such a project requires something no one has: TIME
http://www.snowcrest.net/sunrise/LostZodiac.htm

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Martin Gansten wrote:
pankajdubey wrote:J.N Bhasin has one here.
Though with explanations such as A method of timing events for the entry Udu Dasa, it may not be the source of illumination that Mark was looking for. ;) Houck is no better here: Alternate method of timing events.
In that case, Mark should start here. :D
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmi_script

A lot of Jain literature is in Tamil and Buddist one in Pali script.

On a Mac these dictionaries can be made a part of inbuilt mac dictionary.
Ajit Krishnan's dictionary files converted for Mac and online Digital dictionaries of South Asia.

http://sanskritdocuments.org/dict/

The Phoenician dictionary is here:

http://www.canaanite.org/dictionary/ind ... index&d=18

PD