journey towards stars - 1

Astrology is derived from two Greek words astron (star) and logos (science, study) and Astronomy from two words astron and nomos (arrangement, law or order). Indian astrology or Jyotisham took birth to reckon the time. The definition given to it is very similar to the word Astrology. Later on it was developed to peep into the individual lives. New branches were added to it in the course of time. Thus it has three main branches and all of them have their significance and they all interlinked with each other. Let us go through its salient features which are rather neglected in the course of time and much of it lost its significance at present.

Indian Jyotish was evaluated to reckon the time. It was required to perform the Yajna, the main object of the Veda, the oldest literature of the World. Time is a precious commodity of our life too. It has neither beginning nor ending. So, according to Arybhata, it is being inferred with the help of the planets and the constellations on the zodiac. The zodiac is an imaginary circle around the earth where we observe all celestial bodies at one place irrespective of their distance from the earth. The zodiac has been divided into twelve similar parts and each one has thirty similar divisions and each subdivision has sixty divisions. These divisions are in line with the divisions of time. The time taken by the planets to complete these divisions by their angular motion is asserted as the similar division of time. The time thus calculated from the angular motions of the planets is being stored in a device called panchang (almanac) which is enough familiar to us. Some of these divisions have been spelt in the Veda. Veda is not a literature purely dealing with Jyotish. So the divisions as and when required have been spelt there. So searching for all is not a viable effort.

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