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Śāstra · the texts themselves

Where the rules come from.

Every calculation on this site descends from these treatises. They are here in full — Sanskrit, verse by verse, chapter by chapter, exactly as the tradition wrote them. Open one and read it plainly, or turn on the illuminated edition for translation and commentary alongside.

Bṛhat JātakaThe foundation of natal astrology — the treatise every later jātaka text answers to.Varāhamihira · 6th c. · 28 chapters · Sanskrit (IAST)Read →Bṛhat SaṃhitāThe great compendium: omens, the seasons, muhūrta, architecture, and the sky over a kingdom.Varāhamihira · 6th c. · 100 chapters · Sanskrit (IAST)Read →Sūrya SiddhāntaThe astronomy underneath the astrology — the planetary mathematics this product still computes from.anonymous · classical · 14 chapters · Sanskrit (IAST)Read →YogayātrāThe astrology of setting out: campaigns, undertakings, and the moment chosen for them.Varāhamihira · 6th c. · 16 chapters · Sanskrit (IAST)Read →TikanikayātrāThe short yātrā treatise — a compact reading of departure and its omens.Varāhamihira · 6th c. · 9 chapters · Sanskrit (IAST)Read →VivāhapaṭalaMarriage muhūrta: how the tradition elects the hour for a wedding.Varāhamihira · 6th c. · 1 chapter · Sanskrit (IAST)Read →Vedāṅga JyotiṣaThe oldest surviving Indian text on time-reckoning — where the whole discipline begins.Lagadha · pre-classical · 1 chapter · Sanskrit (IAST)Read →

Commentary · read by a scholar

And how one reader worked through them.

A treatise states the rule; a commentary shows someone thinking it through. These are named scholars, dated and attributed — their reading of the text, not the text itself.

Bṛhat Jātaka — translation & notesThe classic English rendering of the natal foundation, with the translator arguing his readings as he goes.N. Chidambaram Iyer · 1885 · 14 chapters · EnglishRead →Bṛhajjātakam — a second readingThe same verses read again, a generation later. Where two translators differ, you can watch the tradition think.B. D. Basu (ed.) · 1912 · 15 chapters · EnglishRead →Sūrya Siddhānta — translation & notesThe nineteenth-century translation that made the siddhānta legible to modern readers — verse by verse, with the working shown.Rev. Ebenezer Burgess · 1858 · 13 chapters · EnglishRead →The ĀryabhaṭīyaThe standard scholarly translation of the work underneath Indian astronomical method.Walter Eugene Clark · 1930 · 4 chapters · EnglishRead →The Hindu Book of AstrologyA practitioner's handbook — the tradition explained plainly to a general reader.Bhakti Seva · 1902 · 1 chapters · EnglishRead →Notes on Indian AstronomyShort scholarly notes on how the Indian astronomical tradition actually worked.Dhirendranath Mukerjee · 1921 · 1 chapters · EnglishRead →

Public-domain editions only — the classical Sanskrit works from the GRETIL scholarly archive, and pre-1931 translations from the Internet Archive. Modern translations and commentaries remain in copyright and are deliberately not reproduced here.

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