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Indian Astrology and Computer Age

Indian Astrology, also known as Jyotish, is an ancient system of astrology that originated from the Vedic scriptures dating back over 10,000 years. It involves complex calculations to determine planetary positions and influences. While earlier these calculations were done by hand, now astrology software has made the calculations much faster and easier. However, software is still limited for predictive analysis, which requires human intuition and experience. Technology continues to advance the field by automating calculations while not replacing the human element of prediction.

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Indian Astrology and Computer Age

Indian Astrology, also known as Jyotish, is an ancient system of astrology that originated from the Vedic scriptures dating back over 10,000 years. It involves complex calculations to determine planetary positions and influences. While earlier these calculations were done by hand, now astrology software has made the calculations much faster and easier. However, software is still limited for predictive analysis, which requires human intuition and experience. Technology continues to advance the field by automating calculations while not replacing the human element of prediction.

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Indian Astrology and its advent to a computer age.

Indian Astrology, called the Jyotish, is universal and timeless. Jyotisha is one of
the most time-tested and oldest systems of astrology in the world. In Western
countries, it is called Vedic astrology, which refers to Indian or Hindu astrology.

Indian Astrology originated from Vedic Scriptures, dating back at least ten to
twenty thousand years. The Vedas the oldest books of the world library. They
are the world’s most ancient scriptures and the most vast, complete system of
knowledge known to man. Thus, Indian Astrology is the science of
understanding the subtle influences that come to us from the greater universe.

The most popularly followed astrological classics today are the ones written by
Rishis like Parashara, Varahamihira, Garga, Jaimini and their followers. People in
those days had no satellites or telescopes and yet the planetary positions and
their motions recorded by them are as accurate as the planetary positions and
degrees recorded today using the space satellites. Our ancient astrologers used
their divine intuition to record these planetary movements and their effects on
us.

Astrology has undergone several changes with the time. Earlier everything was
calculated through hands and even calculators were not there. It was very
difficult to calculate. This however created problems with precion as well. For
example panchangas were published by several publications and even today
each panchanga has different calculation for different planets. This also lead to
severeal controveries including the famous controvery related to Ayamansha.

Further there were problems with calulations as well. For instance one needs to
have atleast six to seven hours to calculate Shadbala. This requires a lot of skill
and only the finest few could be able to calculate the same in that length of
time. For an ordinary astrologer it make take days to complete the same.

And this is not all, Indian astrology is full of all such calulations which required
high skills and extreme length of time.

With modern times, time became more precious and time for some became
equivalent to money. Today people who consult astrologers need everything
within minutes. They do not have time for such lenghty calculations. This thing
gave impetus to the world of astrology softwares. Today astrology softwares
occupy a big chunck of the market with many western and Indian companies in
the race. It has also given sway to the financial astrology softwares which
analyze market from several angels. Researches are going on in the field of
medical astrology software, financial astrology software and facial metrics
analysis through Shareer Lakshan Siddhant.
Following is the screen from one of the softwares:

This is the basic screen with Navmasnha, dasha and planetary positions.
Following screen shows you a compound calculations of transits, Tatwa,
Kakshas, Vedhsthana and dasha time.

If you are an astrologer you will already be aware that you require a good
length of time to calculate these things. And if you are holding a falulty
panchanga you may very well lend up into big troubles of faulty calculations.

These softwares are based on highly precise Swiss panchanga and their
calculations are detailed and extensive. You can calcuate planetary positions
even in milliseconds.

Some of these calculations are literally impossible if they are calculated by


hand. For instance following charts depict a complex matrix of aspects in
percentage.
This may take day of calculated through hands. While on your laptop or
computer it may just be a matter of clicks.

While one can easily make out the benefits of these astrology softwares, there
are areas where softwares will fail miserably. This area is the area of
predictions. Being a software engineer and astrologer I am very well aware of
the limits of astrology softwares.

Despite of hiring the best teams in the world one cannot device a software that
will predict future. A human mind is more complex and more affirmative then a
super computer. While it may not calculate as fast as a computer it may very
well do things which a computer cannot do. For example only an human eye can
watch and calulate gender, age and economical and social background of a
person. The amount of data required to calculate these areas is three time then
the population of the whole world. This limits the predictive analysis of
computers. A wise astrologer should never depend on computer for his
predicitons. One has to learn it and it can only be achived through experience.

People who approach astrologers for predicitions should know that astrologer
should use computers only for technical calculations of the horoscope. It should
never be employed for predictive analysis.
But this does not undermines the impact of technology in this sacred field of
astrology. Today you do not need those heavy panchangas and booklets to
calculate a horoscope. You can keep a palm pocket pc or Palm phone in your
pocket and can easlily calculate horoscope anywhere.

Te c h n ol g y h a s m a d e t h e s e c a l c ul a ti o ns s o e as y t h a t e ve n a c hi l d c ou l d d o
t h i s wi t h a s i m pl e c l i c k o f m o us e b u t t o n or wi t h t h e h el p o f a t o u c h p a d .

W i t h t h e c o m i n g ti m e s t ec h n o l o g y wi l l be s o a d va n c e t h a t a s i m p l e
w e bc a m wi l l r ea d yo u r f a c e a n d d e t ec t i t a n d w i l l p r ov i d e yo u a l l
c al c u l a t i o n s w i t h o u t e ve n l i f ti n g yo u r fi n g er s . Yo u w i l l j u s t e n t e r a
a s t r ol o g e r ’s o f f i c e a n d yo u wi l l g e t a c o m pl e t e d h or o s c o p e wi t h i n s e c o n d s .
O r w h o k n o ws t h er e wi l l b e a s t r ol og y c a f e t er i a s i n p u bl i c pl ac es . W h i l e yo u
wi l l b e s i p pi n g yo u f avo u r i t e f l avo u r s o f c o f f e e a b e hi n d t h e s c e ne
c o m p u t e r wi l l b e p r i n ti n g yo u ho r os c o p es wi t h m a x s p ee d .

A l o k J a g a wa t
Jyot ish Visharad, Jyotish Martand
PGA(Gemologist) Bangkok.
4 / 2 9 8 - M a v l i ya N a g a r, J a i p u r. R a j a s t h a n .
E m a i l . p d p @ g e m s -a s t r o l o g y. c o m
Te l : 2 5 2 1 2 2 5

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