What Is Astrology

What is Astrology

Here I, Describe u about   the  Astrology  



It is the study of the movements and relative positions of celestial bodies interpreted as having an influence on human affairs and the natural world.

Vedanga Jyotisha is one of the earliest texts about Jyotisha field within the six Vedangas,

 it is about astronomy and time keeping for Vedic rituals, and has nothing to do with prophecy or astrology.

Historical evidence suggests that astrology arrived in the Indian subcontinent from Greece, 

after the arrival of Alexander the Great, and it post-dates the Vedic period. 

The zodiac signs for the Greek astrology and Hindu astrology are almost identical.

Jyotiṣa is one of the Vedāṅga, the six auxiliary disciplines used to support Vedic rituals.

 Early jyotiṣa is concerned with the preparation of a calendar to fix the date of Vedicyajnas (sacrifice rituals).

 Nothing is written on planets.

It was only after the transmission of Hellenistic astrology that the order of planets in India was fixed in that of the seven-day week.

 Hellenistic astrology and astronomy also transmitted the twelve zodiacal signs beginning with Aries and the twelve astrological places beginning with the ascendant.

The first evidence of the introduction of Greek astrology to India is the Yavanajātaka which dates to the early centuries CE.

 The Yavanajātaka ("Sayings of the Greeks") was translated from Greek to Sanskrit by Yavaneśvara during the 2nd century CE, under the patronage of the Western Satrap Saka king Rudradaman I, 

and is considered the first Indian astrological treatise in the Sanskrit language.

 However the only version that survives is the later verse version of Sphujidhvaja which dates to AD 270.

The foundation of Hindu astrology relies primarily on the sidereal zodiac, 

which is different from the tropical zodiac used in Western (Hellenistic) astrology in that an ayanāṁśaadjustment is made for the gradual precession of the vernal equinox.

 Hindu astrology includes several nuanced sub-systems of interpretation and prediction with elements not found in Hellenistic astrology,

 such as its system of lunar mansions (Nakṣatra).

According to Michio Yano, Indian astronomers must have been occupied with the task of Indianizing and Sanskritizing Greek astronomy during the 300 or so years between the first Yavanajataka and the Āryabhaṭīya.

 The astronomical texts of these 300 years are lost.

 The later Pañcasiddhāntikā of Varāhamihira summarizes the five known Indian astronomical schools of the sixth century.

 It is interesting to note that Indian astronomy preserved some of the older pre-Ptolemaic elements of Greek astronomy.