Sripati Paddhati

Sripati Paddhati Edited with Sanskrit Text and English commentary by V Surahmanya Sastri is a monumental work. The extensive notes with necessary explanatory tables are very much the core of the book.

Jatakakarma Paddati came to treated as a separate branch of Astrological study and extensive commentaries were later developed based on Sripati paddhati.

This Crisp work expounds the Fundamentals at arriving a good Horoscope and the Method to working out the horoscopes being equipped for the task.

The Author Sripati Expounds the thorough study of the existing authoritatve works on Astrology and the basis for arriving at a good horoscope. Starting with the calculation for the correct birth time, The correct placement of Planets in the horoscope, The Bhavas, The aspects of Planets, The dasas, and other relevant details necessary for the Horoscopes are extracted. The Calculational aspects of all horoscopic details arevery well explained.

The book contains valuable and precise methods to analyse a Horoscope. Sripati Paddati has been considered as the core fundamental for the astrological calculations and the concepts are presented with notes and tables in a detailed manner.

To enhance the facility of study and reference, the notes on each sloka is given after the translation of the verse itself. The explanations have been made fuller and comprehensive.

The Present edition should enable the learner to comprehend fully the Jatakakarma paddati and arive at a good horoscope.

An Essential book for every one who wishes to learn astrology in a systematic manner.

The encouraging reception of the last edition is responsible for this revised edition of the Sripatipaddhati. Sripati appears to have lived in the first half of the eleventh century A. D. He was a Brahmin descended from the sage Kasyapa: his grand-father was Nagadeva. Sripati was a reputed mathematician, an astronomer whose opinions wete said to have been held in great respect even by Bhaslara, and author of about nine treatises including 2iadiq (Sripatiya), a commentary on Brihatjataka, and (Sripatipaddhati), the present work.

(Jatakakarmapaddhat:) came to be treated as a separate branch of study about the middle of the eighth century A. D. and amongst the writers on this subject of mathematical astrology, (Sripatibhatta) was one of the earliest, lis predecessors being 2 fat (Sridhara) and (Neelakanta). Sripati has had no successor for four centuries till a7 (Kesava) by his expositions established a unique place for himself in this field. Further, commentaries on Sripatipaddhati itself are a large number.

In the present edition, for the sake of convenience and facility of study and reference, the note on each sloka is given after the translation of the verse itself, instead of being given separately at the end as in the previous edition the explanations have been fuller and more comprehensive. The slokas of (Kesavapaddhati), a remarkable and highlydfetued work on the subject, have been quoted in their entirety in their appropriate places, it being considered that Kesava’s views and exposition of (Jatakapaddhati) would enhance the value and usefulness of this work. Additional explanations have been added to illustrate the text.

My esteemed friend, Mr. Robert De Luce of Los Angeles, America, himself a well-known scholar and author of several works on Astrology, has kindly furnished me with a short sum- mary of these chapters which I have the greatest pleasure in inserting asan Appendix. The reader will agree that the resumé is simple, clear and terse and helpful to beginners.

If the present edition should enable the ordinary reader correctly to appraise the combined strength of the planets for any particular point of time, I should consider myself amply rewarded.