Jyotish

This is a well-researched, well-written book on Jyotish.

Great book with great length of detail. A must read for Ayurvedic practitioners.

I feel the responsibility here to give a dissenting opinion. The organization of the book mystified me. The planets are ordered oddly, but it's not too inconvenient. The Lunar Mansions, however, are ordered by planetary ruler, which makes navigation difficult. There are also numerous editorial errors. The Sanskrit for Jupiter and Saturn are correct on the front of the book, but swapped inside. The Sanskrit for Mars isn't wrong, but it's not the title chapter (Mangala, instead of Kuja). Perhaps I seem nitpicky here, but combined with numerous spelling errors and its patronizing tone, I felt somewhat insulted by this book.The patronizing tone. I couldn't figure out whether or not this book was written for beginners or experts. In the beginning, the book describes the procession of the equinox as "a bit technical...contradictory and complex" which indeed it may be to a beginner. But the slopshod organization of the book requires a firm grasp on basic astrological concepts, which I would think are slightly beyond the beginner. The book gives a lot of information that looks awfully familiar to the western astrologer (the signs all have the same meaning, houses are quite similar, planets are no different) but it skimps on information that is specifically Vedic. The section on dashas really left me hanging "calculation of dashas...of academic interest only...modern astrological software already caters to a large assortment of dasha systems..." I guess the book's not meant for the academically minded.The book gets three stars instead of two because it has a bibliography (It left my hanging by a thread, but at least I have a thread!) I appreciate the section on retrograde planets, a topic which often gets no attention at all, or very little. And aside from the organization, I felt that the section on Lunar Mansions was well done. Overall, it provides a slightly different perspective from the typical Western outlook (about 20 degrees different ;-) but don't expect any juicy details. It's an outline only. It gives the big picture, somewhat hastily, and the curious student will have to fill in most of the details on their own (as usual). I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone who already has a firm understanding of Western Astrology. The two are just too similar (fundamentally). However, I can't recommend a better book at the moment, because this is the only book on Jyotish I've read. Perhaps the only one I ever will read. I'm the type to quickly tire of baseless arrogance, and from what I can tell, most Jyotishi suffer from the "our way is better" syndrome. This book indulges that view to some extent (not unbearably so). Whatever. To each their own.

There's many books around on Jyotish , most of them are confusing and the authors don't really explain it very well , this book is one of the exceptions , it's beautifully written , very user friendly , the illustrations are incredible , but most of all it's easy to grasp and read and you can tell the author really loves his subject and his book shows this....a must have book if your interested or fluid in Jyotish 👍👍👍

Really good, clear intro to vedic astrology for a complete beginner. Book arrived neatly packaged, excellent condition.

It is good book.

A very precise book on Jyotish with some in-depth explanations of the technical subjects like Ayanamsha and retrogradation etc.