Tithi Pravesh 10

Tithi Pravesh-10

Tithi Pravesha

Tithi Pravesh-1 Appeared in Jyotish Digest May 2002 (Rao & Rath) Annual oros!opy The Tajika System of annual horoscopy employs a chart cast for every year of life based on the solar return (i.e. suns return to its natal sidereal position). Many scholars of history and Vedic Studies have held a view that this system is primarily not Vedic strolo!y and mi!ht be a borrowed feature from "avanas or Tajikas# who interacted with $ndian scholars. %otwithstandin! the peculiar yo!as like

I÷÷asla,

Easarpha etc nor

divisional

charts

like Aÿ÷msa (&') etc# which are not a part of arasaras available teachin!s# outstandin! scholars like %eelakantha and &r. *aman set a precedent by

acceptin! the Tajaka system as a branch of Vedic astrolo!y. +owever# the solar calendar has been widely followed in $ndia only since Varahamihira started Vikrama Saka. $ndia had been followin! the Vedic luni'solar calendar for millennia. ,hen Maharshis like Valmiki and Vyasa mentioned the timin! of events in epics like *amayana and Mahabharata# they identified events only by the tithis. $t maybe interestin! to note that traditional +indus celebrate their birth days (called -ayanti or -anma tithi) on the Vedic date (Tithi) of the luni'solar calendar instead of the date of Suns return.

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festivals

(ecept

for

Sankrantis)

commemoratin! the birthdays of deities# /urus etc are also based on the luni'solar calendar of Tithi. 0or eample# +indus celebrate 1ord *amas birthday on the Sukla %avami Tithi of 2haitra month every year and 1ord 3rishnas birthday on the 3rishna shtami Tithi of Sravana month. $f birthday as per the luni' solar calendar is more important than birthday as per the solar calendar# why do we cast a chart for Varsha pravesha (commencement of a new year) based on birthday as per the solar calendar4 &oes it not make sense to cast a chart for the commencement of a new

year based on birthday as per the luni'solar calendar of tithis4 $n fact# not only does it make sense# but the techni5ue of annual horoscopy usin! the luni'solar calendar is one of the most reliable techni5ues  and hence a !uarded secret  tau!ht by tradition for fine predictions. Tithi Tithi is the Vedic date of the luni'solar calendar and is a measure of the an!ular displacement of Moon from Sun. $t is known that the period between two consecutive full moons (i.e. eact 67 7 displacement of the Moon from the Sun) is about 89.: civil days. The total movement of ;