These are the works read for the calculations and meanings on this site. Where traditions disagree, or where no classical source has been found, the page that uses the rule says so. The methodology page explains how the panchang and dasha rules are applied.
Quotations are read from scans of the printed pages, and page numbers are the printed ones.
Classical texts
Muhūrta-cintāmaṇi
Rāma Daivajña (1600 CE), with the Pīyūṣadhārā commentary of Govinda Daivajña (1603). 1945 printing; the 1925 printing has the same page numbers.
- 1.4–1.29, pp. 12–22: the yogas of weekday, tithi and nakshatra, good and bad
- 1.27, p. 22: Ravi yoga
- 1.30, p. 23: the yogas formed by weekday and nakshatra, such as Utpāta
- 1.34–1.35, p. 28: mahāpāta, Vyatīpāta and Vaidhṛti
- 1.34, commentary, p. 30: mahāpāta as the equality of the Sun’s and Moon’s declinations
- 1.37, p. 32: the North Indian kulika and yamaghaṇṭa muhurtas
- 1.40, pp. 33–34: Holāṣṭaka, the eight days before Holikā, barred for marriage only on the Beas, Ravi and Sutlej and at Pushkar
- 1.41–1.42, pp. 34–35: good yogas lift the bad weekday, tithi and nakshatra yogas, but not Bhadrā, Vyatīpāta or Vaidhṛti
- 1.43–1.45, pp. 35–38: Bhadrā, its face, tail and residence
- 1.46–1.48, pp. 38–42: the acts barred in an adhika month or while Jupiter or Venus is set, and Jupiter in Leo or Capricorn
- 1.55, p. 49: the order of the hora lords
- 2.1, p. 52: the deities of the nakshatras
- 2.2–2.8, pp. 54–56: the classes of the nakshatras
- 2.16–2.18, pp. 62–64: the stars for buying and selling, whose muhūrta counts, and the days for buying and riding a vehicle (the Vyavahāroccaya, quoted in the commentary on 2.18)
- 2.48, with commentary, pp. 84–86: the pañcaka, with the Moon in Aquarius or Pisces, from the second half of Dhaniṣṭhā through Revatī: no cremation, travel to the south, weaving a cot, roofing a house, or gathering grass and wood (with Vasiṣṭha, Nārada, Śrīpati and Trivikrama, p. 85); a death in it is faulted, with the Brahma-purāṇa’s five kuśa figures for its cremation (p. 85); not counted from Śravaṇa, the Garuḍa’s effigy rite, and which remedy applies (p. 86)
- 3.6, commentary, p. 125: pradoṣa defined, quoting the Skanda Purāṇa
- ch. 4 (gocara-prakaraṇa), vv. 1–5, 17 and 19, pp. 140–144 and 156–158: the good houses and vedha, with reverse vedha and timing; Ketu counted as Rāhu (p. 142); Nārada and Kaśyapa quoted (p. 144)
- 4.18, with commentary, p. 157: the gifts that remedy a bad element of the day: gold for a bad yoga, a conch for the Moon, grain for the karaṇa, rice for the tithi, a gem for the weekday, a cow for the sign, gold for the ghaṭikā, and rock salt for the bad tārās (the 3rd, 5th and 7th)
- 5.17–5.18, pp. 178–181: annaprāśana, the first feeding with rice
- 5.26, pp. 186–187: no tonsure in dakṣiṇāyana, or while Jupiter or Venus is set, “infant” or “old”
- 5.27–5.28, p. 188 (1925 printing): the days Venus and Jupiter stay “infant” after rising and “old” before setting, and the 10-, 7- and 3-day counts others allow
- 5.29–5.33, with commentary, pp. 189–193 (p. 189 in the 1925 printing): the tonsure (mundan): its age, with Vasiṣṭha’s 3rd or 5th year by family custom or the 7th, and its tithis, stars and lagnas, with Vasiṣṭha, Parāśara and Kaśyapa
- 5.37, p. 197: akṣarārambha, a child’s first letters
- 5.38, pp. 197–198: beginning a course of study
- 6.12, with commentary, pp. 232–234: Jupiter’s strength for the bride, the Sun’s for the groom and the Moon’s for both; the commentary’s grades for Jupiter (p. 233) and Vyāsa waiving the bride’s Jupiter after the age of ten (p. 234)
- 6.13, commentary, p. 235: Garga’s bar on marriage with the Sun in Pisces, Sagittarius or Leo
- 6.14, p. 236: no marriage in a first-born’s birth month, star or tithi; for a partner who is not first-born they are favourable
- 6.15, with commentary, pp. 236–237: the three jyeṣṭhas (an eldest son, an eldest daughter and the month of Jyeṣṭha): all three never, two of them middling; with Garga in the commentary, an eldest son and an eldest daughter are not to marry each other
- 6.21–6.36, pp. 245–261: the eight kootas of marriage matching and their cancellations
- 6.40, with commentary, pp. 264–265: the lagna’s six vargas, good when benefics rule more than three and bad when fewer, with Vasiṣṭha’s list of the six
- 6.41, pp. 265–266: gaṇḍānta of nakshatra, lagna and tithi
- 6.42, pp. 268–270: kartarī, malefics in the 12th and 2nd closing in the lagna like scissors
- 6.44–6.45, pp. 271–272: not the 8th sign from either partner’s birth lagna or Moon sign, and the six 8th signs that cause no fault
- 6.50–6.52, pp. 274–275: the fifteen muhurtas of the day and night, Abhijit and durmuhurta
- 6.53, pp. 275–276: the marriage nakṣatras, tithis and weekdays
- 6.54, p. 276: vedha of the marriage nakshatra
- 6.59, pp. 280–282: mahāpāta in marriage, the Sun’s and Moon’s declinations equal
- 6.65–6.90, pp. 285–302: the marriage lagna: jāmitra and its cancellations (6.65–6.66, pp. 285–286); the doṣas by region and the daśayoga (6.67–6.69, p. 287); the bāṇa doṣa (6.70–6.72, pp. 288–289); the purity of the lagna and the 7th (6.73–6.76, pp. 290–292); blind, deaf and lame lagnas (6.79–6.81, pp. 293–294); the navāṃśa (6.82–6.83, pp. 294–295); the planets’ places (6.84–6.85, pp. 296–297); the cancellations (6.86–6.89, pp. 298–301); and the viṃśopaka points (6.90, pp. 301–302). Pp. 286–288 and 296–297 follow the 1925 printing
- 6.78, p. 293: the ghaṭikās around each planet’s change of sign
- 6.97–6.99, pp. 305–307: godhūli and its exceptions
- 11.9, with commentary, pp. 333–334 (1925 printing): the stars and tithis for travel, and the disha shool verses of Nārada and Vasiṣṭha
- 11.31, pp. 348–349 (1925 printing): Yoginī
- 11.33, with commentary, p. 353 (1925 printing): the seven nakṣatras of each quarter, from Kṛttikā in the east, which give a house door its stars
- 11.36, p. 359: the course of the Sun and Moon and the direction of travel
- ch. 13, pp. 437–446: entering a new house: the months, stars, tithis, door direction and pot chakra
Muhūrta-cintāmaṇi, with a Hindi commentary
Rāma Daivajña. Khemraj Shrikrishnadas (Venkateshwar Press), 1949.
- Its printed point tables for the kootas, checked against the 1945 printing
Muhūrta-mārtaṇḍa
Nārāyaṇa Daivajña (1571), with the Mārtaṇḍa-vallabhā commentary and a Marathi translation by V. B. Shastri. 1909 printing.
- v. 1, pp. 41–42: a matching total above 18 of 36 is auspicious
- travel section, v. 4, p. 139: the span of Abhijit nakshatra
- vv. 8–9, pp. 47–49: exceptions for gaṇa
- v. 54, p. 104: when the name star replaces the birth star
- vv. 54–55, pp. 104–106: finding the nakshatra from the first syllable of a name
Nirṇaya-sindhu
Kamalākara Bhaṭṭa (1612), with the Hindi commentary of Jvālāprasāda Miśra. 1898 printing.
- pp. 4–11: the saṅkrānti puṇyakāla of each ingress, its gifts, fast and śrāddha, and the bar on auspicious acts near it
- p. 22: the Godāvarī bath with Jupiter in Leo ("सर्वतीर्थफलं स्नानाद्गौतम्यां सिंहगे गुरौ"); from the Brāhma, tonsure and fasting at the Godāvarī for its pilgrims, not for those who live on its banks, and at the Kṛṣṇā with Jupiter in Virgo; and the acts barred while Jupiter is in Leo, with Lalla
- p. 24: the Vāyavīya, through the Tristhalīsetu: no fault from the setting of Jupiter or Venus for the Godāvarī, Gayā, Śrīśaila or the two eclipses
- p. 28: madhyāhna as the third fifth of the day
- pp. 29–30: pradoṣa and the nakta vow
- p. 33: the bad yogas Vyatīpāta and Vaidhṛti
- p. 47: Saṅkaṣṭa Caturthī, taken by moonrise
- pp. 47 and 198: Gaṇeśa Caturthī, the midday test and the ban on seeing the moon
- p. 48: the Ṣaṣṭhī joined with the Pañcamī for the Skanda fast, after Mādhava
- pariccheda 1, pp. 49–63: Ekādaśī, the Smārta and Vaiṣṇava tests (sunrise and dawn) and how the fast day is chosen
- p. 51: Śayanī and Bodhinī, which the commentary calls Devaśayanī and Devotthāna
- pp. 70–71: breaking the Ekādaśī fast (pāraṇa)
- p. 72: the Pradoṣa vrata
- p. 73: Pūrṇimā and Amāvasyā for fasts (the later day, except for the Sāvitrī vrata), Amāvasyā on a Monday (Somavatī) or Tuesday (Bhauma), and Caturthī on a Tuesday (Śātātapa)
- pp. 81–87: the time for the Amāvasyā śrāddha
- p. 89: the vedha, three praharas before a lunar eclipse and four before a solar one, with Vṛddha-Gautama; a Moon rising eclipsed; and Vyāsa on an eclipse that sets
- p. 90: the shorter vedha for children, the old and the sick, one prahara
- p. 92: the order of the eclipse rites, from the Brahma-vaivarta, and householders with sons
- p. 95: the eclipse’s rites in birth or death impurity, pure for them until the release is seen (Vṛddha-Vasiṣṭha); the śrāddha with raw food or gold (Śātātapa)
- p. 98: the star in which Rāhu seizes the Sun or Moon, and the three birth stars, the birth star and those either side
- pp. 103–106: “seeing” an eclipse means seeing it with the eye (the Kalpataru, Jābāli), and when clouds hide it, the computed contacts stand (the Gauḍa-nibandha)
- p. 113: the Caitra Navarātri and its kalaśa-sthāpana
- p. 114: the Gaurī-tṛtīyā of Caitra (popularly Gangaur): Gaurī worshipped with Śiva, with damanaka, and the swing festival, quoting the Devī-purāṇa
- pp. 116–117: the Buddha avatāra’s day in three readings, settled by the difference of kalpas
- pp. 118–120: Rāma-navamī, the midday rule and the Smārta and Vaiṣṇava days, and the Caitra Aṣṭamī (p. 118)
- pp. 134–135: Akṣaya Tṛtīyā, the forenoon rule, and its standing as a yugādi
- pp. 143–146: Gaṅgā-daśaharā, its ten yogas, the day with the most of them, and its rites
- pp. 146–148: the Vaṭa-sāvitrī vow on the Jyeṣṭha Pūrṇimā or Amāvasyā, the Caturdaśī-joined day, and its rites
- p. 149: the Rath Yātrā on the Āṣāḍha śukla Dvitīyā with Puṣya, quoting the Skanda in the Tithi-tattva
- p. 160: the Vyāsa-pūjā on the Āṣāḍha Pūrṇimā (Guru Purnima)
- p. 161: the Karka saṅkrānti at night
- p. 164: Nāga-pañcamī, the Ṣaṣṭhī-joined day, and the serpent worship
- p. 180: Rakṣā Bandhan in the afternoon, never in Bhadrā
- p. 183: the Śītalā vow on the dark Saptamī of Bhādrapada (pūrṇimānta), the earlier day by Hemādri
- pp. 183–192: Janmāṣṭamī and Jayantī, the midnight test, and the two fasts of a split year (p. 192)
- p. 197: the three women’s Tṛtīyās, each joined with the Caturthī: the Madhuśrāvaṇikā (Hariyālī Tīj), the Kajjalī and the Haritālikā (Hartālikā Tīj)
- pp. 210–211: Ananta-caturdaśī, the two sunrise views and NS’s own midday rule
- pp. 215–239: the Mahālaya chapter (the fortnight, the death tithi and its special days)
- pp. 240–241: Navarātri and the kalaśa-sthāpana
- pp. 262–265: Durgāṣṭamī, and Mahānavamī under Mūla
- pp. 272–273: Mahānavamī
- pp. 283–284: Vijayādaśamī, the afternoon and Śravaṇa rule
- p. 293: Karaka-caturthī (Karwa Chauth), by moonrise
- p. 294: the Yama-dīpa on Dhana-trayodaśī (Dhanteras)
- pp. 295–298: Naraka-caturdaśī
- pp. 299–300: Dīpāvalī and Lakṣmī-pūjā at pradoṣa
- pp. 300–304: Bali-pratipadā and Govardhana-pūjā
- pp. 304–306: Yama-dvitīyā (Bhai Dooj)
- p. 306: Tulsī-vivāha, the worship for three days from the Navamī
- p. 308: the waking of Viṣṇu, by regional custom
- pp. 311–312: the Kārtika Pūrṇimā and the Tripurotsava lamps at dusk (Dev Diwali)
- pp. 312–313: Kālāṣṭamī (Kaal Bhairav Jayanti), the midday fast and the night vigil
- p. 315: Dattātreya Jayantī, the Pūrṇimā at pradoṣa
- p. 324: silence during the Māgha bath
- pp. 326–327: Makara Saṅkrānti at night, the southern usage and the both-days usage of Baudhāyana
- p. 329: Śrī-pañcamī (Vasanta Pañcamī), the Tila-caturthī and the name Ratha-saptamī
- pp. 330–332: Ratha-saptamī, the bath at aruṇodaya, its rites and gifts
- pp. 332–333: Bhīṣmāṣṭamī and the tarpaṇa to Bhīṣma
- pp. 334–337: Mahāśivarātri, the pradoṣa and niśītha tests
- p. 340: the monthly Śivarātri
- p. 341: Māgha Amāvasyā as a yugādi day
- pp. 342–344: Holikā at pradoṣa, avoiding Bhadrā
- p. 345: the spring festival (Vasantotsava) on the dark Pratipadā after Holī
- p. 451: Śaunaka and the Jyotiḥsāgara on the acts barred while Jupiter is in Leo
- p. 452: Jupiter in aticāra ("लुप्तः संवत्सरो ज्ञेयः"), and the regional exceptions to the Siṃhastha bar, with Parāśara and Vasiṣṭha
- pp. 717–720: which civil day carries each tithi for the death-day śrāddha
- p. 943: the Dhaniṣṭhā-pañcaka from the Garuḍa, through the Madanaratna: from the half of Dhaniṣṭhā to Revatī, inauspicious for cremation; its four kuśa effigies, and the sons’ later śānti
- p. 944: the Brāhma on a death in the Dhaniṣṭhā-pañcaka, with its five kuśa figures burnt with the body; and Aparārka’s five gems
Vīramitrodaya: Samaya-prakāśa
Mitra Miśra (c. 1610–1620). 1935 edition.
- p. 38: Saṅkaṣṭa Caturthī by moonrise
- p. 129: pradoṣa as the three muhūrtas after sunset
Dharmasindhu
Kāśīnātha Upādhyāya (1790), edited by Kṛṣṇa Śāstrī Navare. First edition, Nirṇaya-sāgara Press, Bombay, 1888.
- pp. 2–3: the classes and puṇyakāla windows of the saṅkrāntis, their gifts, fast and śrāddha, and the rules near sunrise, sunset and midnight
- pp. 4–5: the acts barred in an adhika month and while Jupiter or Venus is set
- p. 9: the Caturthī and Pañcamī rules for any rite
- p. 10: Bhairava-jayantī, and the Kālāṣṭamī fast that some keep on every dark Aṣṭamī
- p. 19: breaking the Ekādaśī fast (pāraṇa)
- p. 20: the Pūrṇimā and Amāvasyā, the earlier day kept as family custom (kula-dharma), and the ascetic’s shave
- p. 26: an eclipse’s holy time lasts while it is fit to be seen with the eye, and an eclipse below the horizon has none; clouds do not cancel it; the order of bath, homa, worship, śrāddha, gifts and the final bath; sūtaka for all while it is seen, ended by that bath; no fast for householders with sons
- p. 28: the vedha, four praharas before a solar eclipse and three before a lunar one, counted in whole praharas, with the shorter vedha for children, the old and the sick, the variant of four praharas for a total lunar eclipse, a Moon rising eclipsed, and Mādhava on householders when the Sun sets eclipsed; the acts avoided during an eclipse; the eclipse by birth sign, with Garga’s śānti or a bimba-dāna for the bad places
- p. 29: the bimba-dāna’s rite, the days barred after an eclipse, a vowed gift doubled if given after it, and “whose birth sign it falls in should not look”
- p. 31: the Caitra Navarātri, the new year (Gudi Padwa, Ugadi), the Meṣa saṅkrānti’s puṇyakāla, ten nāḍīs either side of the ingress, and the worship of the young moon at nightfall on the Caitra śukla Dvitīyā
- pp. 31–32: the month-long Gaurī-vrata of Caitra, Gaurī and Śiva worshipped with damanaka on the Dvitīyā, and the swing vow from the śukla Tṛtīyā (popularly Gangaur)
- p. 32: the afternoon as the fourth fifth of the day, and the avatāras’ birth days, with the Buddha on Āśvina śukla Daśamī
- pp. 33–34: Rāma-navamī, and the end of the Caitra Navarātri
- pp. 36–37: Akṣaya Tṛtīyā and Paraśurāma Jayantī
- pp. 38–39: Gaṅgā-daśaharā, its ten yogas, the forenoon rule and the mantras
- p. 41: the Karka saṅkrānti at night, and the Vaṭa-sāvitrī vow
- pp. 43–44: the Vyāsa-pūjā (Guru Purnima)
- p. 44: the Monday vow of Śrāvaṇa (Sawan Somwar), Gaurī on its Tuesdays, and the limits for Nāga-pañcamī
- p. 49: Rakṣā Bandhan
- pp. 50–51: Janmāṣṭamī
- p. 55: the Sūrya-ṣaṣṭhī of Bhādrapada, Hartālikā and Ṛṣi-pañcamī
- p. 56: on Bhādrapada śukla Aṣṭamī, the Dūrvāṣṭamī and a Jyeṣṭhā-devī pūjā; the Śravaṇa-dvādaśī, fasted on the day the Dvādaśī meets Śravaṇa even briefly
- p. 58: Ananta-caturdaśī, the sunrise rule and the cord of fourteen knots
- p. 61: the Pitṛ-pakṣa days
- pp. 65–66: Navarātri ghaṭasthāpana
- p. 68: the worship of Sarasvatī in books, from Mūla to Śravaṇa
- p. 69: Durgāṣṭamī, the Sandhi-pūjā and Mahānavamī
- p. 71: Vijayādaśamī
- pp. 76–77: Karaka-caturthī (Karwa Chauth), the Yama-dīpa of Dhana-trayodaśī, and Naraka-caturdaśī
- p. 78: Bali-pratipadā and Govardhana-pūjā
- p. 79: Yama-dvitīyā (Bhai Dooj) in the afternoon, and the worship of Agni on a Kārttika śukla Ṣaṣṭhī that falls on a Tuesday
- pp. 81–82: Tulsī-vivāha and the waking of Viṣṇu
- p. 84: Kālāṣṭamī, Dattātreya Jayantī and the Tripura lamps
- pp. 85–86: Makara Saṅkrānti, its puṇyakāla, the bath and the sesame rites
- pp. 89–90: Vasanta Pañcamī, Ratha-saptamī, the Varada Caturthī and Bhīṣmāṣṭamī
- pp. 94–95: Holikā, and the face and tail of Bhadrā
- p. 95: the colour festival of the dark Dvitīyā, which ordinary people now keep up to the dark Pañcamī
- p. 135: annaprāśana
- p. 137: the tonsure (caula)
- p. 138: vidyārambha, a child’s first letters
- p. 181: the stars and months for marriage
- p. 182: for marriage, the good lagnas and navāṃśas, the twenty-one great doṣas with a footnote on each, and godhūli kept for an emergency
- p. 242: the months for entering a new house, and the pot chakra
Tājika-nīlakaṇṭhī
Nīlakaṇṭha Daivajña (1587), with the Hindi commentary of Pt. Sītārāma, revised by Gaṇeśadatta Pāṭhaka. Bhārgava Pustakālaya, Benares, Saṃvat 1994 (1937–38).
- Saṃjñā-tantra 1.2–14, pp. 2–6: the element of each sign, and the friendship of earth with water and of fire with air
Manusmṛti
With the Manvartha-muktāvalī commentary of Kullūka Bhaṭṭa. Nirṇaya-sāgara Press, Bombay, 1909.
- 4.92, p. 149: the brāhma muhūrta, read by Kullūka as the last yāma of the night and by Govindarāja as the last muhūrta
Ekādaśī-māhātmya, with a Hindi commentary
A compilation of Purāṇic chapters (Bhaviṣyottara, Brahmāṇḍa, Brahma, Varāha, Skanda and Brahma-vaivarta Purāṇas, as its colophons name them). Bābū Baijnāth Prasād, Banaras, 1934; printed at Śrī Viśveśvara Press, Kāśī.
- folios 1–155: the names of the 26 Ekādaśīs by month and fortnight
Vratarāja
Viśvanātha. Pothi edition, Khemraj Shrikrishnadas, Bombay, c. 1897.
- f. 38: Gaurī’s swing festival on the Caitra śukla Tṛtīyā (popularly Gangaur), a woman’s rite for good fortune with a night vigil
- ff. 43–45: Akṣaya Tṛtīyā, the forenoon rule, and why nothing given on it perishes, with Paraśurāma’s birth on f. 43
- f. 45: the Madhusravā, known in Gujarat, and the Svarṇa-gaurī vow on the Śrāvaṇa śukla Tṛtīyā
- ff. 48–52: the Hartālikā vow (f. 48), the Bhaviṣyottara story of Pārvatī with the sand liṅga and night vigil (f. 51), and its udyāpana (to f. 52)
- Caturthī section, ff. 81–82: Karaka-caturthī (Karvā Cauth), kept at nightfall, with the arghya after moonrise
- ff. 82–86: the Saṅkaṣṭa-hara Gaṇapati vow of the Māgha kṛṣṇa Caturthī (Sakat Chauth)
- f. 103: the Vasanta-pañcamī rite, citing Hemādri
- f. 108: the Skanda-ṣaṣṭhī vow under its Kārttika heading, from the Bhaviṣya: every Ṣaṣṭhī of both fortnights is Skanda’s, kept with fruit or a night meal
- f. 110: the Śītalā-saptamī of the Śrāvaṇa dark fortnight, at midday, with the Skānda’s image of Śītalā on an ass with broom, pot and winnow
- f. 115: the Ratha-saptamī vow of Māgha śukla Saptamī, whose dawn bath equals one at a solar eclipse; on the same folio, the Āśvina Sarasvatī-pūjā under Mūla
- f. 317 ff.: the Sanatkumāra-saṃhitā on Tripura and the lamps of the Kārtika Pūrṇimā, the source of the name Tripurotsava
- ff. 347–354: Monday vows: the fourteen-year Somavāra vow with worship at pradoṣa and its kathā from the Skanda (ff. 347–350), a single-meal Monday vow (f. 353), and an eight-Monday vow with a fast (f. 354)
Smṛti-tattva, part 1 (the Tithi-tattva and six other tattvas)
Raghunandana Bhaṭṭācārya, edited by Jīvānanda Vidyāsāgara. 2nd edition, Nārāyaṇa Press, Calcutta, 1895.
- Tithi-tattva, p. 29: the Rath Yātrā, quoting the Skanda
- Tithi-tattva, p. 34: the worship of Sarasvatī, with the inkpot and pen, in the forenoon of the Māgha śukla Pañcamī
- Tithi-tattva, pp. 73–92: the Bengal Durgā-pūjā, from the bodhana to the immersion
Kṛtyaratnākara
Caṇḍeśvara Ṭhakkura, edited by Kamala-kṛṣṇa Smṛtitīrtha. Asiatic Society of Bengal (Baptist Mission Press), Calcutta, 1925.
- p. 415: the Kārttika Ṣaṣṭhī fast, with an arghya to Kārttikeya
- pp. 447–448: a year-long vow of Sun worship on the dark Ṣaṣṭhī of each month, from the Bhaviṣya
Bṛhaj-jyotiḥsāra
Hindi commentary by Rangilal Pandit and Bhagirath Hariprasad Sharma. 1892.
- vv. 411–414, p. 150: the Vimshottari dasha
- vv. 576–582, p. 183: the varṇa and vaśya of the signs, for matching
- p. 187: the vaśya and tārā tables for matching
Kālaprakāśikā
Translated by N. P. Subramania Iyer. 1917.
- pp. 175–176: Rahu kalam, Yamaganda and Gulika kalam
- p. 176: the order of the hora lords
Sūrya-siddhānta
Translated by Ebenezer Burgess (1860). Reprint edited by Phanindralal Gangooly, Calcutta, 1935.
- 1.33: the Moon’s node given a fixed number of revolutions in an Age, moving in the contrary direction: the mean node (p. 17)
- 2.64–69, pp. 104–107: tithi, nakshatra, yoga and karana
- Burgess’s notes to chapter 8, pp. 211–230: the symbols and deities of the nakshatras
- 9.6–9.7: the distances from the Sun, in degrees of time, at which Jupiter (11) and Venus (8 or 10) set and rise
- ch. 11, vv. 1–2, 6–7, 12, 14–16 and 19: the pātas, and how long a mahāpāta lasts
- 11.21–11.22, pp. 279–280: bhasandhi and gaṇḍānta, avoided in all works
Bṛhat-Parāśara-horā-śāstra
With the Vimarśa-sudhā commentary of Devachandra Jhā. 1939.
- ch. 3, p. 10: benefics and malefics
- ch. 3, pp. 15–20: exaltation, mūlatrikoṇa, friendship and dignity strength
- ch. 5, pp. 34–37: the nature of the signs
- 6.12, p. 41: how the navāṃśas are counted (from the sign itself, its 9th or its 5th)
- ch. 7, vv. 1–6, p. 57: what each divisional chart is read for
- ch. 28, pp. 154–156: dignity values in shadbala
- ch. 32, p. 179: the chara karakas
- ch. 42, pp. 228–229: dhana yogas
- ch. 75: the five mahāpuruṣa yogas
- Yogakāraka chapter, pp. 197–199: rāja yoga
- Bahuvidha-yoga chapter, pp. 211–215: Gaja-kesarī, Amala and Lakṣmī yogas
- Daśā-phala chapter, p. 329: the exaltation and own signs of Rahu and Ketu
Jaimini Upadeśa-sūtra
With the Vimalā commentary of Achyutānanda Jhā. 1943.
- 1.1.10, p. 34: seven or eight chara karakas
Phaladīpikā
Mantreśvara, translated by V. Subrahmanya Sastri. First edition, 1937.
- 2.27: benefics and malefics
- 3.1, p. 24: the size of a navāṃśa, and vargottama
- ch. 6: yogas
- 7.27–30: nīca-bhaṅga
- ch. 26, vv. 1–25, pp. 286–296: transits (gochara) from the Moon sign: the good houses, vedha, the results by house (pp. 289–296), Saturn’s transit (26.22–23) and timing within the sign (p. 296); the Moon’s house from the birth Moon in the muhurta finder (26.2, p. 286; 26.12, p. 290)
Bṛhaj-jātaka
Varāhamihira, translated by Swami Vijñānānanda. 1912.
- 1.6, p. 11: the order of the navāṃśas by element
- 1.14, p. 22: the vargottama navāṃśas
- 2.5, pp. 40–41: benefics and malefics
- ch. 12: the nābhasa yogas
- ch. 13: the lunar yogas
Jātaka-pārijāta
Vaidyanātha, translated by V. Subrahmanya Sastri. 1932.
- 2.8–9: benefics and malefics
- Yogas, where it differs from Phaladīpikā
Jyotirnibandha
Śivarāja, edited by Raṅganātha Śāstrī Vaidya. Ānandāśrama Sanskrit Series 85, Ānandāśrama Press, Poona, 1919 (Śaka 1841).
- p. 142: the gender of each yoni animal, in verses quoted from the Jyotiḥprakāśa
Ati-bṛhad Avakahaḍā Cakram (Jyotiḥśāstra-sopānam)
Sītārāma Jhā, with a Hindi commentary. 1932.
- pp. 22–26: the traditional verses of the name-syllable chart, with its vowels, ṛ and conjunct letters
Modern works
Report of the Calendar Reform Committee, Part C: History of the Calendar
M. N. Saha and N. C. Lahiri. Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, 1955; reprinted 1992.
- p. 184: Spica (Chitra) at 180° in the Committee’s nakshatra tables
- p. 251: the start of the religious solar year at 23° 15′
Sulabh Jyotiṣ Jñān
Vasudev Sadashiva Khankhoje. 1943 (Hindi).
- p. 142: the name sade sati and its span
- pp. 223–226: the houses of mangal dosha, as an author’s exposition
The Indian Calendar, with Tables for the Conversion of Hindu and Muhammadan into A.D. Dates, and Vice Versa
Robert Sewell and Śaṅkara Bālakṛṣṇa Dīkshit. Swan Sonnenschein, London, 1896.
- Art. 28, p. 12: the Tamil rule for the first day of a solar month, by whether the saṅkrānti falls before sunset (the day of Thai Pongal)
Kala Sankalita: A Collection of Memoirs on the Various Modes According to Which the Nations of the Southern Parts of India Divide Time
John Warren. College Press, Madras, 1825.
- p. 401: the Karthigai Deepam (Kārttikai Dīpam) festival
- p. 402: Pongal on the first day of Tai, and Mattu Pongal
Malabar
William Logan. Vol. 1, Government Press, Madras, 1887.
- pp. 160–161: Vishu, and the Kani as the first sight of the new year’s morning
The Travancore State Manual
V. Nagam Aiya. Vol. 2, Travancore Government Press, Trivandrum, 1906.
- pp. 366–367: Vishu on the first day of Medam, and the Kani prepared the night before
Gazetteer of the Province of Sind
E. H. Aitken. Printed for Government at the “Mercantile” Steam Press, Karachi, 1907.
- p. 206: Cheti Chand, the first day of the Hindu year, kept with fairs at Uderolal and Zindpir
The Imperial Gazetteer of India
Published under the authority of His Majesty’s Secretary of State for India in Council. New edition, vol. XXII (Samadhiala to Singhana), Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1908.
- p. 411: Chetichand, the Hindu New Year on the first day of Chet Sudh, kept on the riverside in Sind
Folk Tales of Sind and Guzarat
C. A. Kincaid. Daily Gazette Press, Karachi, 1925.
- p. 12: the tradition that Udero Lal was born on Cheti Chand, the first day of the Sindhi month Cheti
An Indian Ephemeris, A.D. 700 to A.D. 1799
L. D. Swamikannu Pillai. Vol. 1, part 1, Government Press, Madras, 1922.
- p. 61: the Śītalā-saptamī of the Śrāvaṇa dark fortnight
- pp. 65–66: Raṅgapañcamī on the dark Pañcamī of Phālguna, “when colours are thrown about”
Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, vol. XVIII, part 1: Poona
Edited by James M. Campbell. Government Central Press, Bombay, 1885.
- p. 293: the Holi of the Kunbis, which ends on the fifth, Rang-panchmi or Colour-fifth
Census Report, Jaipur State
Munshi Govinda Sarana. Newul Kishore Press, Lucknow, 1903.
- p. 356: Sitla Ashtami among the festivals of March in Jaipur
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