Jātakālaṅkāra

The work Jātakālaṅkāra is an ancient indian astronomy by Gaṇeśa Daivajña. The Jātakālaṅkāra focuses only on birth (natal) astrology. It explains how planets and astrological houses affect a person’s life, using clear and elegant language. It also describes many good (benefic) and bad (malefic) astrological combinations. The text is a short classic written in Sanskrit, using a beautiful poetic meter called Srāgdharā Chanda. The text is divided in 7 chapters. The manuscript contains only the seventh chapter, which is on the lineage of the author. Title is taken from colophon (f. 1b). It is written in 8 lines per leaf. It has only 1 leaf. Mistakes are blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.