Publisher's Synopsis
PHALADEEPIKA CHAPTER 23, 24 Phaladeepika Malayalam Translation Chapters 23, 24 Phaladeepika is a treatise on Indian astrology.The text is written in lyrical Sanskrit verse and comprises 865 slokas and 28 chapters. Table of contents (Chapter No., Subject, Page No.) 1. Signs and Houses 2. All about the Planets 3. Shad varga etc..(Strength of the Planets) 4. Shad Bala etc.( Strength of the Planets - 2) 5. Profession / Source of livelihood 6. Yogas 7. Raja Yogas 8. Effects of the Planets in the Houses 9. Effects o the Ascendants 10. Kalatra Bhava (7th House) 11. Strijataka (Female Horoscopy) 12. Putra Bhava (5th House) 13. Time of birth and Longevity 14. Diseases, Death, Past and Future births 15. Assessent of Huses 16. Effects o the Houses 17. Death 18. Conjunction of Planets 19. Dasa (Periods ) of the Planets 20. Periods of Planets as lords of Houses 21. Apahara (Subperiods) of the Planets 22. Calculation of Longevity (Kalachakra Dasa etc.) 23. Ashtaka varga 24. Ashtakavarga continued 25. Gulika and other Upagrahas 26. Transits o Planets 27. Sanyasa Yogas (Yogas leading to Asceism) 28. Index and about the author (End of thr book) 29. Apppendix 1: Interpretation of Chapter 3 30. Apppendix 2: Interpretation of Chapter 4 31. Apppendix 3: Kalachakra Lords - Table 32. Appendix 4: Mitra Satru Table 33. Appendix 5: Katayapadi 34. Appendix 6: A critical Study End of th Very little is known about its author, Mantreswara, who is believed to have lived in the 13th century CE. He was born Markandeya Bhattathiri in a family of Namboodari Brahmins in Panchgiri village of Tirunelveli in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. He was a devotee of Sukuntlambika Devi and was well-versed in many branches of knowledge; he had traveled to far-off places in India in search of knowledge. He had renounced the world and had finally died in Tirunelveli; his date of birth and his date of death are not known. [4] According to one belief Mantreswara was born in Shalivati in Tamil Nadu and according to another, he was born in Kerala. Whether he lived in the 13th century or in the 16th century remains undecided. His work, Phaladeepika, though very popular in South India and from a very long time in the past available in Southern languages script-versions came to light when its original Sanskrit (Wikipedia)
