Phaladeepika

Contents: 1. Definitions. 2. Planets and their varieties. 3. Divisions of the zodiac. 4. Determinations of the Shadbalas on planets. 5. Profession and livelihood. 6. Yogas. 7. Maharajayogas. 8. The effects of the sun and other planets in the 12 bhavas from the lagna. 9. Effect of Mesha and other signs happening to be the Lagna. 10. Kalathrabhava on the 7th house. 11. Horoscopes of women. 12. Issues of children. 13. Length of life. 14. Diseases, death, past and future births. 15. Method of studying the effects of the Bhavas. 16. General effects of the 12 Bhavas. 17. Exit from the world. 18. Conjunctions of two planets. 19. Dasa and their effects. 20. Dasas of several Bhava – lords and their Bhuktis. 21. Sub divisions of dasa viz. Bhuktis, Antaras, antarataras etc. 22. Kalachakradasa etc. 23. Ashtakavarga. 24. The Ashtakavarga effects as stated in Horasara. 25. Upagrahas. 26. Transit of planets. 27. Ascetic yogas. 28. Upasamhara.

From the preface: We are happy to present to the, public, this newly reset edition of the Phaladeepika by V Subrahmanya Sastri, which has been out of print for a very long time. Considering the importance of this book and the excellent commentary by the Master of translations of the several Astrological classic texts, we have made this endeavour. The Commentator Sri V Subrahmanya Sastri has referred several contemporary texts and given citations from these texts which add to the importance of this commentary on Phalaeepika. The profuse notes on the slokas of the main text are very much the life of the book. The text shows how the determination of a horoscope correctly is important for analysing a horoscope. The Preditive principles and the importance of transition has been in vogue for several centuries and the method of arriving at has been phenomenal. This also made the pinpointed predictions on one's life very accurate based on the determination of the planetary positions, its aspects and other relevant data.

This is the Tenth book in the series of reprints of important classics with commentaries and sanskrit texts on Astrology. The earlier books are Kalaprakasika, Shatpanchasika, Jathaka chandrika, Prasnajnana, Brihath Jataka, Prasnanushtana padhati, Sripati Padhathi, Hora sastra with the rudra commentary, chamatkara chintamani and now Phaladeepika. We are very happy that the books in the series were well receied by the learners and proponents of Modern Astrology.

More books in the series are in preparation. They are Sarvartha chinthamni, Brihath Samhita, etc. which are in the project stage and will be released soon. Apart from these reprints of classical treatises, in our current publication programme we have released print editions of several analytical books on several aspects of astrology by renowned authors.