Kalachakra Dasa Calculation in JHora

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Namaste,

 

Someone forwarded me this mail from Pt Rath.

 

Sometime back, some people pointed out inaccuracies in JHora's Kalachakra dasa

calculations with apasavya nakshatras and I acknowledged it. What Pt Rath is

saying below is also related to the same thing (Jyeshtha is an apasavya

nakshatra).

 

I confirm that I introduced a bug in other Kalachakra dasa methods when adding

" Raghavacharya method " (the correct method in my view). I confirm that the

" Nakshatra Pada Iteration Method (Rao & Rath at SJC conference) " given in JHora

and a few previous methods indeed have errors in apasavya nakshatras. My

apologies for it.

 

I will correct it in the next few weeks and release a JHora update.

 

Of course, if anybody wants to buy the commercial software suggested below by Pt

Rath, they may go ahead and buy it. However, error in JHora's Kalachakra dasa

WILL be corrected in the next few weeks. I am sending this mail to reassure

those who do not want to buy commercial software and are concerned about the

error.

 

BTW, I do not recommend this Rao & Rath method at all. I will explain why.

 

* * *

 

Some Background on " Rao & Rath " Method

 

This " Rao & Rath " method of Kalachakra dasa was discovered by me in a 1930 book

authored in Telugu language by Sri Raghavacharya. I shared it with Pt Rath when

he stayed at my house several years ago. Though I said I had not yet fully

figured it out and wanted to work more on it, Pt Rath asked me to urgently write

a paper on it for the upcoming SJC conference. I obliged and sent it to him. It

was published under our two names and presented by Pt Rath at the conference.

 

I worked further on this and later figured out Raghavacharya's actual teachings.

I found them to be more logical than what I had [mis]understood before (and had

mentioned to Sanjay and had written down for SJC conference).

 

I added it to JHora as " Raghavacharya method " . Just as Vimsottari dasa is a

nakshatra progression, Raghavacharya method is a navamsa progression. All other

methods of Kalachakra dasa confuse antardasa tables taught by Parasara for

mahadasa tables. Raghavacharya method given in JHora uses those tables for

antardasas and takes mahadasas simply by counting 9 navamsas from janma navamsa

(just as you take 9 nakshatras for Vimsottari dasa)! This is the most logical

interpretation of Kalachakra dasa that I have ever seen. Sadly, there was a lot

of confusion before I discovered this and there continues to be a lot of

confusion even after the simple and beautiful philosophy is discovered,

understood and shared on the internet. :-(

 

I will soon write on my understanding of Kalachakra dasa on JyotishWritings

.

 

I personally do not recommend the " Rao & Rath " method. It was half-baked

research that was hastily presented. I disown it and wish people did (and do)

not have to waste their time on it. Nevertheless, I will support it in JHora and

fix the error in apasavya nakshatras soon.

 

Best regards,

Narasimha

 

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sohamsa , " Sanjay Rath " <sanjayrath wrote:

>

> om gurave namah

>

> Dear Jyotishi

>

> I was studying the Kalachakra dasa for one chart today and found to my

amazement that ALL the SIX methods of Kalachakra dasa calculation given in

Jagannath Hora, including the one called *Rao and Rath* are WRONG.

>

> Please do not use them and if you do so, it's your risk and don't ask me

questions or help. The correct one is in Shri Jyoti Star. I have checked Jyestha

4th Pada for this and need to check all others. Get your copy from

www.vedicsoftware.com

>

> The correct order for this pada should be Pi-Ar-....and if we use full cycle

iteration, then in the particular case I was studying we get Cn-Vi....

>

> For more details, please get hold of the Kalachakra paper/slides I used in

London

>

> Best wishes

>

> Sanjay Rath

>

> PS. I think I am going to hold