Ayurdayadhikara, Āyurdāyādhikāra, Ayurdaya-adhikara: 1 definition
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Jyotisha (astronomy and astrology)
Source: Journal of South Asian Intellectual History: Samarasiṃha and the Early Transmission of Tājika AstrologyĀyurdāyādhikāra (आयुर्दायाधिकार) (lit. “regarding the length of life”) is the name of the ninth chapter of the Karmaprakāśa—one of the earliest preserved Sanskrit works on Perso-Arabic (Tājika) astrology authored by Samarasiṃha in the 13th century.—Chapter 9 (āyurdāyādhikāra) is a faithful if condensed rendering of Abū Bakr’s version of longevity procedures based on the ἀφέτης or, to use the term most common in western literature since medieval times, the hyleg. [...] As in Abū Bakr, while the selection of the chief significator of life or hillāja (Ar. hīlāj, from Persian hīlāg), is explained in some detail in the Karmaprakāśa, there is no mathematical elucidation on calculating its directed motion (ἄφεσις) to the killing points. [...] We find the important term khattakhutta (via Arabic kadkhudāh from Middle Persian, translating οἰκοδεσπότης), designating the planet having authority over the hillāja and determining the approximate years of life allotted to the native. The list of greater, middle and lesser years given by the seven planets when they fulfil this office (9.20) deviates slightly from the standard figures according to all available text witnesses; but the figure of 39½ for the middle years of the sun and moon does agree with Abū Bakr’s text.
Jyotisha (ज्योतिष, jyotiṣa or jyotish) refers to ‘astronomy’ or “Vedic astrology” and represents the fifth of the six Vedangas (additional sciences to be studied along with the Vedas). Jyotisha concerns itself with the study and prediction of the movements of celestial bodies, in order to calculate the auspicious time for rituals and ceremonies.
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