Shodashayoga, Ṣoḍaśayoga, Shodasha-yoga: 2 definitions
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Shodashayoga means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.
The Sanskrit term Ṣoḍaśayoga can be transliterated into English as Sodasayoga or Shodashayoga, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
In Hinduism
Jyotisha (astronomy and astrology)
Source: Journal of South Asian Intellectual History: Samarasiṃha and the Early Transmission of Tājika AstrologyṢoḍaśayoga (षोडशयोग) refers to the “sixteen configurations”, as discussed in the third chapter of the Karmaprakāśa—one of the earliest preserved Sanskrit works on Perso-Arabic (Tājika) astrology authored by Samarasiṃha in the 13th century.—Chapter 3 (ṣoḍaśayoga-adhikāra) is the earliest extant description in Sanskrit of this important Tājika doctrine, derived from Sahl, and largely agrees with the later versions of it discussed at length elsewhere. The most important point to note here is that the list of configurations in the Karmaprakāśa, like later Tājika sources, includes the spurious tambīra-yoga (from Arabic ṭabīʿa) in the fourteenth place and ends with duraḥpha (Ar. ḍuʿf ‘weakness’), thus excluding Sahl’s sixteenth heading aḥwāl al-qamar ‘conditions of the moon’. On the one hand, the presence of this distinctive error strongly suggests that later Tājika accounts of the ṣoḍaśayogas all ultimately depend on Samarasiṃha.
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.
Languages of India and abroad
Sanskrit dictionary
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Aufrecht Catalogus CatalogorumṢoḍaśayogā (षोडशयोगा) as mentioned in Aufrecht’s Catalogus Catalogorum:—ṣoḍaśayogāḥ the third section of Nīlakaṇṭha’s Tājika. L.. 1129. C. by Viśvanātha, son of Divākara. L.. 1130. 1131 (inc.).
Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.
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