Bharatiya Jyotihshastra (History of Indian Astronomy), translated by R. V. Vaidya v2.c14.69

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Tājik is the name of that system by which predictions are made about the happiness or woe to be experienced by any man during any year of life, by interpreting the ascendant and planetary positions in the horoscope cast for the beginning of that year when the Sun's longitude is exactly the same as at birth, which, in other words becomes a horoscope for the moment when a person completes one year of life by the solar reckoning and begins the next. There is a work on ‘tājik’ named Hāyaṇaratna’ by Balabhadra,* son of Dāmodara. The following remark is found in it :—