[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Science, technology and education](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science) › [Jyotihshastra: Astral and Mathematical Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981) › c7.8 # Jyotihshastra: Astral and Mathematical Literature c7.8 Jyotiḥśāstra: Astral and Mathematical Literature c7.8 - **Language:** English ### [c7.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.c7.8) In large measure based on the YJ, but also dependent on the lost work of Satya,⁴ is the \*Vṛddhayavanajātaka\*⁵ composed by the Yavanādhirāja Mīnarāja⁶ in about 300–325 in the realm of the Western Kṣatrapas—that is, during the reign of Rudrasiṃha II (ca. 305–317) or Yaśodāman II (ca. 317–332). This is probably the work called \*Yavana\* referred to by al-Bīrūnī (\*India\* 14). It is an immense text, twice as long as the YJ, divided into seventy-one \*adhyāyas\*; the last eight, as we have already noted, are concerned with omens. The rest to a large extent repeat and expand upon the YJ.⁷ The remainder deal with the effect of each planet (in the order of the week-days, as henceforth is normal in Sanskrit texts) in each zodiacal sign aspected by each other planet (VYJ 9–15); on the effects of the planets in each astrological place while in various of its \*vargas\* (VYJ 24–35); on the ascendant aspected by each of the planets (VYJ 36); on the lord of each astrological place in its own and every other place (VYJ 54); and on the "rays" (\*raśmi\*) of the planets (VYJ 56). Only once—in an astrological \*digvijaya\* (VYJ 2, 9–10)—does Mīnarāja mention Rāhu as a \*graha\*; Sphujidhvaja never does. The inclusion of Rāhu and Ketu among the planets to make them nine postdates the VYJ. - [Previous: c7.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.c7.7) - [Next: c7.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.c7.9) - [Up: c7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.c7) ## Linked texts (1) - [Vṛddhayavanajātaka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.astro.hora.yavana.vrddhayavanajataka) — Mīnarāja, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.c7.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.c7.8) · Pramāṇa