Jyotihshastra: Astral and Mathematical Literature c8.s1.1

c8.s1.1

Military “astrology,” an aspect of catarchic astrology in which the Indian developments influenced the Syriac scholar, Theophilus of Edessa,⁵¹ in the eighth century and through him the later astrology of Islam, Byzantium, and Western Europe, began in India with the omens during the late first millennium B.C. It is found, then, in such texts as the GS (32–34) and in numerous other collections of omens, including the Narapatijayacaryā and other texts on svara, and regularly in treatises on muhūrta. Yātrā, which combines omens with real astrology, is also the subject of a section of the YJ (73–76); in the commentary thereon (vol. 2, pp. 389–393) a partial list of authorities on the subject, numbering fifty-six, was given. But here only the independent literature on the subject will be briefly considered.