Phaladeepika is a treatise on Hindu astrology written by Mantreswara. The text is written in lyrical Sanskrit verse comprises 865 slokas and 28 chapters. It is one of the more significant works on Hindu astrology, along with Parashara Hora shastra of Parashara, Brihat Jataka of Varahamihira, and Jataka Parijata of Vaidyanatha Dikshita. It deals in a most comprehensive and authoritative manner with almost all astrological aspects of human life. Mantreswara has equated a retrograde planet with an exalted planet in strength and effects even though it be in an inimical or its debilitation sign differing with Saravali which states that benefics are powerful when retrograde and cause Raja yoga (Hindu astrology) but malefic when retrograde do not confer favourable results. Very little is known about its author, Mantreswara, who is believed to have lived in the 13th century CE. He was born Markandeya Bhattathiri in a family of Namboodari Brahmins in Panchgiri village of Tirunelveli in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. He was a devotee of Sukuntlambika Devi and was well-versed in many branches of knowledge; he had traveled to far-off places in India in search of knowledge. He had renounced the world and had finally died in Tirunelveli; his date of birth and his date of death are not known. According to one belief Mantreswara was born in Shalivati in Tamil Nadu and according to another, he was born in Kerala. Whether he lived in the 13th century or in the 16th century remains undecided. His work, Phaladeepika, though very popular in South India and from a very long time in the past available in Southern languages script-versions came to light when its original Sanskrit version was published from Kolkata around 1925. HINDU PREDICTIVE ASTROLOGY.THE PRSENT BOOK IS SO INSTRUCTIVE THAT BEGINNERS AS WELL AS ADVANCE STUDENTS OF ASTROLOGY CAN OBTAIN VERY USEFUL GUIDANCE FROM ITS STUDY.

Phala Deepika by Mantreswara: A Unique Classic on Hindu Predictive Astrology

G. S. Kapoor

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<p>Astrology is a deterministic and it is given to man to change the course of events to avert the misery, agony and disaster threatened by evil influences of certain inauspicious combinations or dispositions of planets by taking appropriate remedial measures in time. This approach is quite scientific and is in accordance with the modern time of thinking. Man is no doubt, a creature of destiny but he is not entirely or absolutely its slave. Man has some freedom of will and action also. If man has no such freedom how can he overcome his karma and attain salvation or how will his soul merge with universal soul. Thus it should be accepted that there is no place for fatalism in astrology. Fate and free will are two blades of a scissor and we still do not know which blades operate in cutting paper. It is man's supreme duty to do his mite irrespective of result like a Nishkama Karmayogi. It is true that error of judgement creep in when we are destined. Miscalculations occur and our reasoning faculty becomes inoperative and ineffective. The most important utility of astrology is to forewarn man to enable to forearm himself to face troubles and calamities and to take steps in accordance with remedial principles of astrology to overcome or at least minimize the evil effects expected. To illustrate, if rain is inevitable and we cannot escape from it or avert it, either we don't go out take steps to avoid getting wet by the use of a rain-coat or an umbrella. This is the precise scope and function of remedial measures in astrology.</p>

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Phala Deepika by Mantreswara: A Unique Classic on Hindu Predictive Astrology

Remedial Measures in Astrology

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