Tajika: Medieval Arabic Astrology in Sanskrit

The Astrology Podcast

Chris Brennan

Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality, Religion

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2020

⏱️ 170 minutes

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In episode 268 of the podcast Dr. Martin Gansten joins the show to talk about his new translation of a 17th century Sanskrit text on Tajika astrology, which focuses on annual predictive techniques derived from medieval Arabic sources. Martin is a historian of religion as well as a Sanskrit scholar, who specializes in the study […]

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Chris Brennan, and you're listening to the
0:03.0	astrology podcast. In this episode I'm going to be talking with Dr Martin
0:06.6	Gansden about Tijika astrology, which is Medieval Arabic
0:10.8	astrology translated into Sanskrit and his new translation of a 17th century Sanskrit text on this topic.
0:19.2	So hey Martin, welcome to the show.
0:21.2	Hi, thanks for having you.
0:23.0	Yeah, I'm glad to finally have you on.
0:25.0	I've been meaning to for a number of years now, especially to talk about your earlier work.
0:29.0	You're the author of one of the most well respected books on primary directions, but we're doing this topic first as your first
0:37.8	appearance on the show because you've actually spent, I think, a large part of the last 10 years,
0:42.4	focused on this topic, right?
0:44.3	Yeah, you can say that.
0:46.3	Okay.
0:47.3	And just really quickly, the date is Thursday, August 20th, 2020, starting at 8.06 a.m. in Denver, Colorado, and this should be the 268th episode of the show.
0:59.6	So you translated a book recently and it's titled,
1:04.0	The Jewel of Annual Astrology, a parallel Sanskrit English critical edition of
1:09.0	Balabadras Heiana Ratna.
1:12.0	Am I pronouncing that correct?
1:13.6	That's fairly accurate, yeah.
1:15.7	Close enough.
1:17.1	Close enough.
1:18.1	So let's first, before we get to the book, actually,
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