Indian Astrology And Its Advent To A Computer Age

Indian Astrology, called the Jyotish, is universal and timeless. Jyotisha is one of the most time-tested and oldest systems of astrology in the world. In Western countries, it is called Vedic astrology, which refers to Indian or Hindu astrology.

Indian Astrology originated from Vedic Scriptures, dating back at least ten to twenty thousand years. The Vedas the oldest books of the world library. They are the world's most ancient scriptures and the most vast, complete system of knowledge known to man. Thus, Indian Astrology is the science of understanding the subtle influences that come to us from the greater universe.

The most popularly followed astrological classics today are the ones written by Rishis like Parashara, Varahamihira, Garga, Jaimini and their followers. People in those days had no satellites or telescopes and yet the planetary positions and their motions recorded by them are as accurate as the planetary positions and degrees recorded today using the space satellites. Our ancient astrologers used their divine intuition to record these planetary movements and their effects on us.

Astrology has undergone several changes with the time. Earlier everything was calculated through hands and even calculators were not there. It was very difficult to calculate. This however created problems with precion as well. For example panchangas were published by several publications and even today each panchanga has different calculation for different planets. This also lead to severeal controveries including the famous controvery related to Ayamansha.

Further there were problems with calulations as well. For instance one needs to have atleast six to seven hours to calculate Shadbala. This requires a lot of skill and only the finest few could be able to calculate the same in that length of time. For an ordinary astrologer it make take days to complete the same.

And this is not all, Indian astrology is full of all such calulations which required high skills and extreme length of time.

With modern times, time became more precious and time for some became equivalent to money. Today people who consult astrologers need everything within minutes. They do not have time for such lenghty calculations. This thing gave impetus to the world of astrology softwares. Today astrology softwares occupy a big chunck of the market with many western and Indian companies in the race. It has also given sway to the financial astrology softwares which analyze market from several angels. Researches are going on in the field of medical astrology software, financial astrology software and facial metrics analysis through Shareer Lakshan Siddhant.