A Manual of Hindu Astrology (Correct Casting of Horoscopes)

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A Manual of Hindu Astrology is a concise and authoritative guide by the legendary astrologer Dr. B.V. Raman, offering profound insights into the foundations of Indian astrology. Written with clarity and practical application in mind, this manual introduces essential concepts such as planets, signs, houses, aspects, dashas, yogas, and chart interpretation in a straightforward manner. Ideal for both beginners and intermediate students, it bridges ancient principles with a modern understanding of predictive techniques in Hindu astrology.

DR. BANGALORE VENKATA RAMAN was a pioneering astrologer and author, widely credited with popularizing Hindu astrology worldwide. His notable works include Three Hundred Important Combinations, Astrology for Beginners, A Manual of Hindu Astrology, Graha and Bhava Balas, and Studies in Jaimini Astrology.

Dr. Raman founded the Raman & Rajeswari Research Foundation to promote the study of astrology and Vastu Shastra. He was awarded honorary degrees, including Doctor of Literature and Doctor of Letters, by the Akhila Bharateeya Samskrita Sammelana and Kumaon University.

It gives me pleasure to write a few words by way of a Foreword. The writer of this work, B. V. Raman, is my eldest son's eldest son, i.e., my grandson. I was on the look-out for a competent successor to the special line of researches, viz., astronomico-astrology in which I have spent the major portion of my active life and have found my grandson, a competent youth to take up my work.

He has made an intelligent study of Mathematical and predictive astrology and has been able to compose some treatises on this important subject.

The necessity of accurate Mathematical knowledge is placed beyond a question; and no astrologer of any pretensions can ever hope to become a successful predictor, unless he is competent in his astronomical knowledge of correctly casting the horoscope and finding out the various sources of strength and weakness of the Planets and the Bhavas.

This work, I am proud to say, has been done by my grandson, with considerable skill and ability. He has put his ideas in a flowing, convincing and easy style and the illustrations, he has given will be found to be of immense use to the readers.

I have been, during the last 60 years of my activities in the astrological line, dealing more or less with the judicial portion of astrology, and have not given as much attention as the subject of Mathematical calculations demands. Probably fate ordained that, while I have fully treated in my own inimitable style the predictive portions, the Mathematical portions should be reserved to be elaborated by my own grandson, adding a feather to the line of my succession.

As this book deals with the essential aspects of Mathematical Astrology necessary for correct computation of horoscopes according to the Hindu system, the selection of the name as "A Manual of Hindu Astrology" is quite appropriate.

There has been a very great demand for such a book and I am proud to say that my grandson, B. V. Raman has supplied the want with credit to himself.

This book is written with a view to help all those, who are attempting to grasp the fundamental principles of Hindu astronomico-astrology.

To write a book on the Mathematical portion requires patience, diligence, and devotion, all of which my grandson has displayed in a commendable manner.

I pray to God earnestly that he may live to a long age, as God has been pleased to give me longevity, and do as much service to the public as possible. I bless him with all my heart and pray God to make him successful and prosperous.

Last year I wrote a comprehensive book entitled Hindu Predictive Astrology, the major portion of which has been devoted to the exposition of the predictive branch of the science. But later on, I realised the need for a book devoted to the mathematical side of the subject too, due to the constant pressure brought to bear upon me by students of astrology. In casting horoscopes according to approved rules of Hindu Astrology, nothing but a series of Mathematical calculations is involved; and hence the present manual is devoted to the exposition of the important and essential principles of Hindu Mathematical Astrology.

The mathematical portions dealt with in these pages are very necessary for a student of astrology who wishes to become a successful predictor of future events. Graha and Bhava Balas, which deals with the method of determination of strengths of planets and houses forms a companion volume to this and a study of both these books will simplify the whole range of astrological mathematics of the Hindus and will enable the student to prepare a suitable ground for venturing into predictions.

It is hoped the present work will supply a long-felt want. All unnecessary and superfluous information constantly employed by writers on Mathematical Astrology, which are not only cumbersome but also unimportant from the point of view of correct predictions, has been omitted. Ignorance of even the elementary principles of Mathematical Astrology is sure to lead one to the obvious misconception of the fundamental postulates of the judicial system and, at the same time, too much indulgence in mathematics alone is equally harmful as completely atrophying one's judgement faculty and power of induction. Hence to cast and read a horoscope, a moderate knowledge of Mathematical Astrology would be simply invaluable.

This book deals with such aspects as the determination of the longitudes of planets, house-cusps, sunrise and sunset and other information essential for constructing a horoscope.

A separate chapter, exclusively devoted to describing the method of casting the horoscope etc., according to the Western system and its reduction to the Hindu, has been included and this is sure to enhance the value of the book by making it accessible to the Eastern and Western students alike.

The book is intended both for the beginner and the advanced.

The book may have its own defects, and any suggestions for its improvement will be gratefully appreciated.

I am asked to write a few words by way of introduction, which I do with extreme pleasure, even in the face of poor health.

The present volume is devoted to the astronomical basis of Hindu Astrology, not without occasional sidelights on the theory of Western Astrology, but the manner in which the relevant findings are marshaled, and the methods expounded will not fail to hold the attention of the reader.

To the beginner, with the merest acquaintance with the astronomical preliminaries, the presentation is bound to make a fascinating appeal, but to the trained student, the book, as a whole, cannot but serve the purpose of a stimulating repertory of the leading facts and concepts of Astrological Mathematics.

The author, Prof. B. V. Raman, has already made his mark in the astrological world, and bids fair to hold his own in the future, as a first-rate expounder of Hindu Astrology. He is none other than the grandson of Prof. B. Suryanarain Rao, the vanerable doyen of Indian Astrologers of repute, whose personal coaching and example have gone not a little to make of the grandson what he is.

This book is intended to be the first of a series planned to embrace the several departments of astrology, one after another, and I sincerely bid him God-speed in the successful materialization of his plans.