Siddhāṁśa: D24

  • Siddhāṁśa Slides - There are two types of siddhāṁśa (D24 charts) just are there are two types of knowledge that can be mastered – (a) apara vidyā, the knowledge of everything that has manifested and (b) para vidyā, the spiritual knowledge. The construction of the divisional charts for these two purposes has to be different and for convenience, we use two different nomenclature for them. Caturvimśāṁśa, literally meaning ‘24’ is used loosely for both charts while siddhāṁśa has generally been used by all astrologers do refer to the apara-vidyā chart. On the other hand Parāśara uses the word वेदवाह्वंश (vedavāhvaṁśa) to introduce the… Continue Reading