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The Astrology of the Seers

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also: Astrology of the Seers (Frawley)

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Definition

David Frawley's modern English introduction to Vedic (Jyotisha) astrology, integrating it with Ayurveda, Yoga and the Vedas. Book 2 of this project's extraction; the SUBSTRATE book that supplies the grahas' constitutive element/dosha/guna (via quotations of the Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra) and the twelve signs/houses.
Modern

Prāṇa relevance

Conduit for the graha→element→dosha→body chain (fills Book-1's DEFERRED fields); also carries the chakra/yogic-astrology material in later chapters (deferred to other themes). Frawley is a modern author — never CLASSICAL; his transmitted standard doctrine = TRADITIONAL/claimed-classical.

Cross-book attributes (3) — fill / concur / diverge

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1990 (1st ed.); Motilal Banarsidass reprint
txt-frawley-astrology-seersPreface (book p.18); Bibliography/Biodata (book p.334)Modern
1990 (1st ed., Motilal Banarsidass / Passage Press; preface dated Santa Fe, June 1990)
AttributionDiverges

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ownModern
David Frawley (Vamadeva Shastri)
txt-frawley-astrology-seersBiodata (book p.334)Modern
David Frawley (Pandit Vamadeva Shastri); director, American Institute of Vedic Studies; Ayurvedic healer, Vedic astrologer, Sanskrit scholar
Key ChaptersDiverges

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Part II ch.1 The Planets; later chs. The Signs, The Houses, Yogic Astrology (other themes)
txt-frawley-astrology-seerstable of contents / throughoutModern
Part I Foundations; Part II The Planets/Signs/Houses; Part III Astrology & Ayurveda (medical), Spiritual astrology; Part IV chart analysis; Part V Appendices (glossaries, bibliography, index)

Connections (6)

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  • →Brihat Parashara Hora ShastraModern
    Frawley lists the Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra (Parasara, Maharshi; R. Santhanam & G.S. Kapoor trans., Ranjan 1984) in his bibliography (book p.331) and names Parashara in the Sanskrit Glossary as 'father of Vedic astrology, author of main system used' (book p.326). BPHS is thus the principal classical root system Frawley's presentation rests on. Edge is bibliographic/derivation-of-doctrine, not a verse-level borrowing.
  • →B.V. Raman — A Manual of Hindu Astrology (and other works)Modern
    Frawley credits B.V. Raman's books (with J.N. Bhasin) as having 'opened the doors of this system' to him (Preface, book p.18) and lists four Raman titles in the bibliography (book p.331). A principal modern conduit through which Frawley received Jyotisha.
  • →J.N. Bhasin — Medical Astrology (and other works)Modern
    Frawley credits J.N. Bhasin's books (with B.V. Raman) as having 'opened the doors of this system' to him (Preface, book p.18) and lists six Bhasin titles incl. Medical Astrology (Bibliography, book p.330). Bhasin's Medical Astrology is the most theme-relevant modern conduit for the project's body/health axis.
  • →Sri Yukteswar — The Holy ScienceModern
    Frawley credits Sri Yukteswar's The Holy Science as the work that 'first revealed to me its spiritual and cosmological relevance' (Preface, book p.18); the book's yuga-cycle/precession cosmology and ayanamsha framing derive from it (Index 'The Holy Science, 52,56,58', book p.337).
  • →The Vedas (incl. Rig Veda)Modern
    Frawley states the book is 'based upon and reflects an extensive study of the Vedas' over ~20 years (Preface, book p.16) and glosses 'Veda' = wisdom/direct perception. A broad-substrate derivation claim, not a pinned-verse borrowing.
  • →Ingrid Naiman — The Astrology of HealingModern
    Frawley thanks Ingrid Naiman for support 'particularly in the astrology of healing' (Preface, book p.18); Naiman wrote the book's Foreword (book pp.11-12) and her The Astrology of Healing is in the bibliography (book p.330). A western-astrology cross-current acknowledged on the healing axis. VERIFIER FIX: original extractor type was 'cites' (non-canonical, not in schema §4); mapped to 'derived-from' (acknowledged influence) per §4 vocabulary.

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Notes from other books

  • txt-frawley-astrology-seersThe author's own stated source-base (Preface, book pp.15–18): "an extensive study of the Vedas" over ~20 years, Yoga, and Ayurveda (citing his own Ayurvedic Healing and The Yoga of Herbs). Stated debts (Preface, book p.18): to the Vedic astrologers J.N. Bhasin and B.V. Raman ("whose books opened the doors of this system to me"), to Sri Yukteswar (whose Holy Science "first revealed to me its spiritual and cosmological relevance"), and to Ingrid Naiman (western astrologer, the astrology of healing). Foreword by Ingrid Naiman (book pp.11–12). Much of the material came from Frawley's Vedic Astrology Correspondence Course (1986). These named debts drive the txt- stubs minted below; they are the Phase-2 collation targets for this book.

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