---
type: Reference
bundle: jyotisha-kala
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id: brihat-jataka
title: Bṛhat Jātaka
description: 'Varāhamihira’s compendium of horā: the classical Indian statement of the natal-chart apparatus, rāśi, lagna, bhāva, graha significations, with its acknowledgment of Yavana authorities.'
tags:
- reference
- varahamihira
- hora
- jataka
timestamp: '2026-07-09'
okf_version: '0.2'
license: CC BY-SA 4.0
---

# Bṛhat Jātaka

The Bṛhat Jātaka is the classical Indian compendium of horā (natal horoscopy): the rāśi and lagna apparatus, the twelve bhāvas, graha significations and configurations, and daśā material, stated with Varāhamihira’s characteristic compression. Its opening glosses horā from ahorātra, and the text acknowledges the Yavanas as respected authorities in the field, the tradition’s own record of the horoscopic layer’s Hellenistic contact. This bundle cites it as the defining text of the gateway tier: the source that shows what the horoscopic vocabulary classically meant, distinct from both the Vedāṅga’s calendrics and modern commercial astrology.
