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Excerpt from Astrology and Its Connection With Vedanta, Vol. 1 Numerous pamphlets in English on Hindu Astrology, having appeared of late, the publication of this Edition seems to be a superfluity and calls for a word of explanation. Almost all the works extant treating about Astrology are, more or less, verbatim translations of the original sanskrit works. The student is asked simply to note down the methods of calculation without any explanations as to what the various figures in the calculations represent. Instances are not a few in which an Astrologer has been able to prepare calendars for a series of years by merely working out the formulæ without himself knowing the meaning of an intercalary month. One of the benificial results of the advance of education has been, as one of the eminent civilians presiding at a prize distribution in a college lately said, to make men inquisitive in its best sense. English students of Astrology often come in contact with technical words and methods of calculation even when they take up the most elementary books on Astrology so much so that an elementary knowledge of the arrangement of the heavenly bodies and Astronomy is absolutely essential. Various students of Vedanta have also found, that in the study of the creation of the world and other matters connected with the Hindu ceremonies a knowledge of Astrology and Astronomy is necessary. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imp