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{{Short description|Hindu astrological text}}
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| pub_date = 1426 CE
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{{Hindu scriptures|Hindu astrology}}

'''''Jataka Parijata''''' <ref>{{cite web|title=Vaidanatha Dikshita's Jataka Parijata|author=V.Subramanya Sastri|url=http://www.libraryofyoga.com/handle/123456789/1063|access-date=2012-11-19|archive-date=2012-10-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121027032020/http://www.libraryofyoga.com/handle/123456789/1063|url-status=dead}}</ref> is an Indian astrological text that is ranked alongside [[Bṛhat Parāśara Horāśāstra]] of [[Parashara|Parāśara Muni]], [[Brihat Jataka|Bṛhat Jātaka]] of [[Varahamihira|Varāhamihira]] and [[Phaladeepika|Phaladīpikāḥ]] of [[Mantreswara|Mantreśvara]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Mantreswara's Phaladeepika|author=G.S.Kapoor|url=http://mandhataglobal.com/wp-content/custom/articles/phaldipika.pdf}}</ref> It is regularly studied as a textbook and a reliable reference-book, and is one of the few books that gives time on the nativity, the other two being [[Hora Ratna|Horā Ratnaṃ]] and Jātaka Bharaṇaṃ.<ref>{{cite book|title=Classical Muhurta|author=Ernst Wilhelm| publisher=Kala Occult Publishers|page=vii|isbn=9780970963628|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3zMPFJy6YygC&q=jataka+parijata&pg=PR7}}</ref>

Jataka Parijata ([[Devanagari|Devanāgarī]]: {{lang|hi|जातक पारिजात}}, [[IAST]]: {{lang|sa|jātaka pārijāta}}) is written in [[Sanskrit]] in the usual [[Sloka meter|Śloka]]-format. Its author, [[Vaidyanatha Dikshita|Vaidyanātha Dīkṣita]], was probably born c.1425-1450.<ref>{{cite book|title=History and Doctrine of Ajivikas: A Vanished Indian Religion|author= Arthur Llewellyn Basham|year= 1981| publisher= [[Motilal Banarsidass Publishers]]|place=New Delhi|page=184|isbn= 9788120812048|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BiGQzc5lRGYC&q=jataka+parijata&pg=PA184}}</ref> Many noted scholars and authors like - V.Subramanya Sastri, G.S.Kapoor, Gopesh Kumar Ojha, [[Bangalore Venkata Raman]],<ref>{{cite book|title=How to judge a Horoscope Vol.2|author=Bangalore Venkata Raman|date=June 1991| publisher=Motilal Banarsidass Publishers|place=New Delhi|page=349|isbn=9788120808485|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wqC1Ea88fTcC&q=jataka+parijata&pg=PA349}}</ref> Bepin Behari,<ref>{{cite book|title=Esoteric Principles of Vedic Astrology|author=Bipin Behari|date=September 2004|publisher=Sterling Publishers (P) Ltd.|page=111|isbn=9788120725607|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5jDCBcZhNKMC&q=jataka+parijata&pg=PA111}}</ref> Gayatri Vasudev,<ref>{{cite book|title=The Art of Prediction in Astrology|author=Gayatri Vasudev|year=2008| publisher= Motilal Banarsidass Publishers|place=New Delhi|page=143|isbn=9788120832299|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HjGSHKl8fKwC&q=jataka+parijata&pg=PA143}}</ref> S.S.Chaterjee,<ref>{{cite book|title=Cosmic influences on mind &IQ|author=S.S.Chaterjee|year=1992| publisher=Binapani Lahiri|page=212|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tQwvAAAAYAAJ&q=jataka+parijata}}</ref> Ernst Wilhelm, Hart De Fouw, Arthur Llewellyn Basham, Komilla Sutton<ref>{{cite web|title=Pushkara: navamsa and bhaga |url=http://www.komilla.com/pages/library/pushkara_part_two.cfm |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130621021807/http://www.komilla.com/pages/library/pushkara_part_two.cfm |archivedate=2013-06-21 }}</ref> - have translated and written commentaries on Jataka Parijata beside referring to its contents in their own works.

Jātaka Pārijāta, according to Gopesh Kumar Ojha, was completed in the year 1347 Śaka/1482 Vikram Saṃvat i.e. in the year 1426 A.D. It is based on various earlier works such as [[Garga Hora|Garga Horā]], [[Bṛhat Parāśara Horāśāstra]], Śrīpati-Paddhati, [[Saravali|Sārāvalī]], [[Brihat Jataka|Bṛhat Jātaka]], [[Sarvartha Chintamani|Sarvārtha Cintāmaṇi]] etc. Its author, Vaidyantha, who was a devotee of Ranganatha (Lord [[Vishnu|Viṣṇu]]) and lived in South India in Karṇāṭaka or Andhra, belonged to the [[Bhardwaja|Bharadvāja]] [[Gotra]] and was the son of Veṅkaṭadri. Some scholars are of the opinion that Vaidyanātha is the same person who wrote ''Prataprudriya''. [[Keshava of Nandigrama|Keśava Daivajṅa]], the author of ''Keśava Jātaka'' and ''Muhūrta-Tattva'', was his disciple.<ref>{{cite book|title=Jatakaparijata (With translation and commentary by Gopesh Kumar Ojha)|author=Vaidyanatha|year=2008|publisher=Motilal Banarsidass|page=5|isbn=9788120822641|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V2BoM8wCrq8C&q=Jataka+Parijata+Motilal+Banarsidass}}</ref>

Jātaka Pārijāta has Eighteen chapters viz. I: Prathamo'dhyāyaḥ – ''Rāśiśīlādhyāyaḥ'' (61 verses) or Chapter on forms of Signs, II: Dvitīyo'dhyāyaḥ – ''Grahasvarūpaguṇādhyāyaḥ'' (87 verses) or Chapter on nature of Planets, III: Tṛtīyo'dhyāyaḥ – ''Viyonyādijanmādhyāya'' (80 verses) or Chapter on Births, IV: Caturtho'dhyāyaḥ – Bālāriṣṭādhyāyaḥ (107 verses) or Chapter on Early Death, V: Pañcamoyo'dhyāyaḥ – ''Āyurdāyādhyāyaḥ'' (124 verses) or Chapter on Longevity, VI: Tṛtīyo'dhyāyaḥ – ''Jātakabhaṅgādhyāyaḥ'' (102 verses) or Chapter on Miseries and set-backs, VII – ''Rājayogādhyāyaḥ'' (181 verses) or Chapter on gain of Rulership and ruling powers, VIII – ''Dviyadigrhayogādhyāyaḥ'' (118 verses) or Chapter on Conjunction etc., of two or more planets, IX – ''Mandyabdadiphaladhyaya'' (129 verses) or Chapter on the role of Māndi etc., X – ''Aṣṭakavargādhyāyaḥ'' (72 verses) or Chapter on Aṣṭakavarga system, XI – ''Prathamadvityābhāvaphalādhyāyaḥ'' (96 verses) or Chapter on nature and results on account of planetary influence etc., of the Lagna and the 2nd house, XII – ''Tṛtyācaturthabhāvaphalādhyāyaḥ'' (144 verses) or Chapter on nature and results on account of planetary influence etc., of the 3rd and the 4th house, XIII – ''Pañcamaṣaṣṭhabhāvaphalādhyāyaḥ'' (82 verses) or Chapter on nature and results on account of planetary influence etc., of the 5th and the 6th house, XIV – ''Saptamāṣṭamnavamabhāvaphalādhyāyaḥ'' (103 verses) or Chapter on nature and results on account of planetary influence etc., of the 7th, the 8th and the 9th house, XV – ''Daśamekādaśādvādaśabhāvaphalādhyāyaḥ'' (83 verses) or Chapter on nature and results on account of planetary influence etc., of the 10th, 11th and the 12th house, XVI – ''Strījātakādhyāyaḥ'' (54 verses) or Chapter on Female horoscopy, XVII – ''Kālacakradaśādhyāya'' (111 verses) or Chapter on Kālacakradaśā calculation and results and XVIII – ''Daśāphalādhyāyaḥ'' (172+4 verses) Chapter on Uḍudaśās.

These eighteen chapters said to originally contain 1763 ślokas, due to interpolations now consisting of 1910 or 1918 verses, cover the entire range of [[Hindu astrology]] based on Parāśarian principles. Like '''Bṛhat Jātaka''', '''Jātaka Pārijāta''' is a condensation of more ancient Hora texts and some later important works including '''Bṛhat Jātaka'''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Vaidyanātha's Jātaka Pārijāta|url=https://www.scribd.com/doc/50560157/Jataka-Parijata-Vol-1|access-date=2017-09-09|archive-date=2014-09-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140910192855/http://www.scribd.com/doc/50560157/Jataka-Parijata-Vol-1|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Author==
Vaidyanatha Dikshita, was the author of ''Jataka Parijata''. {{Citation needed span|He was the son of Venkatadri Dikshita and grandson of Anniah Dikshita, was a [[Brahmin]] belonging to the [[Bharadwaja]] [[Gotra]]. He is believed to have lived in [[South India]] either in the 14th or 15th century A.D.|date=November 2021}}

Not much is known about his life except for his statement in ''Jataka Parijata''. According to Katva, Vaidyanatha lived in the 14th century in [[Mysore]]. V. Subramanya Sastri, the translator and commentator of ''Jataka Parijata'', disagreed with the attribution of ''[[Sarvartha Chintamani]]'' to Venkatadri Dikshita, suggesting that Vaidyanatha Dikshita was born between 1425 and 1450. He cited the fact that Kesava Daivajna, the author of ''Muhurata Tattva'', a [[Sanskrit]] treatise on [[Hindu astrology]] and a disciple of Vaidyanatha Dikshita who was born around 1456, was the father of [[Gaṇeśa Daivajna|Ganesa Daivajna]], who in 1520 wrote the Sanskrit treatise on astrology titled ''Graha Laghava''.<ref>{{cite book|title=Vaidyanatha Dikshita's Jataka Parijat|author=V.Subramanya Sastri|publisher=Ranjan Publications|place=New Delhi|pages=5–6|url=https://www.scribd.com/doc/50560157/Jataka-Parijata-Vol-1|access-date=2017-09-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140910192855/http://www.scribd.com/doc/50560157/Jataka-Parijata-Vol-1|archive-date=2014-09-10|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Vaidyanatha also wrote ''Patrimargapradeepika,'' a textbook on calculating the birth-chart etc., and the ''Janamapatrika''.<ref>{{cite book|title=Patrimargapradeepika (published in 1930)|author=Vaidyanatha|year=1981|publisher=[[Sri Venkateswar Steam Press]]|isbn=9780871691460|place=Mumbai|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RQoNAAAAIAAJ&q=Patrimargapradeepika&pg=PA383}}</ref>

==References==
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