The Sanskrit term Miśraprakīrṇādhikāra can be transliterated into English as Misraprakirnadhikara or Mishraprakirnadhikara, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

In Hinduism

Jyotisha (astronomy and astrology)

Source: Journal of South Asian Intellectual History: Samarasiṃha and the Early Transmission of Tājika Astrology

Miśraprakīrṇādhikāra (मिश्रप्रकीर्णाधिकार) (lit. “regarding diverse and miscellaneous matters”) is the name of the twentieth chapter of the Karmaprakāśa—one of the earliest preserved Sanskrit works on Perso-Arabic (Tājika) astrology authored by Samarasiṃha in the 13th century.—The last two chapters do not relate to particular horoscopic houses. Despite its name, chapter 20 (miśraprakīrṇādhikāra) is in fact largely homogenous. Up to the last four verses, which eulogize the work itself (20.8-9) and outline Samarasiṃha’s paternal ancestry (20.10-11), it presents a succinct classification of nativities into four groups with respect to wealth and social standing: those who are fortunate or unfortunate, respectively, throughout life, and those who go from misfortune to fortune or vice versa. According to the text (20.7), this basic model of stratification was included to resolve the confusion of methods presented by previous authors in connection with occupations. The earliest Arabic work in which it is found is ʿUmar ibn al-Farrukhān aṭ-Ṭabarī’s (d. ca. 815) own Kitāb al-mawālīd—likewise preserved in Latin translation under the generic title De nativitatibus—which thus becomes our last identifiable Arabic source text.

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Jyotisha (ज्योतिष, jyotiṣa or jyotish) refers to ‘astronomy’ or “Vedic astrology” and represents the fifth of the six Vedangas (additional sciences to be studied along with the Vedas). Jyotisha concerns itself with the study and prediction of the movements of celestial bodies, in order to calculate the auspicious time for rituals and ceremonies.

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Partial matches: Mishraprakirna, Adhikara.

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