Parashar21

the search for patterns in Indian astrology

A social network for individuals with an interest in research into the fundamental principles of astrology as practiced in India

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1. The original paper on the Usage of Sparse Matrices to store horoscope charts in a Relational Database can be downloaded here.
2. A more recent paper on the Statistical Testing of Hypotheses in Astrology can be read here.
3. The current version of the SmartChart Excel97 spreadsheet can be downloaded here.
4. SmartChart v5 onwards needs the Swiss Ephemeris program that is available free of cost from Astrodienst. You would need to download swetest.exe, seas_18.se1, semo_18.se1, sepl_18.se1 from that site.
5. SQLite : the easiest genuine RDBMS that you can use on your machine - No configuration required. Get it here.

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  • Prithwis Mukerjee
  • pacosant
  • wreb02
  • jan schotten
  • Bala
  • Chandra joshi
  • Airodi Raghuram Hebbar
  • Bhaskar Sengupta
  • B.G.Prasad
  • Vikrant Pandey
  • Suhas Damodar Deshmukh
  • Venkata Vinay Kumar Parisa
  • Chandrasekaran
  • Sunil Sheoran
  • Alok Jagawat
  • aashish rai

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Announcements ...

Farewell to the NING Platform and the Surge8 backend engine. Ning is no more free and Surge8 does not work anymore ....

watch parashar21.yantrajaal.com for more information
May 2010
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04 aug 2009 - the backend database seems to have healed itself and programs are working ... without any intervention from my side.

cheers

prithwis

20 jul 2009 - Regret to inform you that the PhP programs have -- all of a sudden -- stopped working. I am tied up with something else right now and shall attend to this as soon as possible.

Prithwis

Introduction to Parashar21

Parashar21 : What ? Why ? and How ?

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Prithwis Mukerjee

Full Beta Version Baselined

Parashar21 reached a major milepost when we released the first "full" beta version of the SmartChart software today. In our definition of "full" we include (a) generation of charts (b) storage of charts (c) storage of life events corresponding to a chart (d) retrieval of charts + events based on either PAC information or life event information.



The current baselined version meets these requirements.



But this is a beta version so there is quite possible that there are… Continue

Posted by Prithwis Mukerjee on May 9, 2009 at 11:36am

Prithwis Mukerjee

Astrology : Correlation, Not Causation

A widely held perception about astrology states that astronomical bodies influence events in human life and this influence can be benefic or malefic. This CAUSALITY is extremely difficult to justify in scientific or rational terms and has led to vague and vacuous explanations in terms of mysterious "rays" that emanate from planets -- and can be focused by gems and jewels -- or in terms of as yet unexplained gravitational and electromagnetic "action-at-a-distance" mechanisms.



But… Continue

Posted by Prithwis Mukerjee on April 5, 2009 at 3:46pm

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welcome aboard ... download the spreadsheet and see the wiki on the left of the first page for instructions / documentation
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glad to have you here ...
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welcome alok !!
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