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Ayanamsa
Ayanamsa
Ayanamsa
Whereas the earth and the other planets are very close to the Sun,
they are too far away from the constellations (groups of stars). The
bulge by the luminaries and this inclination, the earth revolves like
During a Great Year, earth's pole aligns with different pole stars.
years away. So, the sign Aries of the Tropical zodiac, which
said earlier. Debate has been going on since the last century about
the starting point of the zodiac coincides with the asterism called
Aswini and hence the name Sidereal (fixed ) Zodiac. Though the
signs have the same names in both the zodiacs, the concepts are
quite different. The time when the two zodiacs coincided is not
point of dispute.
Hence the need for taking into account, the Ayanamsa, which is the
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