Books · Essays · Jyotish · Remedies
Collected Works of Shivanshu Pande
A gathering place for the reflective writing, the Vedic astrology course, the remedial teachings, and the poems and revelations that have shaped this small body of work. Tap a book to enter its own room.
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The Bookshelf
Reflections
What the Days Revealed
On life, and the sacred in the everyday
Jyotish · Book 1
Foundations of Vedic Astrology
The Seven Modules
Jyotish · Book 2
Beyond the Foundations
The Art of Horoscope Interpretation
Jyotish · Book 3
The Mathematics of Karma
Probability, patterns and the science of Jyotish
Jyotish · Book 4
Parihara
The Vedic remedies, the remedial way of life
Jyotish · Book 5
Mahadasha Deep Dive
A systematic reading of the Vimshottari dashas
Jyotish · Standalone
Nakshatra Reflections
My revelations and experience
Omnibus · Print Only
The Complete Jyotish
A course on Vedic astrology
Some books guide the mind. Some books guide the life. These are meant to do both.
Further Reading
After the Foundations
Classical texts and modern masters for the reader who wants to go deeper
The books I have written are a way in. They are meant to hand you the vocabulary, the interpretation method, the mathematical intuition, the remedial framework, and the lived experience of a working practice. Once that ground is stable, the natural next step is to sit with the classical texts themselves, and with the modern masters who spent a lifetime with them. This list is not exhaustive, and it is not ranked. It is simply what I would put in the hands of a serious reader who is ready.
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Bhrigu Samhita
The classical Bhrigu tradition, where astrology and palmistry meet in a single predictive method. Read for the tradition, not the technicalities.
Multiple editions in print, search on Amazon India or your preferred publisher.
- Bhrigu Sutram: An Ancient Gem of Hindu Predictive Astrology A short, dense sutra text with commentary. Essential for anyone who wants to read the classical predictive style at the source rather than through summaries.
- Brihat Parasara Hora Sastra: A Compendium in Vedic Astrology, Volumes I and II BPHS is the cornerstone text of the tradition. Sharma’s two volume translation is the working reference edition. Not a book to finish. A book to keep on the shelf and return to for the rest of a practice.
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Laghu Parashari and Madhya Parashari
The two shorter Parashara texts, distilled and focused. Excellent for tightening your grasp of dashas and the professional order of prediction.
Search on Amazon India for the ARKAM edition, or order directly from Saptarishis.
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Hindu Astrology (Jyotisha Shastra)
A quiet, elegant introduction written for a Western audience in the 1940s. Still one of the clearest short expositions of Jyotish philosophy ever put in English.
Amazon International Sagar Publications reprint, also stocked by most Indian astrology bookshops.
- How to Judge a Horoscope, Volumes I and II The classic modern manual of house-by-house judgement. If you learn Jyotish in English seriously, at some point you will read Raman. This is the book to start with.
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Anything by Shri K.N. Rao or Pandit P.V.R. Narasimha Rao
Both have long YouTube archives and multiple published books. K.N. Rao for classical rigour and case study work, P.V.R. Narasimha Rao for the theoretical grounding behind Jaimini and Parashara. Any book with either name on the cover is worth your time.
K.N. Rao on Amazon India P.V.R. Narasimha Rao on Amazon India
Sit with any three of these, patiently, alongside a real chart or two, and you will be in the top one percent of English language readers of Vedic astrology. That is not an exaggeration. Most people who claim to know Jyotish have read summaries of summaries. Reading the sources, even slowly, changes everything.
The sages left the doors open. All we have to do is walk in.
