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Word origin · etymology

Sanskrit numerical compound: daśāṃśa.

Daśa means ten and aṃśa a portion: the tenth-part name. The first element is the number daśa, not the separate word daśā used for a state or planetary period.

Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary: daśāṃśa (University of Hyderabad) ↗Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary: aṃśa (University of Hyderabad) ↗Bṛhat Parāśara Horā Śāstra, Sanskrit chapter 6.2–4: sixteen names (printed p. 68) ↗

How we know · epistemology

Tenth-part mapping convention

The chart transforms D1 inputs under a declared division rule. A change in source data or method can change the result. Interpreting that result as a work theme is a further traditional step, not an astronomical observation of a second sky.

Bṛhat Parāśara Horā Śāstra, chapter 6: divisional definitions ↗

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