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Word origin · etymology

Sanskrit numerical compound: dvādaśāṃśa.

Dvādaśa means twelve; aṃśa means a portion. The name designates a twelfth part, also recorded in the dictionary’s zodiac vocabulary.

Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary: dvādaśan; dvādaśa; dvādaśāṃsa (University of Hyderabad) ↗Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary: aṃśa (University of Hyderabad) ↗

How we know · epistemology

Twelfth-part mapping convention

The arithmetic can locate a graha in a twelfth-part division. A family interpretation remains a symbolic reading; it cannot independently establish facts about parents, inheritance or ancestry.

Bṛhat Parāśara Horā Śāstra, chapter 6: divisional definitions ↗

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