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Word origin · etymology

Sanskrit compound: ṣoḍaśāṃśa.

Ṣoḍaśa is the sixteen/sixteenth numeral and aṃśa a portion. The dictionary records the full compound for a sixteenth part.

Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary: ṣoḍaśa; ṣoḍaśāṃśa (University of Hyderabad) ↗Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary: aṃśa (University of Hyderabad) ↗

How we know · epistemology

Sixteenth-part mapping convention

This chart is calculated from finer portions of the same natal longitude. More subdivisions do not create more reliable input data, and a repeated pattern across derived charts is not an independent observation.

Bṛhat Parāśara Horā Śāstra, chapter 6: divisional definitions ↗

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