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Word origin · etymology

Sanskrit compound: viṃśāṃśa.

Viṃśa means twentieth and aṃśa a portion. Viṃśāṃśa is recorded as a twentieth part; the numeral does not itself specify a life topic.

Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary: viṃśa; viṃśāṃśa (University of Hyderabad) ↗Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary: aṃśa (University of Hyderabad) ↗

How we know · epistemology

Twentieth-part mapping convention

D20 is a declared remapping of natal longitude. Its reproducibility concerns that map; claims about religious life are interpretive commitments and cannot be read as measurements of a person’s spiritual standing.

Bṛhat Parāśara Horā Śāstra, chapter 6: divisional definitions ↗

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