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[[File:Equinox path.png|thumb|300px|Path taken by the point of [[March equinox|vernal equinox]] along the ecliptic over the past 6000 years.]]<br />
'''''Ayanamsa''''' (Sanskrit ''{{IAST|ayanāṃśa}}'': ''{{IAST|ayana}}'' "movement" + ''{{IAST|aṃśa}}'' "component"), also '''ayanabhāga''' (Sk. ''bhāga'' "portion"), is the [[Sanskrit]] term for many systems used in [[Hindu astrology]] to account for the [[precession of equinoxes]].<ref name=":0">Barbara Pijan, https://barbarapijan.com/bpa/Amsha/Ayanamsha.htm</ref>{{Verification needed|date=December 2019}} There are also systems of ayanamsa used in Western sidereal astrology, such as the Fagan/Bradley Ayanamsa.<ref name=":1" /> <br />
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==Overview==<br />
There are various systems of Ayanamsa that are in use in Hindu astrology (also known as [[Vedas|Vedic]] astrology) such as the Raman Ayanamsa<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.saravali.de/articles/ayanamsa.html|title=Saravali: Ayanamsa|website=www.saravali.de|access-date=2019-12-05}}</ref> and the Krishnamurthy Ayanamsa,<ref name=":0" /> but the Lahiri Ayanamsa, named after its [[inventor]], [[astronomer]] N.C. Lahiri, is by far the most prevalent system.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.astro.com/astrology/in_ayanamsha_e.htm|title=Ayanamshas in Sidereal Astrology|website=www.astro.com|language=en|access-date=2019-12-05}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=https://medium.com/@srivarahamihira/which-ayanamsa-did-sri-varahamihira-use-205ae5925480|title=Which Ayanamsa did Sri Varahamihira use?|last=Mihira|first=Varaha|date=2016-02-04|website=Medium|language=en|access-date=2020-03-31}}</ref> Critics of Lahiri Ayanamsa have proposed an ayanamsa called True Chitra Paksha Ayanamsa.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" /> Dulakara Ayanamsa is the most accurate one and it can be verified with many Vedic astronomical principles.<ref>Indrasena, B.S.H. (2020).'The Zero Ayanamsa Year', in Resolving the controversies of astrology and Vedic astronomy. pp 61-78. </ref><br />
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The use of ayanamsa to account for the precession of equinoxes is believed to have been defined in [[Vedas|Vedic texts]] at least 2,500 years before the [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] astronomer [[Hipparchus]] quantified the precession of equinoxes in 127 B.C.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.theartofvedicastrology.com/?page_id=171|title=Sidereal vs. Tropical|last=VS|date=2015-03-28|website=The Art of Vedic Astrology|language=en-US|access-date=2019-12-05}}</ref><br />
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