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{{Short description|Hindu astrological text}}
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{{Hindu scriptures |Hindu astrology}}
'''''Phaladeepika''''' is a treatise on [[Hindu astrology]] written by [[Mantreswara]]. The text is written in lyrical [[Sanskrit]] verse comprises 865 ''[[sloka meter|sloka]]''s and 28 chapters.<ref>{{cite web|title=Phaladeepika|url= http://sanskritdocuments.org/all_pdf/phaladIpika.pdf }}</ref> It is one of the more significant works on Hindu astrology, along with [[Bṛhat Parāśara Horāśāstra]] of [[Parashara]], [[Brihat Jataka]] of [[Varahamihira]], and [[Jataka Parijata]] of [[Vaidyanatha Dikshita]]. It deals in a most comprehensive and authoritative manner with almost all astrological aspects of human life.<ref>{{cite book|title=Mantreswara's Phaladeepika (With translation and commentary by G.S.Kapoor)|url=http://jyotishvidya.com/HTMLobj-9415/Mantreswara_s__Phaladeeplka_.pdf}}</ref> Mantreswara has equated a retrograde planet with an exalted planet in strength and effects even though it be in an inimical or its debilitation sign differing with Saravali which states that benefics are powerful when retrograde and cause [[Raja yoga (Hindu astrology)]] but malefic when retrograde do not confer favourable results.<ref>{{cite book|title=Speaking of Healing through Gems|author=N.N.Saha|date=January 2005|publisher=Sterling Publishers (P) Ltd.|page=87|isbn=9781845573126|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oaQk0jZzwnAC&q=Phaladeepika+Mantreswara&pg=PA87}}</ref>

==Author==
Very little is known about its author, Mantreswara, who is believed to have lived in the 13th century CE. He was born Markandeya Bhattathiri in a family of [[Namboodari]] [[Brahmin]]s in Panchgiri village of [[Tirunelveli]] in the Indian state of [[Tamil Nadu]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Mantreswara's Phaladeepika (With translation and commentary by G.S.Kapoor)|url=http://jyotishvidya.com/HTMLobj-9415/Mantreswara_s__Phaladeeplka_.pdf}}</ref> The exact date of his birth and date of death are not known, some believe that he lived in the 13th century and some believe that he lived in the 16th century.<ref>{{cite book|title=Phaladeepika Bhavarthabodhini (With translation and commentary in Hindi)|author=Gopesh Kumar Ojha|publisher=[[Motilal Banarsidass]]|page=3|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=CEY317OnpTEC&q=phaladeepika|isbn=9788120821477|year=2001}}</ref>

He was a devotee of Sukuntlambika Devi. He had traveled to far-off places in India in search of knowledge. He had renounced the world and had finally died in Tirunelveli; his date of birth and his date of death are not known.<ref>{{cite book|title=Mantreswara's Phaladeepika (With translation and commentary by G.S.Kapoor)|url=http://jyotishvidya.com/HTMLobj-9415/Mantreswara_s__Phaladeeplka_.pdf}}</ref>

According to one belief Mantreswara was born in Shalivati in [[Tamil Nadu]] and according to another, he was born in [[Kerala]]. Whether he lived in the 13th century or in the 16th century remains undecided. His work, Phaladeepika, though very popular in South India and from a very long time in the past available in Southern languages script-versions came to light when its original Sanskrit version was published from [[Kolkata]] around 1925.<ref>{{cite book|title=Phaladeepika Bhavarthabodhini (With translation and commentary in Hindi)|author=Gopesh Kumar Ojha|publisher=[[Motilal Banarsidass]]|page=3|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=CEY317OnpTEC&q=phaladeepika|isbn=9788120821477|date=2001}}</ref> At the very close of this text, Mantreswara confirms that
:श्रीशालिवाटिजातेन मया मन्त्रेश्वरेण वै |
:दैवज्ञेन द्विजाग्रेण सतां ज्योतिर्विदां मुदे || - Sloka XXVIII.5
he indeed lived in Shalivati, in present [[Tirunelveli]], as a Brahmin astrologer.

==See also==
*[[Dainya yoga]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Further reading==
{{citation |title=Phaladeepika / Malayalam |edition=Revised Second |type=For reference to sloka numbers. We have corrected the sloka numbers from 328 to 865}}
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[[Category:Sanskrit texts]]
[[Category:Hindu astrological texts]]

Phaladeepika - Revision history

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