Varaha Mihira's Brihat Jataka

Rao, B. Suryanarain, trans.

Translation of Bṛhat Jātaka

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What This Book Teaches

This is the older B. Suryanarain Rao edition of Varāhamihira's Bṛhat Jātaka, valued for its historical role in introducing the text to English readers. Students still use it because the translator's notes often preserve an older mode of classroom explanation.

Who Should Read This

Students building a classical library and wanting the historically important English Brihat Jataka edition.

Why We Recommend It

It helped canonize Brihat Jataka in twentieth-century English-language Jyotiṣa study.

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