Vedic astrology is a very important element in Hindu culture. It is used by Hindu people to set the dates of rituals in a person's life, such as weddings, and children are usually named based on the data of their astrology birth charts.
This free program performs many of the calculations needed to determine these important dates, as well as the person's sign and characteristics.
Using the program itself is very easy; you only need to enter several data about yourself or another person, such as your children or spouse. These data are their birth date and hour, their birthplace, gender and time zone, among others. The program will generate a birth chart automatically. The rest of the astrological information generated by this program is derived from this birth chart, so it is important to enter the most exact information.
Do not expect to obtain a Western-style chart or predictions. Vedic astrology differs enormously from the version practiced in the West. The results obtained must be interpreted by an expert Vedic astrologist. If you want to do it yourself, you will need a strong knowledge of this type of astrology.
v7.33 [Dec 6, 2008]
1) Jagannatha Hora uses "Swiss Ephemeris" as the planetary calculation engine. The Swiss Ephemeris DLL used by JHora was version 1.64.01 from *June 2002*. It is updated now to version 1.76 from "April 2009*. This brings in several bug-fixes and improvements made in Swiss Ephemeris since June 2002. A notable improvement occurred in version 1.70, where they improved the calculation algorithms to satisfy the latest IAU recommendations. They made the precession model more accurate among other things. For modern dates, this improvement in accuracy makes a difference of a less than a fraction of arc-sec. In fact, for dates after 1000 BC, the difference is less than 1 arc-sec. So it does not matter much. However, for really old dates (e.g. Krishna's chart), this can make a difference of several arc-min in some planets (especially Moon), which can change some divisional charts sometimes. In addition to this improvement in accuracy, several minor bugs, including some in eclipse times, were also fixed.
(2) Weekday and kaala bala of shadbala were miscalculated in old versions of JHora for dates older than 1830 AD. This is fixed now.
(3) In computing SAV, there is an option now to add eight ashtakavargas instead of seven.
(4) Varjya and durmuhurta are added in panchanga. A portion is each nakshatra is marked as varjya (avoidable) and a portion of each weekday is marked as durmuhurta (bad time) and they are avoided traditionally in muhurtas.
(5) Panchanga calculations erroneously showed asterisk on several times sometimes. It is fixed and panchanga page is accurate now.
(6) Vimsottari dasa based on divisional longitudes is fixed.
(7) Ketu's nakshatra transit in mundane tab is fixed now.
(8) Saturn/Ketu exception is restored in antardasas of old style SJC drigdasa. This was erroneously removed when Parasara's drigdasa was added.
There are several other minor bug-fixes and improvements.
