Medini (Mundane)
National charts, ingresses, eclipses and samvatsara.
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Level 1Units: 5
Level 1 · Unit 1
Roots and sources
Open the Brihat Samhita: its scope, planetary wars and comets, the kurma vibhaga's tortoise map, and how to read Medini as cultural history.
- Inside the Brihat Samhita
- Planetary wars, comets and portents
- Kurma vibhaga: the tortoise map
- Medini as cultural history
- Checkpoint: Roots and sources
Level 1 · Unit 2
National charts, sankrantis and eclipses
Time a national chart, read the 1947 chart's structure, cast sankranti and new-year charts, and follow eclipses as the nodes move.
- Fixing a nation's moment
- The 1947 chart as a method example
- Sankranti and new-year charts
- Eclipses in Medini
- Checkpoint: National charts, sankrantis and eclipses
Level 1 · Unit 3
The samvatsara cycle
Group the 60 years into yugas, compare the southern and Barhaspatya reckonings and calendar eras, find the year's raja and mantri, and keep Medini ethical.
- Sixty years, twelve yugas
- Two reckonings, many calendars
- Raja and mantri of the year
- Ethics and hindsight
- Checkpoint: The samvatsara cycle
Level 1 · Unit 4
Quarters, months and rain charts
Cast the four quarterly sankranti charts, name amanta months, find 2026's adhika Jyeshtha and meet Ardra pravesha rain lore, all computed with Lahiri.
- The four quarterly sankrantis
- New-moon months
- The adhika masa: an extra month
- Ardra pravesha and rain lore
- Checkpoint: Quarters, months and rain charts
Level 1 · Unit 5
Jupiter, Saturn and the year file
Track Jupiter and Saturn through the rashis, place the great conjunction, link Jupiter to Kumbh and Pushkaram festivals, and build a 2027 year file.
- Slow grahas as clocks
- The great conjunction
- Jupiter and the festival calendar
- Building a year file for 2027
- Checkpoint: Jupiter, Saturn and the year file