Kadalangudi Publications Books List

[Melany Odeh]

Overthe past six years (2016-2022), the astrology library has significantly improved its previously relatively spartan holdings of Vedic astrology books and those of relevance to the practice and traditions of astrology in India. At the latest count (July 30th, 2023), it now has over 750 edition-volumes of Vedic and Indian astrology books and academic reference works, excluding journals. They are alphabetically listed here in simplified form for easy reference, without details of binding or condition.

[4] The translator is credited only on the copyright page, and the stated editor, who provides the main introduction, only on the title page. Series editor Joe Fallisi provides an additional, shorter introduction following that of Bezza.

[22] Pages 21-342 of this book are given over to delineations of transits by Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto only through the natal houses and in aspect to the natal planets. The teaching section on the Dasas spans pp. 344-389 only, and is followed by celebrity example horoscopes

[30] A compilation of 46 articles previously published in the journal Vedic Astrology between 1997 and 2007. The eight authors featured in this volume comprise Dr. B. V. Raman, Dr. David Frawley, Dr. S. C. Mishra, Bipin Behari, Col. A. K. Gaur, Vinay Aditya, Rajeev Jhanji, and Dr. K. S. Charak.

[32] A compilation of 34 articles revised and partly rewritten from those previously published in the journal Vedic Astrology between 1997 and 2007. The nine authors featured in this volume comprise Dr. David Frawley, Robert E. Svoboda, Rajeev Jhanji, Dr. S. C. Mishra, P. C. Bafna, Vinay Aditya, Francis R. Day, P. V. R. Rayudu, and Dr. K. S. Charak.

[34] A compilation of 27 articles revised and partly rewritten from those previously published in the journal Vedic Astrology between 1997 and 2007. The eight authors featured in this volume comprise Dr. David Frawley, Dr. S. C. Mishra, Ernst Wilhelm, VInay Aditya, P. C. Bafna, Dr. Kameshwar Upadhyaya, R. G. Krishnan, and Dr. K. S. Charak.

[64] The three distinct documents under this title are stated as being the third, fourth and fifth articles (respectively) in their series. They were originally published as part of the A.F.S.A. Bulletin in April, May and June 1944, according to the records of the A.F.A.

[67] In all three volumes of this edition, the English translation is interspersed with the relevant Sanskrit source text, and supplemented periodically with English notes referencing and often quoting from other relevant Sanskrit texts

[93] A compilation of 38 short essays on specific Indian astrological topics by prominent practitioners of Hindu astrology, including James Braha, Hart deFouw, Ronnie Dreyer, David Frawley, Martin Gansten, Theresa Hamilton, Dennis Harness, Edith Hathaway, Bill Levacey, Valerie Roebuck, and the editor

[101] The credits indicate that the English translation has been prepared from a Tamil translation of the Sanskrit original by Rev. Pandit Kadalangudi Natesa Sastri, who was the late father of Mrs. Saraswathy

[115] No other date is given in this edition, which may conceivably have been published for the Indian and / or international market almost simultaneously with the Theosophical Publishing House edition published for the British market. The bindings and contents are designed exactly alike in all respects other than the imprint.

[131] The first edition appellation seems paradoxical given that the first edition of Vol. 2 is dated 2007 in print. It would seem probable that this copy of Volume I is a reprint from 2012, and the date, which appears in a bolder font, has been changed but the mention of First Edition has been left in by mistake

[133] There is no overall internal title page, so the limited details for the overall publication are taken from the front cover. The two separate internal title pages are dated 1970 and 1971 respectively, but these correspond to the publication dates of the original standalone editions of each separate component volume, of which this is a very much later combined facsimile reprint.

[136] It is not known whether or not this is an undeclared later printing of this volume, but the cover is of relatively good quality compared with the reprints of the other volumes in the series in this collection, so it seems likely to be the original. It was purchased new around 2005.

[137] A series of publications edited at this time by Lawrence I. Conrad, Dominik Wujastyk and Paul U. Unschuld, together with an editorial board comprising Donald J. Harper, Guy Attewell and Ronald E. Emmerick

[140] This catalogue chiefly covers texts on astronomy, mathematics, divination, genethlialogy, muhurta, and prasna. There are also a few other mischellaneous categories in the closing main pages (pp. 140-7).

[162] Sheets from the two originally separately published parts of the second edition have been bound up into a single volume by the publisher. The paper quality of the two parts is distinctly different, confirming this. In later editions, the pagination would be unified

[168] The contents consist of a compilation of five articles by the author previously published in the Astrological Magazine in May 1941, April 1943, October-December 1940, June 1943, and June-August 1941, together with three additional chapters

[175] After the seventh edition of July 1926, the last published during the lifetime of the author. Library records date the third edition to 1900 and the fourth to 1903. No library records corresponding to the remaining editions are found on Worldcat.

[205] The title page and ffep that ought to be present in this copy have been torn out by a previous owner. It was purchased second-hand in Jan. 2007, and is presumed to date from the late 1990s to early-mid 2000s, though it has since been reprinted

[209] No indication is given of the apparently multiple authors of the original sources translated in this text, and it is presumed that they are unknown. I have therefore credited it to the translator

[213] The original edition was published in 1924, with the revised second edition in 1935, according to library records. The third and fourth editions are unclearly dated, with some library records giving them the same year as the second, but this is likely to be false. No records for a date for the fifth edition (q. v. above) could be found at the time of writing.

[219] A facsimile reprint of the original British publication of Nichols & Co., 1908. It would appear to have been a small-format book in view of the large type size on the reprint and line count of just 21 lines per page

[227] The first printing of the revised edition was 1903, also published by Nichols. At a later stage, Foulsham took over the publication in the UK of the revised edition in a number of undated printings. The printing dates of the equivalent American edition published by David McKay Company, q.v. below, are also not apparent.

[230] The first printing of the revised edition was 1903, also published by Nichols. At a later stage, Foulsham took over the publication in the UK of the revised edition in a number of undated printings. The printing dates of the equivalent American edition published by David McKay Company, q.v. below, are also not apparent.

[240] The present volume is a transcription of the Sanskrit source text, based on the Kathmandu transcript in the Sylvain Lvi collection at the Sorbonne, with scholarly apparatus showing variant readings in different manuscripts. The original source text is dated by Pingree to C.E. 269/270, and is said to itself have been a versified version of a lost prose translation made by a Yavanesvara in C.E. 149/150 from a lost Greek original text.

[259] Presumed August 2020 in common with Vol. 1 above. The volumes were sold only as a set, and pagination is continuous from one to the next, suggesting that publication date details were deemed by the publisher to be unnecessary in all volumes after the first

[264] After the original edition of 2007-2008 and the second of 2011. The original edition would appear to have comprised three separate volumes, which have been merged into one here. Three separate runs of pagination are retained internally

[270] An early series of publications focused on English translations of ancient Indian astrological texts. This was the fourth volume to be released in the series, following the Brihat Samhita of Varaha Mihira (q.v.), the Brihat Jataka of Varaha Mihira (q.v. for a later reprint of the same translation) and a shorter work on horary (not in this collection)

[271] A facsimile reprint of the original publication of 1898, whose publisher is not specified here but shown by Worldcat records to be the Light of Truth Pub., Columbus, Ohio. It is said to have been published as Vol. 2, No. 2 of a series called the Light of Truth Library

[282] Although Vasudev is credited as the author on the covers and title page, the table of contents reveals the involvement of multiple authors for the different internal articles. Vasudev contributes seven articles out of 17. The other authors include K. N Rao; H. J. Eysenck with D. K. B. Nias, Michel Gauquelin, Sepharial (by whom an excerpt from his 1918 book The Science of Foreknowledge is featured), and several lesser-known authors

Almost 50 per cent of those are small players who operate on a limited scale. Around 400 publishers are active and of those 200 are have publishing as their full-time business. And most of these are less than 20 years old.

According to The Book Sellers and Publishers Association of South India (BAPASI) the publishers come up with about 6,000 Tamil books a year, of which 1,000 are re-prints. This means 5,000 new Tamil books enter the market. The publishers can be classified as those who bring out text books, all genres of books, literary and philosophical books, research books meant mostly for libraries, translated works, only astrological books and religious and children's books.

Pioneers among the publishers were Arumuga Navalar, U.Ve. Swaminatha Iyer, Ci.Vai. Damodharam Pillai and Vaiyapuri Pillai. Aarumuga Navalar of Jaffna dedicated his life to revive the glory of the Tamils of the region and published 37 books. Navalar, who was also a Tamil scholar, published not only his books but also Parimelazhagar's Thirukkural commentary, Nannool Vrithiurai, Tholkappia Solladhigaram, Soodamani Nigandurai, Kanthapuranam, among others.

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