PARASHARA'S LIGHT Jyotish Software, a User Report on Version 4.01 (and 4.5)
[for Windows]
BY
Rohiniranjan (Jyotish Course-Coordinator and Researcher, Crystal Pages)
April 17, 1998

Please do not send your comments or questions about the Parashara Light program to Crystal Pages but provide feedback directly to Geovision at their website (URL given at the end of this page. Thanks!) (Note added on November 1, 1998: Subsequent experience with running the 4.01 version of the software on a P-133 computer with Windows 95 did not show the crashes with the 'graphical ephemeris' feature. The program operation was crisper, including the speedier appearance of the opening screen, as well as the somewhat crisper onscreen display (although this could be a video hardware optimization thing). The different video subsystem, faster CPU and different operating system were all possibly responsible for the improvements, since we had earlier tested it on a computer with W3.11). The program picked the W95 installation option (in contrast to W3.11; see below) by itself. It appears that the program had been better optimized for W95, the operating system that was more prevalent when the 4.01 version of PL was released, in 1997. Additional comments on the more recent version 4.5 appear at the bottom of this review.

©opyrighted by Crystal Pages (1998)

{Practically all software is always a 'work in progress', this is why there are so frequent updates! If you are a user, make it a point to remain in touch with the programmer and convey the beefs, bugs and bouquets. It is very likely that over time, many and hopefully all the bugs and glitches that are reported to them would be resolved. If you are acquiring a more recent version of these programs, the glitches or deficiencies noted here would be places to look for improvements but there could be 'new' ones that were not there before. This happens with all software! Please remember that programmers of specialized and relatively low volume markets such as exists for Jyotish software, work under immense pressures, including limited resources and often very limited staff to help out with the phone calls, technical feedback/troubleshooting and customer support operations. It is a labor of love for most of them.}

BACKGROUND: PARASHARA'S LIGHT is perhaps one of the oldest jyotish software that has been commercially available for several years (other than perhaps the DOS program PC-Jyotish from Passage Press). It has undergone a few major revisions in its DOS and Windows versions. Despite the tongue-in-cheek adage favored by many programmers, "... any bugs that are found in astrological software primarily reflect the karma of the user rather than that of the programmer!" (the statement may be ironically true, because many users, particularly of jyotish software do not even try out all the features and never get to know all the nooks and crannies where surprises might lurk, and therefore may continue to remain blissfully satisfied!), one cannot be faulted for expecting to see in PARASHARA'S LIGHT a mature, complete, accurate, bug-free and stable package that could be reliably used by professional Jyotishis. And, in most situations, it delivers! The program comes with four classical texts, Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra, Saravali, Garga Hora and Horasara. Having the texts electronically-available makes it a lot easier to search for keywords and relevant planetary combinations (yogas) in a chart.

FIRST ENCOUNTER: For this review I utilized three WINTEL (Intel CPU and Windows 3.1) computer systems, a 486-DX2/66/8MB, a Pentium 75/16MB and a Pentium 166/32MB. Computer systems can vary a bit from each other and using only one system can at times lead to an unfair evaluation of a program because of occasional hardware/software idiosyncrasies. For testing hardcopy output, I used a HP-5L laser printer and Epson 200 inkjet printer as representatives of two currently popular printer technologies. Installation of PARASHARA'S LIGHT from the CD is reasonably straight forward, although one is required to manually select between the W95 and W3.1 versions, something that practically all programs handle automatically these days. The program can be run in the DEMO mode ($15) or used in the 'unlocked' version by supplying a password (a one time procedure). The program opens with a splash screen showing an astronomical instrument built by Maharaja Sawai Jai singh (an Indian Rajput Maharaja who was an avid astronomer and erected observatories in Indian cities of Jaipur, Delhi and Ujjain, etc.). This screen takes only several seconds to build-up, but cannot be skipped by pressing the ESCAPE key, etc. It does tend to become a bit of a drag for one to have to sit through, after the first dozen of times or so! This screen shows its full glory in 64K colors settings, the rest of the program also shows more colors and hues at the 64K setting as opposed to the 256 color settings. The program works with the ACS electronic atlases (not tested!), however, it contains a reasonably good coverage of US and India, Canada has been sketchily covered, with some errors (the atlas has undergone extensive expansion and upgrade in the 4.5 ). There should have been more 'transparency' and instructions added to the atlas section. As it stands, it is easy to add to and expand, working as it does from TXT files, however, a bit more instructions would have been helpful for those who do not wish to tinker with program data and system files. Essentially, the files follow the following format (example is for Manitoba, Canada, which I added entries to. Filename: MB.TXT found in the Atlas subdirectory):

6:00,WEST
Amery,MB,56N,34,94W,3
Brandon,MB,49N,50,99W,57
Brochet,MB,57N,53,101W,40

The first line in the atlas file shows the TIME ZONE correction, a comma and EAST/WEST flag. Only one timezone correction is allowed per file per country or province; this may cause the beginners some confusion for countries like Spain which use CET despite some of the spanish cities being locate west of 0deg longitude. The listings for individual cities are arranged one per line with the fields separated by commas, the name of city, optional text, latitude (DEG N/S,MIN) and longitude (same order as latitude). Although existing files show some trailing code at the end of files, these are of no significance. The filenames are already keyed into the program and cannot be expanded or altered. These show up when one opens a new horoscope entry screen and clicks on the country box. Some of the files (Canadian) though defined were missing from the original program installation (4.0.1).

MANAGING CHARTS: Three versions of file managers are provided, the most recent addition being named the 'Fancy Manager' which comes with a warning in the manual about it not having been debugged completely (a few of the features are not fully implemented, yet, such as the new-chart or new quick chart folder from the OPEN file menu. In all three of my systems, the fancy file manager worked flawlessly, the other two file managers were a bit erratic and once or twice produced a major crash that required rebooting. The 'fancy' manager allows one to view charts with long names, shows the rashi chart and birth data for the individual whose name is highlighted by the cursor. It is actually quite beautiful and functions very well. I decided to work with it exclusively. The standard charts (not the quick format collection of charts) can be sorted by name, date and by a variety of astrological parameters (ascendant, Moon sign, nakshatra, etc.). This feature will prove to be very useful for students and researchers.

FILES AND FOLDERS: The program supports charts in a proprietary *.KUN (kundali, the sanskrit term for a horoscope, literally meaning a 'coiled formation' like a snake) format or in *.QCK albums or folders each of which can hold several charts. The latter is a very convenient format for research purposes. After selecting a chart (the program comes with over 800 celebrity charts in different categories, such as singers, scientist, athletes, etc. in the QuiCK chart folder format) one can look for specific items (using Boolean operators) or for similarities in a cohort of charts and showing up results in a tabulated and graph form. Hard copy output of the research results is permitted but the program does not allow one to save the results in a text file. This can be rather limiting, unless you have an OCR scanner (two-step process to print and then scan the results back into electronic format). The QUICK chart folder is essentially an ASCII text file containing collections of names and birth data arranged in rows. These files can be readily edited as long as one pays attention to the column-spacing used between the fixed length fields, such as name, date, time coordinates, etc. CAUTION: If the entries are not created using the correct format, the program would crash! Individual horoscope files can be deleted, copied or moved to the quick chart albums. CAUTION: When copying/moving *.KUN charts into *.QCK folders, the program adds an extra hour to the stated DST time zone. The *.KUN chart remains flawless but the chart moved into a QCK folder becomes flawed as it is calculated for an epoch which is one hour ahead of what it actually was. This is because when transferring a chart to a quick chart folder, the program is flagging the entry as a daylight savings entry, but the time zone value recorded next to it is not correct! There are a large number of charts supplied with the program in the *.QCK format. In order to avoid significant errors, before using any of these, users must load each of these in a text editor (like Windows Notepad) and manually correct all the DST zone values. For instance, in the ACTORS.QCK folder,

Black,Karen JUL 01 193905:00:00 AM CDT+06:00087W51'00 42N02'00 Park Ridge, GAQ

must be corrected by changing the CDT+06 to CDT+05, to read:

Black,Karen JUL 01 193905:00:00 AM CDT+05:00087W51'00 42N02'00 Park Ridge, GAQ

When creating new QCK chart files one may wish to avoid the daylight savings 'bug' by creating a chart for the corresponding standard time instead of daylight savings time. In other words, instead of a 5:30 AM CDT, one would enter the birth time as 4:30 AM CST. An easy fix (has been FIXED in version 4.5)! It must be noted that charts cannot be extracted from *.QCK files and saved as individual *.KUN chart files. It is very easy to use a text editor or word processor and to copy and paste lines of birthdata from different QCK files and create a QCK file of ones choice, though. The program only worked with charts of people born after 1806. It let me calculate charts from earlier epochs but could not reopen these files or save these to the *.QCK folders without crashing.

DISPLAYS AND HARD COPY OUTPUT: The program provides the viewing of the various horoscopic information in three types of screen displays. The commonest screen used by most would be the customizable worksheet, which can be dumped to the printer, followed by special charts and tables (such as transits, yogas, sudarshana wheel) and a print-preview display. Some of the detailed tables such as those showing vimshopaka, bhavbal and shadbal distribution or mrityubhagas are available on screen only through print-preview (or hard copy output), although a shadbal bottom line is available as a histogram as a worksheet option. The program supports several pre-defined printouts and a cover page. It also allows you to create a customized print layout or modify existing ones for a more personalized look. The page design tool is a powerful feature, works very well and is extremely helpful. There are placement aids provided which make the task easy even for someone like me with little artistic ability or pageferences between several versions of hardcopy translations available for the reference classics). These would prove helpful to students of jyotish and for those who wish to use these 'interpretations' as seeds or jumping points for their own. The program saves the readings specific to a chart as text files which can then be combined and used in jyotish reports. It cannot be stressed strongly enough that one must not take the individual capsule readings for each combination, by itself, too seriously. It is the resultant of many yogas or arishtas that one must be looking for, most of the times.

OTHER GOODIES: Standard jyotish options, charts, selectable special optional modes of calculation, such as, calculation of dashas by longitude of arc vs. time spent by the Moon in an asterism, and ease of use highlight the strengths of the program. The biggest advantage of the program is its SPEED OF CALCULATIONS which makes hopping from chart to chart, or screen to screen a very easy and nearly seamless process.

The program sports a muhurtha (electional astrology) calculator which shows relevant information and a 'thermometer' that shows if the epoch would be a good one for general purpose, marriage or for traveling. Also shown are standard panchang items, yoga, karana, tithi and the rashi and navamsha chart for the moment selected, as well as a table of planetary longitudes, nakshatra position, etc. This can serve as a very useful ready reckoner panchang. The time-change tool described earlier works well with this screen and one can step through time for tuning into the most opportune moment! Version 4.5 expands the range of periods by which one can move forwards and backwards, although this could be a beta feature since the labelling of the extra buttons was not done!).

Practically all of the screens can be captured as images or printed from PARASHARA'S LIGHT, however, it would have been nice to be able to save some of these as a text file for E-mailing or for sending through mail after saving on a floppy.

RESEARCH: There are two research modules in this program, one of which allows you to create search strings for three sets of parameters connected by a Boolean operator. For example, one could develop a search strategy, such as, "Find the charts in which Gemini is aspected by the lord of 4" AND "house 3 is occupied by Rahu". This can serve as a very powerful study-aid and also allow one to search for your very own new combinations in a set of charts. The execution of these searches is reasonably fast (few minutes or less) and adds to the general usefulness of PARASHARA'S LIGHT. The other RESEARCH module in this program lets you search for similarities, such as ascendants, signs and nakshatras occupied by the planets or aspects, dignities, conjunctions, shadbal and ashtakvarg in a set of charts, the 'set' being determined by the *.QCK folder that contains the charts under study. On my slowest system (486-DX2 66), the program searched a folder with 150 charts for all aspects in only 10 seconds and for dignities in about 40 seconds, a very commendable performance! The research option also allows one to find out when a specific transit would occur. I ran into some problems (FIXED in version 4.5) when running some of the options (X making a square aspect or being within 45 deg of Y being two such situations, this option is primarily for calculation of sade-sathis of saturn based on Jyotishi Katwe's recommendations (which I have personally found more satisfactory in several cases as opposed to using the entire sign regardless of the position of natal moon), most others utilize sade sathi to extend from the entire sign before to the one after the natal moon's placement). Despite these few glitches, the software does allow one to do some useful research and to carry out some interesting pattern-matching. It is easy to quickly test in a QCK collection of horoscopes, when someone makes a comment such as, "Saturn in the fifth always leads to childlessness"! In allowing the user to select the parameters for searching, the process has been made more efficient and the search time is cut down. For instance, it makes good sense at times to not search for nakshatras when the primary intention is to look at the signs, although there are situations where an 'all-out search' used by other programs might be a useful, albeit, slower strategy, such as when looking for a new yoga, etc. However, I would have been happier if the program allowed for more levels of logical operations. Currently, it allows one to create only two sets of attributes (as shown in the above example). More levels would have made the search slower, but with most contemporary computer systems overflowing with siliconic power, raging at 166 Mhz, and higher, the slowness of execution might not have been a significant hurdle at all! Perhaps a 'search query' screen which allows one to write a 'search-statement' using pre-defined keywords and logical operators such as AND, OR and NOT (the latter can be very useful in sharpening the search!) perhaps through using the 'yoga' codes built into and used by the program would have allowed experienced users and serious researchers to carry out some very sophisticated research. Those who have read Richard Houck's Digital Astrology would find much practical use in experimenting with the ashtakavarg kaksha system, which is supported well in this program (both versions).

ROLLING YOUR OWN YOGAS: While many would be perfectly happy with the thousands of yogas given in the program and the readings provided for users, the fact is that most of such 'canned' yoga (and dasha) readings generally do not work too well in many charts. This is because all of the programs that allow the pattern-identification of yogas, unfortunately, simply stop there. This could result in the identification of scores of combinations in a chart many of which would be mutually contradictory. On the other hand, yoga-identification can be of great use to the student in learning which yogas work and which ones do not or in research (How many have a certain wealth yoga and where do they fall on the Bill Gates' scale of spare change?)! However, as all astute jyotishis readily learn, yogas also depend on the strength of the planets involved, as well as on the nativity experiencing the corresponding or related dashas in many cases for yoga-fructification. And then there are yogas that modify other yogas! None of these and other critical factors are taken into account by any of the software available, partly because the rules are not well-understood or readily disseminated by jyotishis that know. It cannot be denied that there is a lot about practical jyotish that is not stated clearly or at all in the classical texts and is only slowly forthcoming from those who use the rules in practice. This situation is reversing as interest in jyotish continues to grow and the book market becomes more lucrative for those who have something to tell (write) about. Eventually, one hopes, the rudimentary 'yoga' section in the existing software would also grow up into something that is more applicable and useful and this would prove to be a giant step towards developing a better 'interpretive' jyotish software package than has been possible so far.

Be that as it may, PARASHARA'S LIGHT provides the user with a simple way of adding new yogas to the repertoire already included in the program. For this, one defines yogas using any text editor (like WINDOWS NOTEPAD or equivalent) and creates a yoga-code, followed by its interpretation (description and reading) and then saves these in one of the 6 user text files supported by the program. You could have all the yogas in one big file or split them over a set of these. An example of a yoga file would be like the following:

~R9i!1*8i!1*L1i!a~ (yoga code)
Crystal Pages #311-96 (identifier or label)
The individual has subtle communication difficulties and finds it easier to communicate with those not intimately related, such as at work with coworkers than with family members. The general disposition is very materialistically-oriented and pragmatism supervenes, emotions are well bottled-up, at times overly so. (Reading)

Here are the meanings of the codes used ~ = delimiter indicating a yoga code R9 = Rashi #9, dhanu or Sagittarius i = stands for equal to, or 'is in' in this context !1 = house #9 So far we defined, "dhanu is rising" * = logical AND operation (gets precedence over an OR) 8 = planet #8 or Rahu (Sun =1 Moon =2 .... Ketu = 9) i = is in !1 = ascendant or house #1 * = AND L1 = lord of ascendant (house #1) i = is in !a = a trika or dusthana house (6th, 8th or 12th) ~ = delimiter

So, all together, the yoga reads, ~if Sagittarius is rising AND Rahu is in first house AND lagnesha is in a dusthana~ then the reading applies. Following this there would be a blank line separating this from the next yoga in the file.

It is a very easy way of coding, once someone has had a bit of practice and if one is familiar with the fundamentals of astrology, such as, the order of planets and their various attributes.

While we are on the topic of yogas, it must be noted that PARASHARA's Light does not allow users to toggle between using the whole-sign-as-a-house vs. other house systems. Many yogas described in texts are based on a planet being located in a house, e.g., "When Jupiter is in the 2nd house ...". Now, one can have Cancer rising with Jupiter in the very end of Cancer which will put it in the second house if using a house-division system such as equal or Sripati. Some astrologers would consider Jupiter in this example as placed in the first and not the second house, because they would consider the entire sign as the house. The classical texts or contemporary experts are not unanimous or for that matter clear on this point, whether to utilize the whole sign, the Sripati houses or equal houses when considering some or all yogas! Some programs, such as, Goravani Jyotish allow the user to select either the whole sign or one of the popular house systems for yoga and benefic/malefic determinations. PARASHARA'S LIGHT does not permit this. Since no one has conclusively shown the validity of using the mathematical house division systems (which are of the averaging type or not universally used), it would have been desirable to allow the user to determine which path he or she chooses to follow. Generally speaking, Jyotishis have a large number of 'variant' opinions, most of these being generally based on anecdotal recollections and less often on documented and demonstrable proof. It must be realized that the latter is difficult to produce since different ways of interpreting can bring into play, different ways of explaining a combination or other indicator in a given set of charts. In view of this 'fluidity' of subjective interpretations, the forcing of bhavs over signs could lead to a significant problem for some users. To its credit, PARASHARA'S LIGHT does allow one to modify the benefic/malefic roles of planets for different ascendants through an editing screen, also, it allows one to utilize the lunar sidereal year for calculating dashas. Most other programs only allow 365.25 and 360 day years. Many other alternative calculation parameters are selectable in the program.

NOVICE ALERT!: As is true for most major jyotish software, there are so many features and options, that there is always a certain potential for punching in the wrong value such as unintentionally selecting a variant ayanamsha, typing in latitude instead of longitude, entering the month and date in the wrong order (turning an August 5th birth into a May 8th birth!), etc., that it pays to be extra careful and deliberately meticulous in rechecking the data that is entered. When all is said and done, in PARASHARA'S LIGHT, any typos are less painful because of the blindingly rapid recalculation times. It is nothing less than sheer joy to see the screen come up almost instantly with newly calculated figures!

BOTTOM LINE: Overall, PARASHARA'S LIGHT is a delightful, capable and a fairly accurate program that can serve all levels of jyotishis very well. All major options work smoothly in the program. Many of the glitches and inconveniences that I found and actually deliberately went looking for as a reviewer may not even significantly affect the use that many would typically put this program to. Most, if not all the glitches can be avoided or fixed by adopting alternate ways of doing things, some outlined in this article, so these should not be considered a deterrent against acquiring the program. The software represents a very strong package which has many unique features that can work complementarily with other popular jyotish programs and collectively the suite of programs can only strengthen your astrological hand. PARASHARA'S LIGHT is extremely forgiving of the power of the computer system one is using, so if you are using pre-pentium computer systems, then this richly featured Windows jyotish program is probably the only significant jyotish software for you.

ADDENDUM ON VERSION 4.5 (added January 1999): This is the current version in which the programmers of Parashara's Light have eliminated 'bugs' such as the crash in the graphical ephemeris mode that occurred with Windows 3.1, or the erroneous transfer of data to QCK charts in DST births. The new version has also acquired some nice touches such as several optional backgrounds (which I turned off to increase speed of execution) and a calculator that seems to allow one to generate points similar to 'saham's that are reduced in modulo to the beginning of the zodiac. I need to play with this one a bit more to fully understand its utility. Gone are the bugs that caused crashes in some of the sadesati transit calculations under research options. A 'Timeline' option allows one to view one month at a time, either the transits (graphical ephemeris screen) or the ashtakavarg kaksha alongwith a display of planets that go R or D during the month. The year or month can be changed easily. This is a rather interesting way of viewing these significant transit influences which will be of great interest to explorers of the transits/ashtakvarga techniques. The 4.5 version also sports a much expanded worldwide atlas which one has the option to add or ignore when installing the program. Those who have the ACS atlas would choose the 'ignore' option. There have been some changes made to the interface as well which I liked but that is always a matter of personal preference. Those who have been annoyed by the need to overwrite 'Fairfield' coordinates when adding each new 'event' would breathe a shortlasting sigh of relief when they would view "use the place as default" button. However, when they go on to add the next event, they would be disappointed to see Fairfield pop up again (even if you exit the program and restart it again). I personally find this to be a minor annoyance because of the compensation provided by the faster executing atlas with the 'auto-lookup' option that saves valuable time. The new features simply beg for a new manual and enhancement of the online help file both of which are perhaps forthcoming in future. If you are a beginner and do not have Houck's Digital Astrology book and other material, you are very much on your own for now for the kaksha feature, etc. However, let this not deter one from seriously considering the software which continues to provide solid performance (more solid than before and other comparable programs, in terms of stability and speed), while providing many more dashas than are generally available. A truly customizable chart search feature which would allow the advanced user to use a special configuration file containing the yoga-codes used by the program would be a great godsend. I loved the fact that Michiel has allowed one to specify individually the number of charts that can be displayed in each of the four worksheets (earlier versions applied the chosen number to be applied to all four at the same time). This improves the productivity as I can customize the displays to show a macroview of a horoscope (rashi, navamsha, dashas, karakas, strengths and current transit) orF$*IF4*FQBE6
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Overall, very admirable advancements were there in this version which would serve the needs of a very large number of individuals who have a serious interest in jyotish and who love exploring a chart in many different ways.

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