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I read 4,197 Sanskrit verses so your astrologer can't lie to you.

There are two kinds of astrology on the internet right now. One is a five dollar GPT wrapper that forwards your sun sign to a chatbot and prints whatever comes back.

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PublishedSep 30, 2026
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  • brihat parashara hora shastra
  • vedic astrology
  • jyotish
  • sanskrit verses
  • astrology gemstones
  • astrology remedies
THE WRITE-UP4,197 verses, and no gemstone to sell youThree months transcribing the Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra by hand, 2,103 rules pulled from it, and an engine that cites the verse behind every line.

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There are two kinds of astrology on the internet right now. One is a five dollar GPT wrapper that forwards your sun sign to a chatbot and prints whatever comes back. The other sells you fear — your chart has a terrible combination, your life is going badly because of it, and the only fix is the gemstone, the yantra or the puja they happen to sell.

I have a very big problem with the second one. It runs on emotional vulnerability, and it can never be caught out, because when the prediction fails it was never the astrologer who was wrong. You gave the wrong birth time. A business whose model is selling you the add-on will never tell you the truth.

So I spent three months reading the source instead. 4,197 verses of the Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra, 62 chapters, transcribed by hand, and 2,103 rules pulled out of the Sanskrit and turned into something a machine can actually run.

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I am not claiming AstroEngine can tell your future. I am claiming it is true to its source, and that you can check — every prediction in the report cites the verse it came from, and you can click through and read what the book actually says. Nothing is sold to you afterwards.

If the book recommends a remedy, it is in the report, with instructions for doing it yourself at home. If it needs a priest, find one you trust. I am respectful of the belief. I am not respectful of the business built on it.

(One correction, also on screen at 4:17: I say "2,000 plus verses" when I meant 2,000 plus rules. The verse count is 4,197. The rule count is 2,103.)

→ www.astroengine.ai

Prayogsala is the Nepali word for laboratory. I use it for mine — everything I try over the next two years gets filmed, written up, and counted, including the parts that do not work.

→ www.prayogsala.com Built at Wagle Universal Solutions → www.wagleus.com

I am not an expert. I am the experiment.

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