Greek astrology was transmitted to India in the 2nd and 3rd centuries ad by means of several Sanskrit translations, of which the one best known is that made in ad 149/150 by Yavaneshvara and versified as the Yavanajataka by Sphujidhvaja in ad 269/270. The techniques of Indian astrology are thus not surprisingly similar to those of its Hellenistic counterpart. But the techniques were transmitted without their philosophical underpinnings (for which the Indians substituted divine revelation), and the Indians modified the predictions, originally intended to be applied to Greek and Roman society, so that they would be meaningful to them. In ...(100 of 4268 words)