होरा
horā

Sanskrit noun
loaned from Sanskrit

Last edited: 2025-11-22
Primary meaning hour
Literal translation horoscope
Edited by
Refers to an hour i.e. 1/24th of an Aho-ratra (one day and one night); horoscopic or judicial astrology; the ascendant hour, horoscope

होरा प्रसिद्धाः । द्रेकाणसंज्ञाः प्रथितास्तथात्र चिन्ताकृतिप्राप्तिप्रकीर्तिताथ ॥३४॥

horā prasiddhāḥ | drekāṇasaṃjñāḥ prathitāstathātra cintākṛtiprāptiprakīrtitātha ||34||

‘The horās are well-known, and so the drekāṇas are named here; likewise the forms of considerations and attainment are also described.’

— Yavanajātaka v.34

Genre: astrological treatise
Provenance: India
Date: 4th-6th century CE

Pingree, David. The Yavanajātaka of Sphujidhvaja. Harvard Oriental Series, vol. 48. Cambridge: Harvard University Press 49

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APA (7th)
Malhotra, P. (2025). होरा (Lemma #6379). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6379/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Malhotra, P. (2025). होरा (Lemma #6379). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6379/
MLA (9th)
Malhotra, P. (2025). होरा (Lemma #6379). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6379/
Harvard
Malhotra, P. (2025) होरा (Lemma #6379), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6379/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac6379,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Malhotra, Poorvaa},
	year = {2025},
	title = {होरा ({Lemma} #6379)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6379/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6379/},
}