आपोक्लिम
Āpoklima

Sanskrit noun
loaned from Greek

Last edited: 2026-01-16
Primary meaning Cadent
Literal translation Cadent
Edited by
Cadent

‘falling’ from an angle: houses 3, 6, 9 and 12

चतुर्विलग्नं प्रवदन्ति केन्द्रं ततः परं पाणफरं तु योगम् । आपोक्लिमाख्यं तु तृतीयमाहुर्लग्नाश्रयैषा त्रिविधैव संज्ञा ॥५३॥

caturvilagnaṃ pravadanti kendraṃ tataḥ paraṃ pāṇapharaṃ tu yogam | āpoklimākhyaṃ tu tṛtīyamāhurlagnāśrayaiṣā trividhaiva saṃjñā ||53||

‘The four houses (Caturvilagna) from the ascendant are called Kendra (angles). The houses following them are known as Pāṇaphara. The third group is called Āpoklima. The house from the lagna is called the Trividhā (three divisions).’

— Yavanajātaka 1.53

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 53

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APA (7th)
Malhotra, P. (2026). आपोक्लिम (Lemma #6398). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6398/
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Malhotra, P. (2026). आपोक्लिम (Lemma #6398). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6398/
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Malhotra, P. (2026) आपोक्लिम (Lemma #6398), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6398/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac6398,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Malhotra, Poorvaa},
	year = {2026},
	title = {आपोक्लिम ({Lemma} #6398)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6398/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6398/},
}