अपचय
apacaya

Sanskrit noun
loaned from Sanskrit

Last edited: 2026-01-16
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Other than sixth, third, tenth, and eleventh zodiac signs, rest are called apacaya

षष्ठं तृतीयं दशमं च राशिमेकादशं चोपचयर्क्षमाहुः । होरागृहस्थानशशाङ्कभेब्यः शेषाणि चैभ्योऽपचयर्क्षमाहुः ॥५७॥

ṣaṣṭhaṃ tṛtīyaṃ daśamaṃ ca rāśimekādaśaṃ copacayarkṣamāhuḥ | horāgṛhasthānaśaśāṅkabhebyaḥ śeṣāṇi caibhyo'pacayarkṣamāhuḥ ||57||

‘The sixth, third, tenth, and eleventh zodiac signs are called Upacaya signs from those situated from zodiac sign of lagna. All the remaining ones are called Apacaya signs’

— Yavanajātaka 1.57

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 54

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APA (7th)
Malhotra, P. (2026). अपचय (Lemma #6401). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6401/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Malhotra, P. (2026). अपचय (Lemma #6401). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6401/
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Malhotra, P. (2026). अपचय (Lemma #6401). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6401/
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Malhotra, P. (2026) अपचय (Lemma #6401), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6401/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac6401,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Malhotra, Poorvaa},
	year = {2026},
	title = {अपचय ({Lemma} #6401)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6401/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6401/},
}