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From
a note in one of his books, we learn that Prof.
P.S. Sastri, M.A., Ph.D., D.Litt, was born on
January 22, 1920. He holds degrees in English,
Sanskrit, Telugu, Philosophy, has Ph.D degrees
Rigveda, Aesthetics
& Coleridge, and
D. Litt. in Indian Philosophy. He is the
retired head of the Department of English
at the University of Nagpur (retired 1980). He was
president All India Teachers Conference Varanasi
(1950).
He is the author of
nearly 60 books
on literature, philosophy, English
& Telegu, as well as the author and/or
translator of a number of books on astrology. He
translated Astrological classics and authored
works like: Jaimini Sutram; Uttara Kalamrita;
Brihat Jataka; Rectification of Birth Time;
Secrets of Astakavarga; Text Book of Scientific
Hindu Astrology (2 Vol. Set).
It is said the natural
lifespan of man is 120 years. Sastri has reached
but 2/3rds of that. In Kali Yuga, he is elderly
yet brimming with wisdom & experience. Most
people do not live long enough, do not have good
enough health in their final years, to attempt
what Sastri has attained. In Prof. Sastri, we
glimpse what the world could be like, if we lived
just a few years more.
On
pages 77-78 of "Tried Techniques of Predictions
& Some Memoirs of an Astrologer", K.N. Rao
says, "Parasara has given 55 dashas &
Jaimini 44 according to P.S. Sastri whom I rate as
the best living astrologer of our decades. He was
trained in the Vedas from childhood and can speak
extempore in Sanskrit for four hours without
notes. He is a double Ph.D. and he was the head of
the department of English in Nagpur university.
His English translation of Jaimini Sutras is the
best I have seen. Yet, he has the modesty to say
somewhere in the book that astrology has to be
learnt from the right guru as he found many sutras
to be too terse."
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