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The First Edition was carefully revised and partly re-written and enlarged by my brother the Translator a few years before his death, which occurred in January 1892. Since then, a new Edition was much in demand by the Public, botlı Indian and Foreign, but owing to many unforeseen difficulties I have not been able to bring out the Edition earlier.

It was the intention of my late lamented brother to incorporate in this Edition a supplenientary chapter on the great many varieties, curious and wonderful, of planetary and other yogas from higher treatises on Horoscopy and also to publislı a key to this work which would have enhanced the value of the book and facilitated the work of the ordinary reader. But unfortunately his unexpected death has made the fulfilment impossible.

My thanks are due to Col. H. S. Olcott, President Founder of the Theosophical Society, Adyar, but for whose hearty co-operation I could not have now brought out this book.