{"id":4050,"date":"2004-03-16T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-16T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/03\/16\/2004-03-16-south-african-priest-uses-hi-tech-software-for-astrological-projections\/"},"modified":"2004-03-16T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-03-16T12:00:00","slug":"2004-03-16-south-african-priest-uses-hi-tech-software-for-astrological-projections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/03\/16\/2004-03-16-south-african-priest-uses-hi-tech-software-for-astrological-projections\/","title":{"rendered":"South African Priest Uses Hi-Tech Software for Astrological Projections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.sundaytimes.co.za\/2004\/03\/07\/news\/durban\/ndbn05.asp\">Source<\/a><\/P><P>DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA, March 7, 2004: Thirty-four-year old Hindu Tamil priest, Guru Ravivasudevan Iyer, started using a computer software program about one year ago to assist devotees in predictions and advice about their personal karmas. The article says, &#8220;Instead of consulting the Panchangam, a Tamil astrological book, Guru Ravivasudevan Iyer bases his predictions on information contained in software called StardotStar.&#8221; The Panchangam is used to determine the name of a child and an auspicious date for a wedding. Iyer says, &#8220;Wedding dates are important, and not every weekend in the year is suitable. Sometimes the auspicious date falls on a weekday and many people tend to ignore this.&#8221; The software has also helped parents to name their newborn babies. Iyer adds, &#8220;The time, place and date of birth is punched into the computer, which reveals the star of the child. Each star is divided into four quarters, which has a corresponding syllable that vibrates in harmony with the star. This shows you the letter with which the name must begin.&#8221; Dr. Roshan Singh, vice-president of the World Council of Astrologers, says, &#8220;Just as technology is advancing and people use modern inventions like the telephone and the motor car, so an astrologer who is computer literate would use a computer to do his calculations and predictions, which is even more accurate.&#8221; <BR><br \/>\n<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SourceDURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA, March 7, 2004: Thirty-four-year old Hindu Tamil priest, Guru Ravivasudevan Iyer, started using a computer software program,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}