Varga - Amsha

"Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara Dispensing Boons: Folio from an Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita Manuscript"

The Metropolitan Museum of Art - www.metmuseum.org

Varga charts can be exceptionally useful.

However, if accurate birth time is not available, divisional charts are misleading, and should be ignored.

• "from 1546, "practicing illusion or magic, deceptive,"
• from L. præstigious "full of tricks," from præstigiæ "juggler's tricks,"
  • probably altered by dissimilation from præstringere
  • "to blind, blindfold, dazzle," from præ- "before" + stringere "to tie or bind" (see strain (v.)).
• Prestige is from 1656, from Fr. prestige "an illusion" (16c.).
  • These words were derogatory until 19c.;
  • prestige in the sense of "dazzling influence" was first applied 1815, to Napoleon.
  • Prestigious with this sense is attested from 1913."