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- Favicon / apple-touch-icon / icon-512 (cropped and tiled): "Ganpati High Resolution Frame Image", photograph by Sachinbatwal, 2015. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Cropped to the idol's face and tiled at low opacity over the site's ink background; the derivative tile files are themselves CC BY-SA 4.0. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ganpati_High_Resolution_Frame_Image.jpg

founder-notes

2026-01-24-why-we-are-building-bhagol

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Brihat Samrat Yantra, Jantar Mantar, Jaipur, photograph by Daniel VILLAFRUELA, 2013. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0. Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jaipur-Jantar_Mantar-Brihat_Samrat_Yantra-20131016.jpg

2026-02-01-how-we-screen-astrologers

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Pierced screen (jali), sandstone, Mughal India, c. 1580; Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University. Photograph by Daderot, 2015. Wikimedia Commons, CC0 1.0. Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (Creative Commons Zero, Public Domain Dedication) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pierced_Screen_(jali),_India,_Mughal_period,_c._1580_AD,_sandstone_-_Arthur_M._Sackler_Museum,_Harvard_University_-_DSC01106.jpg

2026-02-07-fear-is-not-guidance

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Sani, plate 60 from Collection de planches pour servir au Voyage aux Indes Orientales et a la Chine, engraved by Poisson after Pierre Sonnerat, 1806. Wikimedia Commons, public domain (PD-old-70). Licence: Public Domain (PD-old-70) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shani_on_crow_Sonnerat.jpg

2026-02-17-computed-not-composed

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Jai Prakash Yantra, Jantar Mantar, Jaipur, photograph by Hans A. Rosbach, 2008. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0. Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JaiPrakashYantraJaipur20080213-3.jpg

2026-03-01-against-engagement

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Misra Yantra, Jantar Mantar, Delhi, photograph by Ronakshah1990, 2014. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Share-alike applies to this crop. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Misra_Yantra,_Jantar_Mantar,_Delhi_-_1.jpg

2026-03-10-where-are-the-intellectuals

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Shvetambara Jain Teacher Giving Instruction, possibly by Sahib Ram, Jaipur, c. 1750–60. Cleveland Museum of Art (2018.171), CC0. Licence: CC0 1.0 (Public Domain) Source: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2018.171

2026-04-11-what-an-honest-reading-looks-like

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Madhava faces a man holding a scale, folio 1 from a Madhavanala-Kamakandala, Northern India, Pahari kingdoms, c. 1720. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection; Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund, 2018.95. CC0 1.0. Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (Creative Commons Zero, Public Domain Dedication) Source: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2018.95

2026-04-18-the-refusal-list

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): 572 CE Maliya copper plate inscription of king Dharasena II, from the plates in John Fleet's Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum vol. 3, 1888; photographed by Ms Sarah Welch, 2017. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Share-alike applies to this crop. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:572_CE_Maliya_copper_plate_inscription,_Hinduism,_king_Dharasena_II,_Sanskrit,_Saurashtra_script.jpg

2026-05-02-your-birth-details

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Unidentified Hindi manuscript, Srimukata moksa grantha, folio 43a-b: a natal horoscope and tables, undated. Wellcome Collection, London (Or Hindi MS 811; L0023866), CC BY 4.0. Licence: CC BY 4.0 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hindi_Manuscript_811,_folio_43a-b_Wellcome_L0023866.jpg

2026-05-08-why-there-is-no-daily-horoscope

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Rashivalaya Yantra, Jantar Mantar, Jaipur, photograph by Jakub Hałun, 2019. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Share-alike applies to this crop. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20191218_Rashivilaya_Yantra,_Jantar_Mantar,_Jaipur,_0908_8986.jpg

2026-05-26-how-we-set-a-price

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Three cubical chert weights from Mohenjo-daro, mature Harappan period, c. 2600–1900 BCE; photograph by Zunkir, 2022. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Share-alike applies to this crop. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cubical_weights_Mohenjodaro_Ashmolean.jpg

Counts block at the foot of CREDITS.md will need incrementing: 46 images across 36 posts, and CC BY-SA 4.0 from 6 to 7.

2026-05-27-why-the-arithmetic-is-open

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Astrolabe by Jamal al-Din ibn Muqim, Lahore, 1666, in the Science Museum, London; photograph by Daderot, 2024. Wikimedia Commons, CC0. Licence: CC0 1.0 (Public Domain Dedication) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Astrolabe_by_Jamal_al-Din_ibn_Muqim,_Lahore,_1666_AD_-_Science_Museum,_London_-_DSC05549.jpg

2026-10-31-what-would-shut-this-down

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Jantar Mantar, the observatory built at Delhi by Maharaja Jai Singh II, albumen print by Samuel Bourne, c. 1860. Leiden University Library and KITLV (KITLV 91985), via Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain. Licence: Public Domain Source: dossier `blog/drafts/batch-05/.md` 2027-01-30-what-i-actually-believe

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Celestial globe, Mughal India, 18th century, silvered brass; photograph by Daderot, 2015. Linden-Museum, Stuttgart, via Wikimedia Commons, CC0. Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication) Source: dossier `blog/drafts/batch-05/.md`

almanac

2026-01-28-the-five-limbs-of-a-day

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Folio from the Vidyāmādhavīyam Jyotiṣa Śāstram, Sanskrit manuscript in Tigalari script, photograph by ಶ್ರೀ, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0. Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tigalari-manuscript-Vidyamadhaviyam.jpg

2026-02-19-solar-months-and-the-twelve-sankrantis

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Sun God Surya with Adityas, Attendants, and Wives, sculptor not recorded, Bihar, Pala period, late eleventh century, schist. Yale University Art Gallery (2002.60.1), purchased with a gift from Steven M. Kossak, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. Licence: Public Domain Mark 1.0 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Surya_with_Adityas_and_attendants.jpg

2026-03-09-the-weekday-and-where-seven-came-from

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Navagraha, the nine planetary deities, Bihar, India, 10th century, schist. San Diego Museum of Art; photograph by Daderot, 2013. Wikimedia Commons, CC0 1.0. Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Navagraha_(anthropomorphic_forms_of_astronomical_bodies),_Bihar,_India,_10th_century_AD,_schist_-_San_Diego_Museum_of_Art_-_DSC06389.JPG

2026-03-21-rahu-kaal-without-the-fear

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Shadow on the quadrant of the great sundial (Vrihat Samrat Yantra), Jantar Mantar, Jaipur; photograph by Wolfgang Sauber, 2018. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jaipur_Jantar_Mantar_-_Sonnenuhr_gro%C3%9F_4.jpg

2026-04-01-the-sixty-year-wheel

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): The Planetary Deity Brihaspati (Jupiter), artist unknown, Western Rajasthan, c. 1800. Los Angeles County Museum of Art (M.79.191.8), gift of Paul F. Walter, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. Licence: Public Domain Mark 1.0 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brihaspati_on_an_elephant.jpg

2026-04-02-abhijit-the-window-at-noon

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Sun clock in the grounds of the Hooghly Imambara, Hooghly district, West Bengal; photograph by Pinakpani, 2021. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Share-alike applies to this crop. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sun_clock_in_Hooghly_Imambara_05.jpg

2026-04-08-five-days-of-diwali-and-their-tithi-anchors

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Diwali celebrations at Kotah, artist unknown, Udaipur, Rajasthan, c. 1690, opaque watercolour and gold paint on paper. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (AS68-1980, Felton Bequest, 1980) via Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain. Licence: Public Domain (PD-Art, PD-old-100-expired) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Indian_-_Dewali_celebrations_at_Kotah_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg

2026-04-15-building-a-year-planner-from-a-panchang

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Extract from the Mufid Alam Jantri, an annual calendar printed at Lahore, c. 1878, showing weekdays with English, Hijri and Bikrami dates in parallel columns. Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain. Licence: Public Domain Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Punjabi_calendar,_with_Vaisakhi_marked_for_11_April_1878,_Mufid_Alam_Jantri,_Lahore,_ca.1878.jpg

2026-05-05-how-to-read-a-panchang

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Almanac for Hindu year 1871-1872 (detail), maker not identified, India, 1871. South Asian Rare Book Collection, Library of Congress; Public Domain Mark 1.0. Licence: Public Domain Mark 1.0 Source: https://www.loc.gov/item/2011432170/

- Inline (`inline-1.jpg`): The Hindu Ecliptic, Samuel Davis, engraved plate in Asiatic Researches vol. 3, 1799. Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain. Licence: Public Domain Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hindu_calendar.jpg

2026-05-07-the-table-you-have-never-used

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): The Observatory at Delhi, coloured aquatint by Thomas Daniell, 1797. Wellcome Collection (V0024773) via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0. Licence: CC BY 4.0 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jantar_Mantar,_the_open_air_observatory_at_Delhi_Wellcome_V0024773.jpg

2026-06-02-why-two-panchangs-disagree

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): The Malayalam almanac, 1866, a page from the almanac's calendar section. Universitätsbibliothek Tübingen, OpenDigi (shelfmark Ci XIV 130-1866). Public domain. Source: https://opendigi.ub.uni-tuebingen.de/opendigi/CiXIV130_1866

2026-06-04-reading-a-muhurta-table-without-panic

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Muhūrtacintāmaṇi of Rāma Daivajña, folios 1v-2r, Sanskrit paper manuscript in Devanagari, 18th or 19th century. Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1858, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania. Public Domain Mark 1.0. Licence: Public Domain Mark 1.0 Source: https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/mscoll390_item1858.html

2026-06-06-amanta-and-purnimanta

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Illustration of the phases of the moon, from a manuscript of the Kitab al-Tafhim of al-Biruni (973–1048), copied in the 18th century. Library, Museum and Document Center of the Iran Parliament, Tehran (Ms. 6565), via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. Licence: Public Domain Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lunar_phases_al-Biruni.jpg

The counts block at the foot of CREDITS.md will need 46 images across 36 posts, with Public Domain rising from 10 to 11.

2026-06-08-the-twelve-months-and-the-stars-they-are-named-for

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Krishna watches the milkmaids circumambulating a sacred tree: the month of Jyestha, from a Barahmasa (The Twelve Months), unknown artist, Rajput Kingdom of Bundi, Rajasthan, c. 1760. Gum tempera on paper. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection; Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund, 2018.163. CC0 1.0. Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication) Source: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2018.163

2026-06-13-which-day-is-your-fast-actually

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Surya the sun deity driving in his chariot, gouache drawing by an Indian artist, date not recorded. Wellcome Collection (27740i), CC BY 4.0. Licence: CC BY 4.0 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Surya_the_sun_deity_driving_in_his_chariot._Gouache_drawing._Wellcome_V0045217.jpg

2026-07-04-the-day-that-happens-twice

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): First page of a manuscript of the Makarandasarini, a Sanskrit table text for tithi, nakshatra and yoga endings composed at Varanasi with epoch 1478. Copy in the Kavikulaguru Kalidas Sanskrit University collection, Ramtek. Wikimedia Commons, CC0 1.0. Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Makaradasarini_First_Page.jpg

The counts block at the foot of CREDITS.md will need incrementing: images 45 to 46, posts 35 to 36, and "CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication)" from 1 to 2.

2026-07-18-the-day-that-never-happens

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Krishna reaching for the moon, unknown artist, Northern India, Pahari kingdoms, c. 1820. Gum tempera, ink and gold on paper. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund, 1971.80. CC0 1.0. Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1971.80

2026-07-22-ekadashi-and-why-two-dates-circulate

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Vishnu on Ananta, the Endless Serpent, unknown artist, Northern India, Himachal Pradesh, Pahari region, Rajput kingdom of Chamba, c. 1700. Gum tempera and gold on paper. Cleveland Museum of Art (2018.155, Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection; Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund), CC0 1.0. Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication) Source: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2018.155

2026-09-05-the-fortnight-for-the-dead

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Dusasumade Gaut, at Benares, on the Ganges (Oriental Scenery, plate 16), Thomas and William Daniell, 1795. Wellcome Collection via Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain. Licence: Public Domain Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oriental_Scenery_Fig_16.jpg 2026-10-10-the-shape-of-navratri

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Durga Slaying Mahisha, artist not recorded, Northern India, Pahari kingdoms, c. 1830. Gum tempera and gold on paper. Cleveland Museum of Art (1955.667, Edward L. Whittemore Fund), CC0 1.0. Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication) Source: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1955.667 2026-11-07-chaturmas

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Madhu Madhavi Ragini, artist not recorded, Central India, Malwa, c. 1630–40. Cleveland Museum of Art (1925.1336, Gift of J. H. Wade), CC0 1.0. Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication) Source: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1925.1336 2026-12-05-who-prints-your-almanac

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): The Malayalim Almanac 1866 (Malayāḷa pañcāṅgaṃ), title page, lower portion. Pfleiderer and Riehm, Mission Bookshop, Mangalore, 1866. Universitätsbibliothek Tübingen, OpenDigi (shelfmark Ci XIV 130-1866), Public Domain. Licence: Public Domain Source: dossier `blog/drafts/batch-05/AL-43.md` 2027-01-05-the-two-halves-of-the-year

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): A girl worshipping the rising sun (Surya puja), attributed to Chokha, Rajput Kingdom of Devgarh, Rajasthan, c. 1810. Cleveland Museum of Art (2018.151), CC0 1.0. Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/2018.151 2027-01-26-the-republics-calendar

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Table I, The Hindu Calendar, from The Indian Calendar, Robert Sewell and Sankara Balkrishna Dikshit, 1896. University of California Libraries via Internet Archive, Public Domain. Licence: Public Domain Source: https://archive.org/details/indiancalendarwi00sewerich

myth-vs-method

2026-01-29-kemadruma-the-loneliness-yoga

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Mandala of Chandra, God of the Moon, painter unknown, Nepal (Kathmandu Valley), early Malla period, late 1300s to early 1400s. The Metropolitan Museum of Art (1981.465, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Uzi Zucker), CC0 1.0. Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mandala_of_Chandra,_God_of_the_Moon_MET_DT5084.jpg

2026-01-31-sade-sati-a-field-guide

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Nine Celestial Bodies (Navagraha), unknown sculptor, Central India, 700s. Cleveland Museum of Art (1971.61, Gift of Doris and Ed Wiener), CC0 1.0. Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication) Source: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1971.61

2026-02-05-the-ledger-nobody-keeps

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Folio of a genealogical register (bahi khata) of Haridwar, recording a family from a village near Kanpur, scribe unknown, c. 1700–1920. Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Licence: Public Domain (PD-old-70) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Folio_of_a_genealogical_register_('Bahi-Khata')_of_Haridwar_for_a_local_village_near_Kanpur.jpg

2026-02-11-rudraksha-from-tree-to-invoice

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Fruits of Elaeocarpus cf. angustifolius, photograph by Rohit Naniwadekar, Namdapha Tiger Reserve, Arunachal Pradesh, 12 November 2017. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Share-alike applies to this crop. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elaeocarpus_Rudraksh_Fruits_DSCN1366_01.jpg

2026-02-14-the-mangal-dosha-panic

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): The Wedding Procession of Rama, Manohar of Mewar, Udaipur, 1649; folio 108v of the Mewar Ramayana, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, Mumbai, acc. 54.1/19. Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Licence: Public Domain (PD-Art, PD-old-100-expired) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Wedding_Procession_of_Rama,_From_the_Mewar_Ramayana.jpg

2026-02-28-kaal-sarp-anatomy-of-a-modern-fear

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): The Churning of the Ocean of Milk, unknown artist, Mandi, Punjab Hills, ca. 1780–90. The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Open Access), CC0 1.0. Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/37989

- Inline (`inline-1.jpg`): Nagini (Serpent Queen or Consort of Nagaraja), unknown sculptor, Madhya Pradesh, second quarter of the 5th century. The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Open Access), CC0 1.0. Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/39892

2026-03-02-pitru-dosha-and-the-debt-you-are-told-you-inherited

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Hindu devotees performing tarpan for their ancestors on Mahalaya, photograph by Tapas Kumar Halder, West Bengal, 2019. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Share-alike applies to this crop. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Perform_Pinda_Dana.jpg

2026-03-06-the-palm-leaf-reading

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Tamil palm-leaf manuscripts (ōlaic cuvaṭi), photograph by எஸ்ஸார் (Essaar), Tamil Nadu, 28 February 2012. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0. Share-alike applies to this crop. Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Manuscript_-_Olai_Chuvadigal.jpg

2026-03-12-mercury-retrograde-comes-to-india

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Mercury (Budha), from a Mandi Astrology Series, attributed to Sanju (Indian, active late 1700s–early 1800s), Northern India, Pahari kingdoms, c. 1810. Cleveland Museum of Art (2020.433, Gift of Nancy and Wayne Hunnicutt), CC0 1.0. Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication) Source: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2020.433

2026-04-13-the-reading-that-fits-everyone

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Fragment of a Turban Cloth, maker not recorded, India, Rajasthan, Mughal period, 1800. Cleveland Museum of Art (1929.76, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund), CC0 1.0. Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication) Source: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1929.76

2026-04-28-the-gemstone-question

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Armlet of bazuband, unknown goldsmith, Punjab, India, 18th–19th century. Cleveland Museum of Art (Open Access), CC0 1.0. Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.268

2026-04-30-your-chart-has-five-doshas

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Treacher and Co.'s Shop in the Fort, Bombay, photograph by Raja Deen Dayal (Indian, 1844–1905), 1886. Albumen print. Cleveland Museum of Art (2016.266.33, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund), CC0 1.0. Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/2016.266.33

2026-05-04-guarantees

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Kunjra, an occupational group represented by a greengrocer, unknown artist, from the Tashrih al-aqvam made for Colonel James Skinner, Hansi, 1825. British Library (Add. 27255, f.234v) via Wikimedia Commons, CC0 1.0. Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kunjra,_an_occupational_group_represented_by_a_greengrocer_1825.jpg

2026-05-16-the-free-kundli

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): The astrologer predicts a calamity for the newly born prince in his thirteenth year, but one which he would be able to overcome, folio from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot), painted by Banavari, Mughal India, court of Akbar, c. 1560. Cleveland Museum of Art (1962.279.52.b, Gift of Mrs. A. Dean Perry), CC0 1.0. Licence: CC0 1.0 (Public Domain) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1962.279.52.b

2026-06-27-thirty-six-points-and-what-they-actually-weigh

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Bhima's consultation with the astrologer, from a Nala-Damayanti, unknown artist, Northern India, Pahari kingdoms, c. 1790–1800. Cleveland Museum of Art (1936.684, Edward L. Whittemore Fund), CC0 1.0. Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1936.684

2026-07-09-the-sun-sign-column

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Hicky's Bengal Gazette, front page of the issue of 10 March 1781, printed by James Augustus Hicky, Calcutta. University of Heidelberg copy via Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Licence: Public Domain (PD-India, published before 1931) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hicky's_Bengal_Gazette,_March_10,_1781,_University_of_Heidelberg.jpg

2026-07-14-nadi-dosha-and-the-marriages-it-ends

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): The Ayurvedic Man, pen, ink and gouache on paper, Kathmandu, Nepal, c. 1800. Wellcome Collection (L0017592) via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0. Licence: CC BY 4.0 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Ayurvedic_Man.,_c.18th_century_Wellcome_L0017592.jpg

2026-07-21-bhakoot-the-quiet-veto

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Taurus, from a Mandi Astrology Series, attributed to Sanju (Indian, active late 1700s–early 1800s), Northern India, Pahari kingdoms, c. 1810. Cleveland Museum of Art (2020.432, Gift of Nancy and Wayne Hunnicutt), CC0 1.0. Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication) Source: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2020.432

2026-09-26-the-escape-hatches

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Suganoti, unidentified author, folio 23b: a diagram used in divination, undated. Wellcome Collection, London (Or Hindi MS 266; L0024616), CC BY 4.0. Licence: CC BY 4.0 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hindi_Manuscript_266,_f._23b_Wellcome_L0024616.jpg 2026-10-27-the-tests-that-were-run

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Balance, designed by Ludwig Oertling, London, 1860–1880. Wellcome Collection (L0058879) via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0. Attribution is required, so the licence name and link travel with this crop. Licence: CC BY 4.0 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Balance,_London,_England,_1860-1880_Wellcome_L0058879.jpg 2026-11-21-the-certificate-on-the-wall

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Firman of the Emperor Shah Jahan, ink, colour and gold on paper, India, 1653. National Museum of Asian Art (Arthur M. Sackler Gallery), Smithsonian Institution (S1996.31), via Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Licence: Public Domain Source: https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/factsheets/national-museum-asian-art 2026-12-19-numerologys-graft

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Pandarai de jantra ki vidha, unidentified author, folio 2b: a magic square, 19th century. Wellcome Collection, London (Or Hindi MS 317; L0024035), CC BY 4.0. Licence: CC BY 4.0 Source: https://wellcomecollection.org/works/cj8vuzrz 2027-01-16-election-night-and-the-retreat

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Jewish copper plates of Cochin, plate I side I: a royal charter in early Malayalam, Vatteluttu script, Kerala, dated by different readings between the ninth and the eleventh century. Photograph by Ms Sarah Welch, 2019. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Share-alike applies to this crop. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jewish_copper_plates_of_Cochin_-_(plate_I,_side_I

computed-sky

2026-01-26-why-your-moon-sign-changes-between-apps

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Haemisphaeria Sphaerarum Rectae et Obliquae, plate 12 from Harmonia Macrocosmica, Andreas Cellarius, 1661. Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain. Licence: Public Domain Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cellarius_Harmonia_Macrocosmica_-_Haemisphaeria_Sphaerarum_Rectae_et_Obliquae.jpg

2026-02-10-the-arithmetic-of-vimshottari

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Horoscope roll (जन्मपत्त्रिका), Sanskrit manuscript scroll, north India, 1770; Ms. Indic 3, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania Libraries. Public Domain Mark 1.0. Licence: Public Domain Mark 1.0 Source: https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/msindic3.html

2026-02-13-the-tilt-that-sets-the-seasons

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Situs Terrae Circulis Coelestibus Circundatae, plate 11 of Harmonia Macrocosmica by Andreas Cellarius, engraved by Johannes van Loon, Amsterdam, 1661; hand-coloured impression. Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain. Licence: Public Domain Mark 1.0 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cellarius_Harmonia_Macrocosmica_-_Situs_Terrae_Circulis_coelestibus_Circundatae.jpg

2026-02-18-everyone-in-india-is-on-allahabad-time

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Bhitti Yantra, Vedh Shala observatory, Ujjain, founded by Sawai Jai Singh II in 1725; photograph by Bernard Gagnon, 2013. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0. Share-alike applies to this crop. Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vedh_Shala,_Ujjain_05.jpg

2026-02-22-four-house-systems-one-birth-moment

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Astronomy: an armillary sphere, with other diagrams of the heavens, engraved by R. W. Seale for The New Geographical Dictionary, London, mid-eighteenth century. Wellcome Collection (V0024704) via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0. Attribution is required, so the licence name and link travel with this crop. Licence: CC BY 4.0 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Astronomy;_an_armillary_sphere,_with_other_diagrams_of_the_h_Wellcome_V0024704.jpg

2026-02-26-the-equation-of-centre

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Full moon, photograph by Gregory H. Revera, Madison, Alabama, 22 October 2010; Celestron 9.25 Schmidt-Cassegrain, twenty frames stacked. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0. Share-alike applies to this crop. Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FullMoon2010.jpg

2026-03-05-sunrise-is-a-decision-not-an-observation

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Sun setting in the Namib desert, photograph by Giles Laurent, Namibia, 24 July 2025. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Share-alike applies to this crop, and the licence name and link travel with it wherever it appears. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:084_Sun_setting_in_the_Namib_desert_Photo_by_Giles_Laurent.jpg

2026-03-14-ten-minutes-of-doubt

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Volvelle for the latitude of the Moon, from Astronomicum Caesareum, hand-coloured woodcuts by Michael Ostendorfer for Petrus Apianus, Ingolstadt, May 1540. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Herbert N. Straus, 1925 (25.17). CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Astronomicum_Caesareum_MET_DT5529.jpg

2026-03-16-navamsha-as-a-division-problem

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Typus Aspectuum, Oppositionum et Coniunctionum etz in Planetis, plate 15 of Harmonia Macrocosmica by Andreas Cellarius, engraved by Johannes van Loon, first published Amsterdam 1660; this uncoloured impression from the reissue by Gerard Valck and Pieter Schenk. Rijksmuseum (RP-P-AO-29-1-17), CC0. Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hemelkaart_van_het_noordelijk_halfrond_met_verbanden_tussen_de_sterrenbeelden_en_de_elementen_Typus_aspectuum,_oppositionum_et_coniunctionum_etz_in_planetis_(titel_op_object),_RP-P-AO-29-1-17.jpg

2026-03-24-the-slow-clock-of-precession

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Draco and Ursa Minor, plate 1 from Urania's Mirror, engraved by Sidney Hall, London, 1825. Library of Congress via Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain (restored by Adam Cuerden). Licence: Public Domain Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sidney_Hall_-_Urania%27s_Mirror_-_Draco_and_Ursa_Minor.jpg

2026-05-09-what-a-birth-chart-actually-computes

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): The Khalili Astrolabe, probably by Ḍiyāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad Lāhūrī, Lahore, 1648–58. Khalili Collections (SCI 53), CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO. Share-alike applies to this crop. Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Khalili_Collection_Islamic_Art_05.jpg

- Inline (`inline-1.jpg`): Horoscope of Iskandar Sultan, from The Book of the Birth of Iskandar, Shiraz, 1411 (Or MS PER 474). Wellcome Collection, CC BY 4.0. Licence: CC BY 4.0 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Horoscope_from_the_book_of_the_birth_of_Iskandar_Wellcome_L0015229.jpg

2026-05-11-making-a-planet-go-backwards

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Diagram of the apparent path of Mars from 1580 to 1596, from Astronomia Nova, Johannes Kepler, Heidelberg, 1609. Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain (Public Domain Mark 1.0). Licence: Public Domain Mark 1.0 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kepler_Mars_retrograde.jpg

2026-05-23-the-day-number-every-ephemeris-agrees-on

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Astronomical table on papyrus (P. Ryl. Gr. III 523), Egypt, 3rd century CE. The University of Manchester Library via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Share-alike applies to this crop. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:P._Ryl._Gr._3_523_Handy_Tables.jpg

2026-05-25-why-the-sundial-and-the-clock-disagree

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Longcase equation regulator (detail of the dial), clockmaker Ferdinand Berthoud, case by Balthazar Lieutaud, Paris, ca. 1752. The Metropolitan Museum of Art (2016.28a-e) via Wikimedia Commons, CC0 1.0. Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Longcase_equation_regulator_MET_DP-13322-010.jpg

2026-05-30-sidereal-time-or-what-the-sky-reads-on-your-clock

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Celestial globe with clockwork (detail of the globe), Gerhard Emmoser, Vienna, 1579. The Metropolitan Museum of Art (17.190.636, Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917) via Wikimedia Commons, CC0 1.0. Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Celestial_globe_with_clockwork_MET_DP237708.jpg ```

Registry maintenance when this post lands: the "Counts" section goes up by one image and one post, and the "CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication)" line increments by one. The frontmatter `imageCredit` field carries the same information in the short house form: "Celestial globe with clockwork (detail), Gerhard Emmoser, Vienna, 1579. The Metropolitan Museum of Art (17.190.636), CC0."

2026-06-03-raising-the-ascendant-by-hand

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Two plates from an astrolabe, 1572; detail of the plate engraved 41. Museum photograph, Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, 1959. Wellcome Collection (M0017326), CC BY 4.0. Licence: CC BY 4.0 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:One_plate_of_an_astrolabe._Wellcome_M0017326EB.jpg

2026-06-09-counting-days-since-the-beginning

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Palm-leaf manuscript of the Surya Siddhanta, Sanskrit in Grantha script, Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu; Whish manuscript collection, purchased 1836. Photograph by Ms Sarah Welch, 2018. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Share-alike applies to this crop. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1836_CE_purchase,_Surya_siddhanta,_Whish_manuscript_collection,_Kahle-Austin_Foundation,_Sanskrit,_Grantha_script.jpg

Note for whoever updates the Counts block at the foot of CREDITS.md: this adds one image and one post, and one more entry to the CC BY-SA 4.0 line.

2026-06-15-finding-the-exact-moment-a-tithi-turns

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Theoria Lunae, engraved plate by Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr (1677–1750), c. 1737. Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain (PD-old-100). Licence: Public Domain (PD-old-100) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ca._1737_chart_illustrating_various_lunar_and_celestial_theories.jpg

2026-09-12-the-eighteen-year-wobble

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Theoria Eclipsium, engraved plate after Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr, published by the heirs of Johann Baptist Homann, Nuremberg, 1742. Rijksmuseum (RP-P-AO-29-5-13), CC0. Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Diagrammen_met_theorie%C3%ABn_en_uitleg_over_zons-_en_maansverduisteringen,_RP-P-AO-29-5-13.jpg 2026-10-03-sixteen-vargas-one-line

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Hindi Manuscript 240, folio 37a: two tables headed uccanicarasicakram and grhasvamicakram, from an unidentified work called Jatikalankara, undated. Wellcome Collection, London (Or Hindi MS 240; L0024475), CC BY 4.0. Licence: CC BY 4.0 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hindi_Manuscript_240,_folio_37a_Wellcome_L0024475.jpg 2026-11-10-the-dimension-charts-throw-away

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Motus in Coelo Spirales, engraved plate by Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr, published by Johann Baptist Homann, Nuremberg, 1742. Wikimedia Commons (Bibliothèque nationale de France), Public Domain. Licence: Public Domain Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Motus_in_coelo_spirales_-_quos_planetae_inferiores_Venus_et_Mercurius_secundum_Tychonicorum_hypothesin_exhibent,_pro_exemplo_ad_annum_Christi_praecipue_1712_et_1713_-_geometrice_descripti_a_Ioh._Gabriele_Doppelmaiero..._-_btv1b10100342m.jpg 2026-12-01-what-rectification-can-recover

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Travel sundial and compass dial in a tortoiseshell case, signed by Charles Bloud, Dieppe, 17th century. Rijksmuseum (NG-KOG-1690), CC0. Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reiszonnewijzer_kompas-zonnewijzer_in_schildpadhoornen_doos,_NG-KOG-1690.jpg 2026-12-29-running-the-surya-siddhanta

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Translation of the Sûrya-Siddhânta, Ebenezer Burgess, Journal of the American Oriental Society, volume 6, New Haven, 1860, page 210. Internet Archive scan (jstor-592174), Public Domain. Licence: Public Domain Source: https://archive.org/details/jstor-592174 2027-01-19-crossing-a-line-that-moves

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Capricornus, plate 25 from Urania's Mirror, engraved by Sidney Hall, London, 1825. Library of Congress via Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain (restored by Adam Cuerden). Licence: Public Domain Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sidney_Hall_-_Urania%27s_Mirror_-_Capricornus.jpg

nakshatra-files

2026-06-16-ashwini-the-first-spark

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Aries and Musca Borealis, plate 16 from Urania's Mirror, engraved by Sidney Hall, 1825. Library of Congress via Wikimedia Commons, public domain, restored by Adam Cuerden. Licence: Public Domain Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sidney_Hall_-_Urania%27s_Mirror_-_Aries_and_Musca_Borealis.jpg

- Inline (`inline-1.jpg`): The constellation Aries, photograph by Eckhard Slawik, 2024. E. Slawik/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/M. Zamani, CC BY 4.0. Licence: CC BY 4.0 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Photo_of_the_constellation_Aries_produced_by_NOIRLab_in_collaboration_with_Eckhard_Slawik,_a_German_astrophotographer_(aries).jpg

2026-06-30-bharani-the-bearer

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Yama as Dharma, the Judge of the Deceased with His Consorts (miniature stele), Northwest India or Kashmir, 800s. Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Willard G. Clark, 1982.134. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication) Source: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1982.134

- Inline (`inline-1.jpg`): Triangulum Majus, Triangulum Minus et Musca, plate AA from Johannes Hevelius, Firmamentum Sobiescianum sive Uranographia, Gdańsk, 1690. Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain. Licence: Public Domain Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Johannes_Hevelius_-_Triangulum_Majus,_Triangulum_Minus_%26_Musca_(also_shows_Aries,_Andromeda,_Piscis_Boreus_and_Perseus).jpg

2026-07-11-krittika-the-blade-and-the-flame

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): The Pleiades (M45), 2004. NASA, ESA and AURA/Caltech, Palomar Observatory. Public domain under STScI/HubbleSite release terms. Licence: Public domain (STScI/HubbleSite release terms, 2004/20) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pleiades_large.jpg

- Inline (`inline-1.jpg`): Taurus, plate 17 from Urania's Mirror, engraved by Sidney Hall, 1825. Library of Congress via Wikimedia Commons, public domain, restored by Adam Cuerden. Licence: Public Domain Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sidney_Hall_-_Urania%27s_Mirror_-_Taurus.jpg

2026-07-24-rohini-the-red-one

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): The Hyades star cluster, NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/Digitized Sky Survey 2, released 4 August 2020. NSF NOIRLab, CC BY 4.0. Licence: CC BY 4.0 Source: https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noirlab2018e/

- Inline (`inline-1.jpg`): Chandra, the Moon God, folio from a Book of Dreams, Mewar (Udaipur), Rajasthan, c. 1700–1725. Los Angeles County Museum of Art (M.83.219.2) via Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain. Licence: Public Domain Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chandra,_The_Moon_God;_Folio_from_a_Book_of_Dreams_LACMA_M.83.219.2_(1_of_3).jpg

2026-07-25-mrigashira-the-head-that-keeps-turning

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Woman Feeding Deer: Todi Ragini, folio from a Ragamala, Rajput kingdom of Amber, Rajasthan, c. 1610. Cleveland Museum of Art (2018.167), CC0 1.0. Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication) Source: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2018.167

- Inline (`inline-1.jpg`): The constellation Orion, photograph by Eckhard Slawik, 2024. E. Slawik/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/M. Zamani, CC BY 4.0. Licence: CC BY 4.0 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Photo_of_the_constellation_Orion_produced_by_NOIRLab_in_collaboration_with_Eckhard_Slawik,_a_German_astrophotographer_(orion).jpg

2026-07-27-ardra-and-a-star-that-is-dying-while-we-watch

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Betelgeuse's surface before and during its 2019–2020 Great Dimming, imaged with the SPHERE instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope, January 2019 to March 2020. ESO/M. Montargès et al., CC BY 4.0. Licence: CC BY 4.0 Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso2109a/

2026-07-28-punarvasu-the-two-who-come-back

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Gemini, plate 18 from Urania's Mirror, engraved by Sidney Hall, 1825. Library of Congress via Wikimedia Commons, public domain, restored by Adam Cuerden. Licence: Public Domain Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sidney_Hall_-_Urania%27s_Mirror_-_Gemini.jpg

If the optional inline is placed, add beneath the hero entry:

- Inline (`inline-1.jpg`): The constellation Gemini, photograph by Eckhard Slawik, 2024. E. Slawik/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/M. Zamani, CC BY 4.0. Licence: CC BY 4.0 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Photo_of_the_constellation_Gemini_produced_by_NOIRLab_in_collaboration_with_Eckhard_Slawik,_a_German_astrophotographer_(gemini).jpg

2026-07-29-pushya-the-nourisher

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): M44, the Beehive Cluster (NGC 2632), true-colour composite from the Burrell Schmidt telescope, Kitt Peak National Observatory, observations of January 1997. NOIRLab/NSF/AURA via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0. Licence: CC BY 4.0 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:M44,_NGC_2632_(noao-m44).jpg

2026-08-01-ashlesha-the-coil

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Naga (Serpent Divinity), unrecorded sculptor, India, Mathura, Kushan period, 300s CE. Sandstone. Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1943.661. CC0 1.0. Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication) Source: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1943.661

2026-08-04-magha-the-throne

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): The constellation Leo, photograph by Eckhard Slawik, 2024. E. Slawik/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/M. Zamani, CC BY 4.0. Licence: CC BY 4.0 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leo_%28leoh%29.jpg

2026-08-08-purva-phalguni-the-hammock

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Anantasayan (Vishnu Reclining on Serpent Ananta), Shri Gobinda Chandra Roy, Kalighat, Kolkata, c. 1890. Cleveland Museum of Art (2003.140), CC0 1.0. Licence: CC0 1.0 Source: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2003.140

2026-08-11-uttara-phalguni-the-second-bed

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Cancer and Leo, plate from Johann Elert Bode, Uranographia, Berlin, 1801. ETH Zurich (e-rara) via Wikimedia Commons, public domain (PD-old-70). Cropped to the lion. Licence: Public Domain (PD-old-70) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cancer_and_Leo_Bode.jpg

2026-08-15-hasta-five-stars-make-a-hand

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Noctua, Corvus, Crater, Sextans Uraniae, Hydra and neighbours, a card from Urania's Mirror, engraved by Sidney Hall, 1825. Library of Congress via Wikimedia Commons, public domain, restored by Adam Cuerden. Cropped to Corvus and Crater. Licence: Public Domain Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sidney_Hall_-_Urania%27s_Mirror_-_Noctua,_Corvus,_Crater,_Sextans_Uraniae,_Hydra,_Felis,_Lupus,_Centaurus,_Antlia_Pneumatica,_Argo_Navis,_and_Pyxis_Nautica.jpg

2026-08-18-chitra-the-jewel-that-is-two-stars

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Turban Ornament (Sarpech), goldsmith not recorded, India, 1800s. Cleveland Museum of Art (1916.259, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade), CC0 1.0. Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication) Source: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1916.259

2026-08-22-swati-the-one-that-stands-apart

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): The constellation Boötes, photograph by Eckhard Slawik, 2024. E. Slawik/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/M. Zamani, CC BY 4.0. Licence: CC BY 4.0 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Photo_of_the_constellation_Bo%C3%B6tes_produced_by_NOIRLab_in_collaboration_with_Eckhard_Slawik,_a_German_astrophotographer_(bootes).jpg

2026-08-25-vishakha-the-forked-branch

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Libra, plate from John Flamsteed's Atlas Coelestis, London, 1729, the constellation figures drawn by James Thornhill. Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain Mark 1.0. Licence: Public Domain Mark 1.0 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Atlas_Coelestis_by_John_Flamsteed_(1729)_015.jpg

2026-08-29-anuradha-the-star-of-company

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Scorpius and Sagittarius, plate from Johann Elert Bode's Uranographia, Berlin, 1801. ETH Zurich (e-rara) via Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain. Cropped to the head and claws of the scorpion. Licence: Public Domain Mark 1.0 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scorpius_and_Sagittarius_Uranographia.jpg

2026-09-01-jyeshtha-the-eldest

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Krishna Lifts Mount Govardhan, from a Bhagavata Purana, artist not recorded, Central India, Madhya Pradesh, Malwa, 1686. Gum tempera on paper. Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection; Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund, 2018.134. CC0 1.0. Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/2018.134

2026-09-08-mula-the-root

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Scorpio, plate 23 from Urania's Mirror, engraved by Sidney Hall, London, 1825. Library of Congress via Wikimedia Commons, public domain, restored by Adam Cuerden. Licence: Public Domain Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sidney_Hall_-_Urania%27s_Mirror_-_Scorpio.jpg

- Inline (`inline-1.jpg`): The thing behind the sting, as far as anyone has got. The dark middle is the shadow; the ring is hot gas going round it, and none of this is visible light. First image of Sagittarius A*, released 12 May 2022. EHT Collaboration, via the European Southern Observatory, CC BY 4.0. Licence: CC BY 4.0 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sidney_Hall_-_Urania%27s_Mirror_-_Scorpio.jpg#Licensing 2026-09-22-purva-ashadha-the-water

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Sagittarius and Corona Australis, Microscopium, and Telescopium, plate 24 from Urania's Mirror, engraved by Sidney Hall, London, 1825. Library of Congress via Wikimedia Commons, public domain, restored by Adam Cuerden. Licence: Public Domain Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sidney_Hall_-_Urania%27s_Mirror_-_Sagittarius_and_Corona_Australis,_Microscopium,_and_Telescopium.jpg

- Inline (`inline-1.jpg`): The teapot's stars against the near arm of our own galaxy: the pale band filling the right of the frame is the Milky Way through Sagittarius, cut by its dust lanes and dotted with emission nebulae, and the Large Sagittarius Star Cloud is the brightest patch of it, above the spout. The constellation Sagittarius, photograph by Eckhard Slawik, 2024. E. Slawik/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/M. Zamani, CC BY 4.0. Licence: CC BY 4.0 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Photo_of_the_constellation_Sagittarius_produced_by_NOIRLab_in_collaboration_with_Eckhard_Slawik,_a_German_astrophotographer_(sagittarius 2026-10-06-uttara-ashadha-the-later-victory

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Sagittarius, plate from John Flamsteed's Atlas Coelestis, London, 1729, the constellation figures drawn by James Thornhill. Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain Mark 1.0. Licence: Public Domain Mark 1.0 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Atlas_Coelestis_by_John_Flamsteed_(1729

- Inline (`inline-1.jpg`): Not an astronomical text, and I am not going to pretend otherwise: this is a foundation cylinder recording a king's repairs to a temple, written in the decades Eridu was being given up. It is here for the script, which is what the name Nunki is actually made of. Cuneiform cylinder with inscription of Nebuchadnezzar II, describing the rebuilding of Ebabbar, the temple of the sun-god Shamash at Sippar, Babylonian, clay, ca. 604–562 BCE. The Metropolitan Museum of Art (85.15), CC0 1.0. Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/321614 2026-10-20-shravana-the-ear

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Trivikramapada (Three Steps of Vishnu), Kalighat, Kolkata, c. 1890. Cleveland Museum of Art (2003.165), CC0 1.0. Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication) Source: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2003.165

- Inline (`inline-1.jpg`): The bright one is Altair; the two beside it are the whole of the station. The Milky Way runs down the right of the frame. The constellation Aquila, photograph by Eckhard Slawik, 2024. E. Slawik/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/M. Zamani, CC BY 4.0. Licence: CC BY 4.0 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Photo_of_the_constellation_Aquila_produced_by_NOIRLab_in_collaboration_with_Eckhard_Slawik,_a_German_astrophotographer_(aquila 2026-11-03-dhanishtha-the-drum

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Delphinus, Sagitta, Aquila, and Antinous, plate 13 from Urania's Mirror, engraved by Sidney Hall, London, 1825. Library of Congress via Wikimedia Commons, public domain, restored by Adam Cuerden. Licence: Public Domain Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sidney_Hall_-_Urania%27s_Mirror_-_Delphinus,_Sagitta,_Aquila,_and_Antinous.jpg

- Inline (`inline-1.jpg`): The compact group near the middle is the whole station; the bright star at the lower right, against the Milky Way, is Altair, which is how you get there. The constellation Delphinus, photograph by Eckhard Slawik, 2024. E. Slawik/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/M. Zamani, CC BY 4.0. Licence: CC BY 4.0 Source: https://www.loc.gov/item/2002695506/

decisions

2026-01-30-checking-the-calendar-too-often

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Augury of the crow (Vasakasajja Nayika), unknown artist, Northern India, Pahari kingdoms, c. 1800. Cleveland Museum of Art (1989.337), CC0 1.0. Licence: CC0 1.0 Source: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1989.337

2026-02-03-bring-a-decision-not-a-fear

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): A Ruler Presents a Document to Visiting Nobles, unknown artist, Mughal India (Deccan), c. 1700–1720. Cleveland Museum of Art (Open Access), CC0 1.0. Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication) Source: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1996.296

- Inline (`inline-1.jpg`): Couple Playing Chaupar on a Terrace, unknown artist, Pahari (Kangra school), c. 1790–1800. Cleveland Museum of Art (Open Access), CC0 1.0. Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication) Source: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1936.683

2026-02-08-disagreeing-with-your-chart

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Akbar holds a religious assembly of different faiths in the Ibadat Khana at Fatehpur Sikri, folio from an Akbarnama, Nar Singh, Mughal India, c. 1605. Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, via Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain Mark 1.0. Licence: Public Domain Mark 1.0 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jesuits_at_Akbar%27s_court.jpg

2026-02-12-learning-this-yourself

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Rama, Sita, and Lakshmana visit the hermitage of the sage Bharadvaja at Prayaga, from the Ayodhya Kanda of a Ramayana, unknown artist, Central India, Malwa region, c. 1650. Gum tempera, ink and gold on paper. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection; Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund, 2018.129. CC0 1.0. Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication) Source: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2018.129

2026-02-16-asking-about-money-first

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): A man weighing sweet meats to sell to women in a bazaar, unknown Indian artist, attributed to a painter of Tanjore, 1800s. Wellcome Collection (728286i), Public Domain Mark 1.0. Licence: Public Domain Mark 1.0 Source: https://wellcomecollection.org/works/grevcaxe

2026-02-20-a-childs-chart

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): The Birth of Krishna, from a Sursagar of Surdas, unknown artist, Mewar, Rajasthan, 1705–10. Cleveland Museum of Art (1984.65, Edwin R. and Harriet Pelton Perkins Memorial Fund), CC0 1.0. Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication) Source: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1984.65

2026-02-24-astrology-and-the-anxious-mind

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): A Princess on a Terrace with Attendants at Night (recto), unknown artist, Mughal India (Farrukhabad), c. 1760. Cleveland Museum of Art (Open Access), CC0 1.0. Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication) Source: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2013.341.a

2026-03-03-what-to-bring

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Young Scribe, page from an album, Mir Sayyid Ali, Lahore, Mughal empire, 1555–56. Los Angeles County Museum of Art (M.90.141.1, bequest of Edwin Binney, 3rd) via Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain. Licence: Public Domain Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mir_Sayyid_Ali_-_Portrait_of_a_Young_Indian_Scholar.jpg

2026-03-17-keeping-a-decision-journal

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): An Indian accountant (?) carrying a book, unknown Indian artist, 1800s. Wellcome Collection (582488i), Public Domain Mark 1.0. Licence: Public Domain Mark 1.0 Source: https://wellcomecollection.org/works/vse4s4p8

2026-03-19-how-to-take-notes

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): A Rathor Noble Visiting a Holy Man at a Vishnu Shrine, unknown artist, Northwestern India, Rajasthan, Marwar, c. 1760. Cleveland Museum of Art (2018.202, Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection; Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund), CC0 1.0. Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication) Source: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2018.202

2026-04-04-the-question-you-have-been-avoiding

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Noblewoman at a Jharokha Window Holding a Rose, from a Portraits of Women series, unknown artist, Rajput kingdom of Sawar, Rajasthan, c. 1730. Cleveland Museum of Art, CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication Source: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2018.182

2026-04-14-how-to-choose-an-astrologer

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): An astrologer, unknown Indian artist, ca. 1825. Wellcome Collection (590344i), Public Domain Mark 1.0. Licence: Public Domain Mark 1.0 Source: https://wellcomecollection.org/works/syn7nqv8

2026-04-16-second-opinions

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Nanda and the Elders in Council with the Cowherds, from a Bhagavata Purana, unknown artist, Rajput kingdom of Bikaner, Rajasthan, c. 1690–1700. Cleveland Museum of Art (2018.192), CC0 1.0. Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication) Source: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2018.192

2026-04-21-when-to-stop-the-session

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Jain Ascetic Walking Along a Riverbank, Basavana, Mughal India, court of Akbar, c. 1600. Cleveland Museum of Art (1967.244, Severance and Greta Millikin Collection), CC0 1.0. Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication) Source: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1967.244

Counts section to update: total rises to 46 images across 36 posts, and "CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication)" from 10 to 11.

2026-04-23-the-recording-question

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Ganesa writing the Mahabharat, dictated by Vyasa, folio from an illustrated Mahabharata manuscript, unknown artist, Mewar, Rajasthan, 17th century. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (27.792) via Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain. Licence: Public Domain Mark 1.0 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ganesa_writing_the_Mahabharat.jpeg

2026-05-12-nobody-wrote-down-the-time

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): The birth of Rama and his brothers, from Chapter 17 of the Bala Kanda of the Adhyatma Ramayana, unknown artist, Kangra, c. 1820–30. Cleveland Museum of Art (1953.13), CC0 1.0. Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication) Source: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1953.13

2026-05-18-should-i-leave-this-job

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Akrura Drives Krishna and Balarama to Mathura, from the "Isarda Bhagavata Purana", unknown artist, northwestern India, Rajasthan, Isarda, c. 1560–70. Gum tempera and ink on paper. Cleveland Museum of Art (1971.234, John L. Severance Fund), CC0 1.0. Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1971.234

2026-06-29-someone-elses-chart

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Nur Jahan holding a portrait of Emperor Jahangir, attributed to Bishandas, Mughal India, c. 1627. Cleveland Museum of Art (2013.325), CC0 1.0. Licence: CC0 1.0 Source: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2013.325

2026-09-15-asking-for-the-reasoning

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): A Discourse Between Muslim Sages, Govardhan, Mughal India, c. 1630. Los Angeles County Museum of Art (M.85.2.3), via Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain. Licence: Public Domain Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Govardhan._A_Discourse_Between_Muslim_Sages_ca._1630_LACMA.jpg 2026-10-24-the-business-start-date

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): A shopkeeper selling earthen diyas (lamps) to a man, unknown Indian artist, 1800s. Wellcome Collection (582308i), Public Domain Mark 1.0. Licence: Public Domain Mark 1.0 Source: https://wellcomecollection.org/works/y64de9uk 2026-11-24-the-match-called-off

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Wedding Procession of Sultan Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah, Deccan, ca. 1650. The Metropolitan Museum of Art (2022.200), Open Access, CC0 1.0. Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/458034 2026-12-15-what-the-astrologer-owes

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Shaikh to Kings, from the St. Petersburg album, Bichitr, Mughal India, c. 1615-18. Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution (F1942.15a), via Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain. Licence: Public Domain Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bichitr_-_Jahangir_Preferring_a_Sufi_Shaikh_to_Kings,_from_the_St._Petersburg_album_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg 2027-01-09-the-prediction-that-frightened-you

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Lady and Her Confidante, Kishangarh, Rajasthan, c. 1800. Cleveland Museum of Art (1985.187), CC0 1.0. Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1985.187

tradition

2026-02-02-the-sky-before-rashis

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Taittirīya Saṃhitā of the Krishna Yajurveda, Sanskrit in Devanagari script, nineteenth-century paper manuscript in palm-leaf format. Photograph by Ms Sarah Welch, 2018. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Share-alike applies to this crop. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Taittiriya_Samhita_Vedas,_Devanagari_script,_Sanskrit_pliv.jpg

2026-02-06-an-encyclopedia-that-happens-to-include-astrology

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Folio with a water-spout design from the Vāstu śāstra hiti dayeka, a manuscript on architecture in Sanskrit, Newari script, copied early nineteenth century from an undated original. Photograph by Ms Sarah Welch, 2021. Wikimedia Commons, CC0 1.0. Licence: CC0 1.0 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_folio_from_Vastu_sastra_hiti_dayeka_manuscript,_water_spout_design,_Sanskrit_language,_Newari_script_-_1.jpg

2026-02-21-who-was-parashara

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Sage Narada asks Valmiki to write the story of Rama, anonymous, Kangra school, early 19th century. National Museum, New Delhi (49.19/276), via Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain. Licence: Public Domain Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sage_Narada_at_the_hermitage_of_Sage_Valmiki_requesting_him_to_write_the_Story_of_Rama.jpg

2026-02-23-brahmagupta-against-aryabhata

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Annotated copy of Pṛthūdaka's commentary on Brahmagupta's Brāhmasphuṭasiddhānta of 628; India Office Sanskrit manuscript 1304, British Library. Via Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain. Licence: Public Domain Mark 1.0 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:P%E1%B9%9Bth%C5%ABdhaka%E2%80%99s_10th_century_commentary_on_Brahmagupta%E2%80%99s_Br%C4%81hmasphu%E1%B9%ADasiddh%C4%81nta.jpg

2026-02-27-the-jaimini-sutras-a-second-grammar

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Mīmāṃsā Sūtra of Jaimini with Śabara's commentary, palm-leaf manuscript in Sanskrit, Malayalam script, from a monastic collection at Thrissur, Kerala. Photograph by Ms Sarah Welch, 2021. Wikimedia Commons, CC0 1.0. Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:5th-century_Mimamsa_sutra_with_bhasya,_Sabara_Svamin_Hindu_monastic_complex_of_Thrissur,_Sanskrit_language,_Malayalam_script,_Kerala.jpg

2026-03-04-the-almanac-press

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Nūtan pañjikā for the Bengali year 1279, the illustrated leaf for the Jhulan Yatra; published by Siddheswar Ghosh, Calcutta, 1279 BS (1872-73). National Library of India copy, digitised for the Digital Library of India; Internet Archive (dli.ministry.04858) via Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain. Licence: Public domain (published before 1931) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:N%C5%ABtan_pa%C3%B1jik%C4%81,_1872-73_(IA_dli.ministry.04858).pdf

2026-03-07-the-century-the-zodiac-arrived

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Coin with Sign of Leo, gold, struck at Agra, dated 1033 AH / 1624 CE. The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Open Access), accession 99.35.7403, CC0 1.0. Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/444867

2026-03-11-a-greek-book-in-sanskrit-verse

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Bṛhat Saṃhitā of Varāhamihira, chapters 57 to 59, palm-leaf manuscript in Sanskrit, Nepālākṣara script, copied 1279 and kept in a Buddhist monastery in Nepal; Cambridge University Library (MS Add.1706). Photograph by Ms Sarah Welch, 2018. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Share-alike applies to this crop. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:6th-century_Brihat_Samhita_of_Varahamihira,_1279_CE_Hindu_text_palm_leaf_manuscript,_Pratima_lakshana,_Sanskrit,_Nepalaksara_script,_folio_1_talapatra_from_a_Buddhist_monastery,_1v,_2r_2v_leaves.jpg

2026-03-28-how-to-read-the-hora-shastra

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Bṛhajjātaka of Varāhamihira, palm-leaf manuscript copied at Kathmandu, 1399 (Cambridge University Library MS Add.2834); photograph by Ms Sarah Welch, 2018. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Varahamihira%27s_Brihajjataka,_Sanskrit,_Nepalaksara_script,_manuscript_copied_in_1399_CE,_Kathmandu.jpg

- Inline (`inline-1.jpg`): Unidentified Jātikalaṅkāra, folio 6a, undated. Wellcome Collection, London (Or Hindi MS 240; L0024474), CC BY 4.0. Licence: CC BY 4.0 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hindi_Manuscript_240,_folio_6a_Wellcome_L0024474.jpg

2026-03-30-commentary-as-a-genre

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Bṛhat Saṃhitā of Varāhamihira with Bhaṭṭotpala's commentary on chapter 3, palm-leaf manuscript in Sanskrit, Tamil Grantha script, from a Tamil temple collection and acquired before 1899; University of Pennsylvania Libraries. Photograph by Ms Sarah Welch, 2018. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Share-alike applies to this crop. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:6th-century_Brihat_Samhita_of_Varahamihira,_Bhattotpala_commentary_manuscript,_Chapter_3,_Sanskrit,_Grantha_script,_palm_leaf_1_2r_2v.jpg

2026-03-31-the-oldest-calendar-we-have

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Rigveda samhita manuscript folio, Mandala 1, Sanskrit in Devanagari, copied before 1890; Lalchand Research Library, DAV College, Chandigarh. Photograph by Ms Sarah Welch, 2018. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Share-alike applies to this crop. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1500-1200_BCE_Rigveda,_manuscript_page_sample_ii,_Sanskrit,_Devanagari.jpg

2026-04-07-varahamihira-and-a-century-that-can-be-pinned-down

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Bṛhat Saṃhitā of Varāhamihira, chapter 18, paper manuscript in Sanskrit, Devanagari script, copied before 1885 and kept in a Jain temple library; Cambridge University Library (MS Add.2329). Photograph by Ms Sarah Welch, 2018. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Share-alike applies to this crop. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:6th-century_Brihat_Samhita_of_Varahamihira,_Hindu_text_copied_and_preserved_in_a_Jain_temple,_paper_manuscript,_Sanskrit,_Devanagari_script,_incomplete_folio_1r_1v_2r_leaves.jpg

2026-04-09-the-compact-classic

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Monk preaching to a disciple with a lay audience, folio 2 recto from a Parshvanatha Charitra, maker not recorded, Western India, Gujarat, c. 1275–1300. Cleveland Museum of Art (1971.125.a), CC0 1.0. Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication) Source: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1971.125.a

2026-04-25-sky-in-the-rigveda-and-the-temptation-to-over-read-it

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Chariot wheel, Sun temple at Konark, Odisha, thirteenth century. Photograph by SamhitaB, 2015. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Share-alike applies to this crop. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_chariot_wheel_of_the_sun_god,_Sun_temple,_Konark.jpg

2026-06-11-aryabhata-says-the-earth-turns

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Akbar's mother travels by boat to Agra, Tulsi and Durga, from the Akbarnama, Mughal India, c. 1590 to 1595. Victoria and Albert Museum, London (IS.2:4-1896), via Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain. Licence: Public Domain Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Akbar%27s_mother_travels_by_boat_to_Agra.jpg

2026-06-23-the-many-schools-of-jyotisha

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Planispheric astrolabe by Diya al-Din Muhammad, Lahore, 1647 to 1648. Photograph by Steve Pitkin, collection of the Adler Planetarium, Chicago, inventory A-70. CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Adler_Planetarium_A-70.Ga_Opac.jpg

2026-06-25-the-kerala-school-and-calculus-before-newton

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Yuktibhāṣā of Jyeṣṭhadeva, palm-leaf manuscript in Malayalam, copy of about 1800; Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland (Whish MS 124), collected by C. M. Whish and given to the Society in 1836. Digitised by the Internet Archive, via Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain. Licence: Public domain Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pages_from_Yuktibhasa.jpg

2026-09-19-the-book-that-moved-mercury

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Planisphaerium Braheum, sive structura mundi totius ex hypothesi Tychonis Brahei in plano delineata, plate 6 of Harmonia Macrocosmica by Andreas Cellarius, Amsterdam, first issued 1660; this hand-coloured impression dated 1661. Via Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain. Licence: Public Domain Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cellarius_Harmonia_Macrocosmica_-_Planisphaerium_Braheum.jpg 2026-10-13-the-several-ages-of-the-surya-siddhanta

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Opening page of Article III, Translation of the Sûrya-Siddhânta, Journal of the American Oriental Society, volume 6, New Haven, 1860. Internet Archive scan (jstor-592174), also on Wikimedia Commons. Public Domain. Licence: Public Domain Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Translation_of_the_S%C3%BBrya-Siddh%C3%A2nta,_A_Text-Book_of_Hindu_Astronomy;_With_Notes,_and_an_Appendix_(IA_jstor-592174 2026-11-14-the-king-who-distrusted-his-tables

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Samrat Yantra, Man Singh Observatory, Varanasi; photograph by Nandanupadhyay, 2012. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/). Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Samrat_Yantram_at_Observatory_of_Man_Singh.jpg 2026-12-08-the-dating-wars

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): The twenty-eight Hindoo lunar mansions, engraved by Inigo Barlow, London, undated. Wellcome Collection (V0024916, ICV No 25361) via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Licence: CC BY 4.0 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Astrology;_the_Hindu_zodiac._Engraving_by_Barlow._Wellcome_V0024916.jpg 2027-01-02-spotting-a-chapter-added-later

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Simha Vijaya, untitled: natal charts and tables of planetary positions, folio 303a, undated. Wellcome Collection, London (Or Hindi MS 221; L0024497) via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Licence: CC BY 4.0 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hindi_Manuscript_221,_folio_303a_Wellcome_L0024497.jpg 2027-01-23-the-girl-in-the-arithmetic-book

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Bhāskara, Līlāvatī, leaf 26, Sanskrit paper manuscript in Devanagari, undated. Wellcome Collection, London (MS Or Indic beta 229; L0031248), CC BY 4.0. Licence: CC BY 4.0 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MS_OR_Indic_beta_229,_Lilavati_by_Bhaskara_Wellcome_L0031248.jpg

screen-time

2026-02-04-why-every-astrology-app-is-purple

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Plate I, Couleurs d'un spectre solaire, engraved by René Henri Digeon for Michel Eugène Chevreul, printed by Lamoureux, published by J.-B. Baillière et fils, Paris, 1864; Science History Institute, Philadelphia. Public Domain Mark 1.0. Licence: Public Domain Mark 1.0 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plate_I-_Couleurs_d%27un_spectre_solaire_-_DPLA_-_dca086f80c9dc1622bab30fc18a16177.jpg

2026-02-09-the-notification-considered-as-a-sentence

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Universal Printer stock ticker, Gold & Stock Telegraph Company, built under Edison's patent and submitted to the US Patent Office in the process leading to patent number 140,488 of 1873; photograph by Jaclyn Nash, 2014. National Museum of American History (EM*252616) via Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain. Licence: Public Domain (PD-USGov-Smithsonian, also CC0 under Smithsonian Open Access) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas_Edison_stock_ticker_NMAH-JN2014-3625.jpg

2026-02-25-comment-section-jyotisha

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Townspeople who have never seen an elephant examine its appearance in the dark, folio 117b from a Masnavi of Rumi (Walters MS W.626), copied in India, 1663 (1073 AH). Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Public Domain. Licence: Public Domain Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jalal_al-Din_Rumi,_Maulana_-_Townspeople,_Who_have_Never_Seen_an_Elephant,_Examine_its_Appearance_in_the_Dark_-_Walters_W626117B_-_Full_Page.jpg

2026-07-07-the-sign-in-your-bio

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): The Ancient Zodiac of Egypt with the Original Asterisms, engraved by Inigo Barlow, London, undated; inscribed to Francis Wilford. Wellcome Collection (V0024914, ICV No 25359) via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0. Licence: CC BY 4.0 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Astronomy;_the_twelve_signs_of_the_zodiac._Engraving_by_Barl_Wellcome_V0024914.jpg

2026-07-12-your-co-star-is-not-your-kundli

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): A Brahmin Astrologer, colour lithograph postcard from Taraporevala's Coloured Postcards, D. B. Taraporevala & Sons, Bombay, c. 1905; digitised by Paper Jewels. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0. Licence: CC BY 4.0 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brahmin-astrologer.jpg

2026-07-16-the-meme-is-doing-doctrines-job

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Mercury (from the Tarocchi, series A: Firmaments of the Universe, #42), Master of the E-Series Tarocchi, Ferrara, before 1467. Cleveland Museum of Art (1924.432.42, Dudley P. Allen Fund), CC0 1.0. Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication) Source: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1924.432.42

2026-07-20-the-family-group-chat-a-field-guide

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): A Brahmin gives Krishna the Message or Invitation for the Competition to Rukmini's Svayamvara, from a Bhagavata Purana, maker not recorded, Central India, Madhya Pradesh, Malwa, c. 1650–60. Cleveland Museum of Art (2018.133, Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection; Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund), CC0 1.0. Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication) Source: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2018.133

2026-10-17-the-engine-under-the-brands

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Table du temps moyen au midi vrai, page 95 of La Connaissance des temps for 1709, compiled by Jacques Lieutaud, Paris. Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica) via Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain. Licence: Public Domain Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:La_Connoissance_des_temps_1709-%C3%A9quation_du_temps.jpg 2026-12-12-the-reel-second-by-second

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Optical Toy, Phenakistiscope Disc with Distorted Man, Simon Stampfer, 1833. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (1948-124-2), via Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain. Licence: Public Domain Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Optical_Toy,_Phenakistiscope_Disc_with_Distorted_Man,_1833_(CH_18607979 2027-01-12-the-debunk-that-returns

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Serpens et Serpentarius, plate P from Johannes Hevelius, Prodromus astronomiae with Firmamentum Sobiescianum sive Uranographia, Gdansk, 1690. National Library of Poland via Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain. Licence: Public Domain Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Serpens_et_Serpentarius_-_Prodromus_astronomiae_1690_(5590345

inheritance

2026-05-19-the-kundli-in-the-locker

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Cover for a Jain Manuscript, maker not recorded, Western India, Gujarat, c. 1800. Cleveland Museum of Art (1925.494, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund), CC0 1.0. Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication) Source: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1925.494

2026-05-21-the-sceptic-at-the-puja

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Maharao Kishor Singh II of Kota Worshiping Krishna as Brij Rajji, artist not recorded, Kota, Rajasthan, c. 1825. Cleveland Museum of Art (1978.71, James Albert and Mary Gardiner Ford Memorial Fund), CC0 1.0. Licence: CC0 1.0 Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1978.71

2026-05-22-the-first-veto

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): King Dasharatha confers with Kaikeyi, from the Shangri Ramayana, artist not recorded, Northern India, Pahari kingdoms, Himachal Pradesh, c. 1700–1725. Cleveland Museum of Art (1996.361, Gift of Norman Zaworski in honor of Sherman and Ruth Lee), CC0 1.0. Licence: CC0 1.0 (Public Domain) Source: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1996.361

2026-05-24-asking-to-see-your-own-chart

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): The young prince is presented to the king, his father, by his teacher, but refuses to speak, folio from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night, unattributed painter, Mughal India, court of Akbar, c. 1560. Cleveland Museum of Art (1962.279.54.b, Gift of Mrs. A. Dean Perry), CC0 1.0. Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication) Source: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1962.279.54.b

2026-05-28-believing-a-little

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Royal Women Celebrating Diwali, maker not recorded, Northern India, Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow, c. 1760. Cleveland Museum of Art (1971.82, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund), CC0 1.0. Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication) Source: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1971.82

2026-05-29-the-clipping-your-grandmother-saved

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Mowhri Rahman Alli Khan family, Rewa, photograph by Raja Deen Dayal (Indian, 1844–1905), central India, c. 1882–87. Albumen print. Cleveland Museum of Art (2023.121.2.2, John L. Severance Fund), CC0 1.0. Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication) Source: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2023.121.2.2

2026-06-01-your-chart-their-hopes

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): King Siddharta Listens to an Astrologer Forecast the Conception and Birth of His Son, the Jina Mahavira: Folio from a Kalpasutra Manuscript, artist not recorded, India (Gujarat), late 14th century. Metropolitan Museum of Art (1997.133, Purchase, Friends of Asian Art, Evelyn Kranes Kossak Gift, 1997), donated to Wikimedia Commons by the museum, CC0 1.0. Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MET_DP153181.jpg

2026-09-29-the-label-you-grew-up-holding

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Portrait of Maharaja Bhim Kanwar, folio from the Shah Jahan Album, painting by Nanha, Mughal India, c. 1615–29. Metropolitan Museum of Art (55.121.10.2), CC0 1.0. Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/451265 2026-11-28-before-the-matching

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): The Wedding of Krishna's Parents, first generation after Manaku and Nainsukh, Guler, Himachal Pradesh, c. 1770. Museum Rietberg, Zurich (RVI 1900) via Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Licence: Public Domain Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Wedding_of_Krishna%27s_Parents.jpg 2026-12-22-what-you-will-keep

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Bhagavata Purana series: Krishna and Balarama Studying with the Brahman Sandipani, artist not recorded, India, Uttar Pradesh, Chaurapancasika style, 1525–50. University of Michigan Museum of Art (1983/2.104, gift of Dr. and Mrs. Leo S. Figiel and Dr. and Mrs. Steven J. Figiel) via Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain. Licence: Public Domain Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Krishna_and_Balarama_Studying_with_the_Brahman_Sandipani_(1525-1550_CE

elsewhere

2026-06-20-your-festival-eight-thousand-kilometres-later

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Time Zone Chart of the World, United Kingdom Hydrographic Office, first published 1928, new edition 1942. Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain (UK Government work published before 1976). Licence: Public Domain Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:World_Time_Zone_Chart_1942.jpg

2026-06-21-the-two-clock-kitchen

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Marine chronometer no. 1131, signed Arnold & Dent, London, 1830–40; photograph by Will Fisher, 2016. Originally posted to Flickr and transferred to Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0. Share-alike applies to this crop, so the licence name and link travel with it wherever it appears. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marine_Chronometer-_Arnold_%26_Dent,_No._1131.jpg

2026-06-22-night-shift-day-fast

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Nocturnal, Erasmus Habermel, Prague, c. 1600; Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon, Dresden. Photograph by Daderot, 2013. Wikimedia Commons, CC0 1.0. Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nocturnal,_Erasmus_Habermel,_Prague,_c._1600,_tell_time_at_night_by_sighting_Pole_Star_through_central_hole,_then_align_pointer_with_Big_Dipper_-_Mathematisch-Physikalischer_Salon,_Dresden_-_DSC08017.JPG

2026-06-24-the-apps-city-menu

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Table of the Principal Places in the World, with their Latitudes and Longitudes from London, index page from A New Juvenile Atlas, John Melish, John Vallance and H. S. Tanner, Philadelphia, 1814. David Rumsey Map Collection via Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain (published before 1 January 1931). Licence: Public Domain_Table_Of_The_Principal_Places_In_The_World,_With_Their_Latitudes_and_Longitudes_From_London._(to_accompany)_A_(IA_dr_index-page-to-table-of-the-principal-places-in-the-world-with-their-lati-0496040).jpg#Licensing) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:(Index_Page_to)_Table_Of_The_Principal_Places_In_The_World,_With_Their_Latitudes_and_Longitudes_From_London._(to_accompany)_A_(IA_dr_index-page-to-table-of-the-principal-places-in-the-world-with-their-lati-0496040).jpg

2026-06-26-ekadashi-across-the-date-line

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Pacific Ocean, Admiralty Chart No 2683, United Kingdom Hydrographic Office, 1 September 1859. National Library of Australia copy (nla.obj-231288886) via Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain (UK Government work published before 1976; HMSO has declared the expiry of Crown copyright to apply worldwide). Licence: Public Domain Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Admiralty_Chart_No_2683_Pacific_Ocean,_Published_1859.jpg

2026-06-28-sunrise-at-sixty-degrees-north

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): View of the North Cape, with the sun shining at midnight, published by Jones & Co., London, 1 January 1825. Wellcome Collection (V0025067) via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0. Attribution is required, so the licence name and link travel with this crop wherever it appears. Licence: CC BY 4.0 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Astronomy;_a_sailing_ship_at_the_North_Cape,_Norway,_sailing_Wellcome_V0025067.jpg

2026-07-02-the-temple-committees-calendar

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Singapore. Hindu Temple. South Bridge Road., picture postcard, collotype, photographer unknown, 1895–1908. Leiden University Library and KITLV (image 1404886), via Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain. Licence: Public Domain Mark 1.0 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KITLV_-_1404886_-_Singapore._Hindu_Temple._South_Bridge_Road._-_1895-1908.tif

2026-11-17-wedding-across-two-skies

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Portable diptych sundial, Hans Tröschel the Elder, Nuremberg, ca. 1598. The Metropolitan Museum of Art (03.21.38, Gift of Mrs. Stephen D. Tucker, 1903), Open Access, CC0 1.0. Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/188849 2026-12-26-where-the-sky-itself-is-different

- Hero (`hero.jpg`): Haemisphaerium Stellatum Australe Aequali Sphaerarum Proportione, plate 29 of Harmonia Macrocosmica by Andreas Cellarius, Amsterdam, 1661; hand-coloured impression. Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain Licence: Public Domain Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cellarius_Harmonia_Macrocosmica_-_Haemisphaerium_Stellatum_Australe_Aequali_Sphaerarum_Proportione.jpg

Counts

199 images across 183 posts (132 published, 51 scheduled from August 2026 to January 2027). Licence mix:

- CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication): 57 - Public Domain: 39 - CC BY 4.0: 30 - CC BY-SA 4.0: 21 - Public Domain Mark 1.0: 19 - CC BY-SA 3.0: 7 - CC0 1.0: 5 - CC0 1.0 (Public Domain): 3 - Public Domain (PD-old-70): 3 - CC0 1.0 Universal (Creative Commons Zero, Public Domain Dedication): 2 - CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication: 2 - Public Domain (PD-Art, PD-old-100-expired): 2 - CC BY-SA 2.0: 1 - CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO: 1 - CC0 1.0 (Public Domain Dedication): 1 - Public Domain (PD-India, published before 1931): 1 - Public Domain (PD-USGov-Smithsonian, also CC0 under Smithsonian Open Access): 1 - Public Domain (PD-old-100): 1 - Public domain: 1 - Public domain (STScI/HubbleSite release terms, 2004/20): 1 - Public domain (published before 1931): 1

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