"Practitioners and students of astrology of astrology will find in the two volumes the priceless contribution of Dr. Raman in providing a most comprehensive picture about the ancient classic-Prasna or horary astrology-through his lucid English translation of the original text in Devanagari authored by a renowned scholar in 1650 A.D.. What is presented is an exhaustive analysis of the science of Prasna (mostly practised in Kerala) covering the entire gamut of its forecasting art-predictive astrology (Jataka). electional astrology (Muhurta), remedial astrology (Parihara) and the significance of omens-and the methodology adopted by the practitioners of prasna."-R.Parthasarathy, The Hindu, Madras, 3 December,1996 - from Amzon