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Jyotisha (Sanskrit: ज्योतिष, IAST: Jyotiṣa), or Vedic astrology or Hindu astrology, is the science of tracking and predicting the movements of astronomical bodies in order to keep the right time for the Vedic sacrifices. It refers to one of the six ancient Vedangas, or ancillary science connected with the Vedas – the scriptures of the Vedic culture. This field of study was concerned with fixing the days and hours of Vedic rituals.Some scholars have opined that Hindu astrology likely developed from the conquest of Persia and parts of Northern India Greek astrology by Alexander the Great, their zodiac signs being nearly identical.. But this view of Hellenistic transmission is not without contention. Hindu Astrology is inherently a study of karma, which gives it a very different foundation compared to Greek astrology. In addition to this, the predictive techniques used in Hindu Astrology such as Dashas (planetary and sign-based time periods), Vargas (harmonic divisions of the horoscope) are not that evolved in Greek astrology. In fact, there is very little evidence that these techniques were used in Greek astrology in the sophisticated, highly evolved manner as used in Jyotisha.