There are numerous later compilations of omens in Sanskrit of which the most notable are the Brhatsamhita,or“Great Composition,”of Varahamihira (c. 550),the Jain Bhadrabahu-samhita,or“Composition of Bhadrabahu”(c. 10th century),and the Parishishtas (“Supplements”) of the Atharvaveda (perhaps 10th or 11th century)—though these add little to the tradition. But in the works of the 13th century and later,entitled Tājika,there is a massive infusion of the Arabic adaptations of the originally Mesopotamian celestial omens as transmitted through Persian (Tājika) translations. In Tājika the omens are closely connected with general astrology; in the earlier Sanskrit texts their connections with astrology had been primarily in the fields of military and catarchic astrology. Astrology in the Hellenistic period (3rd century BC to 3rd century AD) In the 3rd century BC and perhaps somewhat earlier,Babylonian diviners began—for the purpose of predicting the course of an individual’s lif