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The text Horāpradīpa (‘Light of Horoscope’) by Dāmodara with ṭīkā (‘commentary’) belongs to the Jyotiṣa Vedāṅga corpus, which has not yet been deciphered or translated into other languages and is currently available in a manuscript form. At present, this text is being deciphered and translated into Russian and English, and the speaker discusses the information that is already available based on the processed part, in particular, the catalogues of manuscripts and other works on Jyotiṣa that refer to this text, the authorship and date of creation, the Chandas (‘meter’) used, and various linguistic methods used in the text, including for memorization.