Husky, interesting and of course pertinent quote from bhArata.
the portion you referred to should correspond to these lines:
apyevaM no brAhmaNAH santi vR^iddhA
bahushrutAH shIlavantaH kulInAH
sA.nvatsarA jyotiShi chApi yuktA
nakShatrayogeShu cha nishchayaGYAH
uchchAvacha.n daivayukta.n rahasyaM
divyAH prashnA mR^igachakrA muhUrtA
kShayaM mahAnta.n kurusR^i~njayAnAM
nivedayante pANDavAnA.n jayaM cha
tathA hi no manyate.ajAtashatruH
sa.nsiddhArtho dviShatAM nigrahAya
(udyoga parvan)
It seems that the learned va~Nga paNDita has translated 'mR^igachakra' for 'zodiac', which is very interesting. literally mR^iga-chakra would mean "cycle/circle of animal" and in that sense, indeed the zodiac of zoo (jIva) sense.
And while the translation is fair enough, the sense in passage is not that it is the result of some planetary calculations etc., that these elderly brAhmaNa-s are suggesting (not "prophesying") the victory of pANDava-s and the decay of the kaurava-sR^i~njaya-s. Still, a good evidence of the predictive astrology in bhArata.
the portion you referred to should correspond to these lines:
apyevaM no brAhmaNAH santi vR^iddhA
bahushrutAH shIlavantaH kulInAH
sA.nvatsarA jyotiShi chApi yuktA
nakShatrayogeShu cha nishchayaGYAH
uchchAvacha.n daivayukta.n rahasyaM
divyAH prashnA mR^igachakrA muhUrtA
kShayaM mahAnta.n kurusR^i~njayAnAM
nivedayante pANDavAnA.n jayaM cha
tathA hi no manyate.ajAtashatruH
sa.nsiddhArtho dviShatAM nigrahAya
(udyoga parvan)
It seems that the learned va~Nga paNDita has translated 'mR^igachakra' for 'zodiac', which is very interesting. literally mR^iga-chakra would mean "cycle/circle of animal" and in that sense, indeed the zodiac of zoo (jIva) sense.
And while the translation is fair enough, the sense in passage is not that it is the result of some planetary calculations etc., that these elderly brAhmaNa-s are suggesting (not "prophesying") the victory of pANDava-s and the decay of the kaurava-sR^i~njaya-s. Still, a good evidence of the predictive astrology in bhArata.