Greek horoscopy likely came through the Hellenistic settlements in Gandhara and the trade routes, but the words themselves tell a clearer story. Jyotisha borrowed terms like *kendra* (center) from *kentron* and *hora* (hour) from *hōra*.
As a history student in Delhi, tracing loanwords in old texts feels like my night shifts at the Guntur hospital—connecting scattered pulses of life into a single, living story.
My mother’s dawn garden, where we nurture foreign tomato varieties beside native tulsi, reminds me that borrowings, whether of words or seeds, are woven into the soil of everyday resilience.
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