Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi

And so that becomes the official table.

These tables are translated into Arabic, and so the early Arabic astronomers like Abu Ma'shar, Masha'allah, these people are drawing from these Sasanian tables and inventory of concepts, that sort of thing.

So that's just the first word in Sanskrit.

We've also got tarka.

Thus, it allows for a limited astral influence, but again, still securing free will and moral choice.

Indeed, the text seems to be following an argument made by Abu Mashar that astrology properly understood would actually aid in securing moral virtue, not negating it, much less erasing moral choice through astral determinism, something very much needed through voluntaristic religions like Islam and Christianity.

The speculum became widely influential, inviting commentary and criticism from all corners, and to this day the question of its Albertine authorship continues to be debated.

All of these various texts would go through numerous editions.