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SURYANARAIN ROW, Ba, RAS,TRHS Member of the Medico Legal Soctets of New Yark, Member of the Astatic Society of Bengal, Diplomed Bio Chemrst, Edttor, Astrological Magacine Author of the Never To Be Forgotten Empire, Hyder Alor Sultan of WUssore, The Astrological Self Instructor, Astrological Mirror, Astrological Primer, Karma and Chemustry , An Introduction to the Study of Astrology sn the Light of Modern Sciences, English Translator of Saruarthacketawnt Brshat Jataka Jamint Sutras etc, ele ete FIRST EDITION PUBLISHED BY Dr B V RAMAN, «0, (x) (Grandson of the Author) BETTAHALSOOR P @ BANGALORE, (India) Price per copy 1931 (Postage Extra Re l,or Sh 2, or Cents 50 ALL RIGHTS RESERVEDSTRIJATAKA OR FEMALE HOROSCOPY — PREFACE INTRODUCTION CHAPTER. I—Disisions in Humamty—~Masculine, Feminine, Eunuch and Hermaphochate, Obalachartand Obalamma, conter- sion of Males into Females and Females into Males 11—Female peculianties—Arthava Lagna—Results of Lag- CONTENTS nas—Odd and Even Signs II-—Charactenstics of Girls—Combmatrons for Prostrtutes and Adultery IV—Precautions m Predictious necessary, Different _kmds of Prostituttons—-Moral and Virtuous behaviour V—Sources of strength and weakness for Planets and _ Zodiacal Signs Vi—Beneficial Aspects and Conjunctions — Combinations for Barrenness—Pregnancy ‘VII—Characterstics of the 12 Rasis or Signs—Results of the occupation of Chandra or Méon in the different Rasis—Stellar influences—or Nakshatras “VILI--Results of the 27 Constellations or Stars IX—Signsfications of the Planets in the 12 honses—Sun, Moon, Mars and Mercury X~—Results of Jupiter, Venus, and Satum m the 12 houses XI-—Rayayogas or Auspicious Combinations for Polstcal Power and Prosperity, Shadverga of signs or sub divisions, Shodasavergas or the Sixteen divisions. XI1-~-Soubhagyayogas, Menses, Arthava Jong marital states —~ Sahacharya Yogas—Widowhood Vydhavya Yogas—Puberty and 11—12 13-16 17—21 21-23 23—28 23—31 3I—35 36-42STRIJATAKA OR FEMALE HOROSCOPY Crarrrr PAGES Nll—Effects of Lunir days or Fifst Menses Results of week days—Auspicious and Cvil Constellat ons Remarks for serious reflections—Results of Montts and Paksha Phalas 40-47 XIV—Special influences of Constellations on the ippearance of First Menses 47—50 XV~—Inausp ¢ ous t mes for tle appearance of First Menses ma Giril—Results of yogas and Krranas—Influences of ume 50-52 XvI—Results of the Zodiacal S gns~~Influence of Planets and places on the appearance of the First Menses 52-55 NVII—Results to be pred cted from the d rections of the ques t oner-~Remed es for ev Is attendant on the appearance of the I" rst Menses 55—59 AVIlI—Results of clothes the number of drops of menstrual fluid--Planets um the Constellatons and Planetary posit ons~-San—Punfications after Menses 59-61 RIX—Moon Mars Mercury Jupter Venus, Saturn Rabu and Kethu 1 the 12 Bhavas at the appearance of the Furst Menses 64-67 \N--Spec al Rules—D agram for the Complet on of these Works by me 67~70 Essent als to understand the works of Enghsh Translat ons of M ne—Zod acal S gns—Seasons—Plinetary States~ Penods and Sub per ods of Planets Constellat ons and ther Caglsh Equivilents fully expla ned 2-79PREFACE TO STRIJATAKA ——_===== Humanity 1s divided into three grand sexual divisions Females, Males and Eunuchs Shere is also a small section culed Hermaphrodites who are neither males nor females but who partake of both charac teristics sometimes in a most pronounced form but often with apologies for sexual organs both sexual organs being 1ll developed and impotent to act mdividually In the male erection 1s needed for penetration —_In the female a certain internal adjustment is needed both for coition and also for the proper reception of the seed thrown into it by the male organ When this 1s not Properly developed, the seed cannot be received and concep ton does not take place The planetary combinations for con ception progress of the foetus, birth and life are given elabora tely in the Astrological sciences Pindotpatit, Adhyaya or Foetal development is very interesting and instructive to readers [have given it in my Brhat Jataka In this book I have chiefly con fined myself to the sketch of female horoscopes Till about the 8th year there will not be much difference between boys and girls From the 8th year a peculiar fluid begins to form both in the males and also in the females In the former the fluid 1s white or whitish yellow and in the Jatter it will begin to assume reddish color, until in the first appearances of the menses, it flows out by a physical im voluntary motion and consti tutes what may be called the puberty or first Menses In the boy the fluid grows thicker and thicker and its development depends upon various con ditions, physical mental and mora] There are some preco cious boys who can have erec tion and discharge of semen at 14 years and the seed possesses reproductive capacity Generally this age ts reached when the boy 15 18 or 20 In some boys zt will not develop properly until they are 20 or 25 or even 30 In some it will never years develop at all The last 1s exceptional Between males and females a large number of characteristics are common I have treated here the female peculraritiesINTRODUCTION TO STRIJTATAKA Women never occupied an inferior Indsan society, religion, politics or spiti- tual development The sastras never called them chattels, which can be disposed of by men at their sweet will and pleasure Some of the wrongly informed and superficial women are thun dering their 1] advised orations, from the platforms and attribut- ing motives, which have never been sanctioned by the sastras or approved by the thoughtful men For abuses of pure principles the original authors certainly cannot be blamed or held responstble The Euro- pean nations are priding them- selves upon the abolishment of slavery It is in name and theory but certainly tt has no real existence in practice Take the tyranmies in offices, in the mnlitary, m large centres of manufacturies and industries and of the various rulers and Governments and honestly say if slavery has really been abo pshed and the labourers and subordinates have anything hke hberty, independence of thought position in or action What do the enor- mous strikes indicate, 1f not the blackest tyranny, dirtiest slavery and the most unsatisfactory and shameful treatment of the ul-paid subordinates by thew respective masters, and tyrants Statesmen and the pmncipal leaders cannot utter a more daring falsehood Take the lJarge numbers of divorce in the most enlightened country in the world, vzz, America. 7,00,000 divorces for a year, vz, in a few countries in the US of America are certainly tangible evidences of domestic happiness and felici- ties in the most civilised coun- tries and among the most enhghtered nations Do the advanced Indran women want these domestic comforts and these unenviable divorces Do they really know the unhappmess that prevatls in many of the European homes The hberty of a woman should never merge into the regions of license? The Hindus never treated women with ill grace The highest appointments in religion are given to the ladies in preferenceW INTRODUCTION TO STRIJATARA to males Brahm, Vishna and Maheswara, come after their spouses for respect and worship Vasista comes after his chaste wife Arundhati Anusuya 1s held in the highest esteem above her revered husband Attn maharisht While the Maharishis are the brightest imtellects, none of them got the post of Inspector General of Education, which enviable post, among all the 33 crores of Devatas, :s held by Saraswathi the Goddess of Learmng All hase to pray to her for progress in education ind intelligence and fall on her feet to get them Take the money power It has been granted to Matru Devo Bhisa, then comes the father, Patru Deso Bhiwa The debt to father 1s cleared by doing death ceremontes or srurd- dhain Gaya = But_ the debt to the mother will not be cleared til a man denounces the world, becomes a sanyasi and falls on her feet The ancient writers are agreed in giving the best and the highest honours to women One of the finest vedantic works hnown as Secta ramanyaneya ws given to Anja. neya by Seetha Devi, wife of Sn Rama = The prizes to the mon hey warnors of Rama after the conquest of Lanka were distrt buted in the public assembly byINTRODUCTION TO STRIJATAhA w armies to success and conquest in person Her splended adm: mistration has been installed as a model one by the great Chinese traveller Huenestang Instan- ces of courage, chastity, pru- dence and admimstratne tact and capacity have been recorded in the histones of the Marathas and the Rayaputs, of women, who have figured prominently before the public In every religious mantra and practice, the name of the women comes first and then that of her busband showing unmistakably the high rank in which women are held im India The nght side 1s always the place of the greatest honor and respect Matru Devo Bhava, Pitru Devo Bhava Sachi Purandarayanamaha, Lakshm: narayanayanamaha, —- Parvati- Parameswarayanamaha, Aron dhat: Vasistayanamaha, Seetha- tamayanamaha, Chayasuryaya namaha and so forth I can quote many instances to show that the Hindus never held their women as chattels to be disposed of but as De:tres who have given burth to men and held them m Ingh esteem, and if Dharma Raya staked his wife Draupadi inthe gambling, he did so m an unholy trade and against his Kshatrya conscience and Dharma, Whether itis Dharma Raja or anybody else, gambling has never been justified as a nghteous act by any sastras or moral religious codes He also staked his brothers, and made them ignoble and go to Agnata- vasa or state of Incognito for a long penod This was not all the folly of him He staked his own hberty and took up the disgrace- ful position of serving Virata in humble capacity The brothers and Draupadi were not bound by his stake in gambiing but they yie'ded as honorable personages to preserve the honorable pro- mise of a man in a dishonorable transaction Suppose they rebel- led and disobeyed, 1t was notin Dharma Raja’s power to compel them if they had not yielded to preserve the discipline of obedi- ence to their elder brother Draupad: was not treated asa chattel nor the four brothers of Dharma Raja Lous XI of France went to England asa prisoner voluntanly to keep up his word of honor, when the French nation did not redeem therr promise of payment of the ransome fixed His words mngww INTRODUCTION with 1 spirit of nobilty and he observed admiration when yf honor 1s not with lings, where then could we find it I refer my readers to my articles on the superiority of women in Vol 19 of my the xssues 0} Astrological Magzine Even his best admurers cannot justify selling his prothers in the unholy trade of gambling Faults cannot become virtues simply because great men com mitted them Human beings have their merits and demerits side by side There are many women now 37 India and the world who are treating their husbands hhe chattels and worse than chattels For what can it mean else than selling their TO STRIJATARA revenge and sensual gratifier tions Wul the platform ladies examine the criminal records in the world and find out what are the basis for the ermmunal acts and what responsi bihty rests on their shoulders There 1s no use of blaming this or that sex and say these or those have been held as slaves Good people are found among both the sexes 1nd the worst cnminals are equally counted among both Women are now advancing rapidly on vanous lines and their horoscopesall over the world ire composed of varteties of temperaments The order of creation is such No one can chinge the laws of Nature and God lone must‘INTRODUCTION TO STRIJATAKA v tite servant Manthira. There “is no use of blaming this or that section of humanity, take the world as it is, and try your best to modify the evil surround- ings and make them as good as possible. Astrology helps to read the character and fortunes of individuals. After having read them correctly, try your best to modify or avert the evil influences and turn them to your advantage by the previous knowledge of future events. Remedies are recommended by the science of Astrology and Dharmasastras and they should be adopted in all cases, where they are likely to produce beneficial results by averting and modifying the evils, As I have explained often in my writings, Astrology is a huge chemical science and the rest of the sciences are its minor branches. What are Dharma- sastras? They are completely chemical in nature. They give you strict rules for the preser- vation of good and sound health, to purify the mind, to increase and develop the spiritual and moral tendencies and thus enable the person to live happily here and secure states of bliss and final emanci- pation after death. The constel- lations, the planets, the zodia- cal signs, the Iunar and solar days, the yogas and the kara- nas are all chemical in nature and as chemical bodies they exercise their good or evil influ- ences on each other. In birth as well as in menses electrical and ethereal currents are set afloat and whenever their actions are prejudicial and injurious to mankind, remedies—chemical in nature—are prescribed to coun~- teract those evils to neutralise their effects, to produce good and thus to secure comforts and happiness to humanity.§SRIi STRIJATAKA FEMALE HOROSCOPY ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY B SURYANARAIN ROW, B14, RAS, FRHS GENERAL OBSERVATIONS CuaptTer I divided into three main divisions, 112, Mas culine, Femimne and Eunuch There are any number of sub disisions among them and the phenomena of potency or vitality among the above three classes are remarkable There are men with perfect masculine develop ment, but almost without powers of erection or penetra ton There are some women who have hardly any sexual excitements and desire for co operation They evade or reject sexual offers and appl: cations On the other hand, there are Aafumsakas or eunu chs who have strong sexual excitements and desires, but without suitab’e organs for such functions On the other hand, there are men and women, who Humanity 1s have tremendous sexual energy and who are not satisfied with ordinary sexual embraces and seek gratification even in unna tural ways Some men and women have no inclination for sexual congress There are some who have the development of the masculine and feminme organs m a mild form, and there are a few who have these two organs m good perfection, so much so that as females they have regular menses and at the same time as males, they have enjoyment with other females Cases, where such beings haying fully developed male and female organs in one and the same person, hase been brought to notice both by medical practi tioners and iso by the general public at different times But, whether such Ardha Nanswaras2 both man and woman together developed in one and the same body, has ever become pregnant and brought forth issues, has not been recorded ‘There are some more peculiar phenomena among human beings, which deserve special mention here. While we were about 16 years old, a man was introduced to us by our elder paternal uncle. Venhatesayya who was Sher- stedar at Chichballapur near Bangalore as Obalachan, who had been Obalamma_ before. The facts were these He was born as a girl in a poor but res- pectable Brahmm family, and was married in his 9th year toa Brahmin youth of twenty = Tull then the development of ali organs were strictly femimne, otherwise there could not hase STRIJATAKA of feminine sexual organ, but a fully developed = mascu- tine organ, the marriage yas cancelled and Obalachar marnied a girl, and had several children from her. One of his sons became an Amuldar im the Mysore service, and there are now some grand-children of Obalachar formerly Obalamma We could not believe sucha story but not only our uncle vouched the truth of this, but Obalachar himself confirm. ed the same Our uncle had gone to the marnage of Obalam- ma first and then agam to his marnage when he became Oba- lachar. The history written by an Androgine and published by the Medico Legal Journal con- firms such instances Only the other day a bull was brought to for4 STRIJATAKA If the Lagna and Chandra fall in odd signs, she will be mascu- line in appearance and temper, bad character, sorrowful, if these two Lagna and Chandra are combined with or aspected by cruel planets, her character vall be bad and sinful In jadging of these results the astrologer has great difficulties and has to use much discretion in predicting the results Take some 1ilustrations Kataka 1s Lagna, with Kuya there and as- pected by Sam. Lagna 1s even and the gurl ought to be good, but the presence of Kuya in de- bilitation with the aspect of Sam will make her a whore and of bad character. There are some women, bad 1n morality but otherwise respectful and agreeable in behaviour, There are some others who are moral gems, but disrespectful and quarrelsome in behasiour = In the above case say Chandra 1s they do m Kataka Kataha as Lagna with Kua and Guru with Sant and Ravi, with Sukra and Sam, with Kua and Sukra, with Rahu and Ravt, with Kethu and Chandra will and must produce certainly different re- sults Suppose Mesha as Lagna with Sam and Kua, Sant and Rahu, Sam and Guru, Sant and Chandra and Sam and Sukra, they will produce characteristics of a different hind and the student, should be very careful in his predictions Take Kataha as Lagna with Guru mit He will be in exaltation, and if he has no evil aspects he will produce a woman of great majesty, excell ent character, virtuous beha- yrour and generous disposition Suppose Makara is Lagna Here both Kataha and Mahara are even signs and in_ both we have Guru the most beneficia] among the plinets But in Makara, Gurn is debilitatedSTRIJATAKA 5 the sign will not be so powerful Mahara 1s an evil sign by nature and Guru there 1s bad both because Mahara 3s an evil sign and also because Guru is in debilitation Suppose Thula becomes Lagna with Sami init and Mesha becomes Lagna with Sami in it The difference im the character and behaviour of the girl will be very great Saya female is adul terous and objectionable but will have the knack to treat her husband with apparent love and consideration and thus give no room for complaint as a wife, then he thinks he is happy But if the woman 1s adulterous and tikes a defiant stand to her husbind, admits her lovers in his presence and causes him great discomfort and pain There 1s some difference between the two women, although morally both are bad = Take a woman, not givcn to much adultery, but attached to one bad man, and tries to poison or hill her hus- band = Her chiracter 15 certain- ly reprehensible and she cannot be classed with the other two Therefore, in judging of plane- tary influences, great discretion must be used, Odd signs are cruel or Nara- rasis or masculine Even signs are mild, feminine or strirasis When both Chandra and Lagna fall in odd signs and evil planets occupy or aspect them, the nature of the woman will be thoroughly bad. Even among cruel or odd signs there 1s, and there must be great difference in producing the evil effects Mesha, Mithuna, Simha, Thula, Dhanas and Kumbha are odd and cruel signs, but they are owned by malefic and benefic planets, Mesha, ts ruled by Kuja, Mithuna by Budha, Simha by Rast Thula by Sukra, Dhanas by Guru and Kumbha by San, When the Lagna of a gurl falls in any one of them or Chandra occupies any one of these, her charactenstics, will differ Cuapter III. + Charactertsires of Girls The characteristics of girls all over the world are characte- tised by a surpnsing and won- derful variety and these are accounted for by the permuta- trons and combinatrons of Rasis constellitions, planets and the various states ascribed to these in different places Take Anes,6 STRIJATAKA Kuja im its first degree 1s not the same as when he ts in the second Ravi in the first degree of Mesha ts not the same as Raxiin the 10th or 30th degree of that sign Similarly every planet in every sign has chinges m nature in cach degree «ind the Bhava or signification it occupies These wonderful varieties of planets m deg- tees, Bhavas and signs ac- count for the endless yanet> we find in the bad or good nature minute points The mathema- tical portion of Astrology be- comes an absolute necessity, when the planets have tobe taken im their various divisions and degrees they occupy These delicate demarkations should be carefully studied and specially remembered in predicting the fortunes of girls, their personal appearances modesty, dignity and other characteristics: We shall nau txkhe the readers to Thrimsamsas whoseSTRIJATAKA 9 Carrer IV Precautions in Predictions. The readers attention 1s drawn to certain facts in mahing predictions about the character of women There are many de lieacies which should be parti- cularly noted In the above paras the expression used 1s “af Chandra or Lagna” falls in soandso Chandra and Lagna may fall in one and the same sign or each may fall in a differ- ent house Now let us tahe first Chandra in Vrishabha He 1s exalted there, and the sign itself is a beneficial and mild one owned by a benefic planet Sukra =A wonnn born when Kuyja Th mses in Vrishabha becomes a bad one If Mesha has Lagnt or Chin- dra in it and Kuya Th rises, the womn will have sexual connec- tion before her marriage Chan- dra ant Vesht 1s mot as goad as hetsin Viishtbha, Mesha isa masculine sign and its Lord Kuyrisan oil phinet = Take Ligm or Chandra in Vrischtha Chandra here is in debilitatron and if Kuji Th mses, the gurl will Rave connection before taurnge Then whit is the difference between Kuya Th rising when Chandra 1 in Mesha Vrishabha or Vrschika In these three cases the girl be- comes adulterous Astrology Jays down this result But the Astrologer must make some difference even in such cases of adultery A woman sleeps with a rich and agreeable sort of man, she yields her embraces to an ordinary man under passion be- fore marriage, she will commit adultery with a street beggar out of yiolent passion In all these cases the gitl is guilty of immoral acttons But even then there is some difference A wo- man gomg wrong after marrage and before marriage, after pu- bert and before puberty, and with a rich man and a poor beggar cannot and will not hase the same sins or same happiness The impulses will not be the same and the measure of ples sure and profit will considerably differ Suppose Sim 1s also m Mesha with Chandra, and both oceupy the Kuya Th The girl with commit adultery with a dirty and sorrowful loafer in the street Suppose Chandra isin Kataha with Guru there“STRIJATAKA il husband will be learned and intellectual If Kataka or that Navamsa rises at birth the hus- band will be immoral and cym- pathetic. If Dhanas or Meena rises at birth or that Navamsa, the husband will be blessed with good behasiour and will be highly moral and virtuous If the 7th Navamsa rises im Sumha or Simha becomes 7th house, the husband will become engag- ed in various commercial con- cerns and will be immoral CHAPTER V Sources of Strength and Weakness In all these cases predictions should be bised on a careful anlyses of the various sources of strength and weakness of the plinets If Mesha rises as the 7th Navamsa and 1s occupied by Guru, or if 1t rises with Sani in it or Kuya or any other planet the results will vary with the nature of the planet Mesha Navamsa my rise as the 7th in Thula Lagna and Vrisehika Navamsa will nse as the 7th in Vnishabha Lagna In other Lag- nas, Mesha and Vrischika will not tise asthe 7th Navamsa If Lag- na falls inany sign, there must be some sign which occupies the house and some Navam- sa must rise as the 7th Out of the 7th house and the 7th Navamsa, find out which 1s stronger and ascribe the results to it But in doing so, there will be a tinge of the 7th house as Navamsi, which 1s weaker Suppose Kataka falls as 7th and 1s occupied by Kuyi and Kataka Navamsa rises with Guru init Here:t will be seen, that between the 7th house and the 7th Navamsa, the Navamsa 1s stronger, and the Rast ss wealer The results for the 7th Navamsa should be predicted in preference to 7th Rast Inall these cases great patience, laborious calcu- Jations, high deligence, and ex- cellent analysing power should be brought to bear on the subject, mn order to arrive at correct results Haste, and want of patient labour, will bring the man and his noble science to rum and disgrace I shall now try and gue some mixed results If a weak evil planct occupies the 7th hovse from Lagna the woman will have no issues If evil planets occupy the 7th house she be comes a widow. If evil and12 good planets occupy the 7th she will neglect the first husband and marry a second one If Mesha, Viischtha, Makara or Kumbha becomes Lagna, com- bined by Chandra and Suhra the girl becomes adulierous along with her mother [f there are no planets in the 7th from Lagna or Chandra, and the house 18 not powerful and has no benefieal conjunctions or as- pects, the husband becomes a mean and hateful fellow. If the 7th from Lagna er Chandra 3s occupied by Sani or Budha the husband will become impotent STRIJATAKA soon after marrage If Sam oc- cupies the 7th with evil aspects the woman will be unmarried if Chandra and Suhra are in the birth, the woman becomes me1n, jealous and fond of happiness Tf Budha and Chandra occupy Lagna she wil be well shilled m music and arts, will have good children, will be happy, and prosperous. If Sukra and Budha occupy Lagna, she wil be agreeable, prosperous, well skilled in music and fine arts The highest pleasure for man inthis world 1s to havea obe- dient, modest, loving, virtuous,STRIJATAKA~ Cuapter VI Beneficial Aspects and Conjunctions If beneficial planets, viz ,Full- moon, well associated Mercury, Jupiter and Venus occupy Lagnay she will have money, gocd clothes, ornaments, agreeable temper and attractive persona lity, happiness and prosperity If est] planets, the Sun, weak Moon, badly associated Mercury, Mars, Rahu, Sani and Kethu occupy the Lagna, she will have the opposite results, vs, dis agreeable personality, repulsive manners, poverty, short and unpleasant temper and misery Full-moon and well associated Mercury are classed as benefics But when the Moon is weak like on a New-moon day and Mercury with Rabu, Sam, Mars and Kethu, he 1s said to be evil Here great differences must be made in the results Suppose Kanya 1s Lagna with Budha and Sans and Meena as Lagna with them The results will be and must be different In Meena Budha 1s debilttated, and with Sam, he will give bad results In Kanya hes exalted and with Sani he will give better results 13 Suppose in Kanyn they are jomed by Guru and so alco in Meena, there will be difference mresults If Sukra jos them in Kanya or Meena the results will be quite different Inastrolo gy, 1t is no joke tomahe correct predictions, for, the astrologer has to remember all such details, anly se them as best ashe could, balance the conflicting evidence, combine theory and practice, use common sense and itelli- gence, study the eny:ronments of the parties,consrder the loctl, the pohtical, the social and the reli gious conditions and then, after summernsing all these, dran reasonable conclusions and mthe predictions with care and cau tion If Lagna is occupied by Chandra, Budha and Suhr or by Budha, Guru and Sukra she will have excellent chiracter, be happy learned, inteliigent, polite, attractive and command the services of servants If Chandra and Sukra are in Lagna she will be imtable, fond of hippi ness and hive many gojd orna ments If Lagna has Budha or Guru and Sukra, she will he shilful in arts, fond of happiness and attractne If Budha and Chandra are in Lagna, she will14 be happy ind blessed with child ren If Guru occupies Lagny she will be very welthy and will have sons and grand child ren If Kany’ or Mithunvrises as Lagm and Chindr and Sukri ve there, she w ill be fond of hippiness will have 7 ten dency to quarrel with her hus band and will hyve free move ments The hitter mens 1 suppose she will be free with other men Quurels are not hippy signs of domestic felicity lf Budhi Guru and Suhr nre powerless if Sam has middle strength and Ravi Chandm and Ruyja are powerful and the Ligm falls in an odd sign the girl will be masculine in tempe rament and behaviour will be free in her sexu ul intercourse STRIJATAKA Lagna falls in an even sign if the powerful Guru, Budha or Sul rt joins with Chaindra im any sign, she will have religious wdom and philosophic Inowledge, insi,,ht into many serences and will become famous Tf Ligni or Chindra 1s) betwixt powerful evil planets she will hive al her wants supphed by her prrents ind she will cwuse ex tinction of her ftther in laws house the 6th and there is one evil and one benefic in Lagny the girl will become 1 Vishakanya Jé 1 girlis born on the and of a Lunar month which fills ona Saturday with the constellation Auslesha ruling on that day or tf the lunar day is 7th fallin, on Tuesdiy ind Sitibhishr ruling If two plinets 1re inSTRIJATAKA femmune planets and evil planets occupy Kendras, the girl will have two husbands If Sam and Chandra oceupy a movable sign aspected by Sukra, her husband will be fond of other women, fickle minded and born of adultery This mevns that ms mother 1s immoz ral and he is not the son of his reputed or registered father If Sant occupies an even sign and the 7th ws occupred or aspected by a benefic, her husband will be respected by the govern ing bodies and will be agreevble and happy Jf Chandra and Sukra occupy the 7th the husband will be old If seventh 1s occupied by evil planets she will become a widow, early mhfe If Ravi occupt es the 7th aspected by an un friendly planet she will be neg- jected by her husband = If Kujr occuntes 7th and has the aspect of an unfriendly planet, she-will become a widow, in early life Hf Sani occupies 7th with un frienly aspect, she becomes a young widow and will live asa widow till oldage Ifthe 7th is occupied by good and evil pla- nets, she will become adulterous 15 If 7th is an evsl sign and is occupied by Sani and Kuja, she becomes a widow, very early in hfe If Kuja with an evil pla net joms 12th or 8th and Lagna 1s occupied by Rahu she will become a widow and immoral If Lagna 1s occupied by Ravi or Kuja, she becomes poor If Ravi, Kuya and Rahn occupy Lagna, she becomes a widow and immoral _ If these combine with Sukra, she will be fond of her husband There are extra- ordinary women who although they become widows at a very early age, preserve their chastity and command the highest res pect from all classes of people They are domestic gems If there 1s an evil planet in the 8th from Lagna and when the sub period of the lord of the Navamsa, occupied by that planet occurs after the marriage, her widowhood should be pre- dicted If the 2nd 1s occupied by benefics and the 8th by malefies, she will die before her husband Such a death 1s coveted by all good women and that state of marital life goes under the name of Sumangalz If evil planets occupy 8th, the16 woman becomes a widow If there 1sa malefic in the 8th and a benefic occupres Kumbha she dies before her husband If Lagna has evil and good planets and the second has benefics her death occurs before her husband If Lagna falls im Simha, Vrishabha or Viischhha she will have fewissues If malefics occupy 7th and 9th houses, she will become a sinyasin or one who renounces the world. If Kanya, Vischhha, VWnishabha or Simha joins Chandra or if the 5th 1s occupied by benefics or his their aspects she will hive few children If Lagn1is joined by Sant and Kuyt, or by Chandra and Suhra, and the 5th 1s aspect- ed or occupied by malefics she becomes birren. STRIJATAKA occupies the 7th and has the aspect of Sim she will have abortions If Sami occuptes the 7th possessing the aspect of Kuya, the issues will be sichly If Rahu and Ravi occupy the 7th she will have dead clujdren If Chandra and Budha are in the 7th, she will have female children If Guru and Suhra occupy the 5th she will have many sons and daughters, pros- perous with good qualities, faithful and loving to husbind and will do many chantable decds These results may be predicted for females, at the tune of birth, at the time of Marriage, at the time when nrurriages are scttled, at the time of query or questions and at the time of puberty These resultsSTRIJATAKA CuarTer VII Characteristics of the 12 Rasis I will now give the desenp tion and characteristics of girls born in the 12 different Rasis and these are to be taken with considerable modifications For example,if a girl 1s born in Mesha without any planet or with Rass, Chandra, Kuya, Budha, Guru, Sukra, Sanr, Rahu or Kethu, in all these ten cases, the results will be necessarily different This should be particularly borne m mind But there will also be the general influences of the Ras: itself, which will be strong ly or weakly marked accord ing to the strength or weakness of the Rasi ttself, 1ts lord and the planets who are there and who aspect it Kuyain Mesha will be rts lord = Ravi in Mesha will have exaltation, Chandra will be ina fnendly house Budha will be emerging from debilitation and m an unfnendly sign Guru will be in a friendly sign Sukra will be m an enemy's house Sant will be debilitated Rahu will be powerful Kethu will be weak Therefore the results of a gut born in Mesha, vary 3 17 according to the strength and weahness of these planets and Rasis Then aga we have double, tmble, quadruple, multiple, sextile and separate combinations, each of wahrch has its own, strength and weak ness Therefore, when we give the results for Mesha, Vrishabha and so forth, the astrologers must be very careful, in malang their predictions (2) A gil, who 1s born in Mesha will be truthful, cruel, phlegmatic, quarrelsome and fond of relations (2) A woman born in Vrisha bha will be fond of cultrvation, agreeable, polite manners, obey her husband, skilled in arts and fond of relations (3) One who 1s born m Mitbuna, will use harsh Jangu age, passionate, bad character, ernel temper, windy and phieg matte complaints and a spend thnift (4) One born mm Kataka, will have many issues, hand some, wealth, mghteous, fond ness for relations, pious, polite, attractive and happy (5) One who is born in Sim ha, will have anger, phlegmatic,18 fond of quirrels ind varieties of flesh and chintable (6) One who 1s born im Kanya will have happiness politeness agreeable temper faithful servants fond of chart table deeds virtuous and sh |- ful im arts (7) One who 1s Thula steadiness laziness few friends proud heart burn avar cious and sinful (8} One born im Vaschtha will be handsome dehghtful Meritonous virtuous good character and truthful (9) One bornin Dhanas good mind masculine deeds amen able to kindness cruel thinking ill of others and unkind (10) One born in Mahara will be prosperous truthful fond of visiting holy pliccs without enemics engaged in 1m portant work good reputation charicter and many children (11) One who 1s born in Kumbha powerfy) from birth bloody disease fond of rchyious men pure minded eazensive fond of ment and grucful 2) One born in Meent will Fave childnn ind grind chidmn fond of husbind born in STRIJATAKA respected by relitions and friends beyutiful eyes and hairs fond of worship lindness 1nd respect to elders In judging of these charac teristics the reader has to be careful When the sign 1s powerful well occupied benefict ally aspected and when its lord has good conjunctions and as pects then the characteristics sbetched above will appear in full But when thes gn is weak and has evil conjunct ons and aspects sts lord 1s not powerful then the results can only hve general trices and not in full One or two examples will suffice to explain whit I mean Take Aatika If itis occupied by Kuga af its lord Moon ts both New moon ind debilitated in \nschtha then there will be funt trices of the characteris tics represented by hataha But vf Guru is there and Chandra 1s full and exalted then al] the charactenstics given for Cancer will be prominently visible The tish of an Astrologer if he wants to be honest and faithful to his science 1s not only taxing but also Iaborious Sciences whttever they may be, are not for lazy fools or renorant brainsSTRIJATAKA Devotion, intelhgence, patience and industry are wanted Results of ihe occupation of Chandra m the different Rasts 1 When Chandra is m Mesha, fond of work, much shill, handsome person, leader, fond of husband and devoted to elders and Gurus 2 Chandra in Vnshabha, good temper, tact, education, fond of fine arts, sisiting holy places, blessed with children and grand children, acqutsition of wealth and devotion to husband 3 Chandra sn Mithuna, well developed, handsome bods, good character, profits from various engagements, good intel ligence, helpful to others, charming eyes 4 Chandra in Kataka, sichly, tespected among relations, dig tified, conquest over enemies, dexotron to Gods and Pnests 5 Chandrain Simha, leader among her class, good temper, fond of flesh, blessed with orna- ments and clothes, engaged m large speculations, good mantal hfe and handsome features 6 Chandra in Kanya, many cattle, virtue, great wealth, con 19 quest over enemies, and nghteous conduct 7 Chandra in Thula, fond of rehgious mites, sympathetic and loving, virtuous, good child- ren, high social position, httle sexual passions 8 Chandra m Vrischika, concealing sins, steady, shilful work, agreeable to elders, great wealth, unsy mpathetic 9 Chandra in Dhanas,—fond of religious rites, love for chan- ties, sympathy, musical taste, love for fellow creatures, agree. able, attamment m_ desires female issues, and polte min- ners 10 Chandra in Mahara, ter- nble teeth, solar worship, agree- able, varied Jearning, truthful, handsome body, conquest over prssions and enemies, nghteous 11 Chandra in Kumbha, rounded body, attractive face, chiritables, issues, wealth, good actions, reputation, self respect 42 Chandra Meena, many male issues, charitable, good character, controlling passions, skilfel in arts, great modesty, careful about reputa- tion and agreeable, patience in20 When Chandra 1s m any par- ticular sign, not aspected or conjomed by good or evil pla nets and the lord of the sign is powerful as has already been stated, then the charactenstics detailed for that sign will be prominently seen But when conjunctions and aspects are present and conflicting, then there will be traces of these re- sults Wesay a girl is handsome In beauty there are any number of varieties and the judgments on beauty also vary a ccording to the tastes of nations, manners, customs, soci) func- tions and aesthetic development Habit also has great deal to do with out tastes and judgments The darkest Negro, the Hoten- tat, the Amesicin, the Indian, the Abongmis of India, the European and the Asimtic mitions all have their own ideas of beiuty. STRIJATAKA soils, the varied phenomera on the way, the climatre conditions, the presence or absence of watery surfaces, hills, valleys, dales, mountains, vegetation, ammmals, birds,beasts, reptiles,the human habitations ther varied features, his own physical and mental changes, all these and many more necessanly change has mind, and make him muiser able or pleasurable, according to these various influences Simi- larly when a planet enters Mesha he will be affected m the 30 degrees with various sources of benefictal and malefic influ ences Sry the Sunenters Mesha inthe Ist degree We will explain the various influences in our colloquial Innguage First he enters a friendly house, second he enters his sign of exaltation Third he enters his own hora, fourth he enters Kuyt Drehham, fifth he enters Kua Navamsi,STRIJATAKA he travels in two and quarter stars in each sign which have their own peculiar influences Aswint extends over 133 degrees and it does not exercise the same influence all through those degrees The tenth degree or the end of the 3rd quarter 1s his deep exaltation where he is alleg ed to give the Inghest beneficial influence Till the 10th degree he 1s in the ascendent and reaches the highest point in the 10th degree From the 11th degree he 1s said to be in the descent, and gradu- ally loses his powers When he reaches the 30th degree he loses his power of exaltation and when he enters the Ist degree of Vnshabha, he comes io an un- frendly termtory From the 134 degree to the 26% degree, he will be in Bharam which 1s quite different mn nature, in itsr esults from those of Aswint Bharani has Yama as 1ts Deity and has its influence From the 262 degree till he passes the 30th degree or the end of the first quarter of Knthiha he travels in a star governed by Agni Bharani ts governed by Yama or the dread judge, who punishes all wicked people after their death 2h These are not easy lessons which could be learnt by casual glan- ces They require deep mtellt gent and patient study Cuaprer VHI Results of Constellations We will give the results of the 27 constellations in which a girl is born 1 Aswint—agreeable, great wealth, imviting looks, good speech, patience, fond of sexual operations, purity, respect for Gods and elders 2 Bharant—female compa- tions, cruel, quarrelsome evil heart, poverty, cowardly, dirty clothes 3 Krththa—anger, fond of quarrels, later renunciation, hatred of people, few relations, phlegmatic, lean body 4 Rohini—handsome body, purity, active, love to husband, dutiful to parents, good male and female children, wealth 5 Mrigasira—respect, hand some, agreeable speech, good ornaments, delcious food, fine clothing, fond of wealth, good sons, chantable, clean body 6 Andra—intable temper, bad heart, bilious and phlegmatie22 devotion to God, clever in detecting enemies, faults, extra- vagant, perverted, learning, 7. Punarvasu--humilty many servants, fond of virtue, charit- able, pleasintness, respect, handsome husband 8. Pushyami—handsome great deeds, wealth, good child- ren, respect for Gods and pnests, storied houses, greit happiness, fond of relations 9. Aslesha—ugly, sorrow, fond of sinful deeds, harsh language, doing objectionable work, pride, dissimilation and ungrateful. 10 Makha—respect, Joining enemies, great wealth, respect for Gods and Brahmins and royal comforts 11, Pabba—success over ene mies, prosperity, good issues, righteous, just acts, bold, fond of sciences, pleasant speech, meri- tonous gratitude 12. Uttara—steady, wealth, principled, clever in managing domestic work, love for good conduct, joyful, healthy 13° Hasta—beautiful hands, charming eyes and ears,patience, good nature, riches, scienti- fie knowledge, attractrie body, and well developed limbs STRIJATAKA through comfortable ling. 14, Chitta—fine pictures, nice ornaments, handsome body. If she 1s born in Chitta on any lunar day excepting the 14th day of the dark half of the month, she will become a Visha- kanya or possonous girl, If she is born on any lunar day in the bright half of the lunar month, excepting on the 14th in Chitta she will become poor and adul- terous 15 Swati-—iirtuous, 1ssues, wealth, truthful, httle travelling respect, many friends, victory over enemies 16 Visakha—good speech, delicate and fine body, wealth, fond of visite shrines, and tehgious rites and sympathy for relations 17, Anuradha—good friends, selfless, agreerble ind attractne person, social and pohtical powers, good and suitable orna- ments, beautifnl wast, respect for elders and mstructors, godly, respect for husband 18 Jarsta—agreeable, skuful worth, sweet speech, femimne friends, great wealth, prosperity, issues, regard for relations, ruthfulSTRIJATAKA 19 Moola—iittle happiness, widowhood, poverty, sickness, enemies, few relations, despised by others, evil deeds and short stature 20 Poorvashidhi—agreeable, leader .among relations, good deeds, powerful, determination, truthful, broad eyes, well formed and handsome body, good regu- Jatron 21 Uttarashadha — ple1sant, reputation, good enjoyment, leader, joyful and agreeable to husband 22 Srayini—vsery handsome, wise, fond of sistras, great repu tation, chantable, truthful, help {ul to fellow creatures 23 Dhanista—fond of hearing stories, plenty of food and clothes, generous in distribution of \anous articles, mding on horses and carmages, excellent character, good deeds 24 Satabhisha—control over prssions, loved by females, res- pect among relations, devotion to Ged, love to elders, and fond of doing agrecable work 23) Poonnbinda — great weulth, love for children, doing charity among good people, good compiny, education, pros- penty, eminent, social position 23 26 Uttarabhadra—beloved by husband, patient, devoted to husband, agreeable to preceptors, humiltty, happy, wise and tact- ful, fond of good deeds 27 Revati—dignified, very friendly, pure, fond of religious rites, attractive, many cattle, sictory over enemies, beautiful CHAPTER IX Bhava Phala or the Significations of the Planets in the Twelve Houses. Here, the results of the vairioas planets occupying the different Bhivas are sketched out and the astrologer will see holy each house and 11s significa- tions are affected and modified, The balancing of evidence and pronouncing of correct judg- ment are not such great difficul ties to judge as the bilaneing of the results of the occupations of the plinets in the different houses and making correct predictions for an astrologer Take Mesha First there are the influences of the sign Then we fave othe Hort, Drcekkana, Navamsa, Dyadasamsa, Thnm- simst, the stellar, and the plane- tary mfluences All these and the influences of combinations,a4 aspects debilitations exit ations retrogrides acceleritions friendly and unfriendly houses Moola thrikonas ‘wid other putt culirs will have to be taken into consideration Any brun how ever intelligent 1t m1y be reels back at the stapendous labour which hes before 1t in astrological calculations It 1s surprising how educated people themselves dis contented with their heavy in comes can make up their minds to overlook the digmty of the hereulean labour and offer to the really learned astrologers small sums often even less than the humble wages of a street cooly Such however 15 the logic of the learned and they have the auda city to find fault with the astrologers for false predictions Thisis something like jeering at an Engmeer for not burlding a tank bund properly when he is paid ten rupees for a work which really costs 2 thousand What would be hisreply readers can answer Raviin 1—Ravi in Lagna pro duces hot body hent diseases bad temper leinness ingra titude fond of dining 1t others plrees and repulsive comp Jexion STRIJATAKA Ravi in 2—deprived of corn and con harsh tongue debilty fond of quarrels hatred mus chief friendless Ravi in 3—alwiys happy heal thy body handsome nice face full busts Three things ina woman add to her beauty fine teeth handsome and well formed brevsts Ravi in 4—unhappy - sickly body ugly teeth repulsive body hateful and trouble some behaviour eyes Ravi in 5—few issues leader ship religious observance stout face and teeth dutiful to parents agreeable conver sation and faith im Brahmins and priestly mdicated classes are Ravi in 6—impotence victory over enemmes clever among females good conduct r gh teous deeds wealth generous and handsome Raviin7 neglected by husband unhappiness terrible to deal with unsympathetic phleg mitic diserses sinful deeds and deformed body Ravi in 8 relations suffering from poverty and sorrowsSTRIJATAKA crooked acts of charity, suffer- ing from excessive blood passing Ravi in 9~pretending charities, fond of sinful deeds, poverty, many enemues,excessive anger, fine sources of comfort Ravi in 10—croohed charities, unattractive, hatred towards husband, dark body, fond of walking and travelling Ravi m t{—gains, children and grand children, command over passions, great skill in arts, patience, commanding, Tespect from relations Ravi in 12—expenditure on evil work, rough, extravagance, fond of sinful deeds, cruel, fondness for all articles, irre- ligious tendencies Results of Moon in the twelve houses Chandra in 1—handsome, when the moon 1s on the wane, slender body, sichness, quar- relsome and fond of crovhed deeds Chandra in 2—great wealth, polite, princaipil among fe- miles, chintible, devoted to husbind, mghteous and res- pect to good Brahmins 25 Chandra in 3—diseases from excessive phlegm and wind, disagreeable conversation, crooked sews, dependency on mean masters, non regard for justice, bad conduct, miserliness, ungrateful, Chandra in 4—happiness, valu- able ornaments, steadiness, following strictly religious codes, great enjoyment, devo- tion to God and preceptors Chandra in 5—good children, good conduct, great activity, happiness, truth, control over passions, love for husband, handsome Chandra in 6—small heart, bold, rude, fickle minded, wounds, sanous kinds of diseases, emaciated body. Chandra in 7—skIl, Jove to hus- band, generostty, prudence, plersant speech, wealth at- traction and good conduct. Chandra m 8—cruel, envious eyes, ill-des eloped breasts and sexual organ, lach of orna- ments, unclean body, anger, wonderful scandals Chandra in 9—prous, good waist, fond of enjoyment, liberal, agreeable, faithful servants, good issues and hippy.26 Chandra tn 10—gold ornaments good respect, not tond of sense engigements, good social position, fngh rink among relations, charitible, fond of meritorious deeds and truthful Chindra m li—much gun, agreeable, attrictive prudence and foresight, control over passions, easily pleased chantable, law fuland healthy Chand m = 12—~spendthnft, windy diseases, ‘ictive habits humble =omind — mnpatient unreasonable, poverty STRIJATALA Resnits of Kuja m the twelve houses Kiuji in 1—red_ complexion, sorrowful body, disrespect, rejected by husband, poverty Kuja in 2—areligions, poverty, crooked husbind, excessive expenditure passionate anger, many diserses, fen haurs Kuja m 3—prosperity prtience, agreeable relations respect for good men, impotence, health and dignitySTRIJATAKA guardian, poserty, cuts and sears, repulse, fond of tormenting others Kua m 9—impious, unhappy, sickness, poverty, offensive to good people, and fond of flesh and drinking Kuyr in 10—crooked works, and views, irreligrous, and fond of unholy work, shimeless, ignorance Kuja in li-large -gains, im- different to possession of articles, good temper, various enjoyments, fond of husband and nghteous conduct Kuja in 12—fond of red grains, misdeeds, expenditure on sinful acts, fond of drinking, cruel, always suffering from some complaint and weak constitution, Budha 1n the tuelve houses Budhiin 1—handsome, devoted to husbind, nghteous, broad eyes, plenty of food and drink, akvays lovmg, truth- ful. Buda in 2—wealth, purity, handsome, fond of Geds and Briimins, and stenficial mitts, prosperity, and desire 27 to read and hear puranas or religious works Budha :n 3—riches, devoted to Gods and religious men, children, self respect, obhiging and good social position and authority Budha in 4—happiness, good and ptous friends, servants, devotion to God and holy priests, respectable family, and fondness for charitable deeds Budha in 5—few issues, poor eater, ordinary wealth, quarrelsome, obyectless or non-profitable travelling, objectionable conduct, pover- ty and hatred for good people. Budhi in 6—hating enemies, kind hearted, long life, active habits, eacessise passion, and unwillingness to help others. Budha in 7—dignified, shilful in all work, fond of sastras, feasts and religtous rites, good reputation, and loving {cllow creatures Budha in S—ungrateful and forgetting help, unsympithe- tic, unchantable, misunder- standings among people, alw tys sickness, timidity.28 Budhiin 9 virtuous, charitable, pete, wealth, reputation strength, great prtience, truthful Budha in 10—nghteous conduct, devotion to husbind, pros perity, wealth, handsome, just and polite Budha in }i—contented, grett gains, good temper, virtuous popular Budha in 12—perverted and ignorant, indifference, quarrel some disordered, emaciated body und subject to criticisms from good people CHAPTER X Results of Guru in the Twelve Bhavas Gur» an I—truthful, good enjoyment, dignified speech, good company, beautiful, respect and Jeadership among females Guru in 2—great weilth, good marital hfe, agreeable, just fond of good deeds, good soci] posttion, disinterested and without mships Guru in 3—wint of seif respect, miny sins, disgrice and suffering ilnays from some disease or nervous comphunts in the hinbs STRIJATAKA Guru in 4—great hippiness and varions foods and drinks, many servants and maids, nch ornaments, fine reputation, handsome features and bles sed with virtuous conduct Guru in 5—good and prosperous children, bereft of sinful deeds, this meins she will do good Agreeable temperament, fond of religious performances, truthful, respected in all assembles and gatherings Guru in 6—siding enemies virtuous, suffering from vir ous troubles «nd timid and feanng, engaged in mmportant or trivinl works insincere attentions and politeness worrles Gurn in 7~good temperament, Meritorious deeds bright understanding few enemies love and regard for husbind, desimble reputation Gura im 8—untruthful, house Jess, loss of husband, pins im hands and feet, greit sorrow, poor meqls, and many comp hints in the body Guru in 9—religious futh, truth fulness, plevsure from build ing, tanks, wells and other chinitoble worke arrennhle.STRIJATAKA ness, reputation, love for holy men, riches, faithful and good servants and gratefulness Guru in 10—works which give reputation, good qualities,am1- ability, many servants, pohite ness, loveliness, engaged in virtuous and wonderful works Guru in }i—control over pas sions, unsullied reputation, wealth, fond of skilful works truthfulness, praised for her amiable quahties Guru in 12—spending money on sinful acts, sickly body, few gains, doing irreligrous acts bad temperament and fond of other religious systems This means that she will neg lect her own religion and faith and jon different faiths in antagoniem to her normal reli gion This 1s considered to be hateful. im the eyes of her co religionists Results of Sukra im the tuelve houses Sukra in 1—greeable husband, good marred hfe, skilful in Work, great wealth, pure body, conquest. over enemies, ami able nature 29 Sukra in 2—great wealth, ski ful works, dependent, appear- ances of grandeur, love of charity, good nature, respect- able deeds and sweet speech Sukra in 3—poverty, defeated relations, great sorrow, pride and speech in Jow tones Sukra in 4—great happiness and wealth, jolly temperament, Jove of chantable deeds, con trol over passions, an orna ment to her family Sukra in 5—wealth in corms and jund, many daughters, grand dress, good company, and leader nm her famsly Sukra in 6—meanness, irritable, cruel temperament, conquest over enemies, rejected by children and husband Sukra in 7—greatness through wealth, love of husband, fond of scientific knowledge, gene tai proffimency and cleverness, fond of Brahmins, helping people Sukra in 8—pride, sorrow, want of comforts, unsympvthetic, cheating others, rl selected clothing, unrighteous conduct Sukra in 9—fondness for meri tortous work, leader among30 females varieties of wealth and clothes Juxurious food contentment agreerble to husband Sukrain 10—respect and reput ation great wealth body worthy of respect by good deeds greit power beauty truthful Sukra in 11—-great gays fond of scientific hnowledge great influence many houses and furniture Suhra in 12—e\penditure on evil deeds sorrow hard bodily organs deceitful dissimulative talk diserse dull Sant sn the tuelve houses Simin l—ugly and deformed body great = discomforts insignificant stout — bones teeth and hairs unimuting eyes windy — complunts constipition and piles fiery temperiment stubborn Sam in 2—poverty msignifi cant among the femriles rejected by others unsymy ha theuc cruel temper un righteous oarritible = harsh Tanguape Samp in 3—yreat eupreity leader amon: Jidwe crtafit STRIJATAKA many issues chintible and protective temperament fnendship mong good people Sam im 4—~unhippiness wint of intelligence ungrateful capricious poor surroundings alwiys fond of doing evil deeds ind keeping comprny with undesimble —_ people quesuonable morus Sam im 5~ want of children unkind very proud prostitute behaviour fmendship with wiched people perverse views Sant in 6~—dull Jeader among women manv issues miuny jewels and clothes good character love for children Sani in 7—widowhood ins gn ficant many diseases fond of drnling evi compiny miny sins ind undesirble associates Santin 8 committing sinful acts cruel temper untruthful and unrighteous thievish hibits deceitful nature early dangers and accidents Simin 9—menn acts extravi £nt frendshsp wath musersy uneducated rough bereft ofSTRIJATAKA Sans tn 10—fond of evil deeds, feminme temper, love for filthy literature, poverty and bad conduct Sam in 11—good issues, great wealth, handsome personality, luxurious food, great gams, bold Sani in 12—bloody complaints, excess of wind and phlegm, diseases from these sources, stupidity, perverse nature, sorrowful and rejected by many Results have been explained from the constellations lunar influences, sign peculiarities, in fluences of planets in the different Bhavas These are specially applicable to females In astro Jogy as well as in other sciences night judgment 1s a great factor, weighing of evidence ts import ant Great patience and labour are wanted Chandra enters Mesha twelve times a year Each month has its own peculiar influence, and the various angels he forms both with reference to himself and also for other planets are factors which have to be taken into consideration m delineating the character of women So also for other planets 31 CHAPTER XI Rayayogas or Auspinous Combinations 1 If Gur 1s m Lagna, if Chandra 1s in 7th or in his own vergas, and Sukra ts in 10th, the woman will become the wife of a hing of arnler, even if she is born in a poor family and in feriorcaste Here it means that although a gu] may be born m humble circumstances and belong to a lower caste than that of the ruler, she will become iis wife Beauty 1s no doubt a powerful weapon for woman to conquer men, but sometimes love 1s blind, anda women of ordinary complexion and beauty will be courted by a ruler, under what we may call lucky and other subtle influences A fair woman sometimes courts and enjoys a dark and repulsive man and a fair man falls in desperate Jove with a dirty and ugly looking wench Why and wherefore nobody can satisfac tonly explain Lovers do not see the petty follies they commit 2 lf Guru has all the good sources of Shadvergas and occupies 3, 4, 5,7, 8,9, or 1032 and his the powerful aspect of Chindm the woman will be blessed with plenty of wealth and will become the wife of a Rya Luxuries dependent on the royal position will be with her Morality has been specially mentioned when they hive any Royal femiles have grevter temptations to fal] into immoral channels 3 If benefics occupy the kendras or if they are Lagna and if the 7th falls in a Nara Ras: or signs ike Mithuna Kanya Thula the first half of Dhanas or Kumbha occupied by evil planets the girl will have great wealth will have patient and agreeable temper ind the conquered enemies will serve upon her as servants This means she will hive great politi cal power 4 Ifthe iithis occupied by Chandra and the 7th 1s occupied by Sukra and Budha and posses seg the aspect of Guru she will become the bride of a ruler ind will have all the paraphernalia of royalty surrounding her 5 If hanya becomes Lagm with Budha in it and Gurv is found Jocated sn the lth Kataka in exaltation te she will STRIJATALA become 1 queen ind will com mand greit respect and power Here two plinets Budha and Gurv are mm exiltition and they produce Rajay oga 6 Jf Sukm occupies Ligna Budha is in the 3rd and the powerful Guru possessed of Shadserga strength 1s located in the 4th the gir) will marry 2 lang and will have all royal enjoyments 7 If one of the Strshodaya Rasis becomes the 7th with the Full Moon there and sf there are no evil planets in the four hen drag the girl will become the wife of a ruler will have many elephants horses and convey ances will be a loving wife to her husband and will be able to conquer all her enemies 8 If at the time of birth there are three planets who have good Shadvergas she will become the wife of a Raya If four planets are so well situated with good Shadvergas she wil] become the wife of a great emperor If five plinets have completely auspicious Shadvergas she will become the wife of a very great emperor who has commind over the three worldsand will travel in VirnanisSTRIJATAKA NOTES The Surshodaya Rasis men tioned in No 7 are Mithuna, Sumha, Kanya, Thuh, Vrischika and Kumbh, Sovereignty over the three worlds, Swarga, Marty1 and Patala has been casually mentioned in the Puranas, but from the Pandavas downwards we have no hustorical evidence to show that any Inng has had jurisdiction over the three worlds Arjuna went to Swarga and fought there Vikramaditya went into Indraloka and got his valuable Throne with 32 steps guarded by 32 celestial Nymphs to whom are ascribed 32 beautiful interesting and highly romantic stories, which form the theme of a separate book, called Dwathnmsat Sala Bhanpka Kathas Viana 1s derived from the Sanskrit, Vs excessive or high anh Manameasure of speed and refers to Aeroplanes and all those machmes which could travel in the aerial regions See Verse 48 ist Kanda Amara V3omni means aenal regions and that which cin fly there 1s a Vimana Those ctrs which contain Devatas are Vimanas Vina Pakshna Manamuha mana Gamangy Asantiha. 33 or that which when flying re sembles a winged bird Swarga is mhabited by Devatas, headed by Indra Marty 3s mhabited by human beings who are subject- edto Mrzto die ordeath Patala 1s inhabited by the Nagas or serpentlihe betngs he1ided by Audisesha Royal power 1s no doubt very covetable and desir- able when people have got steady heads and pure minds They can do a great deal of good But when they have weak orimpulsive temperiments they will plunge themselves into the vortex of sexual and sensual pleasures, and become physically as well as morally ruimed 9 If Kumbha becomes Lagna. with Poorna Chandra in the fourth or Vrishabha, aspected by Guru, she will become the prin cipal queen of a ruler, will have many children and wil have conquest oyeT her énenmes Generally ralers are not very scrupulous about the moral atmosphere They are often wicked and mischievous 10 If Budha joins Kanya or Mithuna and aspected by Guru with auspicious Shadvergas and the 4th, has the aspect of Sukra, the ein] wil marrv a Maharaia34 The Shadvergas are — 1 Lagna or Birth or Ascen dant iS) Hora or half of 1 Rast or sign w Drekkana or one third of 1 sign + Navamsa or one math dwt ston of a Rasi 5 Dradasamsa or one twelfth of azodiacil sign 6 Thrimsamsa or one thir ticth division of a sign This corresponds to one degree in the zodrictt circle. STRIJATAKA 13. Shistamsy 14 Ashtamsa 15 Chaturtams1 36 Shastramsa See my notes im the Troinslation of Sarvarthachmtamam 5 to 19 The arrangement of these Amsas differs considerably and Trefer m} readers to other stand ard works for this information 11soIf Kuya occupies 3 or 6 and Sim with -wusprcious Shid yergis joins 11 and Guru aspects Lagm which should fall in a fixed sign the woman will become 1 queenSTRIJATAKA much better Such is the consti tution of human society These Rajayogas give power, money and Juxunes afforded by them But moral and spiritual consi deritions are different and these have generally fewer chances of access to the roy1l palaces, than the tices, which not only have better access, but are fondled with great care and loved by the aristocrats Nemesis deals out its iron hand, catches them im its grip and gives them plenty of diseases and a wonderful sariety of sorrows Palaces are nobly but, mchly furnished and present very imviting appear ances to outloohers, but when one enters into 1ts precincts, the rotten smell of diseases, social scandals, immoril impulses and horrid forms of sicious and unrighteous deeds hails the out- sider and makes hum reflect that his humble home 1s far better than the guilded compart ments, enclosing rotten human beings In the rbove Rajayogas the ‘virtuous conduct of the women 1s specially mentioned so that the holy miy be distin- gushed from the unholy, and the healthy from the rotten 35 13. If the Sun, with all the auspicious Shadsergas, occupies the 3rd and Saturn 1s placed in the 6th, the woman becomes the wife of a raler, will be fond of righteous conduct and will be loving her husband and beloved by him 14 If the Sun cecupies Mesha his sign of exaltation with all the auspicious Shadvergas, aspected or conjomed by benefics and the birth falls ma fixed sign, the girl will become a queen and will command many elephants, horses and conveyances 15 If Lagna falls in Kanya with Budha combmed there, Guru in the 11th, Sukra in the 2nd and Poorna Chandra in the 10th, she will become the wife of amighty emperor and will be anempress She will be chant able, generous, blessed with sympithetic speech, virtuous and helpful to the poor and the distressed She will be a grand woman in every way She will command the respect of all and will have great reputation as 2 benevolent and religtous lady36 Cuapter NIT Saubhagya Yogas 1 If the Jord of 7th yoins Lag with its lord and is aspected by Sukra 2 If the lord of 7th occupies the 7th and joins the Lord of Lagna, and 1s aspected by Guru and Chandra 3H the Jord of 7th jons earita tion, and the lord of Lagna occupies Lagna 4 1f the Lord of Lagm occupies deep exaltation and uf the Lord of 7th aspects 7th and benefics occupy endms 5 H the lord of 7th joins exal tation, in hts own houses, Moolathril onts and vuspicious Stndveras STRIJATAKA surroundings These are pecu har to wominiind (see my History of Nerbhagya) Sahacharya Yogas 1 Ifthe lord of 7th occupies 6th or ifthe lords of 6th and 7th are combined in 12 or if they are mm one Navims? or in one constellation 2 Vf the Jord of 7th yoms Lim, if the lord of 6th combines in 12, or 7, and hue mutual aspects or, are combined in one Navimst 3 Ifthe lord of 7th 1s Chandet and joins the Last Nayimsa and is aspected by the lord of the 6thSTRIJATAKA marnes such a woman or one who 1s born to such a woman may reap the highest blessings No gem can adorn a min or woman, more than their love, morility and chastity The present combinations of planets are dmving ont such human beings, year after year mto the back ground Maternal civihsa tion accounts much for ths state Ear money by anv means 1s the motto Vydbavyayoga or Widowhood For a_ respectable, flowing, chaste and modest woman, nothing can be more dreadful than the loss of her lawful lord, and this 1s spectrally held in great fear among the higher crste Hmdao women For an adul terous unsympathetic, immoral and quarrelsome gui, nothing can give her greater pleasure than the death of her husband atan euly age This event gives her greater hberty and license for her immoral behasiour and independent conduct and she wall be only too gladto do what she Ithes Whidowhood, therefore 1s an exent, which is looked at from virious mentalities I give here the most formidable com linations for the widowhood 37 We hnow there are some angelic and modest women who love ther husbands more than a Deity and we also hnow there are some who treat their hus bands with the greatest con tempt There are some dirty women, who conspire with thei lovers, and poison and kill their husbands There are some godly women, who cannot brook the idea of widowhood, and even kill themselves before their husbands Human Psychology 1s a great puzzle 1 If the lords of 7 and 8 join and occupy the 8th, aspected by evil planets there will be widowhood 2 If Rahu joms the 7th, of the lord of 7th has conjunction with Ravi and has the aspect of the lord of the 8th, widow hood will befall 3. If the lord of 7 combines with Sam, ts aspected by Kuya, Chandra and Rahn are in the 8th, there will be widowhood 4 If Kujais in 8 in combina tion with the lord of 8th, and Lagna falls in an evil Navamsa, widowheod will be fal] on her 3 Tf Rahn combines with Sam and Ikuja and joins 7th or 8thSTRIJATAKA romantic, mteresting and ims- tructive A poor girl, marries a poor man and he dies and she lives to along term of widow- hood. A girl marnes an ordi- nary man, and lives with hin for some years agreeably, then she becomes a widow and may have to live on reduced circum stances A wicked girl marnes an old but mch man and be- comes a widow after the marn- age She leads quite acom- fortable and jolly life with a large gstate for her, pleasurable expenses A woman voluntarily becomes a widow by despatch- ing her Jegal lord to an early grave Some do not like scand- als Others take delight only in the midst of scandals Some remain maidens, though they are greatly dangerous to society The proverb old maids are most dangerous, 1s well founded on facts Sexual passions are imperious sensations and they seeh satisfaction under the most honourable as well as under the most dishonourable condt- trons Somc lay down their hves for the sake of chastity and honour, while others, cut. the throats of others for the sahe of their bestral sexual gratificanons 39 The History of Prostitution written by the American com- pany of medical men, from the earhest times 15 a curious narra- tion of how men and women have behaved and what dis- graceful excesses they have com- mitted in the name of love and sexual passions Strict, moral disciphne and good early sur- roundings from the earltest times of children will have some good effect on their subsequent con- duct Platonic love is a mental hallucrmation that has no practical existence with many Puberty and Menses. For a male, the Janma Lagna 1s sufficient for all purposes and there 1s no particular time at which any event Itke puberty or menses in a woman, can happen to him Among the generality of womankind, they are considered fit for sexual enjoyments only after they attain puberty There are, of course, some wicked and crooked girls, who resort to sexual indul- gences even before they have menses, but these cases arise more from morbid sexualhty, than the real desires of physical promptings These are trained40 inthe dens of iniquity, decoyed into evil habits by dirty muds, or old prostitutes and some of them are also spoiled euly in life by the constant evil com pany of unprincipled boys even before they attun the proper age of majority Fora woman we have to take into considera tion three important Lagnas, yi ,Janma Lagna or the ascend- ant at birth, the Lagna for the first appearance of the menses in her and the Lagna or the sign in which she has the first sexual contict with the man, be he, her husbind or lover or raper All the astrological writers in Sanshnit have attached the greatest importance to the ap- pearance of the first Menses in a girl, so much so that not only have they explamed the influen ces of the constellations, signs, planets, qunar and solar days, speertl occasions and appearan- ces of phenomena, echpses and omens, but they hue alsa dahormtely cxphuned about the direction, the pliee, the cloth, the time, the number of drops of menstrual fluid which has come out, ind also about week days, yorss, Farinas and other neenlantics connected with the STRIJATAKA appearnnees of the first Menses One would be surprised to see such a 1 ist and elabortte litert- ture about 1 natura event like the menses 1n 1 girl, of they had not by their Divya Dresit or Divine Vision, seen the subtle influences of all these on the future destimes of herself, her husbind, her children and all that pertuns to her career and prospects in life This one point should effecturlly seu the months of all those ul informed and superficially reid critics that the noble science of Astrology hid never been bor- rowed from any foreign nition, that all these ideas expluned here ire completely indigenous and that 4 Ines of sutras sprang up, from the comprehensive brams of the Moharishis and that India, 1s 1 whole, hid never the misfortune to borrow her scientific ders and rese iches, from the surrounding mations who hive always been ina hope less condition of intellectual posaty, but who were cver greedy to borrow from, but never had the meins to lend to the Indi scholars EL ave they any references to such cvents If ther astrolozical pubhientions ?STRIJATAKA Have they suggested any reme dies for averting, softemmg or modifying the planetary influ ences indicating the evil results from the past births Can their hillocks be compared to the gtand Himalayn ranges? Can any other river in the world claim rivalry with the purities of the Ganges floods? So many details and with surprising munuteness about the appearan ces of the first Menses hve been given that I would earnestly request the readers to pay parti cular attention to them and apply them all practically to the time given for the menses, so that they may be able to draw proper inferences and make correct future predictions about the girl and all her prospects in fife I challenge, if any astrological pubhcations in England, Con timental countries or America, have given any references to these details or even to this subject of the appearance of the first Menses If only we are wilkng to collect all the stanzas bearing on this particular subject of menses, they will it least come up to 10,000 verses The dabbling 1nd shallow brained eritics cinnot commit a more 41 grotesque blunder than to say that the great grind father of achildis the offsprng of that infant Sane men take a hearty laugh over these idiosyncra cies and let these egotists to dance im their own hallucina tions I shali now come to the subject proper Puberty or Men ses isa physical change in the constitution of a girl, where a reddish fluid called shomitha 1s suddenly expelled from the sexual organ, and changing the whole of her future hfe accord ing as 1t appears on an auspici ous or inauspicious ume The details are very interesting and instructive and throw a flood of light on the subtle ifluences, which mark that event and which have such a direct influ ence on the future destiny of the girl Puberty in Sanskrit 1s called Reihz or phenomenon winch will have regular monthly appearances When Chandra 1s not im upachayas, viz, 3, 6,10 and 11 and when the Lagna is powerfully aspected by Kuya the appearance of first Menses should be predicted Such com binations may occur when the gitlis young, when she 1s old, when she suffers from various42 diseases which cause irregular menses or stop them altogether But there we special combinr tions with which menses appeir and also disappear I shall not expand on this subject, any further here It will be explained an its proper plice See my notes on Brit Tataka STRIJATAKA 13° Thrmyodasi—Joyful happy 34 Chaturdisi—Fond of sinful acts 15 Poornwn1—Well ed and strong body 30 Amatasya—Poor enjoy ment, httle comforts and dex clopSTRIJATAKA Siturday—Vicious and = ind tempered AUSPICIOLS CONSTELLATIONS Hasta, Chitta, Swati, Visakha, Anoradha, Uttara, Uttarashadha Uttarabhadra, Shravani, Voolar Ranati, Dhanista, Satabhisha, Aswim, Pushyam:, Rohim and Mnigasira These 17 stars are considered good for the appear ance of the first Menses Exit CoxsTELLatioxs Poobba, Poorvashada, Poor sabhadra, Bharam Auslasha If first Menses appear m these stars the girl should not chew betel leaves, should haxe no of baths wear no fioners, use no yellow or red powders (Harz dra and Kunkuma) and should not see the face of the husbind for the special periods mentipned for each of those stars Proper Temedies ordained by sastras to avert these evil influences should rt once be idopted in the interest of the girls future Tf she attains age m Aundri and Mahha she becomes sorrow ful She becomes rdulterous, Wf she attams puberty in Punar visa and Jaista If the girl attains puberty in 43 Bharam 10 months, if in Anitht ka, Auslasha and Jaista 4 months, if m Poobba, Poorvishadha, Poorvabhadra 8 months, if in Aundra 6months, if in Makba 12 months, and if in Punarvasu 29 months should be allowed to pass before Nuptials could be celebrated and she must not see during these manths the face of her husband and should as oid using betel leaves, flowers and other luxuries REMARKS FOR SERIOUS REFLECTION The safety of human society entirely depends upon the sexual purity, the times of enjoyment, and the health of the parties concerned Among many of the animals, there ire instinctiye smpulces in misculine and femmine crea tures which restrict the sexu enjoyments and they preserve good health, beciuse they hare the gift of nature, the great and unermng Instinct which guides the tmmals im all these operations Nature 1s not partial to them = Asacom pensatne gift to mankind nature has been graciously pleased to implant in mana wonderful power, the great44 intelhgence and for its protec tion reasoning powers ind prictical knowledge Grert 1s main is, with his intellectual powers ind lofty compre hension, he often degrides 1nd debises himself, lower than the lowest of brutes The collossal and ~ppalling venererl comp lunts prevailing in the most enhghtend and ciihsed centres are unmisinhible monuments, shoving the amount of morl filth which surrounds the lofty intellects of human beings ind drags them to the level of brutes and sometimes even ta lower levels than brutes in therr social and sexuil trinsictions = Their hornble sexual hideos can hive STRIJATAKA In the flush of passions he for gets lus intelligence and reason, rushes on the mid career of sexurl excesses, fills into the folds of hopeless diserses, rels his brun to discover and invent remedies to remove these complaints, suffers all excruertt ing pains from ins own body, grows degenernte in health .nd mind produces unheilthy ind syphilitic issues and corrupts society in so many ways that an enumeration of Ul thee effects of these sexu! irregularities 1s not possible in such short trertises None of the other depirtments of knowledge cin help humanity in the selection of mirmage couples, how they46 to see me wd I srw him When 1 questioned him he frankly told me that he hid only two connections on thit fatal night felt a sort of electric shock through his organ and fel} sick The case was hopeless ind the poor boy was serficed for rela tional and finaneml considerr tions = The girlis now 1 widow The human body 1s 1 strange and mysterious combimation of virious forces or energies some of which tre demonstrable »nd others are invisible, but all. the sume red How do the tem STRIJATAKA mide to remove them, and secure happiness Therefore, this chapter of 1 girl s history should receive the best attention of all sensible men and women rnd no amount of time and Jabour spent upon an eximimition of these details should be consider edas wasted The labour in- volved in the examimition of these detuls should be consider ed 1s the most beneficiil which a min could render to the sersice of humninity in the up liftment of mankind, in their health, and prosperitySTRIJATAKA iQ Pushaxa—Immoral 11) Magha-—Children, happr ness, agreeable 12 Phalguna—Virtuous and faithful Pakshaphala, or ihe results of the two halfs of lunar months Bright half—Wealth cleanliness, Joyful and good enjoyments Dark half —Bedily disease, fond of sexual pleasures, talk mg 11 of others, irreligious CHAPTER SIV Special Influences of Constellations 1 Aswim—-Wealthy, happy, good issues, fond of enjoy ment steady, leader among the community, respectful 2 Bharam—Immoral, causing abortions, dependent on others, barren by excessive indulgences 3. Knthtka — Quarrelsome, adulterous, barren, causing abortions, dependent, dead children 4 Rohini—Good conduct, mee children, respectable, loving husband, woman of prince ples, worshipping gods 5 Mmgasira—Agreeable con duct, love for charitable deeds, 47 patient and enduring fatigue, virtuous, fond of husband, blessed with good children 6 Aurrdra—Immoral, bad sex ual organ, miserable, dead children, unsympathetic, evil temper, lazy, bad, trreligious 7 Punarvasu—Farthful to hus band, many issues, delight from possessing good children, religious 8 Pushyami—~Love to husband, good issues, many hinds of enjoyments, agreeable, at tractive, clever, chamtable 9 Auslasha—Fond of other persons, servile, irritable, un sympathettc,disagreeable, har, undesirable issues 10 Makha—Generous and noble, sickly, fond of music, attraction to paternal home, respectful 11 Pubba—Fond of embraces from others humble, bad conduct, sorrowful, dirty, cruel hearted, revengeful 12 Uttara—Many children, fond of meritorious deeds, beloved by all, without any hateful feehngs, respected by frends, virtuous fond of maternal home48 13. Hasta—Loving, good en joyments, children, agreeable life, highly respected, liberal, chantable 14 Chitta—Shilful in arts and works, enjoyment in life,clever in = mercantile transactions, very pissionate, polite man ners, smooth behaviour 15 Swati—Rich, healthy, shill- ed in arts and mechanics, children and grand children, sirtuous and faithful 16 Visakha—Fond of low deeds, bad temper, addicted to drinks, agreeable to many, assucless, dirty habits, angry 17 Anooradha—Respected by the relations of the husbind, adorned by execlient personal chimeter, fur and lesing, children, healthy ecxul organ, attrictive, and symm thetie STRIJATAKA 20 Poorvashadha—Secret sin ful rcts, bad children, fond of torturing others, sorrowful and melancholy 21 Uttarashadhi—Discerning and tactful, fond of chrities, righteous conduct, wealthy, and happy 22 Shravana—Children and grand children, werlth, and Janded properties, Vsrtuous, enjoying delights according to tumes, respected and honor- ed 23° Dhanistr Werlth aad lands, good enjoyable life, surround- ed by children and graind- children, virtuous, heeping to religious tenets 24° Satabhisha—Many issues, weuth, rchgious, enjoy ing pleasures recording to times, honored by people and rela. nonsSTRIJATAKA 27 Ras 1ti—Determination, do ing charities, blessed with children and riches, happy, religious fasth 1 hare named the general results produced by the constel lation, when the first Menses appears and when at rules on the day and at thetime Great cau tion and discretion should be used in the delinatron of charac teristics Take some examples Aswint rules at the time of first Menses, Chandra naturally will bein Mesha Take Sant there im that star, Sam 1s debilitated m Mesha and when he occupres the star, he produces exils, and his conjunction with Chandra be comes malicious, producing sor row, wornes, immorahty and social scandals Take Ravi there Ravi produces al together different results The influences of the star and the planet are mutual and undergo changes consequently Ravi is exalted in Mesha and with Chan dra the chemical changes in the body and the mind of the gurl will be different from what they would be when Moon joms wath Sanim debilitation Therefore, the student must be very care ful m predicting the results 49 Take a traveller ina forest road The time, the fatigue, the health of the person, his powers of endurance, the distance he has travelled, the state of the sce nery all round and all along, the atmospherical conditions, his dullness or intelligence to the esthetic impressions and the fullness or emptiness of his stomach, the pleasurable or the painful mission he has before him and other surroundmgs have to be tahen into account, before we can say how he feels and how he works Similarly with reference to planets, houses, stars, aspects, conjunctions, yogas, karanas, lunar and solar days, weeh days and so many other forms of vistble and imvi- sible agencies, m these combi nations must be considered Astrology 1s meant for the whole world m all its complicat ed phenomena and therefore, as it comprehends all the pheno mena tn nature, the intellect that is engaged im tts pursuit, must be very comprehensive, heen, piercing and capacious enough to hold all rts complicated princ: ples and possess an excellent analysmg and logical judgment which will be able to weigh theSTRIJATAKA the Janma Rasi of her hus- band. 15. When the Nidhana’ Tara tules. 16. When Vajra, Vishkambha, Vyaghata, Shoola and Ati- gundas prevail. 17. During night and Vydhrati. 18. In constellations which ‘are occupied by the evil planets, viz, Ravi, Kuja, Sani, Rahu and Kethu, 19. When the evil planets are found in the 7th house from her Lagna, 20. When abnormal pheno- mena happen such as comets, meteors, solar spots, changes in the Sun’s rays, al. When the family is plunged in death pollution and sorrows. 22. During the death times of Parents, brothers, sisters and closer relations, 23. When the people are vacat- ing their homes for plague, famines and other epide- mics. 24. When fires break out in the house or in the neighbourhood. 25, When halos round the Sun and the Moon are seen, 51 Results of Yogas. 1. If the first Menses appear in Vishkambha—Disease in sex- ual organs. .2. Ganda—Barrenness. 3, Shoola-Adultery and issueless. 4. Vyaghata— Committing suicide. 5. Vajra--Free movements in immorality, unchecked license. 6. Patha--Will kill her husband, children will die and she will be issueless. 7. Vydhrathi—Will kill her - husband. The rest of the yogas are favourable as per their names. For an explanation of yogas and Karanas, s¢e my work Shukla and Pramoduta. Results of Karanas. .- 1. Bava—Issueless or a widow. 2. Balava—Will have children. 3. Konlava—Padssionate and joyful. 4. Thythula—Good tempera- ment. 5. Garaja—Loss of children. 6. Vanik-——Similar result. - 7. Bhadra—Barren. Loss of children is certainly different from barrennegs,52 STRIJATAKA 8 Sahkunt—Widowhood. 9 Chatushpath—Widow hood. 10 Nagdva—Fond of sexual operations 121, Kimisthughna-- Widow hood Influences of Time 1 Morning—Happy and pros- perous 2 Before noon--Visiting sacred shrines and holy rivers 3 Midday or noon—Chuildren, wealth, 4. Afternoon—Adulterous 5, Exvenng—Many husbands and lords. 6 Twilight in the evenmng and morning—A dancing woman, prostitute. 7. Before mdnight—Long life. 8& Midmght—Widowhood 9, Towards the close of mght— Unfortunate 10 If the gil attains puberty between these periods named above she will be unfortunate and poor. 1. Mesha—Adulterous 2 Vushabba--Happy and pros- perous, 3. Mithuna-—Children 4, Kataka—Very adulterous. 5. Simha—Good and happy children. 6, Kanya— Fortunate wealthy. and 7 Thula—Happy and pros- perous 8 Vrischtha—Immoral 9 Dhanas—First half adulter- ous, second half virtuous 10 Mabkara—Shameless immodest IL Kumbha—Wealthy, happy and lands and 12° Meena—Many childrenSTRIJATAKA they soften the influence of the sign Mesha and though the girl will have an inclination to com mit adultery, she will not do so for various considerations and reasons Therefore in predicting the influences of Rasis, the influences of planets should also be taken into careful consideration, Kataka makes her immoral, Kuya adds greater faci- hes for the sinful worh Guru there, averts the evil The Influence of Places on the Appearance of the First Menses If the time of puberty falls in Mesha, Simha or Kanya, the Menses appeared outside the town, in Vrishabha in places where cattle are kept or in cattle sheds, in Dhams in the house, in Thula in the same iillage or in another house, in Meena, Kumbha, Makara or Kataha, near watery surfaces such as tanhs, mvers, ponds, Jakes, in Mithuna when the girl was miked and in Vrischika the gurl attains her age im the midst of forest or wilderness or m groves of trees The question time of menses may also be taken into consideration and 33 all these details can also be correctly predicted by the astro- loger Menses, as a compound 1s composed of so many physt- cal and mental characteristics, that all the causes which pro- duced that compound wil! have ther individual influences and effects, and an analysis of all these becomes necessary to find out what results may be repeat- ed from it as a whole and also from the individual causes All these are chemical in nature and astrology 1s a huge chemrs- try As 1n other departments of knowledge differences of oprnion on some facts are often found in astrology . . How they have arisen are matters, on which we as Alpatmas ot with narrowed vision, are not in a posttion to explain Whether the Mahartshis found out the planetary influen- ces by deductive or inductive methods, or by long and labori- ous observations or by develop- ing their intellectual powers and mental vision by the prac- tse of severe yoga, are points on which we can only make guesses but we cannot say definitely, that they have done so and so They sity that the Sun im the 10th house 1s good, JupiterSTRIJATAKA Vision I leave the readers to draw their own inferences on the facts I have adduced and the argurents I have gren A handful of experrence 1s worth ten cart loads of theories The modern scientists are quite unfit to pronounce opinions on subjects in which they are ignorant Cuwtrr XVII Results to be Predicted from the Directions of the Questioner. Hi the man questions the astro- Joger and stands to his East, the girl will have 7 children, three drops of menstrual fluid and she has worn an old cloth at the time of first Menses If he is in South east, predict that the girl will have one issue, seven drops of menstrual flurd, and the cloth she wore was blick or blue If the questioner isin the South, 8 children, four drops of menstrual fd and ted cloth should be predicted Tf he stands in South west, 4 children, 2 drops of menstrual fluid and white cloth should be Predicted. lf in the West Predict 6 issues, 4 drops and dirty cloth If in the North-west 55 predict 2 children, 3 drops and rose colored cloth If im the North, predict 9 children, one drop and varied colored cloth. if the North east say she will have 10 children, one drop and cloth prepired from fibres or silk If a girl attains her age in the Constellations, Moola, Shravana or Dhamsta, she will have five issues If she gets mences in Mrigasira, Uttara, Uttarasha- dha, Uttarabhadra, Clutta, Hasta and Satabhisha shé will bear 10 children If she attains puberty in Visahha, Swat, Anooradha, Aswimt, Moola, she will hase 8 children If she has menses in Rohini, predict 7 children and in Ranatr 9 children Remedies for evils Gne rice for weeh day evil, ghee for Nakshatra or Constel- lation, frutts for yogas and cloths for Karanas These should be given by the girl to holy men, after she bathes on the fourth day of the menses, with religious faith and ac companied by the Sastratc Mantras and suitable cash presents When she follows this procedure the evil indicatedSTRIJATAKA large and people should not allow such poisons to work ruin unchecked by them = In certain constellations, particular num- ber of months are prohibited for sexual union and nuptials I say the temperature of an iron ball 1s 200 degrees centi- grade Will 1 be superstitious or wrong when I tell a man, as having the correct knowledge of the heat of the jron_ ball, not to touch it for sometime tll the heat subsides and does not Prove dangerous Not only the sexual organs, but the whole body of a human being, go on sending continuously electric, magnetic, ethereal and other subtle forms of sparks or ener- gies By a careful knowledge of these various forces, working for and agamst a person’s inte rest, Maharishis have latd down 1 large number of rules, by a careful observance of which, he will be able to conserve his energy, overcome the obstacles, and make sure of success im his undertalangs The conserva- tion of the right kind of physical, mental and spiritual energies and forces, 1s at the bottom of all Hindu Sastras, and the terrestri- al, celestial and electrical and 57 other forces should not be dissi- pated to the great prejudice of the persons concerned m any acts Please examine all our shastras, our rituals, and me- thods prescribed and sanctioned by the Vedas and then say, after due performances and ex- periences, whether they are senseless or you are stupid, not to understand and analyse them Il-founded opmions are highly prejudicial and lead to dungerous results I have offer- ed remarks which should set every man aright thinking The minuteness into which the Maharishis have descended and described, as if they have all the causes and results before their mentai vision, speak won- derfutly for their comprehensive powers, and show clearly that they were not drawing on their Imaginations but were describ- ine othe actualities enacted before their eyes Can a huge literature of four hundred thou- sand sutras spring upon the basis cf clear falsehood? Can the greatest Intellects in the world be guilty of propogating such vast literature when they were not satisfied about therr truth This 1s not a theoretreal58 philosophy to be indulged in wild mental excesses or simple flights of imagination =A. girl who attains her age in Mesh in Bharam and with Sam there must prove a terrible whore and it will be so = This 1s a practical and demonstrable Take a woman with Kuja and Sintin Lagna with out beneficial aspects and see if ever she remains virtuous Her passions are excitable and she will yield to them All evidence 1s either simple or com plicated Insimple matters the ficts are eiily grasped or demonstrated but in compheat ed cases, where the evidence 1s confusing and confounded even the best judges find it difficr lt science STRIJATAKA meet One his seen a pheno metion the other Ins not What 1s the authonty of the Intter to deny about 1n event which the former his seen and known Exceptions to natural laws are admitted When and how they come are not known Judg ments are not uniform or sound The best judges are often faulty Therefore 1t would be silly on the part of the so called scien tists to deny truths ina science in which they have not even the elementary |nowledge It may be argued that some of the statements made in the Indmin Sciences are found in India and not in mainy Curopein or other Asiatic countnes nd that the Science of Astrology cinnot beSTRIJATAKA maids and are generally danger ous to society, as they are not only corrupt in themselses, but draw towards them a large num ber of innocent girls and spoil themin various ways But pro- viston ts made for all these cases in the Astrological works, whose sutras have only to be read carefully to find out the princr ples to apply to such cases As regards religious remedies mentioned in them, they may be so adjusted as to suit the local conditons and customs preva lent there Prayers, though different in different religious systems, have the same aim or goal hke medicines prescribed 1a different countries vary in effecting cures for the same diseases or same classes of complaints Cuapter XVIII Results of Clothes on First Menses White clothing—will be happy and healthy Strong cloth—Virtuous Silk and fibre—will become a queen or fortunate lady New cloth—happy and polite Torn cloth—poverty and un happiness 59 Red cloth—disease Black cloth—widowhood Dirty cloth—poverty and sorrow Results of the numbers of drops of Menstrual fluid One drop—gnes wealth Two drops—good enjoyment in hife Three drops—disease Many drops—poverty and sor rows Results of planets in the constellations at first Menses 1 If Kaya joms the Consteila tion, she will hase dead children 2 If Budha and Sukra combine in the star, she becomes childless or barren 3 If Guru joms the star, she becomes pious and religious 4 If Ravi joms, loss of husband 5 If Rahu joins, she becomes adulterous 6 If San: combines she becomes a servant 7 If there are no planets she will have long and happy marned hfe58 philosophy, to be indulged in wild mental excesses or simple fights of amagimtion =A. girl who attains her age 1n Mesha in Bharam, and with Sani there, must prove a terrible whore, and at will be so - This is a practical and demonstrible science ‘Take a woman with Kuya and Santin Lagna with out beneficial aspects and see if ever she remams virtuous Her pissions are excitable and she will y:eld to them = All evidence ts either simple or com pheated Insimple matters the frets are exsily grisped or demonstrated, but in compheat ed cises, where the evidence 1s confusing and confounded even the best judges find it difficult to probe into trath Contridic tions confuse them = fuman STRIJATAKA meet One has seen a pheno menon, the other has not What 18 the authority of the latter to deny vbout in event which the former his seen and known Exceptions to natural laws are admitted When 1nd how they come, are not known = Judg ments are not uniform or sound The best judges are often Faulty Therefore, 1t would be sully on the part of the so called scien tists to deny truths in 1 science in which they have not even the elementary hnowledge It may be argued that some of the statements madein the Indrin Sciences wre found in India and notin miny European or other Asmitic countries, and thit the Science of Astrology cinnot be called 1 sctence, since it cinnot be apphed to the whole worldSTRIJATAKA maids and are generally danger- ous to society, as they are not only corrupt in themselves, but draw towards them a large num- ber of innocent girls and spoil them in various ways. But pro- vision is made for all these cases in the Astrological works, whose sutras have only to be read carefully to find out the princi- ples to apply to such cases. As regards religious remedies mentioned in them, they may be so adjusted as to suit the local conditions and customs preva- tent there. Prayers, though different in different religious systems, have the same aim or Boal like medicines prescribed in different countries vary in effecting cures for the same diseases or same classes of complaints, Crapter XVIII Results of Clothes on First Menses. White clothing—will be happy and healthy. Strong cloth—--Virtuous. Silk and fibre—will become a queen or fortunate lady. New cloth—happy and pohte Torn cloth—poverty and un- happiness 59 Red cloth—disease Black cloth—widowhood Dirty cloth—poverty and sorrow. Results of the numbers of drops of Menstrual fluid. One drop—gives wealth Two drops—good enjoyment in life. Three drops—disease Many drops—poverty and sor- rows Results of planets in the constellations at first Menses. 1 If Kuja joins the Constella- tion, she will have dead children. 2 If Budha and Sukra combine in the star, she becomes childless or barren. we If Guru joms the star, she becomes pious and relsgious. 4 If Ravi joins, loss of husband. un If Rahu joins, she becomes adulterous. 6 If Sani combines she becomes a servant. 7 Vf there are no planets she will have long and happy marned hfe.60 Results of Planetary Positions. If, at the time of first Menses, Chandra, Budha, Guru and Suhra are found in Kendras 1- 4-7-10, Thrihonas 5-9 and second house, she will have wealth, happiness, enjoyment and prosperity Jf evil planets are Jocated in 3-6-11 they produce the same happy results as above deserib- ed STRIJATAKA Brahmin, on the third day she will be compared to a washer woman and on the 4th day she will be compared to a sudra wo- man In Bhagavadgita Krishna says—Chaturvarnam Maya sristam Guna Karna Vibha- gasa. Meaning I have creited four castes—Brahmi, Ksha- tnya, Vysya and Sudra, according to their gunas— Satwiha, Rajisa and ThamasaSTRIJATAKA 61 If she gets menses on the 19th day, she must remain one day im pollution After 20 days shewilland must be in pollution for 3 days as usual Results of Planelary Posttions From the Lagna or the sign at which the first Menses appear in the girl Rav: 1 If Ravi joms the Menses Lagna the results will be Complaints from excessive heat, bad conduct, leanness m body, ungrateful, fond of taling food in others houses, tepulsive or fided bodily appearance 2 Rain 2—poverty and want, harsh speech, weak ness, quarrelsome 3 Ravi in 3—always happy, hindsome body, good health high intelligence 4Rayi in 4—unhappiness diseassed body, disagree able appearance hated by relations and the husband 5 Ravin >—few issues, faithful to prrents, xgreenrble speech Piereing intellect fichle minded 6 Rasi in 6—conquest over enemies, learned, wealthy, righteous conduct ~ 7 Ravi in 7—Rejected by hus band, unhappy, fear, ugly 8 Raxiin 8—poverty, sorrows, suffering from blood comp laints unpleasant flow of menstrual fluid 9 Ravi in 9—many diserses, quarrelsome,creating fueds, great courmge 10 Ravi in 10—not fond of husband, constant travel ling 11 Rave in 1—gatns, children and grand children, control over passions, happiness 12 Ravin 12—great expend) ture, fond of cruel deeds, isrehgious In these results the positions of Ravi, hrs conjunctions, aspects, exal tations, debilitatrons friend ly and unfriendly houses, should be taken into account before predictrons are made CHsPTER ATA Chandra in the 12 Bhavas 1 Chindm in I -ff the girl attums her age when the Moon is waxing, she willbe handsome, happy and prosperous In the darth half—-lean body, disease mean 2 Chandra in 2—leader among women, fond of charitable deeds, righteous, devotion to holy Brahmins 3 Chandra in 3—windy and phlegmatic diseases, fond of talking to others, bad. conduct, unsympathetic 4 Chandra in 4—happiness, luxurious meals, steady character, fond of excessive enjoyment, devotion to holy men and God. 5 Chandra in 5—good children, excellent character, domg good deeds, truthful, happi- ness, Jove to husband 6 Chandra m 6—httle wealth, great hatred, unpolite, fichle-minded, wounds and diseases. 7 Chandra in 7—skilful, love to husband, work, wisdom and prudence 8 Chandra in 8—ungrateful and bad temper, devoid of ornaments and jewels, revengeful, wonderful scandals meritorious STRIJATAKA 9 Chandra im §—meritorious excessive enjoyments, blessed with issues, hypp!- ness. 10 Chandra nm 10—many gold ornaments, charitable and liberal, fond of righteous deeds 11 Chandra in 1]—great gains, command over passions, charities, good health. 12 Chandra in 12-windy complaints, quarrelling with females Poverty and musery. Kiya in the Teeelve Houses 1 Kuya in 1—bihous temper ment, wounds, pains and miseries 2Kujya m 2—rreligious, losses from landed proper- ties, mein and unprinerpled husband, prssionate, vengeful, eye complaints re- 3 Kuja in 3—happiness, good enjoyments, patience, fond- ness for relations and good and holy people, greatness and social respect 4 Kuyja in 4—~disappointments, unhappiness, widowhood, hated by relations, little profits from landed proper- tiesSTRIJATAKA 63 5 Kuya in 5—bad children, shameless conduct, bad company, sinful deeds, loss of children or no children 6 Kua in 6—enjoyment and delight from the husband, great wealth, good health, tespectable learning, fond of Idols and holy perso niges 7 Kuyvin7—early widowhood, bad conduct, immoral habits 8 Kuya in 8—diseased body, sorrovs, evil thoughts, disagreeable 9 Kujya in Q—unnghteous, Intred, fond of cruel deeds 10 Kua in) 10—evil nature, ureligious, want of intelli gence 1 kuin 11—gains in articles, “greeable temperament, love and regard for husband 12 Kuyi in 12~fond of rough aad red rice, constant comphints, dullness, weah, blood discharges Budha in the Twelve Bhavas PBudhain 1--hindsome, futhful to husband, rghte- ous, gencrous, broad and attrtetive eyes, rich and tasteful meals, truthful 2 Budha in 2—-riches, comforts, devotion and worship to holy Brahmins and God, fond of hearing Puranas or religious works 3 Budha in 3—many brothers, personal respect, helpful to people, riches, mercantile tact, if evil planets yon him destruction to brothers 4 Budha m 4—happiness, friends, respectable family, progress im education, beauty, accumulating many articles 5 Budha in 5—few children, little wealth, quarrels, hatred toward pious people 6 Budhain 6—hatred, quarrels many enemies, diseases, female quarrels 7 Budha in 7—good deeds, religrous rites, agreeableness among all people, love and pleasure from husband 8 Budha in 8&—unsy mpathetic, ungenerous, timid nature, diseases nthe body, sorrows from paternal side 9 Budha in 9—fond of rehgt ous observances, meritori- ous, polite and affible, weith, reputation, ability, trathful6+ 10 i STRIJATAKA Budha in 10—good deeds bernty, regard ind love to husband, moral, politeness bith in holy rivers Budha m 11—contented mind, loved by elder brothers, if evil planets are there, destruction to them 12 Budha in 12-—quarrels, pride, showy, hated by good and holy people Guru tn the 12 Bhavas Guru in I—nryestic speech enjoyment, handsome, good nature Guru in 2—nches sweet specch, truthful, mghteous Guru in 3—cleser in trans xctions, despised, dullness Guru in 4—happiness, nch and luxurious mews, mriny servints, orniments, figh respect, execiient qualitics henscs and landed proper fies 7 10 iW 12 Goru in 7—good mtture, Meritorious, great wisdom Guru in 8—diserses at home, widowhood cholic pains @reat hatred, sorrow, diseased body Guru in 9—rehgious futh, reyerence to God construct ing charitable wells, tanks and canals, joyful, fasthful, dependents generous miture Guru in 10—reputation, good chiracter, griteful, poltteness, attactive, mert torious deeds, wonderful works Gore in 11—truthful, wealth, command over pissions Guru m = 12—httle guns, bad mature disease Suhra wn the 12 Bhavas Sukra in 1 loving husband, enjoyment cleverness amSTRIJATAKA increase in family, hppi ness, fashionable 5 Sukra in 5—female issues, few males, intelligent 6 Suhraim 6—anger, hatred of children and husband, travelling 7 Sukra in 7—well known, love to husband, enterpris ing, if evil planets are there, she will be adulterous fond of music, 8 Sukriin 8—pride, sorrow, unkind, quarrels with females 9 Sukra in 9—learned "mong females, ornaments, clothes, jewels, personal adorn Ments, happy temperament, many sources of wealth 10 Sukra in 10—reputation, ‘orshipping Gods, beauty and good niture Ne Saker an 1l--greit power and commind, fond of studying sciences, gains 12 Sukra in 12 selling body for Money, sorrow dissrmula tion, unhappy Sani in the Twelve Bhavas 1 Sam in 1—ugly bods, 1n significant, eye complunts a 2 10 BT 12 65 Sam in 2—female diseases, penury, cruel temperament Sant m 3—great ability, gratefulness, helpful to many, protecting holy people Sami m 4—chronte comp laints, unsteidy, evil com piny Sam im 5—evil to children, fond of other’s children, dull, given to wandering Sam: in 6—destruction to enemies, good ornaments, and clothing Sam in 7—widowhood disease, bad company, quarrels wandering in villages and towns San: in 8—evil deeds, thie vish, bad nature San: in 9—1rreligious, sor rows from mother and father Sam in 10—obyectionrble conduct, fond of dnnking Sani in 11—handsome, many varieties of enjoy ments Sani in 32—windy com phunts, « orthless behasiour, crooked nature sorrowful, sperhing il of others66 Rah and Kethw a the Twelve Houses Rahu and Kethu in 3, 6 and 11 from the Lagni when the girl attains first puberty produce, kind hevrt, chari- table disposition, prayers to God and holy sunts and she wil attain to Gown Loka, she will suffer from Bhootas, pretas, prsachas and other evil spirits In the rest of the houses, v2, 1, 2, 4,5, 7,8 9 10 and 12 the results will be reverse of those which have been mentioned above There are 56 varieties of Devils or evil spirits mention ed in the Sanskrit Sciences and each has a nature and chiracte ristic of its own — All these are well defined and explained in the Pisachisha Mantras or in- cantitions which extend over 9 crores, some of them miy_ be mentioned here for ready refer- ence Bhoota, Preta, Pisacha, Sahin, Dhakini, Jalin, Mohin:, Kamm, Malini, Bhetala, Rakshasa, Prarabida, et¢ The females are more apt to be troubled by these cvil spirits than the miles They are sid to tehsh much, the drops of men- STRIJATAKA strual fluid and the urine which flows during menses period and they will be waiting to catch their prey in lonely, delapidated and neglected watery surfaces They are sid to have easy access to unclean females when they are rude or 1] covered over their bodies Pisichas are of two linds Those from the world called Prsachaloka where they flourish in large numbers and are created by God as Pisachas and those human beings who become devils and evil spirits after their death as the result of their evil harma, fondness for worldly objects and from various revengeful feelings, greed and avarice They are subtle in form and some of them are Kama Rupas or those which have the power of assum- ing any form, animal, bird, reptile or human as they Inke They cin change these forms at their sweet will and pleasure, some of them are very trouble- some and cannot easily be exercised by ordinary mantras Some of the Curopean scientists are opening their eyes to the existence of these Pisacha- lohas and admit that there are many spirit worlds, about whichSTRIJATAKA they have yet to explore and investigate and that their present scientific knowledge 1s still in an infantile stage, about these mat- ters Saptakols Mahamantras or seven crores of good mantras and Navakot: Kshudra Mantras, or nine crores of evil ones are completely sealed letters to them and they have yet to sit at the feet of Indian Mantracs and learn the mysteries of Mantras CHAPTER XX Special Rules In all horoscopes, belonging to males or females—Lagna plays an important part and if Ligna, its lord, the combina fons in it and the aspects, it has are all good, powerful and benefictal, the person, male or female will be well formed, des cloped and attractne, will Wwe long in good position and comforts, will command many setvants, great wealth, landed and house properties, will be educated and intelligent and will be a man of grcat financial resources If on the ather hand ithas combinations and aspects Amle the reverse of the above, the results will be quite un- fMourable He will be defec- 67 tive mm hmbs, ugly or tll develop- ed, unattractive, poor and dis- tressed, neglected by relations and fmends, will be sgnorant and will be neglected by his soctety and community = For other events 1n life other Bhavas and houses have to be consulted There ts a large sectton of astrological writers, who have treated elaborately on the ap- pearances of first Menses in a girl, and who seem to attach even greater importance to this phenomenon than to the birth time JT have, therefore, treated. this subject exhaustively im the previous paragraphs A few points, however may be noted here For personal appearances, character, general health, posi- tion and happmess, Lagna as well as Chandralagna should be consulted for a female, for the husband, his appearance, position and behaviour, the 7th from Lagna should be consulted For conception, pregnancy, deli- very, marned life, prosperity, jewels, ornaments and for the prosperity and adversity of the children, the Sth house from Chandra or Lagna or from both his to be examined For the Jongesity of the husband, forSTRIJATAKA and men are joing in sexual contacts, and the menses results explained before in this treatise, due to planetary, zodiacal and constellation influences, will happen to them both individually and also collectively Fire burns all the same whether you touch it with the faith and belief, that itis a deity or simply a physical Phenomenon Take a venereal ‘oman It is immaterial whether you have her for sexual Purposes as a wife, asa concu- bine or as simply a woman for that single occasion Will she not ge you her property of disease after you enjoy her The name and form are imma tern, but the fact is material, and the venereal complaint 1s demonstrable, as you get it Positively = have known Several women and men sending tohell, their sexual co operators, quick successton They may sido become widows and the ers, but they will suffer all ‘age from their yenereal S, and their subsequent Consequences Take a boy's Nrreope If he has Venus, Kethy and Saturn, Raku or or oth cn Lagna or 4th or 7th + xen the purest girl who 69 has the misfortune to umte with him sexually will falla prey to venereal complaints and pay heaxy penalties for such mdts cretions Similarly for females The subject 1s very imteresting and instructive and I have done my best to present it in as inviting 1 manner as possible This mteresting and instruc- tive work Sire Jataka, or the Female Horoscopy, has been completed by me on Thursday 28th May 1931, at 3 pM, im my residence at Hunsamaranahalli, Bangalore Dist S India, on the Dwadasi of the bright half of the lunar month Jarsta, m the cychc year Prajotpatt, in Sali vahana Saka 1853, in my 76th year, through the grace and mercy of the Almghty, Who has been graciously pleased to grant me full vigour and vitality to my brain, toachieve this transla- tion without any break or hitch The following are the combina- tions of planets in Rast and Namamsa Diagrams at the tume— English, 28th May, 1931 Kahy uga—-5033 Samvat or Vihrama Saka | 1989STRIJATAKA and men are joining in sexval contacts and the menses results explained before in this trertise due to planetary, zodiacal and consteHation influences will happen to them both individually and also collectively Fire burns all the same whether you touch it with the faith and behef, that itts a deity or simply a phy sical phenomenon Take 1 venereal ‘omit is immatenal whether you have her for sexu Purposes as 1 wife asa concu bine or as simply a woman for that single eceision Will she Rot gre you her property of disewse after you enjoy her The name and form are imma tem but the fact 1s nmiterial, and the venereal complaint 1s demonstrable as you get it Positively =I have known Several women and men sending toheill thar sexual co operators Mquich succession They may vido become widows and the ers but they will suffer all vagan me from ther venere es, and their subsequent Consequences Tale a boys Orescope hate If he his Venus het 2nd Saturn, Rahu or or oth in Lagna or 4th or 7th even the purest: girl who 69 has the misfortune to umite with him sexually will falla prey to venereal complaints and pay hewy penalties for such indis cretions Similarly for females The subject 1s very imteresting and instructive ind T have done my best to present it m as inviting 1 manner as possible This interesting and instruc tive work Sire fataka, or the Female Horoscopy hhs been completed by me on Thursday 28th May 1931 at 3 pM,in my residence at Hunsamarmthallt, Bungalore Dist S Indi, on the Dwadasi of the bright half of the lunar month Jaista in the eyche yerr Pryotpatti in Salt vahana Saha 1853, in my 76th year through the grace ind mercy of the Almighty Who has been graciously plexsed to grant me full vigour ind vitthts to my brain, toachteve this transla tion without any breth or hitch The following ire the combina tions of planets in Rast and Namamsa Dia,rams at the tume— En,lish 28th May, 1931 Kahyu,1- 5033 Samyvit or Vikmmi Saha} 198970 Solar month Taurus or Vrishabha date 15th completion time 23. ghatis after Sunrise Constellation—Chitta ruled at the nme with the balance of huja Dasa for 2 years + months and 2! days I have made ita point to give the time of com pletion of all my works 1s also ™y own age so that my readers. | Raha | Budka Rass Gura Sukra PTT STRIATARA Raw Gar Aut oan | Navvmsa Laguna Sukra Sam (Chandra, Raho Budha will be able to judge of the merits of my works 1nd find out what measure of successes will attened on these publicritions and how long 1 will be ble to live through my works as an author Gods glory is shown through the planetary combina tions = Frmunent authors Ine after their physical death Others die long before they arc actually dead Tar PapESSENTIALS TO UNDERSTAND THE WORKS OF ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS OF MINE Sanskrit and the principal vernaculars of India—all of them taking ther denvations and formation s—corrupt though they may be from the original Sans- knt—which are prevalent in their respective areas have been influenced to a large extent by the Governing language, the Enghsh The Arabic and the Persian languages ruled over the Indian languages through their Conquerors for over a thousand years, and now all these have been checked back to give room 0 the language of the conquer- Sts the British My English translations of many original Sanshnit Works, are themselves Sximples of these influences here is a large English talhing mee all over the world of Ine Intellectual treasures Sansa lying an deep mines of soul Literature and Sciences or th ave been sealed letters st or pechelming majority, vations le noble attempts of the Promp authors, yho were to hy by generous instincts, nore the public by their translattons such treasures for their instruction and mental de- light, as they were able to gather from their labours The difficul- ties of surtable translations from the Inghly technical Sanskrit Sciences into flowing English have been successively ex- plained by me in my _ In- troduction to Sarvariha- chintaman: If 1 enjoy a luxurious meal or a grand scenery, or a pleasant company thereis certainly a sacred duty on me to give a share of it, to those who are dear and near to me Pleasure will be enhanced by the company of our friends and relations, and pain will be dimi- mshed through the same com- pany In the course of such translations, it 1s but natural to use a large number of orginal Sanshrit expressions and explain them in their Englsh equiva- Jents when they are avulrble But when they are not ready the translator will have the necessity to bring out the force of the ongmal words in ther Enghsh garbs, as best as he72 ESSENTIALS TO UNDEPSTAND THE WORKS could Since I have facility to read, write and explain my ideas in Sanskmt and English and since God has given me the capacity to render the ideas of one into the other fairly well I have thought thit my knowledge, humble 1s 1t1s_ must also be made avulible to others for their edificrnon and delight 1 shall give here the orginal words in Sanst rit and thar equi vents in English as best 1s 1 could 2 Chandra Soma Indu— Moon Luna 3 Kua Bhouma Mangal Mars 4 Budha Vit Gna Soumya— Mercury 5 Guru Jiva Vachispathy— Jupiter 6 Sukra Sita Bhnigu—Venus 7 Sam Manda, Ravija—Saturn 8 Rahu, Thama Agu— Dragon s Head 9 Kethu Salli Dway— Drigons TalESSENTIALS TO UNDERSTNAD THE \VORKS The Hindu Lunar months are 12 1 Chaitra—March and April. 2 Vaisahha~April and May. 3 Jatsta—May and June 4 Ashadha—June and July 3 Shravana—July and August. 6 Bhadrapada—August and September. 7 Aswija—September and October 8 Kartiha— October and November. 9 Margastra—November and December. 10 Pushya—December and January. N Magha—January and February 12 Phalguna—February and March These lunar months are ™med so becaase on the Full- ™oon day or Pournama of cach Month, the constellation of such name oceurs thus Chutta falls on the Pournama of Chaitra, Visakha falls on the Pournama of Vaisakha, Jasta falls on the Ourmama of Jaista, Poorvasha- 4h oceurs on the Pournama of Ashidha Shravana falls onthe Pournama of Shravana. 73 Poorvabhadra in Bhadrapada. Aswint in Aswya, Krithika in Kartika, Mnigasira in Margasara, Pushya in Pushya. Makha in Magha . Pubba or Poorvaphalgunt in Pholguna. There are 6 Ruthus or Seasons 1 Vasanta contams Chautra and Vatsahha—Spring 2 Grishma—includes Jaista and Ashadha—Wndy. 3 Varsha—incorporates Shra- vana and Bhadrapada— Rainy 4 Saradrutu—A swija Kartiha— Winter. 5 Ilimanta—Margasira and Pushy a—Cold G Sasira-Magha and Phalguna and —Dropping of lewes Planetary states Deepata or Uccha—evaltation Swocha—deep exaltation Suakshetra—own house-~swa- sta Mitrakshetra—friendly house— Mudita. Satruhshetra—unfriend!y house —Deent74 ESSENTIALS TO UNDERSTAND THE WORKS Neecha—debilitation, Khala Vakra—tetrogression—Bal Asta—combustion—Vaikalya Atichara—acceleration-- Bheeta, Santa—occupying favourable divisions Pegda—oceupying the last degree of a sign Kendras or quadrants-—1st, 4th, 7th and 10th houses Thrihonas—trmes—Ist, 5th and Oth As the first is included in kendra Sth and 9th are generally taken by the word Thnkont Upachayas—3rd, 6th, 10th and 11th houses Sama—Neutral. Lagna—Burth, ascendant body. Dhana =< house repre- sents eyes, wealth, Netra vah speech 3 Sihaja—Bratru—third house indicates brothers, courage, ornaments, cars. 4 Matru, Vidya, Bhoom, Sukhi—fourth house denotes mother, happiness, education, lands, 5 Pragnya, Putra, Pitru-— fifth shows sntelligence, children, father. 6 Satru, Rogi, Runa—sixth house indicates enemies: diseases and debts. 7 Kalatra, Kama, Bhoga— seventh house denotes wife, passion, enjoyment. 8 Marana, Mrityu, Ansta, Ayoo—eighth house explains about death, accidents, mis- fortunes and longevity. 9 Bhagya Tapa, Pitru-—- ninth honse signifies, wealth, piety and father 10 Karma, Rajya, Jivanopaya Prahhyat, A gn ya—tenth house shows, actions, politi- cal power, means of livelihood, reputation and command 11 Labha, Bhagim, mitra— eleventh house denotes gains, elder sisters, brothers and friends 12 Vyaya, Nasta, Pa pa— twelfth house refers to losses, expenditure and sins Each Bhava or signification refers to a large number of humin events and transac- tions and as all the twelve Bhavas comprehend the whole worldly phenomena, it is not possible to refer to them all here.ESSENTIALS TO UNDERSTAND THE WORKS To get a wider information, teference should be made to larger works treating on these subjects The Sun—denotes soul reputa- tion, political power, father and paternal relations The Moon--shows mind, pearls, milk mother, Mars_ denotes courage, adyen tures, fires, brothers, lands Mercury explams about maternal aunts and uncles, intelligence Jupiter—denotes children, edu Catton, gold, — religrousness, self respect 7 Venus—shows wife, sexual desires, sense pleasures, silver, gems Saturn—denotes, sorrows, mise- Nes, oldage, servants Ral hu—denotes, darkness, Polson, paternal grand father and uncles K €thu—indicates maternal rand father and uncles, wor- "es and final emancipation Periods and sub periods o Planets. 4 f weet are various methods calculating periods and sub- Peneds of planets but all of 75 them cannot be detuled here The 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stomach—Kroda Virgo—the hips—Vaso Brita Libra—lower stomach—Vasti Scorpio~sex organs—Vyanjana Sagittarms—thighs—ara Capricornus—Knees— galam Janya- Aquartus~—buttochs—Janyaha Pisces—feet—Anghn Dwayam All these details have been given by me for the benefit of my English readers, both Indian and Foreign for their benefit so that they may find no difficulty in understanding the Sansknt terms in thetr nearest equiva lents In the course of my works, I have pronounciously used both English and Sanskrit terms, and these explanations of the technicalities will be found simp}; invaluable Bod; Pawar Peenting Wearcbe Ee: Marsenmharsia Raad. Rangalore CitySHORT SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF B. SURYANARAIN ROW BA,WRAS,FRHS, Editor of the Astrological Magazine itis but might, that my history should find a place in my translations and books 1 belong to the Mulaka- nadu sect of the Andhra Community of Brahmuns, and have the Gotra of the Venerable Vasista, the revered family Guru of Sn Rama and the Solar line of mon- archs Vasista, Sakti, Parasara, Vyasa and Shuka are my first progenitors Si grandiauter was a mmittary officer under Hyder and Tippu and changed the career to avi on bss later hfe Venkataramanayya, my grandfather was born in 1747 and died m 1828 He Jost his first wife Narasamma m his 59th year and marnéd my grandmother Naranamma of Hegganahalli in ius 60th year and got 7 children from her Two daughters and five sons of whom my father Gopala Rao was the 3rd son My father was born on Friday 7th July 1816, the 10th Lunar day of the Dark half of the month Ashadha im the Cyche year Dhatu at 15 ghatis after Sunrise under the constellation Bharam with the period of Venus and he was only 12 years old when his father died ~My father was of slender build, energetic, strong and extremely active in work, quali- tes which Ihave mherited to a large extent My mother Rukminamma the daughter of Palamonda2 Subba Rao Pantulu was an intelligent handsome and quiet going lady and died in her 39th year when I was about 13 years old My father could speak and read about ten languages and filled vinous posts in the Ganjam District Northern Circars and finally became Manager or Dewan of Parlakimidi or Chinna kimidt Zemindar1 as itis called now He was an expert in Mantrisastras ind highly religious and obliging He would never flinch from doing an obliga tion and brought me up with great love and care [- The following 1s { his horoscope His tapobala was 80 great that with a blade ) Subse of grass he was able Rav to stop about 1000 cattle and about 30 Rahy | Budha \ Moon ! 5 Ras 35 herd oO: cow herds San hu? | under the Maha As tra of Sanmohana All the cittle and men lost their con sciousness 1nd after an hour of trial they begin to move as if nothing had hay pened when my father threw a a3 the blade of grass Marl the positicns of ylanets n all the Akendras In addition to hs onerous duties he com pleted the gigintic tas] of fAimshing with his oun , hand one crore ind twenty five lacs of Srt Raima namas nd concluded the religious rites connected Lagna hethu | Gitu3 with them four months before his death Guru in Lagna and Sukra and Ravi in the 10th made him a wonderful man in Mantrasastras and he used to perform muracles when he Iihed He died im hus 76th year on the morning of the 27th August 1891, and was therefore 75 years and 40 days old according to English calculitrons My mother had some abortions and at the advice of a Sadhu tn Chicacole, after the performance of severe remedies, she had four daughters and two sons, myself being the younger son My elder brother Jaganmitha Row entered the Mysore service and retired as an Amildar or Tahasildar and died in December 1915 I was born on Tuesday Rathasaptam in Maghaof, the Cyclic year Rakshasa,on 12th February 1856, at about 14 ghatis after Sunrise or midnoon at Chieicole in the Ganyim Distinct and the following ismy horoscope After my birth my father wanted to give OF \ Chand: { 1 Take Lagna | Sim) ne the name of his father Venhatarama- Rw a a \ Bue miah, but it appears, Gur | on the fourth day | I became seriously ill and in the mght, | God Surya or the ; Sun appeared to my | father ma dream i and ordered myfather to name me as Suryanirina 1s I wis born at mid noon on the Ratha saptim: 1 day held —_—— a ams? sacred to the Sun agram. and the Moon all over India About Rai 4 miles from Chica Budha | hethu | Sukra cole there 1s2 village San Kuya cilled Arsivil where there is a complete Temple to the Sun God and which 1s consi dered 1 sacred shrine by the neighbouring people My father most gladly accepted the altered nime 1nd to his surprise and that of my good mother I was almght onthe Sth day of my birth My father was culled Gopala Row He completed 125 lacs of Raminamias with his own hand and died on Gohulastam: held sicred to Sm Knshni and my mother was called Rukmim the name of the sacred wife of KAmshna At 12 o cloch in the noon the Sun is most powerful and the time goes under the special name of Abhijin Moohurta and Abhiytt Sarva Doshaghnam or that noon time which cuts and cures all evil influences A notible meident occurred tome inmy Sth year which has influenced all my life to a considervble extent My first Aksha rbhy isa or beginning of educatton began m my Sth year at Parlikimidi where my father wis Dewrn to the Raya6 rebuled me for want of tttention to studies and for not copying notes which he gave us copiously 1 was reidy with my impertinent answer I obsersed in determined tone thit copying notes forms the part of dull herded students and superficial teichers 1nd that bright students lile myself need no such process He remuled thit he wis 1student ind vmanuensis of Dr Bain of Psychological fame and that I should obey him I told him that I would become a greater min, than both of them with the result thit J was turned out of the class foraday Mr Cook wis 1 generous Scotel gentlemin He sent for me next diy and questioned me whether my behiviour wis nght Tiephed thit hs treitment of students shauld be different as the inteffigent and spirited coufd not bear calmly remarks which dull boys consider as their inheritance Both being fran! the reconciliation was quick and smooth When I met him 20 yearg after publishing some of my works specially the History of \ipanigar or the Never To Be Forgotten Empire he had the nobility to rddress me 1s a greater man than himself while I modestly acknowledged his valuable instructions as the basis for all my scholarship in English and Physical Sciences I was intended to take up the legit! ine and finshed my legal studies and practised for about 9 years as + Lawyer in Bellary I kept up a decent establishment and my house ws open to all classes of professjonal experts The musicirns the veeni men the leimed? pandits, the religious yogis, the vedantists, the jug- gers, buffoons and other artists would flock to my place. For fuller details, the readers are referred to my. Autobiography. My astrological instincts were stirred up by Thogaray Ramasastry at Bangalore while I was in the F. A. class. I picked up my knowledge in this science by treading books on this subject. The details are beauti- fully given in my life. I had no high opinion for English astrological publications and never cared to read them, There is neither depth nor enquiry, nor research in them. My first work on astrology appear- cedin a dialect form, Engst amd Kannada, in 1682. My collegiate studies gave me no leisure for progress in my astrological researches and my Astrological Self Instructor first appeared in 1892, the second in 1893, and the 3rd in 1900, the interval being taken up by my legal practice. Fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh, fol- Jowed at Ionger intervals, and the &th has to be printed soon. .An Ooriya, astrologer, in Parlakimidi by name Brahma, soon after my birth foretold my future great- ness. I feel Lam under the direct grace of the glorious Sun at every important turn in my life, and his pre- sence in the LOth house from my Lagna,and 11th from Chandra, with Budha and Guru has inspired me to hold the view that Iam destined to become a great man and write valuable works, on a variety of interest- ing and instructive subjects, I first: married my maternal uncle’s daughter by name Bhagiratamma and8 she bore ten chiudren, of whom five died and five are living My fatherin law Palamonda Punchanatha Row was an Assistant Commissioner in the Mysore Service and earned a very good name as an officer, He died 21 years ago After the death of my first wife in 1903, I marmed again Subbimma, danghter of Venkataramasistry She bore 5 children, two of whom died soon after bith I haye now 2 daughters and one son by her I have now 21 grandchildren and one great grandchild I have built a spicions byngr- low at the side of a village named Hunsimaranahalh onthe Nand: High Rod, 12 miles due north of Bangalore It contains 3 acres of compound, planted with varieties of fruit and flower trees I hive hept up a decent establishment with ten servants, ind um feading a quiet honorabje and refgious hfe My birth. days are celebrated on 1 grand scale, and I am visited by all classes, creeds and nationities of people from all parts of the world and my home ts open tom; fnends and relations My eldest son Nanjunda Row, helps mein ny publicition business My second gon B Lakshmimirayana Row, Ba, is a Gradujte of Philesophy and Logic and is wm Inspector of Schools imthe Mysore Service My third son Somasehhara Row, was adopted by my late brother My 4th son Chindraschara Row, aged 13 yeirs is studying here Threc dau, hters are marred and happily settled in hfe Phave one little daughter aged 21, te mttry yet God Ins been graciously pleased to heep me ibove want and in comprratiscly good health for my advanced ageLl tive, Jet the countries enjoy freedom from epidemics, Jet Brahmins attend to their prayers, without any fear from evil minded people, let those who have no children beget children, let those who have no grandchildren be blessed with grandchildren, Jet those who have no money, get money and Jet all people Jive til they are one hundred years old This 1s a prayer, as tolerant. as honest, as broad minded and as sympathetic as possible and when really good men send these prayers constantly to God with faith and devotion they will never goin vain I shall give you here a short sketch of my ancestors and pedigree > Tam a diwect descendant of the great Maharrshis Vasista, Parasara and Vedavyasa The Pedigree of Ved wyasa 1s thus given in our daly prayers 1 Vasista-Brahma Manasaputra or one evolved out of the great mental power or energy of Brahma 2 Sakti son of Vasista and Arundhats 3 Parasara son of Saktr Vedavyasa, Badarayana or Krishna Dwarpa- yana son of Parasara 5 Shuka son of Vyasa