CHAPTER I
3.0 General Observations
Humanity is divided into 3 main divisions, viz., masculine, feminine and eunuch. There are any number of sub-divisions among them and the phenomena of potency or vitality among the above three classes are remarkable. There are men with perfect masculine development, but almost without powers of erection or penetration. There are some women who have hardly any sexual excitements and desire for copulation. They evade or reject sexual offers and applications. On the other hand, there are Napumsakas or eunuchs who have strong sexual excitements, and desires, but without suitable organs for such functions. Again there are men and women, who have tremendous sexual energy and who are not satisfied with ordinary sexual embraces and seek gratification even in unnatural ways. Some men and women have no inclination for sexual congress. There are some who have the development of the masculine and feminine organs in a mild form, and there are a who have these two organs in 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 having fully developed male and female organs in one and the same person, have been brought to notice both by medical practitioners and also by the general public at different times.
But, whether such Ardha Nariswaras both man and woman together developed in one and the same body, have 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 Venkatesayya who was Sheristedar at Chickballapur near Bangalore as Obalachari, who had been Obalamma before. The facts were these. He was born as a girl in a poor but respectable Brahmin family, and was married in his 9th year to a Brahmin youth of twenty. Till then the development of all organs were strictly feminine, otherwise there could not have been a marriage of a girl to a young man. But from her 12th year, the male organ began to develop and the feminine organ began to close up. At 16 Obalamma became Obalachari with all the full development of male organs and signs and as the phenomenon was strange, a few elders joined together in a meeting; examined Obalamma, found in her no trace of feminine sexual organ, but a fully developed masculine organ; the marriage was cancelled and Obalachari married a girl and had several children from her.
One of his sons became an Amildar in the Mysore service, and there are now some grand children of Obalachari formerly Obalamma. We could not believe such a story but not only our uncle vouched for the truth of this, but Obalachari himself confirmed the same. Our uncle had gone to the marriage of Obalamma first and then again to his marriage when he became Obalachari. The history written by an Androgyne and published by the Medico Legal Journal confirms such instances. Only the other day a bull was brought to us by some of these Gangareddi players which had the full development of the male and the female organs with one half-sized leg sticking above the female organ. The fellow is making a lot of money by exhibiting this Cow-bull in different villages. When the females had no seat in the American Senate 50 years ago, a senator was challenged as a woman not fit to sit in the Assembly, although he was living with a wife.
The question of his sex came up before the Senate and the medical examinations confirmed his dual sexuality. The doctors said that he had regular menses and he had also masculine organ by which he was enjoying a woman. He also had his lovers. In some cases the sexual organs are well developed and pronounced; in other cases they are illformed or imperfectly developed. All astrological writers are agreed in attaching great importance to the phenomena of menses in a female and elaborate rules have been framed by the ancient writers on astrology to examine the characteristics, morality, spirituality, progress, issues and prosperity of the girl from the time and the combination of planets when she attains her puberty. Certain events, which are common to males and females, have to be predicted by the Lagna and Chandra at the time of their birth.
