14.0 CHAPTER XIII
Results to be Predicted from the Directions of the Questioner
If the man questions the astrologer 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 fluid, and the cloth she wore was black or blue. If the questioner is in the South, 8 children, four drops of menstrual fluid and red cloth should be predicted. If he stands in South-West, 4 children, two drops of menstrual fluid and white cloth should be predicted. If in the West predict 6 issues, four drops and dirty cloth. If in the North-West predict 2 children, three drops and rose-colored cloth. If in the North, predict 9 children, one drop and varied coloured cloth. If in the North-East say she will have 10 children, one drop and cloth prepared from fibres or silk. If a girl attains her age in the constellations Moola, Sravana or Dhanishta, she will have five issues. If she gets menses in Mrigasira, Uttara, Uttarashadha, Uttarabhadra, Chitta, Hasta and Satabhisha, she will bear 10 children. If she attains puberty in Visakha Swati, Anooradha or Aswini, she will have 8 children. If she has menses in Rohini predict 7 children and in Revati 9 children.
14.1 Remedies for Evils
Give rice for weekday evid, ghee for Nakshatra or constellation, fruits for yogas and cloth 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 accompanied by the Sastraic Mantras and suitable cash presents. When she follows this procedure the evil indicated by the above planetary influences will be greatly minimised. Some of the principal remedies mentioned here are for ready reference. These must be selected according to the local customs and those ordained by the Vedic persons and astrological experts in those places and suitable to the religion professed by the girl, her husband and her parents. Remedies are Pujas to Vighneswara, unyahavachana, Rudrabhisheka, Navagraharadhana, Homas to suitable Deities, Nakshatrasanti, visiting holy shrines and baths in sacred rivers; ponds and lakes, Surya Namaskaras, feeding of holy Brahmins and services to family Deities.
The girl or her husband should not see each other till the periods mentioned for the evil stars in it are over. Then when she gets again menses in an auspicious star, she and he may look each other. If by chance or accident they look each other before the time, remedial measures should be undertaken immediately for their future welfare and prosperity. If they do not do so, then they will suffer, for their negligence. The commentators and other writers on this subject observe thus. If a poisonous cobra bites a person, sensible men should take immediate measures by anis.
Mantras and Medicines to give him relief and save his precious life. If not the poison works its own mischief. Similarly when a girl has her first Menses appearing in evil times, those concerned in her welfare should at once take suitable remedies, before the poison of the evil influences takes root and kills her, her husband or both. The danger here is double.
This is more dangerous than the bites of the most poisonous reptiles. Here the person bitten, if neglected,; will die himself, or herself, but in the cases of girls discharging their menstrual fluids, and through them subtle electric and ethereal currents, the dangers will spread over a larger area and if the stars, signs, Yogas, Karanas and planets are all bad, then the girl brings ruin and destruction not only on herself but also on her husband, her children and even on her parents and parents-in-law. Such cases are unfortunately large and people should not allow such poisons to work ruin unchecked by them. In certain constellations, particular number of months are prohibited for sexual union and nuptials. I say the temperature of an iron ball is 200 degrees centigrade. Will I be superstitious or wrong when I tell a man, as having the correct knowledge of the heat of the iron ball, not to touch it for some time till 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 energies.
By a careful knowledge of these various forces, working for and against a person's interest Maharishis have laid down a 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 in his undertakings. The conservation of the right kind of physical, mental and spiritual energies and forces is at the bottom of all Hindu Sastras, and the terrestrial, celestial and electrical and other forces should not be dissipated to the great prejudice of the persons concerned in any acts. Please examine all our Sastras, rituals, and methods prescribed and sanctioned by the Vedas and then say, after due performances and experiences; whether they are senseless or you are stupid, not to understand and analyse them.
Ill-founded opinions are highly prejudicial and lead to dangerous results. I have offered remarks which should set every man a right thinking. The minuteness into which the Maharishis have descended and described, as if they have all the causes and results before their mental vision, speak wonderfully for their comprehensive powers, and show clearly that they were not drawing on their imaginations but were describing the actualities enacted before their eyes. Can a huge literature of four hundred thousand sutras spring upon the basis of clear falsehood? Can the greatest Intellects in the world be guilty of propagating such vast literature when they were not satisfied about their truth? This is not a theoretical philosophy, to be indulged in wild mental excesses or simple flights of imagination. A girl, who attains her age in Mesha, in Bharani, and with Sani there, must prove a terrible whore, and it will be so. This is a practical and demonstrable science. Take a woman with Kuja and Sani in Lagna without beneficial aspects and see if ever she remains virtuous. Her passions are excitable and she will yield to them. All evidence is either simple or complicated. In simple matters, the facts are easily grasped or demonstrated, but in complicated cases, where the evidence is confusing and confounded, even the best judges find it difficult to probe into truth. Contradictions confuse them.
Human nature is so varied in temperaments that no safe inferences can be drawn from the same premises. A kills B. The causes for this may be many. There is always a tug-of-war between knowledge and ignorance, between prejudice and truth, and between pride and faith. A knows about a fact. B does not know it. Where is the common ground for them to meet? One has seen a phenomenon, the other has not. What is the authority of the latter to deny about an event which the former has seen and known? Exceptions to natural laws or admitted. When and how they come, are not known. Judgements are not uniform or sound. The best judges are often faulty. Therefore, it would be silly on the part of the so-called scientists to deny truths in a science in which they have not even the elementary knowledge. It may be argued that some of the statements made in the Indian Sciences are found in India, and not in many European or other Asiatic countries, and that the Science of Astrology cannot be called a science, since it cannot be applied to the whole world. They cannot commit a greater blunder than holding such crooked views.
All the details about the girls attaining puberty are applicable to the whole world, and not to any particular sections of communities or countries. In India, as well as in Europe, there are very large number of girls who remain unmarried till about 16 to 30 years, and some in Europe and America remain as old maids and are generally dangerous to society, as they are not only corrupt in themselves but draw towards them a large number of innocent girls and spoil them in various ways. But provision is made for all these cases in the Astrological works, whose sutras have only to be read carefully to find out the principles 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 prevalent there. Prayers, though different in different religious systems, have the same aim or goal like medicines prescribed. in different countries vary in effecting cures for the same diseases or same classes of complaints:
14.2 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 unhappiness.
Red cloth - Disease.
Black cloth - Widowhood.
Dirty cloth - Poverty and sorrow.
14.3 Results of the number of Drops of Menstrual Fluid
One drop - Gives wealth.
Two drops - Good enjoyment in life.
Three drops - Disease.
Many drops-Poverty and sorrows.
14.4 Results of Planets in the Constellations at First Menses
1. If Kuja joins the constellation, she will have dead children.
2. If Budha and Sukra combine in the star, she becomes childless or barren.
3. If Guru joins the star, she becomes pious and religious.
4. If Ravi joins, loss of husband.
5. If Rahu joins, she becomes adulterous.
6. If Sani combines, she becomes a servant.
7. If there are no planets, she will have long and happy married life.
If at the time of first Menses, Chandra, Budha, Guru and Sukra are found in Kendras (1-4-7-10); Trikonas (5-9), and 2nd house, she will have wealth, happiness, enjoyment and prosperity. If evil planets are located in 3 - 6 -11, they produce the same happy results as above described. If Chandra occupies the 8th, there will be danger to husband. If Ravi joins 7th, widowhood happens, if Chandra joins 7, she will have wealth and children, if Kuja is found in 7, she becomes adulterous, if Budha is there, she gets barren, if Guru is found there, she becomes poor, if Sukra is there, she will have foreign travels, if Sani is in 7th, she will suffer from diseases, if Rahu is there, she becomes adulterous and Ketu in 7 denotes hatred of relations and friends.
14.5 Purifications after Menses
On the first day, the impurity will be intense and she is compared to a Chandala, on the second day, she will have the pollution of injuring a holy 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 woman. Sristam Guna Karma Vibhagasa. Meaning, I have created four castes - Brahma, Kshatriya, Vysya and Sudra, according to their gunas - Satwika, Rajasa and Tamasa and Karma - the work they do. The above injunction in the menses refers to the girls of the highest castes. But among the lower orders, 3 days are observed and they hardly do any domestic work or touch any sacred objects. After she bathes on the 4th day, she will not be permitted to touch any holy objects nor can she prepare and serve meals. But she can and must have sexual union with her husband if the flow has ceased. On 5th day, she should take a clean bath and can attend to all domestic work and also touch the holy objects. If she gets menses again within 18 days of the first appearances of menses, she has simply to take a bath and get into the house as usual. If she gets menses on the 19th day; she must remain one day in pollution. After 20 days she will and must be in pollution for 3 days as usual.
