By Sri Chiraan
When mars aspects the moon [lagna] in a unupachaya place, a girl attains her first menses. If the first menses [rutu] falls on:
- Padyami - issueless
- Dwitiya - happy
- tritiya - wealthy
- chaturthi - wicked
- Panchami - progeny
- Shashti - cruel mind
- Saptami - riches and ornaments
- Ashtami - bold
- Navami - sorrows
- Dashami - leader
- Ekadashi - pure [shuchi]
- Dwadashi - scandal monger
- Trayodashi - joyous
- chaturdashi - sinful
- Poornima - strong body
- Amavasya - poor
- Sunday - diseased
- Monday - virtuous
- Tuesday - sorrow
- Wednesday - good married life
- Thursday - polite
- Friday - obedient
- Saturday - vicious
Result of cloth on the first menses
- White
cloth - happy
- Silk
/fibre - queen or fortunate
- New
cloth - happy
- Torn
cloth - poverty
- Red
cloth - diseased
- Black
cloth - widowhood
- Dirty
cloth - poverty
Results of number of drops on first menses
- Drop
gives wealth
- Drops
gives good enjoyments
- Drops
diseases
- Many
drops poverty
- If
mars joins the star in which the first menses occurs, the girl will have
dead children
- Guru
makes her pious
- Ravi
will give loss of husband
- Rahu
will make her adulterous
- Sani
will make her a maid servant
- No
planets will make her a happy and long lived
- Moon
in eighth will bring dangers
- Venus
in seventh will give marriage in foreign lands
- Saturn
will give enslavement
Sharmistha was the daughter of asura King Vrishaparva. Shukracharya
was the daitya guru to the King. One day Sharmishtha and Devayani, daughter of
Shukracharya were playing in the garden. Playfully Sharmistha pushed Devayani
into well owing to an argument as to who was more powerful, as daughter of
king Sharmistha or Devayani as the daughter of Bramhin.
Yayati a powerful King passed by pulled Devayani out helping
her through his right hand. As Yayati had held the hand of Devayani, Devayani
insisted he marry her owing to have taken her hand [ Panigrahan].
Yayati with the blessings of Shukracharya married Devayani. And As a punishment Vrshaparva king [to pacify his guru] made Sharmishtha the
maiden of Devayani.
Sharmishtha accompanied Devayani to the land of Yayati. In
course of time Sharmistha attained puberty. Yayati was around at the same
time.
Sharmistha asked Yayati to marry her. Yayati refused.
Sharmistha explained shastra words to Yayati saying:
"Oh king, those who refuse to marry the girl having
attained her first rutu during rutu kala [out of her own will if wishes to
have progeny from a man] will get sin equal to bhrun hatya".
King says "marriages are to be performed by the wishes of
parents of Kanya, and without the wish of the Vrishaparva or Shukracharya it
is not possible".
Sharmishtha says "oh King smriti says, parents have right
onto the girl only till she attains puberty, after the rutu kala has passed
even when a parent is unable to find a suitable groom for the girl, then girl
has an independence to choose the man for herself. Therefore being the daughter
of a king though living like a slave in your house, I choose you to be my
husband, kindly accept me. Else you will have to embrace the sin of stree
hatya and bhrun hatya as if you will not marry then I am surely not going to be
alive".
Hearing this King Yayati secretly married Sharmistha and
bore her three sons. Devayani after seeing three healthy babies in her
courtyard asked her about their father. When the kids pointed to the King,
she felt deceived and Shukracharya instantly cursed YAYATI to become old aged.
When Yayati narrated the circumstances in which he had to marry Sharmistha,
Shukracharya said his curse cannot be reversed but he can exchange his old age
with any young man.
Yayati called all his sons to accept his old age, none
accepted except PURU. Thus Puru gave up his enjoyments in young age and
embraced the old age of his father, after lakhs of years too Yayati found
that his thirst for sexual pleasure did not weaken or die. Thus concluding this
thirst cannot be quenched unless renounced. He renounced the world and gave
back his youth to Puru and also the kingdom .
krishnarpanamastu
