Rajodarshan - First menses [Story of Sharmistha]

By Sri Chiraan 2009/07/28

When mars aspects the moon [lagna] in a unupachaya place, a girl attains her first menses. If the first menses [rutu] falls on: 

1. Padyami - issueless
2. Dwitiya - happy
3. tritiya - wealthy
4. chaturthi - wicked
5. Panchami - progeny
6. Shashti - cruel mind
7. Saptami - riches and ornaments
8. Ashtami - bold
9. Navami - sorrows
10. Dashami - leader
11. Ekadashi - pure [shuchi]
12. Dwadashi - scandal monger
13. Trayodashi - joyous
14. chaturdashi - sinful
15. Poornima - strong body
16. 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

1. White cloth - happy
2. Silk /fibre - queen or fortunate
3. New cloth - happy
4. Torn cloth - poverty
5. Red cloth - diseased
6. Black cloth - widowhood
7. Dirty cloth - poverty

Results of number of drops on first menses

1. Drop gives wealth
2. Drops gives good enjoyments
3. Drops diseases
4. 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 .

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5th House - Children

By Shri Chiraan 2009/01/01

Children are indicated by the 5th bhava in the horoscope. A son is called as putra in Sanskrit. Those who die without bearing a son are destined to go to PUTA namak Hell. All the ancestors of that tree fall in the hell named Puta. Since a son protects [rakshati] his ancestors from the Puta hell, that means he does [“ra”ksha ] from [“put”a] hence he is known as  “putra”

Woman become pregnant to conceive a child. For this their rutukala plays an important role. Moon and Mars are important in determining rutukala that may lead to pregnancy. When Moon is anupachaya places from a janma rashi of the woman, if being at any of these places, if it is being aspected by Mars, that period/month will be capable in  bringing about the conception [garbhgrahartav] to those who wish to have a child.

That means if a woman becomes rutumati in an upachaya rashi from her janma rashi, she will not conceive in that cycle. If in such a combination the moon is aspected by Jupiter, the couple will try for a baby.

If on the fourth day at the time of rutuvirama if aspected by Venus woman will have extreme passion towards her husband. The seventh from lagna at the time samyoga, if it is Aries, Taurus, Leo, Sagitarius then they will engage in the sexual act akin to animals. If it is gemini Virgo or Aquarius, then it will be like humans. If there are malefics aspecting, then union will spring out of anger and difference of opinion. If aspected by the benefics they will have affectionate union. If not aspected by any planet it will be a quiet union. If both benefics and malefics aspect, then union will start with affection and end up in discord or vice versa.

All these will have bearing on the birth and life of the child. Venus, Mars, Jupiter Sun, Moon, Saturn, Mercury, lagnadhipati[garbhadaan], Moon and Sun are sequentially guardians of the child in the womb for 10 months till birth of the child.

1. Rahu with benefics in fifth and jupiter also with benefics give many sons
2. A benefic fifth lord with benefics and Jupiter in kendra gives many sons
3. Jupiter in kendra, exchange of first and fifth lord gives many sons
4. Jupiter being strong [full], first lord in fifth and fifth lord very strong gives many sons
5. Fifth lord in own house aspeted by benefics gives many sons

Sri Krishna had 10 sons and a daughter each from all of his 16108 wive . Yet he prayed Shiva to give him a son in Himalayas and Pradyumna was born. At the time of war he had in all 1000000 [ten lakhs] sons and grandsons.

1. Pandavas had From Draupadi Prativindya [son of Yudhisthira]
2. Shrutasoma [son of Bhima]
3. Shrutakirti [son of Arjuna]
4. Shatanik [son of nakul]
5. Shrutakriya [son of sahadev]

They were all incarnation of vishvedevas and gandharva named 1.Chitrarath, 2.Abhitamra, 3.Kishore, 4.Gopal, 5.Bala 

Abhimanyu was born to Subhadra was incarnation of mercury [Budha]

Ghatotkacha was son of Bheema from Hidimbi. He was incarnation of Nirutya [lord of south western direction]

Babruvahana was born to chitrangada - Arjun, he was incarnation of manmath.

Iravant was born to Ulupi - Arjun was the incarnation of Mars [mangal]

All these died in the war of Mahabharath except Babruvahan who did not participate.

Parikshit was son of Abhimanyu Uttara and thus was the only heir left after the war and hence was throned onto hastinapur. Since Krishna was protecting him through sudarshan, while in the womb he was inspecting the presence of Lord, He is known as Parikshit.

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