Amatyakaraka of Important Persons
In no commentary of Jaimini has the role of Amatyakaraka, the planet with the second highest degree, other than Rahu or Ketu, has been given any place of importance. I do not recollect ever reading any article in any astrological magazine discussing the role of Amatyakaraka in a horoscope. It is a superstition to think that commentators or translators of Jaimini Sutras had even elementary grasp of this branch of astrology. If they had, it would have struck them that Jaimini used sevenkarakas which were meant to be used. If their use was not known, research should have been done. No such research has been done by older generation of astrologers at all. I use all Karakas and get very good results. In this book, I will show the use of some of them only.
Yet in my research in Jaimini astrology found Amatyakaraka to be the key karaka for giving predictions to important persons.
In the second part of this book I have already given some instances outlining the role of Amatyakaraka.
In the third instalment of my research on Jaimini which appeared in the February issue of the Astrological Magazine in 1992 I discussed it. A reader complained that instead of giving bare horoscopes I should have given full details. I replied that I was not writing a book and within the space of 2500 words’ I could not have done that. It is being done now. No Jaimini scholar mad any technical attack on me while I did show an innovative approach which was giving results.
The Amatyakaraka
Till the secrets of Nadi amshas are unravelled it will not be possible for astrologers to make totally accurate predictions from birth to death of all the prominent events of a man’s life. When a consultor puts a question, concentrating on a portion of his life, astrologers very often give sound and dependable predictions. This is why astrology continues to hold sway as the only reliable and brilliant predictive science. The danger of more quacks and charltans entering the profession will get checked to some extent when the elitist classes take to the study of Astrology as seriously as is now happening in the Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan, New Delhi.
