13.8 Results of Yogas
1. If the first Menses appear in Vishkambha – Disease in sexual organs.
2. Ganda – Barrenness.
3. Shoola – Adultery and issueless.
4. Vyaghata – Committing suicide.
5. Vijra – Free movements in immorality, unchecked license.
6. Patha – Will kill her husband, children will die and she will be issueless.
7. Vydhruti – Will kill her husband.
The rest of the yogas are favourable as per their names. For an explanation of Yogas and Karanas, see my work Shukla and Pramoduta.
13.9 Results of Karanas
1. Bhava – Issueless or a widow.
2. Balava – Will have children.
3. Koulava – Passionate and joyful.
4. Thythula – Good temperament.
5. Garaja – Loss of children.
6. Vanik – Similar result.
7. Bhadra – Barren. Loss of children is certainly different from barrenness.
8. Sakuni – widowhood.
9. Chatushpath – Widowhood.
10. Naga – Fond of sexual operations.
11. Kimsthughna – Widowhood.
13.10.0 Influences of Time.
1. Morning – Happy and prosperous.
2. Before noon – Visiting sacred shrines and holy rivers.
3. Midday or noon – Children, wealth.
4. Afternoon – Adulterous.
5. Evening – Many husbands and lords.
6. Twilight in the evening and morning – A dancing woman, prostitute.
7. Before midnight – Long life.
8. Midnight – Widowhood.
9. Towards the close of night – Unfortunate.
10. If the girl attains puberty between these periods named above she will be unfortunate and poor.
13.11.0 Results of the Zodiacal Signs
When the girl attains her age, it must fall in some Lagna or sign. The results will be foretold here:
1. Mesha – Adulterous.
2. Vrishabha – Happy and prosperous.
3. Mithuna – Children.
4. Kataka – Very adulterous.
5. Simha – Good and happy children.
6. Kanya – Fortunate and wealth.
7. Thula – Happy and prosperous.
8. Vrischika – Immoral.
9. Dhanus – First half adulterous, second half virtuous.
10. Makara – Shameless and immodest.
11. Kumbha – Wealthy, happy and lands
12. Meena – Many children.
In all these cases the same precautions have to be noted. A girl attains age when Mesha rises as Lagna. Suppose Sani and Kuja are there, she will become a _ regular prostitute. The planets by their conjunction in Mesha have added their evil influences to the evils of Mesha and will make the girl a terrible whore. Suppose there is Full-Moon and Jupiter unaspected or uncombined by evil planets, they soften the influence of the sign Mesha and though the girl will have an inclination to commit adultery, she will do not so for various considerations and reasons. Therefore in predicting the influences of Rasis the influences of planets should also be taken into careful consideration. Kataka makes her immoral, Kuja adds greater facilities for the sinful work. Guru there averts the evil.
13.12.0 The Influence of Places on the Appearance of the First Menses
If the time of puberty falls in Mesha, Simha or Kanya, the menses appeared outside the town; in Vrishabha in Places where cattle are kept or in cattlesheds; in Dhanus in the house; in Thula in the same village or in another house; in Meena; Kumbha, Makara or Kataka, near watery surfaces such as tanks, rivers, ponds, lakes; in Mithuna when the girl was naked; and in Vrischika the girl attains her age in the midst of the forest or wilderness or in grooves of trees. The question time of menses may also be taken into consideration and all these details can also be correctly predicted by the astrologer.
Menses; as a compound, is composed of so many physical and mental characteristics, that all the causes which produced that compound will have their individual influences and effects, and an analysis of all these becomes necessary to find out what results may be reaped from it as a whole and from the individual causes. All these are chemical in nature and astrology is a huge chemistry. As in other departments of knowledge differences of opinion on some facts are often found in astrology. How they have arisen are matters on which we as Alpatmas or with narrowed vision, are not in a position to explain. Whether the Maharshis found out the planetary influences by deductive methods, or by long and laborious observations or by developing their intellectual powers and mental vision by the practice of severe yoga, are points on which we can only make guesses but we cannot say definitely that they have done so and so.
They say that the Sun in 10th house is good, Jupiter in the 2nd gives wealth, that Saturn in the 1st produces nervous complaints, that Ketu in the 2nd produces short temper, that Mercury in the 5th gives high order of intelligence, that Venus in the 7th causes great sexual passions and so forth. How did they know it and what reasons or knowledge enabled them to say so? These are difficult questions to answer. From the most perfect astronomical instruments we have now, not one scientist is able to say why wheat has been ascribed to the Sun, rice to the Moon, dall to Mars, Bengal-gram to Jupiter and so forth. Are they able to say why these different planets govern the different organs of the body, different temperaments, different professions, different branches of arts and sciences, etc.
I make a challenge to them and they must ignobly say that they cannot give me a proper answer or they must seek shelter under their usual mean and shameless, bulwark of calling all these productions arising from superstition and ignorance. They will not have the nobility to say that they have not studied this branch of knowledge and that they are therefore unable to speak on a subject in which they are utterly ignorant. Can superstition and ignorance produce a huge literature of 4 lacs of sutras or 16 lacs of stanzas, and go into the minute details of human conduct, characteristics and its future and past experiences. If they can do so, then those superstitions and ignorances must indeed be very grand and colossal in themselves. Why talk nonsense, when you are yourself, ignorant, and prejudiced? It is indeed a grand phenomenon which changes the whole nature and career of the girl. Whatever may be the subtle causes which produce the phenomenon of Menses; the event shows great physical and mental changes. The spiritual changes are natural consequences of mental alterations. The minuteness with which they have gone into the details of the appearance of the first Menses in a girl are indeed very surprising. The must either be prodigal fictions of great brains or facts which have been carefully ascertained by their expanded and Divine Vision. I leave the readers to draw their own inferences on the facts I have adduced and the arguments I have given. A handful of experience is worth ten cart-loads of theories. The modern scientists are quite unfit to pronounce opinions on subjects in which they are ignorant.