Ill-founded opinions are highly prejudicial and lead to dangerous results.
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.
