10.13.0 CHAPTER XII
Puberty and Menses
For a male, the Janma Lagna is sufficient for all purposes and there is no particular time at which any event like puberty or menses in a woman, can happen to him. Among the generality of womankind, they are considered fit for sexual enjoyments only after they attain puberty. There are, of course, some wicked and crooked girls, who resort to sexual indulgences even before they have menses, but these cases arise more from morbid sexuality, than the real desires of physical promptings. These are trained in the dens of iniquity, decoyed into evil habits by dirty maids or old prostitutes and some of them are also spoiled early in life by the constant evil company of unprincipled boys even before they attain the proper age of majority.
For a woman, have to take into consideration three important Lagnas; viz., Janma Lagna or the ascendant at birth, the Lagna for the first appearance of the menses in her and Lagna or the sign in which she had the first sexual contact with the man, be he her husband or lover or raper. All the astrological writers in Sanskrit have attached the greatest importance to the appearance of the first Menses in a girl, so much so that not only have they explained the influences of the constellations, signs, planets, lunar and solar days, special occasions and aspearances of phenomena, eclipses and omens, but they have also elaborately explained about the direction the place, the cloth, the time, the number of drops of menstrual fluid which has come out, and also about weekdays, Yogas, Karanas and other peculiarities connected with the appearance of the first Menses.
One would be surprised to see such a vast elaborate literature about a natural event like the menses in a girl, if they had not by their Divya Drishti or Divine Vision seen the subtle influences of all these on the future destinies of herself, her husband, her children and all that pertains to her career and prospects in life. This one point should effectually seal the mouths of all those ill-informed and superficially read critics that the noble science of Astrology had never been borrowed from any foreign nation, that all these ideas explained here are completely indigenous and that 4 lacs of Sutras sprang up from the comprehensive brains of the Maharshis and that India, as a whole, had never the misfortune to borrow her scientific ideas and researches from the surrounding nations who have always been in a hopeless condition of intellectual poverty; but who were ever greedy to borrow from, but never had the means to lend to the Indian scholars.
Have they any references to such events in their astrological publications? Have they suggested any remedies for averting, softening or modifying the planetary influences indicating the evil results from the past births? Can their hillocks be compared to the grand Himalayan ranges? Can any other river in the world claim rivalry with the purities of the Ganges floods? So many details and with surprising minuteness about the appearance of the first Menses have been given.
That I would earnestly request the readers to pay particular attention to them and apply them all practically to the time given for the menses, so that they may be able to draw proper inferences and make correct future predictions about the girl and all her prospects in life. I challenge, if any astrological publications in England, Continental countries or America have given any references to these details or even to this subject of the appearance of the first. menses. If only we are willing to collect all the stanzas bearing on this particular subject of menses, they will at least come up to 13,000 verses.
The dabbling and shallow brained critics cannot commit a more grotesque blunder than to say that the great grandfather of a child is the offspring of that infant. Sane men take a hearty laugh over these idiosyncrasies and let these egotists to dance in their own hallucinations. I shall now come to the subject proper. Puberty or Menses is a physical change in the constitution of a girl, where a reddish fluid called shonitha is suddenly expelled from the sexual organ, and changing the whole of her future life according as it appears on an auspicious or inauspicious time.
The details are very interesting and instructive and throw a flood of light on the subtle influences, which mark that event and which have such a direct influence on the future destiny of the girl. Puberty in Sanskrit is called Ruthu or phenomenon which will have regular monthly appearances. When Chandra is not in upachayas, viz., 3, 6, 10 and 11 and when the Lagna is powerfully aspected by Kuja the appearance of first Menses should be predicted.
Such combinations may occur when the girl is young, when is old, when she suffers from various diseases which cause irregular menses or stop them altogether. But there are special combinations with which menses app ear and also disappear. I shall not expand on this subject, any further here. It will be explained in its proper place (see my notes on Brihat Jataka).
13.1 Effects of Tithies or Lunar Days
If the first Menses occurs on.
1. Padyami – Issueless.
2. Dviteeya – Little happiness.
3. Thriteeya – All wealth and prosperity.
4. Chaturthi – Sinful and wicked.
5. Panchami – Sons and daughters, happiness and , good enjoyment.
6. Shashti – Unpleasant words and cruel mind.
7. Saptami – Riches, cattle, ornaments, happiness.
8. Ashtami – Bold and reckless.
9. Navami – Troubled by sorrows and anxieties.
10. Dasami – Happy and a leader.
11. Ekadasi – Pure and clean.
12. Dwadasi – Fond of spreading scandals about others.
13. Trayodasi – Joyful and happy.
14. Chaturdasi – Fond of sinful acts.
15. Poornima – Well-developed and strong body.
30. Amavasya – Poor enjoyment, little comforts.
