Question about horas and weekdays

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om gurave namah

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Dear Vinod

The order of the weekdays is based on the Hora's and NOT vice versa. Start

with the Sun ruling the first hora of the first day and write 24x7=188

hora's. Thereafter follow the rule that the lord of the first hora of a day

shall be the lord of the day and the order of weekdays shall emerge.

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"Vinod Srinivasan" <vinod

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Tuesday, March 26, 2002 3:24 AM

[vedic astrology] Question about horas and weekdays

 

 

 

Pranams,

 

I have read in several places about how the horas and their lords are

related to the weekdays (lord of first hora of day is lord of day).

 

My question is this: is there an independent way to determine the hora

ruling at a given time? It appears to me that we have adjusted the horas

according to the calendar that we use now. That is we derive the horas

based on the weekday with the knowledge of the ruler of the day.

 

Now the calendar we are using right now is essentially not a vedic

calendar and has undergone numerous revisions and changes over the past

several centuries. Given this are we correct in deriving horas based on

weekdays? I feel that there might be an absolute way to determine the hora

ruling at any given instant and place without reference to the weekday,

based on which we should be able to derive the weekday.

 

If I am missing something very simple or my understanding is not correct,

please excuse me and point me in the right direction.

 

Thanks!

 

Vinod

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

Namaste Gurudev

 

I understand how the order of weekdays are obtained from the horas. My

question is slightly different. Let me try to explain it more clearly

using what you have written below.

 

We start with Sun ruling the first hora of the first day. Now I am

assuming you mean "first day of the week". My question is - when do we

start counting?

 

The fact that the first hora in Mar 27, 2002 is ruled by Mercury and hence

it is a Wednesday can be arrived at if we start counting the horas from

the first hora of March 24, 2002 and assign it to Sun. But here we are

implcitly assuming that March 24, 2002 is a Sunday.

 

In the above process we have used March 24, 2002 as the known reference

point. My question is - is there such a reference point in the past which

we are using? If there is one, what is the rationale behind choosing that

as the reference date? Or is there an absolute method of arriving at the

hora lordship of a day without using a reference point?

 

Why this is important is because the calendar we are using today is not a

vedic calendar and has undergone several changes. We do have a Vedic

calendar (in terms of years, months, tithis, etc.) but is there an

explicit reference to weekdays in that calendar? To use an example, will

March 24, 2002 and the equivalent in the Vedic calendar have the same

weekday? If they are the same is it because we are conforming to accepted

practice (which is the western calendar) and avoiding confusion or is

there a higher and better reason for this?

 

I hope I have made my question clear and am looking forward to hearing

from you and other Gurus on this question.

 

Thanks!

 

Vinod

 

 

| The order of the weekdays is based on the Hora's and NOT vice versa. Start

| with the Sun ruling the first hora of the first day and write 24x7=188

| hora's. Thereafter follow the rule that the lord of the first hora of a day

| shall be the lord of the day and the order of weekdays shall emerge.