Rahu Ketu

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Dear Pandit Arjunji,

 

Jai Shree Ram

 

You wrote:

"you mentioned BPHS giving yogas for nodes and also own signs,

exaltation, debilitation and mooltrikon. same were not found in

bhrigu and other samhitas and also some medieval books like saravali

and others."

 

Anil: These books do not give anything on topics covered by Jaimini.

Both Jaimini and Parashar gave combinations involving nodes. In

Bhrigu-Sanhitas, charts do not have even lagn and moon! If you see

Muhurt-books you will find that Rahu is used in many different ways.

Ashtak-varg of Rahu/Ketu is also given in some old texts.

Actually they are not used as "Lagn" like other 8 points but

their good/bad placements are given. Varah has devoted chapters to

Rahu and Ketu in Brihat Sanhita while Bhrigu-Bindu uses Rahu.

 

"since rahu and ketu are enjoying equal status like all other planets

with equal stars allocated to them and rahu giving second largest

dasha and ketu giving equal dasha of mars and higher dasha of sun,

these two must be equal or larger planets and not tiny leftover

asteriods in scientific language."

 

Anil: We know that Rahu was given the status of Grah after he managed

to

drink Amrit. There is other story which says that Rahu took shelter

in the hairs of Lord Shiv to save his life and was granted position

of Grah.

So he was not a planet initially. He could change his position

and shift himself between Sun and Moon probably because of small size!

 

Dasha years are not based on size of planets. Sun is largest but has

least

years. Shukr is quite small but has maximum years. My speculation is

that the influence produced by Sun in 6 years is same as that

produced by venus in 20 years. Can you compare the size of Budh(17)

and Guru(16)?

Again years alloted in different dashas are different.

So unless we understand the basis on which years are fixed for

different dasha systems,we can not explain these variations. Only

important point is that "Rahu-Shanivat,Ketu-Kujvat" ie. Dasha of Rahu

and Shani should be similar and dasha of Mangal and Ketu should be

similar.

 

Incidently, there is 4th type of grah too.

These are Aprakash Grahas. These are also given status of grah but

they

have no physical bodies and hence they do not appear in Dasha order.

They do not have light but they are not obstructing light like nodes.

Dhoom,Vyatipat,Indrachap,Parivesh and Upketu are calculated on the

basis of

Sun's longitude. They do become visible under special conditions. eg.

Indrachap(rainbow) becomes visible during rains. It will be

interesting

to see if the longitude of Indrchap matches with visible one.

According to

BPHS, If varg of house cusp/planet joins Aprakash Grahas,it will give

bad results but Dasha of planet in kendr to Dhoom will give good

results.

 

Upgrah are called son of grah and they are not at par with grah.

4 types of grahas are all considered grahas.BPHS gives result of all

Aprakash Grahas but results of upgrahas(except Gulik) are not

included.

Results of upgrahas are similar to their names and parents.

BTW, Jhora calculations for upgrahas are different from BPHS.

 

Thanks.

 

Anil

 

OM TAT SAT

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