Hasta Samudrika Shastra

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Dear All, Kiran asks -==>Hi Sreenadhji,I heard this book is available in Delhi:Hasta Samudrika Shastra by KC Sen(DB Taporevala Publishers)I

searched on the net and whole of bangalore but it is not there - I

think book is out of print and some publisher in Delhi is publishing it.

If you come to know the publisher name in Delhi, can you send me the publishers' address/phone numberBest RegardsKIRAN R<== I don't even have any faintest idea about this book or its availability. Is there any input from the group? What is this "Hasta Samudrika Shastra"? Possibly it is just another name for Palmistry presented in indian terminology. The following write-up is from: http://www.hartdefouw.com/id12.html Love and regards,Sreenadh==================================Hasta Samudrika Shastra

Hasta Samudrika (very loosely "hand analysis") is a powerful ally of Jyotish. But

it enjoys one great advantage over Jyotish:

Rapid Accessibility, when properly taught. Because

it naturally complements other disciplines like psychology

and alternative health care, counselors and their clients in many

fields benefit by the information derived through hand analysis.

Background to Hasta Samudrika Shastra

Three

major methods of hand analysis exist: Western, Chinese, and Indian.

Although all three share common features, the Chinese and Indian

methods have a broadly similar look and feel amid their distinctive

differences. The Western method, the youngest among the three by at

least two thousand years, is nevertheless the most available in books.

Chinese hand analysis forms the middle ground when judged both by its

age and user-friendly printed media. Indian methods of hand analysis

are the oldest, but scarcely accessible through books.

Two important historical reasons contributed to scarce access to the Indian tradition.

First, printed media in the West surpassed India's during the last century. Second, Indian clans continue to pass their methods orally

from one generation of clan members to the next. Widely known in India

as parampara, this

word of mouth transmission guards the knowledge thus passed on as

attentively (and as jealously) as a wealthy family safeguards its

inherited wealth from bandits. Members of each clan assured the

security of their knowledge by never divulging accounts fully. Simply,

you were either a family member worthy of instruction or you were an

ineligible stranger outside of the clan—regardless of how familiar and

worthy you seemed in other respects.

Most

of the English books advertised as Indian hand analysis in India these

days adhere to Western palmistry, which entered India with the British

occupation during the last century. What the average Indian hand

analyst in Delhi, Bombay or Calcutta parades as Hasta Samudrika Shastra

(very loosely, "precepts for hand analysis") is therefore nothing but

Western palmistry at its core. Mind you, a patina of some select but

limited parts of Indian culture usually varnishes that brand of hand

analysis. It would, however, be a mistake to dismiss this palmistic

crossbreed altogether. All said and done, this ornate Western and

Indian hybrid contains many tried-and-true principles of hand analysis,

no matter which culture has legitimate claim to original authorship.

To

assert as some do that the lack of books in English on "genuine" Indian

hand analysis forms evidence of the absence of a classical Indian

tradition is to arrive at a colossal misconception. Amid the relics of

classical Indian culture, a living tradition of the parampara version of Indian hand analysis thrives, especially in the south of India,

where experts ply their trade unknown to the English speaking world.

Many of their methods differ radically from the Western brand of

palmistry. These Indian techniques use the lines of the palm in ways

unique—even in ways opposite—to modern Western hand analysis. Many such

Indian procedures measure time on the hand, for example, differently;

more importantly, indigenous Indian methods remain inextricably linked

to Jyotish and to traditions like Ayurveda, Tantra, Mantra, and the

like.

Just

as the current form of Ayurveda continues to adapt the tools of modern

medicine to its eternal philosophy, so some Indian hand analysts

embrace and adapt useful alien principles. A similar process already

occurred in Jyotish when Mogul invaders surged into India

during the 16th century. Jyotish adapted the Persian version of Western astrology, favored by the Mogul invaders,

to its own thoroughly Indian methods. Did this

astrological blending result in suppression of Indian astrology? Yes,

in part, but there was an attendant benefit as well. Although the Mogul

impulse attempted to demote Jyotish through religious persecution and

oppression, the Mogal culture also inadvertantly expanded the Indian

astrological tradition with the birth of Tajika

(very loosely, "Indian-Persian astrology"). You can visit an Indian

astrologer these days and get a Jyotish-flavored analysis of a solar

return chart based broadly on a foreign astrological technique. ==================================

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There is one book i have in my library is ''Samudraka Shastra " classical

book on Indian Palmistry,

published by Vyas Prakashan, D-16/13, Maanmandir, Varanasi, Commentary

by Pt.Shaktidhar Shukla.

 

Vijay Goel

Jaipur