[Jagannath] Hora order

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> I am not sure whether I understand the post, but I guess you are

> trying to say that Horas are counted in reverse, ie., Sun, Mars,

> Jupiter, Saturn, Moon, Mercury and Venus. Well this is not the

> case, Horas are counted as Sun, Venus, Mercury, Moon, Saturn,

> Jupiter, and Mars.

> If this is exactly what you meant please ignore this part of

> the mail.

 

No, I didn't said that, I just gave an example if the hora count is reverse,

everything would be different.

 

> Now as I understand there a couple of doubts related to Hora

> ordering that you have raised:

> a) Why is Hora order related to speed on the planets and not

> on something else, like the distance from Earth. And is

> there any shastric reference for the same.

> b) Why is Hora order considered to be increasing order of

> speed and not decreasing order of speed.

> Hopefully someone would have answer to these.

 

Yes, these are the questions on which I am hopping that someone will answer.

 

> I just wanted to state another point though this does not help

> in any way in clarifying the doubts you have raised:

> With the known Hora order the first day of the Week is that

> of Sun and last that of Saturn. This fits well with the life

> principle also which states that Birth happens because of Sun

> and death beacuse of Saturn (Saturn represents Yama too).

 

Yes, this principle works in the days of week, but as you said still doesn't

explain why the way the horas are counted the way they are..

 

If we take that principle that birth happens because of Sun and death

because of Saturn that what is the role of other planets in-between them

(Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter & Venus)?

My guess would be if birth happens because of Sun, than first person who

takes care of us after birth is mother (Moon is karaka), than we get some

(or they are already there) brothers/sisters (Mars), with few

relatives/friends around (Mercury), than a period of education & Guru comes

(Jupiter) and once person is finished with studies than marriage/wife comes

(Venus) and at the end Yama pays a visit (Saturn). This actually reflects

traditional varna-ashrama way of life when after birth person would stay

with his parents until time of education when they would go to gurukula and

after finishing studies (approximately at the age of 25) they would get

married.

 

Any comments on this?

 

Hare Krishna,

Dina-natha Das.