Weekdays (Mars)

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Namaste David,

 

Pt. Sanjay Rath wrote:

 

> Dear david,

> Namaskar,

> Read that URL with interest. Even Parasara and His

> predecessors believed and taught about a seven day week.

> This logic about nine day week is too far fetched and to

> say this in the name of Hindutwa is too much. Hindu's

> were far more intelligent than that scribe.

> Regards

> Sanjay Rath

 

In response, you wrote:

 

> To the other person who replied to my email: Thank you

> for checking out the site, but I would appreciate more of

> a response than "it is far-fetched." Do you know of

> another reason why the planets rule in that order? Isn't

> the logic proposed by that site closer to the truth than

> no logic at all? Or why do you think that the addition

> of Rahu & Ketu to the 7-day week is so far-fetched?

> Appreciate engaged conversation, thank you.

 

Pt. Sanjay Rath is one of the most learned scholars of Vedic

astrology in the world today. A lot of us ask him questions and

eagerly wait for his answers. He ignores a lot of our questions for

lack of time and we receive with gratitude whatever little he has

time to write.

 

If he said it is "too far-fetched", that's because it IS too far-

fetched. The author of the article you referred to has no clue

whatsoever.

 

As Sanjay said, the 7-day week WAS used by Sage Parasara. So any

suggestions that ancient Hindus did not use 7-day weeks are

meaningless. The author also said Hindus did not use hours. That's

again wrong. Though Hindus used ghatis or ghatikas (1/60th of a day),

they used horas (hours) too. Read BPHS by Parasara for the lords of

horas. They have horas (hour) and even a lagna (ascendant) related to

it - hora lagna (hourly ascendant).

 

The article you referred to gives a logic in support of the order of

weekdays. Of course, it makes sense and that logic was exactly what

Pt. Sanjay Rath taught in varahamihira list to his students. The same

logic was used by ancient Hindus and Sage Parasara described the

lords of days, months and years based on the same logic.

 

The basis of time division (as used by Parasara in Shadbalas) is hora

(hour), which ancient Hindus DID use. There are 24 of these in a day.

There are 7 basic horas that keep repeating forever in a fixed order.

They go in the order of the distance from earth - Saturn, Jupiter,

Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury and Moon. Only 7 planets have horas and not

Rahu/Ketu. As you repeat these 7 horas in this order infinitely, you

can derive the lords of days, months and years! The lord of the first

hora of a day is the lord of the day. The lord of the first hora of a

month is the lord of the month. The lord of the first hora of a year

is the lord of the year.

 

This is how lords of days (weekdays), months and years are derived in

Vedic astrology. These are used in Kaala bala (temporal strength) of

ShadBalas (six-sourced strength) defined by Sage Parasara of

Mahabharata time.

 

To say that ancient Hindus did not use hours and that they did not

use 7-day weeks or any such speculations are simply pointless

and "far-fetched" as Sanjay correctly pointed out.

 

Ancient Hindus had many different methods of time-keeping. They had

solar calendar, luni-solar calendar (tithis), lunar calendar

(nakshatras) and this absolute calendar of savana years based on

horas (where time exists on its own without reference to Sun and

Moon).

 

May Jupiter's light shine on us,

Narasimha