Fwd: On Biped (Human), Watery, Reptile, Quadruped Classification

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Dear All,

This is an old mail I posted on Jyotish Remedies group on Mon Apr 10, 2006

1:17 pm.

Love and regards,

Sreenadh

 

, " Sreenadh " <sreesog wrote:

 

Let us consider the (imaginary) shape that is ascribed to each

signs:

1) Aries : The Sanskrit word is 'Mesha', meaning Ram (uncastrated

male sheep). As you know it is a four footed animal. so, Aries is a

quadruped sign.

2) Taurus : The Sanskrit word is 'Vrishabha', meaning Ox. Yes, it is

also a quadruped and thus Taurus a quadruped sign.

3) Gemini : The Sanskrit word is 'Midhuna', meaning couple (A Male

and A Female standing together). So it is clear that it is a Biped

human sign. (But this sign also represents many beings with 2 legs,

Biped, such as chicken etc as well, since the synonym 'Jootuma', of

Gemini represents chicken, or many other 2 legged birds that mingle

with humans. Remember it is the same situation with all the other

signs as well. Each sign is significator of many living beings. I am

not going into it, since I want to limit this mail to the subject

under discussion)

4) Cancer: The Sanskrit word is 'Karkata', meaning crab (yes, the

crab that lives in water). Here a confusion popes up. The

Nakshatra 'Aslesha' represents snake, the Nakshatra Pushyami has got

the other name 'bee hive'. Many saints have told us that we can think

about all the non-poisonous reptiles with cancer sign. So in short it

is a reptile sign. Actually the word used by saints is 'Sareesripa',

any thing that move with it belly, such as snake, chameleon et. (This

sign could represent not only reptiles but also bees, crabs, fish,

butterflies etc as well) To represent such beings only 2 signs are

used, Sc and Cn, and so this is a reptile sign for sure. But as you

know the crab lives in water, and the sign itself represent, a pure

water (not salty water) pond, and therefore it is a water sign as

well. So cancer could be a reptile sign or a watery sign! And so the

confusion.

5) Leo : The Sanskrit word is 'Simha', meaning Lion. Yes, for sure

it is a quadruped sign.

6) Virgo : The Sanskrit word is 'Kanya', meaning virgin lady. Yes,

it is a Biped (human sign) for sure. It is symbolically depicted that

this lady is traveling in a boat through a river with plant in one

hand and fire in other. So there could arise a confusion that it is a

water sign as well. But there is not much support for this argument,

as far as the main classification is concerned. Yes, the presence of

water becomes important, if you are thinking about the availability

of water, with the use of prasan or the like, otherwise we can

discard it, and it is a human sign for sure.

7) Libra: The Sanskrit word is 'Tula', meaning balance. The symbolic

pictorial representation of the sign is of a man with a balance (the

measuring instrument) in his hands, sitting is a street side market,

selling something. So for sure it is a human sign.

8) Scorpio : The Sanskrit word is 'Vrischika', meaning Scorpion

itself. The sign has got other names such as Snake, bee hive etc as

well. As stated earlier it is one of the 2 'Sareesripa' signs, any

thing that move with it belly, so for sure it is a Reptile sign. It

represents anything that is poisonous and deadly.

9) Sagittarius : The Sanskrit name is 'Dhanu', meaning bow. It is

symbolically represented as a kingly warrior with bows and arrows,

but the portion below hip of that person is horse like! So here also

there is little amount of confusion. It is said that, the 1st half of

Sagittarius is quadruped and the remaining half human.

10) Capricorn : The Sanskrit name is 'Makara', meaning crocodile as

well as big fish (like shark). The symbolic representation of the

sign is half crocodile like and the remaining half dear like! So here

also confusion exists. But yes, the first half of Capricorn could be

considered as water sign and the remaining half Quadruped sign.

11) Aquarius : The Sanskrit name is 'Kumbha' meaning pot. The

symbolic representation is, a man with a pot in his hand going in

search of water. So it is for sure a human sign. But the presence of

Pot in the symbolic representation of the sign makes someone think

that it is a water sign as well, which is false, since the pot is

empty.

12) Pisces : The Sanskrit name is 'Jhasha', meaning fish. Yes, fish

that lives in salt water. The sign itself represents the sea. So it

is watery sign for sure.

This I think makes the subject clear. Due to this situation, it is

better to depend on the symbolic representation, and your own clear

understanding of that symbolic representation, to classify the signs,

than depending on some slokas without thinking. If you just try to

depend on slokas, you will find slokas, that seems to be

contradicting each other in the first look. But when you understand

the base of this naming you will see that there is no

conflict/contradiction between the statements of Saints/Acharyas.

There are 2 related points that also should be explained.

Signs are Symbolic

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The shape ascribed to the signs are symbolic. The saints wanted

those signs to indicate several significance for which the sign

stands for and that is why that particular symbol/shape is ascribed

to that sign. I will explain.

For example take Libra. The symbol is of a man sitting with a

balance in his hand weighing something, in a market place. So for

sure, Libra represents a town, humans, measuring instruments, food

that is eatable for humans, road, crowd, logically correct arguments,

interest in maths, business men, learned, luxury, love for good life

etc etc. See how clear it is! The same is the situation with other

symbols.

Significance and its classification

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Significance are assigned only to -

1) Signs 2) Nakshatras

3) Houses 4) Planets

What can they signify? Each of them can represent 'any thing'

present in the world!! Or in other words, each of them

represents, 'every thing' present in the world! Try to classify them

yourself.

For example a sign could represent-

1) Humans (classify them based on relationship/cast/job/gender etc)

2) Plants (classify them based on water/land/creeper/tree etc)

3) Animals (classify them based on carnivores /herbivores/wild etc)

3) Non living things (classify them based on metal/non-

metal/liquid/gas etc)

Yes, you could extend this list.

This same rule for classification of significance for sign applies

to Nakshatras, Houses and Plants as well. But the problem is that,

due to the vastness this list and the subject you can not find proper

lists in classics, but only simple directions. The slokas are just

pointers, that directs you, the way through which you would have to

exercise on your own thinking ability.

Don't ask me as well, I too don't have a well classified elaborate

list, which makes everything clear and lists out everything in the

world. We are waiting for better lists on all these from you.

" Ohm Sahanavavtu….Sahanou bhunaktu…Saha veeryam karavavahai…………… "

Love,

Sreenadh

 

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