Download Article on Parasara's Drigdasa

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Namaste friends,

 

I wrote on Parasara's drigdasa in Jyotish Digest magazine one year back. For the

benefit of those who do not get Jyotish Digest, I want to give some material on

drigdasa. Please note that this version of drigdasa is available in the latest

Jagannatha Hora.

 

Though I have written research articles on several topics in Jyotish, I honestly

consider the papers on drigdasa to be my best and most perfect contribution to

modern Jyotish knowledge.

 

Though I kept the copyright of the articles published in JD, I am not sure if

the magazine is ok with making those articles available to the public. So I will

share another article I wrote on drigdasa for another magazine. This magazine

asked me for an article and the magazine was suprisingly closed down before the

article was published. So the article I wrote was not published and I can share

it with all.

 

Please download the following zip file and unzip it to find a PDF file.

 

http://VedicAstrologer.org/articles/drik_am.zip

 

If I get a chance, I will also make the two Jyotish Digest articles on drigdasa

available. They are more detailed and have more examples.

 

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Parasara's teachings differ from the teachings of SJC in two main aspects:

 

1. The order of counting aspects is not based on whether the sign is odd-footed

or even-footed. It is based on whether the sign is movable or fixed or odd dual

or even dual. Order is zodiacal for fixed and odd dual signs and anti-zodiacal

for others. The order is such that we go to the nearest/similar sign that is

aspected. We go to Aquarius from Aries; we go to Cancer from Taurus; and, we go

to Virgo from Gemini.

 

2. The dasa lengths are based on sthira dasa years and not chara dasa years.

 

In both the issues, Parasara is quite unambiguous. There is no way SJC's

previous teachings can be reconciled with Parasara's teachings.

 

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Jaimini's aphorism that was interpreted by Pt Sanjay Rath to support his

teachings can actually be reconciled to support Parasara's version. Please note

that Parasara uses simple unencrypted language, while Jaimini is highly cryptic.

It is too easy to misinterpret Jaimini.

 

Three modern Jaimini commentators (Iranganti Rangacharya, Prof PS Shastri and Pt

Sanjay Rath) gave three different interpretations of Jaimini's aphorism on

drigdasa and they are all different from what Parasara taught. I have shown how

Jaimini can be interpreted so that he is consistent with Parasara.

 

* * *

 

I used the drigdasa taught by Pt Sanjay Rath sparingly for a few years. I even

described it in my book 8 years back. About 4-5 years back, I discovered that

Parasara also taught drigdasa! I discovered that it also starts from the 9th

house and uses 9th, 10th and 11th houses as the bases and uses aspects. But the

order of reckoning aspects is different from what Pt Sanjay Rath taught. Also,

sthira dasa years are mentioned by Parasara, while Pt Sanjay Rath taught using

chara dasa years. These two changes in calculation make a big difference and

change everything.

 

I instinctively knew that Parasara's teaching had to be correct. However, when I

programmed it in my software and tried it on the charts of some spiritual

people, I honestly did not find any better results than what I got with Pt

Sanjay Rath's version. I knew I was missing some link and patiently waited for

the day I would discover it. But I had unshakable faith in Parasara and knew

that I got the calculation right and it was a matter of finding some key to

interpretation.

 

About a year later, it came in a flash after a meditation session. When Narayana

dasa starts from the 7th house, we consider the dasa sign to be a progression of

the 7th house and hence take the 7th house from dasa sign as the progressed

lagna. I thought why not apply the same idea?!!

 

Drigdasa starts from 9th house. So I thought of taking drigdasa sign as the

progression of the 9th house. If I take the 5th house from dasa sign, that

should be the progressed lagna. Once I got that idea, I retried it in several

charts. This time it made perfect sense and worked like a charm in every single

chart I tried. Now, it worked far better than Pt Sanjay Rath's version. I made

up my mind and conveyed it to Pt Sanjay Rath. A few years later, I decided to go

public.

 

The calculations are based on Parasara's unambiguous instructions. My only

contrinution is in the area of interpretation. The idea of taking the 5th house

from dasa sign as lagna is mine. The rest is straight from Parasara. I have no

doubt in my mind that the version taught by Pt Sanjay Rath, me and Robert Koch

in our books is incorrect and this is the correct one.

 

Best regards,

Narasimha

 

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