Abhinavagupta@ [Abhinavagupta] References of Rashis in the Vedaas and the Vedanga Jyotisha.

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Dear Shivrajji,

 

1)

Have you noticed the strange biased logic in the following?

 

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Secondly, can you quote even a single mantra that talks of animals like Rams and

Bulls and Scorpions etc. etc. in a successive order as is done in the Surya

Siddhanta by Maya the mlechha or the Puranas?

Why were the Vedic seers shy of mentioning those " Scales " and " Virgins " etc. in

a " pratyakshya " manner and why should we have to employ " paroskhya professors "

to solve the " mystery of the missing rashis " in the Vedas?

 

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The Puranas clearly mention the names of the Rashis such as Mesha and Vrshabha.

I have even quoted the verses from the Vamana purana showing how the Rashis such

as Mesha and Vrshabha  are linked to the fixed Nakshatras. The Puranas have the

exalted status of the Fifth Veda, as mentioned in the Upanishads (Chandogya

Upanishad 7.1.2). While Vedas have the Paroksha meanings of the verses, the

Puranas have direct meaning so that even a layman  can understand that. Kaulji

is thoroughly confused searching paroksha meanings in the puranas and not

accepting the direct meanings

 

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Why do we not find any mention in the Rik Jyotisham or even Yajur Jyotisham

either of Rashis or of Mangal, Shani etc. planets?

 

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I have already given the reference of Rashi in the Vedanga Jyotisha. Yet he says

as above.

 

Further how does he say that Mangal and Shani are not given  in the Vedas? How

can a person who ridicules the Veads having Paroksha meaning will find that in

the Vedas. Let him first accept that the Vedas have Paroksha meaning and then

look for the Rsahis in the Vedas and he will find it. If after unconditionbal

acceptance of the Paroksha meaning of the Vedic vertses he does not find the

nine grahas in the Vedas then I shall show him. Just as a sample let me tell him

that Rahu and Ketu are  mentioned as Sewarabhanu in Veda.

 

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BTW, has  Kaulji found any reference in the Babylonian / Greek literature as to

why and also since when the Greeks used the names of animals to represent the

Rashis,  ie. as to the origin of the animal representation of the Rashis in

Babylonian /Greek astrology? Unless he can prove that, his insistenace that the

Indians imported the rashis from Baylonia/ Greeks will be unethical.

 

Sincerely

 

Sunil K. Bhattacharjya

 

[Reply to Kaul's post (23 June 2009) at

 

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