Father Mother Brother House
Self Body Audacity Husband
Character Change Accidents Injury
Country Death Adversity Marital life
Dignity Emotions Arguments Obstructions
Government Face Authority Punishments
Health Food Competition Risks
Fame Happiness Construction Self actions
Politics Liquids, Daring Suicidal
Power Mind Debts Surgery
Truth Short travel Disease Uniformed forces
Separation Water Disputes Violence
Status Enmity
Hard work
Fire-Bile Pitta Bones Right
Eye Heart Skeleton
Cold Blood Left eye
Lungs Urinary Bladder Circulatory
system
Fire-Bile Blood cells Marrow Eyebrow Teeth Muscles
MERCURY JUPITER VENUS
Aunts Meetings Children Wife
Agencies Occult Finance Adultery
Brokerage Partners Finance Assets
Business Pass port Higher
Learning Bed
comforts
Communication Speculation Legal matters Comforts
Contracts Speech Merits Estate
Crops Trade Money
Happy events
Education Writing Treasury Love
Exchange Treasury Marital life
Gift Wealth Nature of
wife
Impotency Wisdom Pleasures
Intelligence Womb Sex
Interviews Vehicles
Learning
Air-Gas Hands Neck Forehead Shoulders Tongue Skin
Either-Gas Fat Brain Thigh Feet Nose Liver
Glands
Water -Meha Cold
Semen Face-Uterus Ovaries
Cheek Fluids
SATURN RAHU KETU
Elder Brother P.Grand parents M.Grand parents
Danger Black Magic Destruction
Defeat Foreign Relinquish
Hospitalization Hidden Salvation
Impotency Imprisonments Sudden Attacks
Insult Journey Foreign
Life-span Separation
Lively hood Un-diagnosed
Longevity
Loss
Separation
Servant
Air-Gas Digestive Buttock Knee Fore-leg Chin Nerve Secretions
Air-Fire Gas Dilution Intestine
Ear Head Mouth Lips Tubes
Fire-Bile Blocks Nails Hair Anus Private part Valves
Growths
Apart from this, planets will also act as signifier to certain houses which are tabled below:
Special signification of houses by Planets
House Planet Relative Detrimental in
1st house Sun
2nd House Jupiter Family
3rd House Mars Siblings In 3rd house
4th House Moo, Venus
Mercury Mother In 4th house
5th House Jupiter Children In 5th house
6th House Mars Uncle In 6th house
7th House Venus Spouse In 7th house
8th House Saturn
9th House Sun Jupiter Father In 9th house
10th
House Mer, Sun Sat,
Jupiter In 10th house
11th House Saturn Elder brother In 11th house
12th
House Saturn
Practical example chart section will have some charts analysed based on this traditional approach along with analysis based on other methods explained in this work.
Prithuyashas – Shatpanchasikha
Aryasaptati, horakrishneeya, prashnajnana, varaprashnadeepa, bhuvana deepika, Prashna Marga and Shatpanchasikha are some of the great works on Prashna. We are selecting the last one Shatpanchasikha a great work by Prithuyashas son of great scholar Varahamihiracharya. This work is named as Shatpanchasikha as it contains 56 dictums. This work was further explained by Utpala bhatta in his hora-vivrutthi. We selected a few important dictums and with the logical application of some of the fundamentals taken from Varahamihira and Parasara, which can be adaptable for day to day applications and can also be used in other system of Prashna.
Apart from the fundamental given in chapter 2 above, we give few more essentials for this section of Prashna
Planets Time factor
Saturn, Rahu, Ketu – One year Sun - 6 months
Mercury – 2 months Jupiter – One month Venus - 15 days Mars – 1 Day Moon – 1 ½ hour Age Factor Sun – Elderly Moon – Child
Mars – above 4 years Mercury – 5 to 12 years Venus - Youth 24 years Jupiter – Middle aged Saturn - Old aged Rahu – tall Ketu – short Caste
Jupiter – Venus – Brahmin Mars and Sun – Warrior Moon – Trader
Mercury – Working class Saturn - Servants
Rahu – Muslims, Parsi, Jains Ketu - Christians, Buddhist, Tribal Colour of Planets
Sun – Copper colour Moon – Half white Mars – Red colour Mercury – Green Jupiter – Yellow
Venus – White mixed colour Saturn – Blue black
Rahu – Black
Ketu – Textured colour Direction of Planets Sun – East
Venus – South East Mars – South Rahu – South West Saturn – West Moon – North West Mercury – North Jupiter – North East
Ketu – Middle, Bramhastana Vegetative world of Planets
Sun – Trees in forest, Barks, non fruit bearing
Moon – Planting trees, bulbs (garlic etc), non fruit bearing Mars – Thorny trees/plants – Flowers – Fruit bearing Mercury – Domestic/garden plants – Leafy – Fruit bearing Jupiter – Coconut trees – Fruit bearing
Venus – Domestic/gardens planets – Fruit bearing Saturn – Bitter plants – non fruit bearing
Rahu - Poisons plants
Ketu – Roots and bulbs underground Animal Kingdom
Sun – Forest fiery animals Moon – Milking animals
Mars – Horny animal fierce animals Mercury – Quick moving mammals Jupiter – Elephants –Heavy animals Venus - Horse – Cow
Saturn – Buffalos, Camels and slow moving animals Rahu - Serpent and Reptiles
Ketu – Insects etc.
Metals and Mineral world of Planets Sun – Copper
Moon – Gems Mars – Gold Mercury – Brass Jupiter – Silver Venus – Pearl Saturn – Iron
Rahu – Alloy, Petroleum Ketu – Burnt, coal etc Human tissues of Planets Sun – Bones
Moon – Blood Mars – Marrow Mercury – Skin Jupiter – Fat Venus – Semen Saturn – Nerves Rahu – Toxins
Ketu - Ulcers and growth Gender of Planets
Saturn and Mercury – neutrals Sun, Mars and Jupiter, Rahu – Male Moon, Venus and Ketu – Female Relationship represented by Planets
Sun – Father Moon – Mother Mars – Siblings Mercury – Uncles Jupiter – Jiva Venus – Wife
Saturn – Elder brother
Rahu – Paternal Grand parents Ketu – Maternal Grand parents
Apart from the above general signification of planets can be used as given elsewhere in this work.
The following sign significations tabled are essential part of this particular method of Prashna.
Sign Signification
For this section of Prashna, the following rules are prescribed.