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13.0 CHAPTER XII

Puberty and Menses

For a male, the Janma Lagna is sufficient for all purposes and there is no particular time at which any event like puberty or menses in a woman, can happen to him. Among the generality of womankind, they are considered fit for sexual enjoyments only after they attain puberty. There are, of course, some wicked and crooked girls, who resort to sexual indulgences even before they have menses, but these cases arise more from morbid sexuality, than the real desires of physical promptings. These are trained in the dens of iniquity, decoyed into evil habits by dirty maids or old prostitutes and some of them are also spoiled early in life by the constant evil company of unprincipled boys even before they attain the proper age of majority.

For a woman, have to take into consideration three important Lagnas; viz., Janma Lagna or the ascendant at birth, the Lagna for the first appearance of the menses in her and Lagna or the sign in which she had the first sexual contact with the man, be he her husband or lover or raper. All the astrological writers in Sanskrit have attached the greatest importance to the appearance of the first Menses in a girl, so much so that not only have they explained the influences of the constellations, signs, planets, lunar and solar days, special occasions and aspearances of phenomena, eclipses and omens, but they have also elaborately explained about the direction the place, the cloth, the time, the number of drops of menstrual fluid which has come out, and also about weekdays, Yogas, Karanas and other peculiarities connected with the appearance of the first Menses.

One would be surprised to see such a vast elaborate literature about a natural event like the menses in a girl, if they had not by their Divya Drishti or Divine Vision seen the subtle influences of all these on the future destinies of herself, her husband, her children and all that pertains to her career and prospects in life. This one point should effectually seal the mouths of all those ill-informed and superficially read critics that the noble science of Astrology had never been borrowed from any foreign nation, that all these ideas explained here are completely indigenous and that 4 lacs of Sutras sprang up from the comprehensive brains of the Maharshis and that India, as a whole, had never the misfortune to borrow her scientific ideas and researches from the surrounding nations who have always been in a hopeless condition of intellectual poverty; but who were ever greedy to borrow from, but never had the means to lend to the Indian scholars.
Have they any references to such events in their astrological publications? Have they suggested any remedies for averting, softening or modifying the planetary influences indicating the evil results from the past births? Can their hillocks be compared to the grand Himalayan ranges? Can any other river in the world claim rivalry with the purities of the Ganges floods? So many details and with surprising minuteness about the appearance of the first Menses have been given. That I would earnestly request the readers to pay particular attention to them and apply them all practically to the time given for the menses, so that they may be able to draw proper inferences and make correct future predictions about the girl and all her prospects in life. I challenge, if any astrological publications in England, Continental countries or America have given any references to these details or even to this subject of the appearance of the first. menses. If only we are willing to collect all the stanzas bearing on this particular subject of menses, they will at least come up to 13,000 verses. The dabbling and shallow brained critics cannot commit a more grotesque blunder than to say that the great grandfather of a child is the offspring of that infant. Sane men take a hearty laugh over these idiosyncrasies and let these egotists to dance in their own hallucinations. I shall now come to the subject proper. Puberty or Menses is a physical change in the constitution of a girl, where a reddish fluid called shonitha is suddenly expelled from the sexual organ, and changing the whole of her future life according as it appears on an auspicious or inauspicious time. The details are very interesting and instructive and throw a flood of light on the subtle influences, which mark that event and which have such a direct influence on the future destiny of the girl. Puberty in Sanskrit is called Ruthu or phenomenon which will have regular monthly appearances. When Chandra is not in upachayas, viz., 3, 6, 10 and 11 and when the Lagna is powerfully aspected by Kuja the appearance of first Menses should be predicted. Such combinations may occur when the girl is young, when is old, when she suffers from various diseases which cause irregular menses or stop them altogether. But there are special combinations with which menses app ear and also disappear. I shall not expand on this subject, any further here. It will be explained in its proper place (see my notes on Brihat Jataka).

13.1 Effects of Tithies or Lunar Days

If the first Menses occurs on.
1. Padyami - Issueless.
2. Dviteeya - Little happiness.
3. Thriteeya - All wealth and prosperity.
4. Chaturthi - Sinful and wicked.
5. Panchami - Sons and daughters, happiness and , good enjoyment.
6. Shashti - Unpleasant words and cruel mind.
7. Saptami - Riches, cattle, ornaments, happiness.
8. Ashtami - Bold and reckless.
9. Navami - Troubled by sorrows and anxieties.
10. Dasami - Happy and a leader.
11. Ekadasi - Pure and clean.
12. Dwadasi - Fond of spreading scandals about others.
13. Trayodasi - Joyful and happy.
14. Chaturdasi - Fond of sinful acts.
15. Poornima - Well-developed and strong body.
30. Amavasya - Poor enjoyment, little comforts.

13.2 Inauspicious times for the appearance of the First Menses

1. Amavasya or the New-Moon day.
2. Rikta Tithies.
3. The 1st, 6th, 8th and 12th lunar days in both halves of the lunar months.
4. The first half of the Parigha yoga.
5. Vyathipatha and Vyadhriti.
6. The two twilights.
All these considered to be unfavourable for the appearance of the first Menses in a girl.

13.3 Results of Weekdays

Sunday - She will suffer from many diseases.
Monday - Virtuous and good.
Tuesday - Suffering from sorrows.
Wednesday - Good married life and enjoyment.
Thursday - Virtuous and polite.
Friday - Obedient and loving life.
Saturday - Vicious and bad-tempered.

13.4 Auspicious Constellations

Hasta, Chitta, Swati, Visakha, Anooradha, Uttara , Uttarashadha, Uttarabhadra, Sravana, Moola, Revati, Dhanishta, Satabhisha, Aswini, Pushyami, Rohini and Mrigasira. These 17 stars are considered good for the appearance of the first Menses.

13.5 Evil Constellations

Pubba, Poorvashadha, Poorvabhadra, Bharani, Aslesha. If the first Menses appears in these stars the girl should not chew betel leaves, should have no oil baths, wear no flowers, use no yellow or red powders, Haridra and Kunkuma, and should not see the face of the husband for the special periods mentioned for each of those stars.
Proper remedies ordained by Sastras to avert these evil influences should at once be adopted in interest of the girl's future. If she attains age in Aridra and Makha she becomes sorrowful. She becomes adulterous, it she attains puberty in Punarvasu and Jyeshta. If the girl attains puberty in Bharani, 10 months; if in Krittika, Aslesha and Jyeshta, 4 months; if in Pubba, Poorvashadha, Poorvabhadra, 8 months; if in Aridra, 6 months; if in Makha, 12 months; and if in Punarvasu, 5 months should be allowed to pass before nuptials could be celebrated and she must not see during these months the face of her husband and should avoid using leaves, flowers and other luxuries.

13.5 Remarks for Serious Reflection

The safety of human society entirely depends upon the sexual purity, the times of enjoyment, and the health of the parties concerned. Among many of the animals, there are instinctive impulses in masculine and feminine creatures which restrict the sexual enjoyments and they preserve good health, because they have a gift of nature, the great and unerring instinct which guides the animals in all these operations. Nature is not partial to them. As a compensative gift to mankind, nature has been graciously pleased to implant in man a wonderful power, the great intelligence and for its protection, reasoning powers and practical knowledge.

Great as man is, with his intellectual powers and lofty comprehension, he often degrades and debases himself, lower than the lowest of brutes. The colossal and appallin venereal complaints prevailing in the most enlightened and civilised centres are unmistakable monuments, showing the amount of moral filth which surrounds the lofty intellects of human beings and drags them to the level of brutes and sometimes even to lower levels than brutes in their social and sexual transactions. Their horrible sexual ideas can have no comparison or parallels in the animal world, whom man has the barefaced audacity to call as senseless beasts. There is no question that the animals are far below the mark of intelligence, which humanity possesses to its credit when properly directed.

But abuse of intelligence is his motto and excessive and untimely sexual indulgences are his baneful practices. Astrology shows his weakness in these matters and warns him to be careful in his sexual fransactions. In the flush of passions he forgets his intelligence and reason, rushes on the mad career of sexual excesses, falls into the folds of hopeless diseases, racks his brain to discover and invent remedies to remove these complaints, suffers all excruciating pains from his own body, grows degenerate in health and mind, produces unhealthy and syphilic issues and corrupts society in so many ways that an enumeration of all the evil effects of these sexual irregularities is not possible in such short treatises. None of the other departments of knowledge can help humanity in the selection of marriage couples, how the couple should. cohabit, and when and what should be their future conduct in the way of these sexual matters on which depend the whole prosperity of the nation, the strength of the armies, the vitality of all industries, and the progress and health of the future generations.

A girl attains her age. The husband or some other man enjoys her sexually. There will be discharges of electrical, ethereal and other subtle forces, and when they are bad and unfavourable, the result will be death, danger, sorrows or diseases. Go to an electric generating and distributing station. Suppose the off officers concerned had not put the warning notices on different knobs or other machinery, which are dangerous and a touch of which will kill a person at once, or send him to nervous prostration. The man goes in utter ignorance of the dangerous effects of the electric power and touches any one of these dangerous instruments. What would be the result? He may die straight, or may be afflicted with some nervous destruction which would incapacitate him for future work and enjoyment of normal health. Will he not be ruined by his rash act, touching a knob although done in the most innocent mood? The nut may have a very fine external appearance.

Man is a bundle of Electrical energy and other various subtle agencies. Some of them are very deadly in their effects, so much so that as a breath of some poisonous gases will kill a human being instantly so also will these unfavourable electric and ethereal currents cause destruction to the parties concerned. I will give an illustration which proved quite correct. A rich gentleman in Madras wanted me to see the marital agreement of his son with the daughter of his wife's brother. The female horoscope stood thus. The girl was 12 years and the boy about 20 years in the B.A. class possessing a fine specimen of developed athletic body. I warned both the parents not to have the marriage. They neglected my advice and through the influence of the boy's mother, the betrothal was celebrated. Then came the nuptial day and it passed off well. From that night,

2 - Kuja, Ketu
3 - Sani
7 - sukra, Ravi, Budha
8 - Lagna, Rahu
9 - Chandra
10 - Guru

the boy went on losing blood and in a month he was on his death-bed. He expressed his great anxiety to see me and I saw him. When I questioned him he frankly told me that he had only two connections on that fatal night, felt a sort of electric shock through his organ, and fell sick. The case was hopeless and the poor boy was sacrificed for relational and financial considerations. The girl is now a widow.  The human body is a strange and mysterious combination of various forces or energies, some of which are demonstrable and others are invisible, but all the same real. How do the temperaments change for good or bad? After some years of love and friendship people begin to quarrel and even try to kill each other. Sometimes the electric, magnetic and ethereal currents suddenly change from causes, some of which are known and many of which lie concealed behind the mysterious folds of nature. If the first appearance of menses changes the whole course of a girl's career, then all the causes, which produced that result, will have to be examined, their influences must be ascertained, their intensities should be properly gauged and all reasonable attempts should be made to remove them, and secure happiness. Therefore, this chapter of a girl's history should receive the best attention of all sensible men and women and no amount of time and labour spent upon an examination of these details should be considered as wasted. The labour involved in the examination of these details should be considered as the most beneficial which a man could render to the service of humanity in the upliftment of mankind, in their health and prosperity.

13.6 Results of Months

1. Chaitra - Widowhood.
2. Vaisakha - Blessed with wealth, children and good character,
3. Jyeshta - Suffering from diseases.
4. Ashadha - Abortion and dead children.
5. Sravana - Wealth and enjoyment.
6. Bhadrapada - Bad sexual organ.
7. Asweeja - Devotion and religious.
8. Karteeka - Short life.
9. Margasira - Many children.
10. Pushya - Immoral.
11. Magha - Children, happiness, agreeable.
12. Phalguna - Virtuous and faithful.

Pakshaphala, or the Results of the two Halves of Lunar Months Bright half - Wealth, cleanliness, joyful and good enjoyments. Dark half - Bodily disease, fond of sexual pleasures, talking ill of others, irreligious.

13.7 Special Influences of Constellations

1. Aswini - Wealth, happy, good issues, fond of enjoyment, steady, leader among the community, respectful.
2. Bharani - Immoral, causing abortions, dependent on others, barren by excessive indulgences.
3. Krittika - Quarrelsome, adulterous, barren, causing abortions, dependent, dead children.
4. Rohini - Good conduct, nine children, respect able, loving husband, woman of principles, worshipping Gods.
5. Mrigasira - Agreeable conduct, love for charitable deeds, patient and enduring fatigue, virtuous, fond of husband, blessed with good children.
6. Aridra - Immoral, bad sexual organ, miserable, dead children, unsympathetic, evil temper, lazy, bad, irreligious,
7. Punarvasu - Faithful to husband, many issues, delight from possessing good children, religious.
8. Pushyami - Love to husband, good issues, many kinds of enjoyments, agreeable, attractive, clever, charitable
9. Aslesha - Fond of other persons, servile, irritable, unsympathetic, disagreeable, liar, un desirable issues.
10. Makha - Generous and noble, sickly, fond of music, attraction to paternal home, respectful.
11. Pubba - Fond of embraces from others, humble, bad conduct, sorrowful, dirty, cruel-hearted, revengeful.
12. Uttara - Many children, fond of meritorious deeds, beloved by all without any hateful feelings, respected by friends, virtuous, fond of maternal home.
13. Hasta - Loving, good enjoyments, children, agreeable life, highly respected, liberal, charitable.
14. Chitta - Skilful in arts and works, enjoyment in life, clever in mercantile transactions, very passionate, polite manners, smooth behaviour.
15. Swati - Rich, healthy, skilled in arts and mechanics, children and grandchildren, virtuous and faithful.
16. Visakha - Fond of low deeds, bad temper, addicted to drinks, agreeable to many, issueless, dirty habits, angry. 
17. Anooradha - Respected by the relations of the husband, adorned by excellent personal character, fair and loving children, healthy sexual organ, attractive and sympathetic.
18. Jyeshta - Fond of sinful acts, sorrowful, quarrel some, immoral, cruel-hearted, troublesome and bad children.
19. Moola - Wealth, children, good character, helpful to others in their sorrows, keeping up to principles of her own religion.
20. Poorvashadha - Secret sinful acts, bad children, fond of torturing others, sorrowful and melancholy.
21. Uttarashadha - Discerning and tactful, fond of charities, righteous conduct, wealthy and happy.
22. Sravana - Children and grandchildren, wealth and landed properties, virtuous, enjoying delights according to times, respected and honoured.
23. Dhanishta - Wealth and lands, good enjoyable life, surrounded by children and grand children, virtuous, keeping to religious tenets.
24. Satabhisha - Many issues, wealth, religious, enjoying pleasures according to times, honoured by people and relations.
25. Poorvabhadra - Imprisonment, hated by relations, always fond of evil deeds, skilful in miscellaneous work.
26. Uttarabhadra - Commanding general respect, blessed with children, dignified, affable, fond of husband, respected by relations, charitable disposition.
27. Revati - Determination, doing charities, blessed with children and riches, happy, religious faith.

I have named the general results produced by the constellations, when the first Menses appears and when it rules on the day and at the time. Great caution and discretion should be used in the delineation of characteristics. Take some examples. Aswini rules at the time of Sani there in that star, Sani is debilitated in Mesha and when he occupies the star, he produces evils, and his conjunction with Chandra becomes malicious, producing sorrow, worries, immorality and social scandals. Take Ravi there. Ravi produces altogether different results. The influences of the star and the planet are mutual and undergo changes consequently. Ravi is exalted in Mesha and with Chandra the chemical changes in the body and the mind of the girl will be different from what they would be when Moon joins with Sani in debilitation.

Therefore, the student must be very careful in predicting the results. Take a traveller in a forest road. The time, the fatigue, the health of the person, his powers of endurance, the distance he has travelled, the state of the scenery all round and all along the atmospherical conditions, his dullness or intelligence to the aesthetic impressions and the fullness or emptiness of his stomach, the pleasurable or the painful mission he has before him and other surroundings have to be taken into account, before we can say how he feels and how he works. Similarly with reference to planets, houses, stars, aspects, conjunctions, yogas, karanas, lunar and solar days, weekdays and so many other forms of visible and invisible agencies, in these combinations must be considered.

Astrology is meant for the whole world in all its complicated phenomena and therefore, as it comprehends all the phenomena in nature, the intellect that is engaged in its pursuit, must be very comprehensive, keen, piercing capacious enough to hold all its complicated principles and possess an excellent analysing and logical judgment which will be able to weigh the conflicting evidence, and draw correct inferences which would forecast the future in all its details, with accuracy and to the points. ladies who read this book must study the principles, get good practice and see how beautifully they tally with their innermost promptings of body, mind and spirit. Some of their secret sins may so well be concealed that they may never see the light of the day in the ordinary course. They may deceive others in the world by their cautious and careful behaviour, but they can never deceive their consciences which reflect all their virtues and vices as in a clear mirror. Thus they will have a certain index to their true character by the application of the astrological principles and they will see how wonderfully they tally with facts. I have already mentioned in the above paras about some of the inauspicious times. Now I will give them in full, collecting the information from eminent works like Kalamrita, Narada Samhita, Jyotir Nibandha, Jyotisha Ratnamala, Muhurtha-Marthanda, Muhurtha-Darpana and other authoritative works on the subject.

13.8 Inauspicious Times for the First Appearance of Menses in a Girl

1. Sunrise and Sunset twilights.
2. Times of eclipses.
3. Full-moon and New-moon days.
4. The 8th and 14th days of the dark-half of the lunar month.
5. Sankramanas or solar entries into the 12 zodiacal signs.
6. Vyatipatha, Vyaghata and Parigha yoga.
7. 4th, 6th, 8th, 9th, 12th and 14th of lunar days.
8. Bhadrava Karana.
9. Thyajyas or rejected times.
10. Avamsa or Tridinasprik or the weekday in which three lunar days combine or touch.
11. Thridyasprik or the lunar day in which three weekdays combine.
12. Evil constellations like Bharani, Krittika, Aridra, Aslesha, Jyeshta, etc.
13. When the Sun moves in the evil stars.
14. The time when the Moon stands in the 8th house from the Janma Rasi of her husband.
15. When the Nidhana Tara rules.
16. When Vajra, Vishkambha, Vyaghata, Shoola and Atigandas prevail.
17. During night and Vydhruti.
18. In constellations which are occupied by the evil planets, viz., Ravi, Kuja, Sani, Rahu and Ketu.
19. When the evil planets are found in the 7th house from her Lagna.
20. When abnormal phenomena happen such as comets, meteors, solar spots, changes in the Sun's rays.
21. When the family is plunged into death pollution and sorrows.
22. During the death times of parents, brothers, sisters and closer relations.
23. When the people are vacating their homes for plague, famines and other epidemics.
24. When fires break out in the house or in the neighbourhood.
25. When halos round the Sun and the Moon are seen.

13.8 Results of Yogas

1. If the first Menses appear in Vishkambha - Disease in sexual organs.
2. Ganda - Barrenness.
3. Shoola - Adultery and issueless.
4. Vyaghata - Committing suicide.
5. Vijra - Free movements in immorality, unchecked license.
6. Patha - Will kill her husband, children will die and she will be issueless.
7. Vydhruti - Will kill her husband.

The rest of the yogas are favourable as per their names. For an explanation of Yogas and Karanas, see my work Shukla and Pramoduta.

13.9 Results of Karanas

1. Bhava - Issueless or a widow.
2. Balava - Will have children.
3. Koulava - Passionate and joyful.
4. Thythula - Good temperament.
5. Garaja - Loss of children.
6. Vanik - Similar result.
7. Bhadra - Barren. Loss of children is certainly different from barrenness.
8. Sakuni - widowhood.
9. Chatushpath - Widowhood.
10. Naga - Fond of sexual operations.
11. Kimsthughna - Widowhood.

13.10.0 Influences of Time.

1. Morning - Happy and prosperous.
2. Before noon - Visiting sacred shrines and holy rivers.
3. Midday or noon - Children, wealth.
4. Afternoon - Adulterous.
5. Evening - Many husbands and lords.
6. Twilight in the evening and morning - A dancing woman, prostitute.
7. Before midnight - Long life.
8. Midnight - Widowhood.
9. Towards the close of night - Unfortunate.
10. If the girl attains puberty between these periods named above she will be unfortunate and poor.

13.11.0 Results of the Zodiacal Signs

When the girl attains her age, it must fall in some Lagna or sign. The results will be foretold here:

1. Mesha - Adulterous.
2. Vrishabha - Happy and prosperous.
3. Mithuna - Children.
4. Kataka - Very adulterous.
5. Simha - Good and happy children.
6. Kanya - Fortunate and wealth.
7. Thula - Happy and prosperous.
8. Vrischika - Immoral.
9. Dhanus - First half adulterous, second half virtuous.
10. Makara - Shameless and immodest.
11. Kumbha - Wealthy, happy and lands
12. Meena - Many children.

In all these cases the same precautions have to be noted. A girl attains age when Mesha rises as Lagna. Suppose Sani and Kuja are there, she will become a _ regular prostitute. The planets by their conjunction in Mesha have added their evil influences to the evils of Mesha and will make the girl a terrible whore. Suppose there is Full-Moon and Jupiter unaspected or uncombined by evil planets, they soften the influence of the sign Mesha and though the girl will have an inclination to commit adultery, she will do not so for various considerations and reasons. Therefore in predicting the influences of Rasis the influences of planets should also be taken into careful consideration. Kataka makes her immoral, Kuja adds greater facilities for the sinful work. Guru there averts the evil.

13.12.0 The Influence of Places on the Appearance of the First Menses

If the time of puberty falls in Mesha, Simha or Kanya, the menses appeared outside the town; in Vrishabha in Places where cattle are kept or in cattlesheds; in Dhanus in the house; in Thula in the same village or in another house; in Meena; Kumbha, Makara or Kataka, near watery surfaces such as tanks, rivers, ponds, lakes; in Mithuna when the girl was naked; and in Vrischika the girl attains her age in the midst of the forest or wilderness or in grooves of trees. The question time of menses may also be taken into consideration and all these details can also be correctly predicted by the astrologer.

Menses; as a compound, is composed of so many physical and mental characteristics, that all the causes which produced that compound will have their individual influences and effects, and an analysis of all these becomes necessary to find out what results may be reaped from it as a whole and from the individual causes. All these are chemical in nature and astrology is a huge chemistry. As in other departments of knowledge differences of opinion on some facts are often found in astrology. How they have arisen are matters on which we as Alpatmas or with narrowed vision, are not in a position to explain. Whether the Maharshis found out the planetary influences by deductive methods, or by long and laborious observations or by developing their intellectual powers and mental vision by the practice of severe yoga, are points on which we can only make guesses but we cannot say definitely that they have done so and so.

They say that the Sun in 10th house is good, Jupiter in the 2nd gives wealth, that Saturn in the 1st produces nervous complaints, that Ketu in the 2nd produces short temper, that Mercury in the 5th gives high order of intelligence, that Venus in the 7th causes great sexual passions and so forth. How did they know it and what reasons or knowledge enabled them to say so? These are difficult questions to answer. From the most perfect astronomical instruments we have now, not one scientist is able to say why wheat has been ascribed to the Sun, rice to the Moon, dall to Mars, Bengal-gram to Jupiter and so forth. Are they able to say why these different planets govern the different organs of the body, different temperaments, different professions, different branches of arts and sciences, etc.

I make a challenge to them and they must ignobly say that they cannot give me a proper answer or they must seek shelter under their usual mean and shameless, bulwark of calling all these productions arising from superstition and ignorance. They will not have the nobility to say that they have not studied this branch of knowledge and that they are therefore unable to speak on a subject in which they are utterly ignorant. Can superstition and ignorance produce a huge literature of 4 lacs of sutras or 16 lacs of stanzas, and go into the minute details of human conduct, characteristics and its future and past experiences. If they can do so, then those superstitions and ignorances must indeed be very grand and colossal in themselves. Why talk nonsense, when you are yourself, ignorant, and prejudiced? It is indeed a grand phenomenon which changes the whole nature and career of the girl. Whatever may be the subtle causes which produce the phenomenon of Menses; the event shows great physical and mental changes. The spiritual changes are natural consequences of mental alterations. The minuteness with which they have gone into the details of the appearance of the first Menses in a girl are indeed very surprising. The must either be prodigal fictions of great brains or facts which have been carefully ascertained by their expanded and Divine Vision. I leave the readers to draw their own inferences on the facts I have adduced and the arguments I have given. A handful of experience is worth ten cart-loads of theories. The modern scientists are quite unfit to pronounce opinions on subjects in which they are ignorant.