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.
