Thithis and Recommended Activities

Following are the recommended activities on each of the Tithis :

1. PRATIPADA: (Vridhi Prada : rise giver )

Works: Marriage, travel, house, entering into a house, Pratista (fame, honour), shaving, Samskaras like Seemant. tonsure, Upanayana, peaceful & developmental works, farming, intoxicant & medicine making, oiling, bed, sitting items (Aassan), stone work, cutting of trees, sculpture, Alankar. (These activities are to be performed on 1 thithi of Dark Half (Krishna Paksha ) & not on the 1thithi of the Brighter Half (Sukla Paksha)

2. DWTIYA: (Mangala Prada : augurs auspiciousness) Works: Marriage, Upanayana, Deva Pratishta (installation of  God's idol) all Paushtik (developmental) and Manglik (auspicious) treasury, army, travel, music, art, sculpture, Alankar , ornament making & wearing.

3. TRITIYA: (Bala Prada: bestows power)

Works: First feeding, Upanayana, Deva Pratistha, Manglik works, tonsure, worshipping of water, painting, singing, art, education, entry into house, jewellery, work related to animals (horse, elephant),

conveyance

4 . CHATURTHI: (Khala Prada : wicked & cruel)

Works: Use of weapon, keeping arms, killing of enemy, arrest, poisoning, igniting fire, sorrowful, Atharva Vidya, works related to electricity. No Manglik works should be done as they get destroyed.

5. PANCHAMI: (Lakshmi Prada : wealth giver)

Works: All auspicious works. Upnayana, Paushtik works, Manglik Utsav, Griha Shanti, travel, stationary and moving works. Do not lend money,

6. SHASHTI: (Yasho Prada : fame giver )

Works: House, war, travel, land, animal, market & marketing, trade, sale purchase, service social customs, art, painting sculpture, wood work, Alankar. jewellery, clothes designing, oil massage,

donation & welfare, water works, ancestral (Pitri) works.

7. SAPTAMI (Mitra Prada: increases friends)

Works: Marriage, dance, music, singing, jewellery making & wearing, Alankar, hand works, travel, entering house, war, works related to elephants.

8. ASHTAMI : (Dwanda Prada : generates conflict)

Works: Women related works. Alankar, enjoyment, dance, jewellery making & wearing, art, sculpture, painting, writing, house, foundation laying, war, government works, government celebrations,

trade, farming, stone, steel, water related works. Do not eat meat. 

9. NAVAMI: (Ugra Prada : increases aggressive)

Works: Hunting, poisoning, making of fire arms, fire, gambling. drinking & making drinks, quarrel, opposition / encounter.

10. DASHAMI: (Saumya Prada : increases soberness)

Works: Manglik works, marriage, Upanayana, Alankar, peaceful & Paushtik works, installation, travel, conveyance, elephant, horse, enter, government works.

11 EKADASHI: Anand Prada : inculcates happiness)

Works: Marriage, religious works, Devotsava, fast, completion of fasts, Alankar, Upanayana, jewellery, painting, learning of sculpturing, clothes designing, dress, dance, travel, enter, starting of house, manufacturing of drinks, trade.

12 DWADASHI: (Yasho Prado: fame giver)

Works: Movable & fixed works, peaceful & Paushtik works, first feeding, Upanayana, marriage. Avoid travelling, entering in new house and oil massage.

13. TRIYODASHI: (Java Prada : brings victory)

Works: Alankar, Pratishta, Agnayadhan, marriage, travel, enter, clothes, war, all Manglik works except Upanayana.

14. CHATURDASHI: (Ugra Prada : increases aggressiveness)

Works : Bad works, poisoning, attack by deception, war, weapon, arms making, fire, arresting, success in cruel works, steel. Bad for Manglik, travel & hair cutting.

15 POORNIMA : (Saumya Prada : bestows soberness)

Works: All Manglik works, religious rituals, peaceful and Paushtik works, Pratishta, temple, marriage, painting, sculpture, art, ornaments, house, war. Sex, oil massage and Upanayana are strictly prohibited

30 AMAVASYA: (Pitri Prada: ancestral related actions)

Works: Religious works, Yagya donation, Agnihotra, Aganyadhan, ancestral works. All auspicious works other than ancestral works get destroyed if done in the New Moon. It is not good for sex.

Apart from the favourable Thithis for specific activities other factors such as Chandra Bala and Tara Bala , Lagna Bala among others to be considered before fixing the muhurta for performing any activity. This has to be known by consulting a known astrologer. 

Sanyasa Yogas

Following Combinations or Placements of planets in a chart  cause Sanyasa Yogas :

1. When four or more planets, including lord of tenth house, are combined in a single house. The house occupied should be a Kendra or Trikona.

2. When Moon is in the sign of Saturn and is aspected by Mars or vice-versa. This should happen in birth chart, drekkana and navamsha. At least two of the above charts should have this.

3. Lord of the Moon sign is aspected by Saturn alone and no other Planet 

4. Lord of the Moon sign is aspected by all planets from a single house.

5. Jupiter should occupy the ninth house and  the Lagna, Moon and Jupiter are aspected by Saturn

6. Combination of fifth and seventh lord in 10" or first house leads to ascetism after marriage.

7. Saturn aspecting Lagna or Lagna lord gives renunciation

8. Moon in sign of Saturn In birth chart or in navamsha and has mutually exchanged sign with Saturn

9. Mutual aspect between Venus, Saturn and Ketu. All three in mutual trine

Professions as per each degree of Signs

Following are the degrees where the lagna is posited and the Likely Professions :

Aries and Libra.-

1° -3°     Policemen, detectives, inventors, explorers and geographers 

4 - 6       boxers army and navy, teachers and philosophers, spiritualists. 

7 - 9°     Philosophers, mathematicians, jockeys. 

10°-12° Generals and dramatists, actors, diplomats. 

13 -15º  Spiritualists, doctors, soap merchants, physiologists, seed merchants, indigo

planters, orators and pearl fishers. 

16 -18°  Musicians, steel workers, goldsmiths, builders of coaches and carriages, sugar merchants, coal-miners, astrologers, surveyors, architects, civil engineers. 

19 - 21° Builders, carpenters, shipbuilders, electricians, hypnotists, manufacturers, aviators, stock-brokers. 

22 -24° House agents, tobacconists, agriculturists, painters, musicians, timber merchants and rubber

growers, 

25 -27° Gardeners, tea planters, botanists, engineers, anthropologists, foresters, astronomers

28 - 30° Politicians.

 Taurus and Scorpio.-

1º-3° Mathematicians, ethnologists: 

4 -6° actors, dramatists, philosophers, distillers, 

7 -  9 Draughts men, engravers, cartographers, architects, painters, sculptors, surveyors, civil engineers. 10°-12° Opticians, watchmakers, theologians, geometricians, mathematicians ,astronomers, bankers, dealers in birds, aviators, shorthand writers, publishers, booksellers, paper manufacturers, librarians, novelists and dramatists. 

16-18   Painters, musicians, perfumers and furniture dealers. 

19 - 21° Lawyers, orators, chemists, postmen, travelers, chauffeurs. 

22 -24  Meteorologists, reformers, interpreters and teachers. 

25 - 27° Orators, scholars, carpenters, railway men. 

28 -30 Stock-brokers, scientists, astrologers, composers, inventors, grocers, sugar merchants, rubber growers, churchmen, dancers.

Gemini and Sagittarius.-

1-3° Publishers, advertising agents. 

4 -6° Glass manufacturers, jockeys, actors. 

7 -9 Scientists. 

10°-12° Scholars, musicians. 

13 -15º Numismatists, army and navy, criminologists anatomists, shipowners, bankers, pawn brokers. 16-18° Historians, chronologists, paper manufacturers. 

19 -21° Economists, financiers, bankers, insurance employees, mathematicians. 

22 -24 Philosophers and men of religion. 

25°-27° Railway men, hypnotists, players of tennis and cricket. 

28°-30° Astrologers and palmists, soldiers and sailors.

Cancer and Capricorn :- 

1 -3° Lawyers, smiths and ascetics. 

4 -6° Agriculturists, plumbers, geologists, botanists, zoologists, philatelists, 

7 - 9° Goldminers, goldsmiths, anthropologists and ethnologists. 

10°-12° Musicians, silk merchants, perfumers. 

13 -15° Sociologists, philosophers. lawyers and judges, skinners and tanners. 

16-18° Diplomats, statesmen, chemists, philosophers. pathologists, philologists. 

19-21° Poets, painters, sculptors, musicians, actors, grocers. 

22º-24° Oil producers, aviators meteorologists, chemists and teachers. 

25°-27° Versatile and high minded careers. 

28º-30° Comedians, nurses and veterinary surgeons.

Leo And Aquarius -

1°-3° Linguists, photographers pearl-fishers. 

4 -6° Astrologers, palmists, opticians, wine merchants. 

7 -9° Psychiatrists. 

10°-12° Psychologists, phrenologists, linen manufacturers. 

13 -15° Musicians, dancers, chemists, paper manufacturers, photographers. 

16-18° Clothiers, tailors, launderers, hosiers, hatters, wool merchants. theologians. 

19 -21° Grain merchants, 

28-30° Story-writers, actors, inventors, engineers. 

22º-24° Fishermen, men of religion, sailors, historians. 

25°-27° Shipowners, ship builders, corn merchants, barbers and hair-dressers, painters.

Virgo and Pisces :- 

1º-3° Sociologists. 

4 -6° Zoologists, astrologers. 

7°-9° Surgeons. 

10°-12° Zoologists, botanists, hairdressers. 

13-15° Coalminers, dentists, sculptors, soldiers, sailors, gun-makers, butchers. 

16-18° Policemen, railway men, goldminers, philosophers, muslin manufacturers. 

19°- 21° Sportsmen, hunters, lawyers, doctors, bankers, caterers, corn merchants. 

22° -  24" Dancers, musicians, poets, novelists, lawyers. 

25-27° Orators, electricians. 

29 - 30 Active careers

Sukra Graha Gayatri Mantras/सुक्र गायत्रि मन्त्राः

 सुक्र गायत्रि मन्त्राः :

1. ॐ राज रूपाय विद्महे भृगुसुताय धीमहि तन्नस्सुक्रः प्रचोदयात् 

2. ॐ अस्वध्वजाय विद्महे धनुर्हस्ताय धीमहि तन्नस्सुक्रः प्रचोदयात् 

3. महादेव्यैच विद्महे विष्णुपत्न्यैच धीमहि तन्नो लक्ष्मी:प्रचोदयात् 

4. भार्गवाय विद्महे दानवार्चिताय धीमहि तन्नस्सुक्रः प्रचोदयात् 

5. भृगु जयाय विद्महे दिव्य देहाय धीमहि तन्नस्सुक्रः प्रचोदयात् 

శుక్ర గాయత్రీ మంత్రాలు :

1. ఓం రాజ రూపాయ విద్మహే భృగుసుతాయ ధీమహీ తన్న శుక్ర : ప్రచోదయాత్ 

2. ఓం అశ్వధ్వజాయ  విద్మహే ధనుర్హస్తాయ ధీమహి తన్న శుక్ర : ప్రచోదయాత్ 

3. మహాదేవ్యైచ విద్మహే విష్ణుపత్న్యైచ ధీమహి తన్నో లక్ష్మీ ప్రచోదయాత్ 

4. భార్గవాయ విద్మహే దానవార్చితాయ ధీమహి తన్న శుక్ర : ప్రచోదయాత్ 

5. భృగు జయాయ విద్మహే దివ్య దేహాయ ధీమహి తన్న శుక్ర : ప్రచోదయాత్ 

నవగ్రహ దోషనివారణకు జపములు

నవగ్రహస్తోత్రము :-

ఆదిత్యాయచ సోమాయ మంగళాయ బుధాయచ

గురు శుక్ర శనిభ్యశ్చ రాహవే కేతవే నమః

రవి స్తుతి:-

జపాకుసుమ సంకాశం కాశ్యపేయం మహాద్యుతిం

తమోరిం సర్వపాపఘ్నం ప్రణతోస్మిదివాకరమ్

రవికోసం పై మంత్రమును 6,000 సార్లు జపించాలి. రుద్రాభిషేకం చేయించి

గోధుమలు, బంగారం దానం చేయాలి.

చంద్ర స్తుతి :-

దధి శంఖ తుషారాభం క్షీరోదార్ణవ సంభవం |

నమామి శశినం సోమం శంభోర్మకుట భూషణమ్ -

చంద్రుని కోసం పై మంత్రమును 10,000 సార్లు జపం చేయాలి. దుర్గాపూజ

చేసి బియ్యం, వెండి దానం చేయాలి,

కుజ స్తుతి:-

ధరణీ గర్భ సంభూతం విద్యుత్కాంచన సన్నిభం

కుమారం శక్తిహస్తం తం మంగళం ప్రణమాన్యుహమ్ |

కుజుని కోసం పై మంత్రమును 7,100 సార్లు జపం చేయాలి. సుబ్రహ్మణ్య

పూజ చేసి, కందులు దానం చేయాలి.

రాహు స్తుతి:-

ఆర్ధకాయం మహావీరం చంద్రాదిత్య విమర్ధనం

సింహికాగర్భ సంభూతం రాహుంతం ప్రణమామ్యహం

రాహువు కోసం పై మంత్రమును 18,000 సార్లు జపం చేయాలి దుర్గాపూజ

చేసి మినుములు దానం చేయాలి.

గురు స్తుతి:

దేవానాంచ ఋషీణాంచ గురుం కాంచన సన్నిభం

బుద్ధిమంతం త్రిలోకేశం నమామి బృహస్పతిం ||

గురువు కోసం పై మంత్రమును 16,000 సార్లు జపం చేయాలి. రుద్రాభిషేకం

చేయించి శనగలు దానం చేయాలి.

శని స్తుతి:

నీలాంజన సమాభాసం రవిపుత్రం యమాగ్రజం

ఛాయా మార్తాండ సంభూతం తం నమామి శనైశ్చరం |

శనికోసం పై మంత్రమును 19,000 సార్లు జపం చేయాలి. తైలాభిషేకం

చేయించి నువ్వులు దానం చేయాలి.

బుధ స్తుతి:

ప్రియంగు కళికా శ్యామం రూపేణ ప్రతిమం  బుధం

సౌమ్యం సత్యగుణో పేతం తంబుధం ప్రణమామ్యహం !

బుధుని కోసం సైమంత్రమును 17,000 సార్లు జపం చేయాలి.

శ్రీ మహావిష్ణుపూజ చేసి, పెసలు దానం చేయాలి.

కేతు స్తుతి :-

పలాశ పుష్ప సంకాశం తారకాగ్రహ మస్తకం |

రౌద్రం రౌద్రాత్మకం ఘోరం తం కేతుం ప్రణమామ్యహం ||

కేతువు కోసం పైమంత్రమును 7,000 సార్లు జపం చేయాలి.

నమస్కారములు చేసి ఉలవలు దానం చేయాలి.

శుక్రస్తుతి :-

హిమకుంద మృణాళాభం దైత్యానాం పరమం గురుం

సర్వ శాస్త్ర ప్రవక్తారం భార్గవం ప్రణమామ్యహం ||

శుక్రుడు కోసం పైమంత్రమును 20,000 సార్లు జపం చేయాలి. మహా

లక్షిపూజ చేసి, బొబ్బర్లు దానం చేయాలి.

ప్రతి ఒక్కరు ప్రతిరోజు నవగ్రహ స్తుతిని కనీసం 9 సార్లు జపం చేసిన

శుభం కలుగుతుంది.

Ketu gayatri mantras/केतु गायत्रि मन्त्रः

 

केतु गायत्रि मन्त्रः :

1. चित्रवर्णाय विद्महे सरभ रूपाय धीमहि तन्नः केतुः प्रचोदयात् 

2. पद्मत्रयाय विद्महे अम्रुतेसाय धीमहि तन्नः केतुः प्रचोदयात् 

3. धूम्रवर्णाय विद्महे विकृताननाय धीमहि तन्नः केतुः प्रचोदयात् 

4. अस्वध्वजाय विद्महे सॊलहस्ताय धीमहि तन्नः केतुः प्रचोदयात् 

కేతు గాయత్రీ మంత్రాలు : 

1. చిత్రవర్ణాయ విద్మహే శరభ రూపాయ ధీమహి తన్న: కేతు: ప్రచోదయాత్ 

2. పద్మత్రయాయ విద్మహే అమృతేశాయ ధీమహి తన్న: కేతు: ప్రచోదయాత్ 

3. ధూమ్రవర్ణాయ విద్మహే వికృతాననాయ ధీమహి తన్న: కేతు: ప్రచోదయాత్ 

4. అశ్వద్వజాయ విద్మహే శులహస్తాయ ధీమహి తన్న: కేతు: ప్రచోదయాత్ 

How is your Day - The Ashtakavarga Technique in Brahmayamala

On any desired day find the positions natal chart, find the number of bindus in each bhava occupied by the planets in the Zodiac. From the Bhinnashtakavargas of the the 7 planets on the day in question and find the total of the bindus associated with all 7 planets. 

The day-to-day  effects will be as per the Benefic Bindus obtained as follows :

Thus, the day-to-day prosperity or otherwise has been  mentioned by the sages. This important Ashtakavarga method  has been taught by God Shiva in the Brahmayamala to under- stand the effects of the Dasas and the day-to-day results, Whatever effects are given in the forgoing verses according to the Ashtakavarga bindus, they will be two-fold when the planets are in their exaltation, own house or Upachaya houses and proportionately reduced if they are otherwise. In this manner the effects of all the 12 bhavas should be  judged.

Mangal Dosha Or Kuja Dosha an Exhaustive View Point from various classical texts

 

MANGAL DOSHA

In determining marriage compatibility, position of radical Mars in  the horoscopes of the couple is given significant importance in certain parts of India. Placement of Mars is seen first before judging  horoscopes for any Kuta or even its inherent strength & virtues. Sacerdotal fire is said to get extinguished, if he is un matchingly placed in horoscopes of the couple.

A girl or boy having Mars posited in 1,4,7,8, or 12th  houses  of radix does not yield benefic results after marriage. One spouse  destroys the other. (Jyotir Vidyabharanam)  

A girl having Mars in 1,4,7,8, or 12th  houses destroys her  husband; & a boy having similarly placed Mars destroys his wife after  marriage. (Muhurta Sangraha Darpanam)  

If Mars is in 2, 4,7, 8 or 12th  houses in horoscope of  female, death of her husband will happen, & similar situation in the  horoscope of the husband will cause death of his wife (Kerala Shastra)

The latter view is accepted in South India where Mars in 2nd house is considered as cause of death of spouse instead of when posited in  1st as generally followed in the North India. Logic of including 2nd house in the consideration is that this house represents matrimonial  aspects  It is also accepted that the Mangal Dosha or Kuja Dosha is to be  reckoned not only from the radical ascendant, but also from radical  Moon & also from the radical Venus, as the Moon represents mind & Venus the sexual relations. It is also held that the Dosha is weak when  present with respect to the radical ascendant, a little stronger from the  radical Moon's position: & strongest when present from the radical Venus. 

Extending this logic some opine that Kuja Dosha should also  be seen from Jupiter who is significator (Karak) of 2nd house. But in  the above three quoted dictums no such reference has been specifically made. It appears to be a derived phenomenon, as  horoscope is judged from radical ascendant, radical Moon sign taken  as ascendant & position of Karak (significator) taken as ascendant.  

According to Muhurta Deepika, if either boy or girl is having the  Sun, Mars, Saturn, Rahu or Ketu in 1,2,4,7,8 or 12 houses in their  matal charts, they have Mangal Dosha. And, if only boy is having the said planets in these houses from the placement of Venus, he has the  Dosha  This Dosha gets cancelled if present in horoscopes of both bride &  bridegroom. As poison kills poison, it is opined that if death of a spouse is indicated in a horoscope, then he / she should marry a  person whose horoscope indicates the same. Or the Mars, causer of  the affiction, should be weak or ineffective or having beneficial  disposition, in which case the Dosha does not exist will not be  effective. But this logic is not accepted by some, as a weak malefic  causes more adversities than a strong malefic. Matching is felt  essential if Mars is strong, or with a malefic, or aspected by a malefic,  or is in a malefic sign or in a malefic navamsha or in a malefic  asterism.  According to Muhurta Deepika, count the number of afflictions  (Doshas) present in both the horoscopes due to placements of the Sun,  Mars, Rahu & Ketu. If the numbers of afflictions in the boy's  horoscope are more or equal than that of the number present in the    girl's horoscope, the union is recommended. (The more the afflictions , more the dosha and thereby more the adversity)    

Some of the antidotes of the Mangal Dosha are as  following :

1) if Mars is set or retrograde or debilitated or in enemy's sign  (in 1,4,7,8.or 12th houses) then Mars Dosha is not effective (Muhurta  Deepika) that means the person can marry another person who has no  Kuja Dosha 

2) If both the spouses are having Mangal Dosha or the total Gunas  in matching are adequate (more than 27) then matching is recommended. 

3) The Dosha is nullified if 2nd  house is having the Moon & Venus, or Jupiter aspects Mars; or Rahu conjoins Mars (Muhurta  Deepika)

4) If Graha Maitri is present & Gana is the same, & adequate  Gunas (more than 27) are present then, the Dosha does not exist (Muhurta  Deepika). 

5) If any malefic (the Sun, Mars, Saturn, Rahu or Ketu) is present in either of 1,4,7,8,12 houses in horoscope of a spouse; and in horoscope of the other spouse any malefic is placed in similar house-

then the Dosha does not exists (Phalita Navaratana  Sangraha).

6) There is no Mars Dosha if Mars is in Aries coinciding 1" house;  Scorpio coinciding 4" house: Capricorn coinciding 10 house; Cancer  coinciding house; or Sagittarius coinciding 12 house (Muhurta  Deepika)

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7) In the opinion of some, Mars in 2nd house coinciding with  Gemini or Virgo, 4th house coinciding with Aries & Scorpio, 7th  house coinciding with Cancer or Capricorn, 8th house  coinciding with Sagittarius or Pisces, 12th  house coinciding with Taurus or Libra - produces no Mangal Dosha

  

8) Strong Jupiter & Venus in ascendant or 7h house counteract the  Dosha. Some opine that if Jupiter or the Moon joins Mars, then the  Dosha does not exist,

9) If a spouse is having Saturn in 1st or 4th or 7th or 8th  or 12th then  the Mangal Dosha does not exist (Muhurta Sangraha Darpanam &  Muhurta Deepika)

10) if the Moon and Venus are in 2nd  house or Mars is aspected by Jupiter or Rahu is in quadrant, then Mangal Dosha does not prevail.

11) If Mars is in Leo or Aquarius ( in any of the said houses)  then the Kuja Dosha is not present at all

12) Mars does not cause Mangal Dosha to natives having Leo or  Cancer as radical ascendant, as Mars is Yogakaraka (special benefic) planet for these ascendants. But if Mars signifies malefic effects in such chart (being debilitated, combust, in enemy's sign etc.)  then, he shall cause the Dosha

Rahu Gayatri Mantra

 

राहु गायत्रि मन्त्राः

1. ॐ नागध्वजाय विद्महे पद्म हस्ताय धीमहि तन्नो राहुः प्रचोदयात् 

2. सूकतन्त्राय विद्महे पद्महस्ताय धीमहि तन्नो राहुः प्रचोदयात् 

3. ॐ नागध्वजाय विद्महे उग्ररूपाय धीमहि तन्नो राहुः प्रचोदयात् 

4. ॐ शिरो रूपाय विद्महे अम्रुतेसाय धीमहि तन्नो राहुः प्रचोदयात् 

5. ॐ भृगुपुत्राय विद्महे सैम्हिकेयाय धीमहि तन्नो राहुः प्रचोदयात् 

రాహు గాయత్రీ మంత్రాలు :

1. ఓం నాగధ్వజాయ విద్మహే పద్మ హస్తాయ ధీమహి తన్నో రాహు: ప్రచోదయాత్ 

2. సూకతంత్రాయ విద్మహే పద్మహస్తాయ ధీమహి తన్నో రాహు: ప్రచోదయాత్ 

3. ఓం నాగధ్వజాయ విద్మహే ఉగ్రరూపాయ ధీమహి తన్నో రాహు: ప్రచోదయాత్ 

4. ఓం శిరో రూపాయ విద్మహే అమృతేశాయ ధీమహి తన్నో రాహు: ప్రచోదయాత్ 

5. ఓం భృగుపుత్రాయ విద్మహే  సైమ్హికేయాయ ధీమహి తన్నో రాహు: ప్రచోదయాత్