# Salutations to the Holy Ganesha. Now begins the Illumination of Inquiries.

# Knowledge of the past and the future is achieved through the science of Astrology. This book of inquiries is supremely miraculous.

# 1 # As soon as the first letter of a name or question is spoken, the result is determined. By knowing the letters beginning with 'A', the eight categories such as the Banner and others are identified. # 2

# These categories must be calculated, and from them, the results are derived. A practitioner should organize this path using the eight-fold divisions starting with the Banner. # 3

# The Banner, the Smoke, the Lion, the Dog, the Bull, the Donkey, the Elephant, and the Crow: these eight categories should be used by the wise to assign auspicious or inauspicious results. # 4

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The following section maps the eight Ayas (symbolic categories used to determine the "income" or strength of a question) to specific Vargas (letter groups) of the alphabet.

The manuscript places "Dhvaja should be known" above the vowel group and lists the other seven categories beneath their respective consonant groups.