The Jewel of the Star Crest

original: Nakshatra Chudamani

For those traveling, it is inauspicious—a fever lasting seven days brings danger to life. To pacify this: the deity is Aryaman The solar deity of nobility and patron of customs, who is red-colored, two-armed, and shaped like a lotus. One should invoke a golden image of the deity, offering red garments, red sandalwood paste, and blue water-lily flowers. Use Guggulu a fragrant resin for incense and offer red rice as a food offering. One should perform the sixteen-fold worship Shodashopachara to the deity Aryaman with his specific mantra. Offer three hundred oblations of clarified butter mixed with various grains while reciting the Gayatri mantra. Offer the ritual oblation Bali in the northern direction with sandalwood, garlands, and consecrated water. Within seven nights, one shall become happy.

Results of Days and Yogas

Yogas are specific astrological combinations of lunar days and weekdays

• Sunday: Accomplishment Yoga Siddha Yoga - favorable
• Monday: Burnt Yoga Dagdha Yoga - unfavorable
• Tuesday: Accomplishment Yoga
• Wednesday: Yama’s Tooth Yoga Yama-Damshtra - very dangerous
• Thursday: Auspicious Yoga
• Friday: Spear Yoga Shula Yoga - painful/difficult
• Saturday: Poison Yoga Visha Yoga

On the fourth lunar day, it is the Flaming Mouth Yoga Jvalamukhi. During the Bhadra period, it is Jina Yoga. If cruel planets malefics like Mars or Saturn are situated in the Revati star, it is the Great Spear Yoga. In the month of Margashirsha, it is considered "void" or empty. If a halo appears around the sun Chapa-parivesha, it indicates rain. If such portents are seen, two things happen: at the sun's transit Sankramana, the results are middling.

A girl who first menstruates under this star will have sons. It is excellent for rituals such as the first menses, rites for conception, hair-parting, naming, first feeding of solids, beginning Vedic studies, tonsure, initiation, returning from study, marriage, wearing new clothes or ornaments, coronations, ascending a throne, entering a city or village, riding a chariot, and sowing seeds.

Characteristics of the Native

The person born under this star is: proud, capable in all tasks, righteous, skillful, majestic, prone to illness through addiction to wealth/pleasure, has a warm body, possesses little happiness, is humble, and learned. The body is marked with signs like a mole or a fish.

Qualities of the Quarters (Padas)

1. First Quarter (Jupiter): Arisen portion; fond of literary compositions, always pure, prone to wind-related diseases Vata.
2. Second Quarter (Saturn): Sinful portion; impoverished, fickle-minded, a destroyer.
3. Third Quarter (Saturn): Fierce portion; ungrateful, humorous, fond of wicked arguments, hypocritical, and arrogant.
4. Fourth Quarter (Jupiter): Auspicious portion; endowed with knowledge and humility, blessed with sons.

The planetary period Dasha at birth lasts six years. On the fourth day after birth, there is fear of fever. In the third month, fear of wind-related illness. In the fifth year, fear of fever and danger from four-legged animals. In the thirtieth year, fear of wind and fire. In the sixtieth year, there is a minor threat to life Alpamrityu. If these are overcome, the full lifespan is eighty years.

The Qualities of the Hasta Star are Examined.

Marriage and all auspicious deeds, travel, royal coronation, consecration of houses, palaces, or towns; wearing Chitra-style clothes, fine ornaments, and vehicles; palanquins and sacrificial rites—all are auspicious under this star. The deity is Savitar The Sun. The color of Hasta is black, and it consists of five stars.