Reading from the feet up
The order the texts read a body in: the feet first, up to the head, then the whole person.
- 6-minute lesson
- Basic course: Samudrika Shishya
- Samudrika Shastra
- Feet first
- Then the whole
A first look at the lesson
Brihat Samhita describes a person from the feet upward: the feet, the legs, the waist, the navel, the chest, the arms, the face and last the head.
After the parts, the reader takes in the whole person: build, proportion, lustre, voice and gait. The next lessons teach how the texts measure and describe these.
Words in this lesson
More lessons on this subject
- Kalapurusha: the signs on the bodyJyotish places the twelve signs on the body of time, Aries at the head to Pisces at the feet.
- What Samudrika Shastra isAn old Indian study of the whole body's marks and features, where it sits in Jyotish, and what it is not.
- The texts of SamudrikaBrihat Samhita, the Garuda Purana, Samudrika Tilaka, the Jain Angavijja and Charaka: what each gives.
- Reading old texts todayThe texts reflect their age; the fixed limits every Samudrika reader keeps, and why.
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