A first overall look
Putting height, proportion, chhaya and sara together on one person, said as the texts describe it.
- 7-minute lesson
- Basic course: Samudrika Shishya
- Samudrika Shastra
- Putting it together
- How to say it
A first look at the lesson
A first look takes in the whole person before any part: height and proportion, then chhaya, then sara. Meera, who is fictional, asked for a reading:
Words in this lesson
More lessons on this subject
- Chhaya: the five lustresThe lustre a person gives off, named after the five elements; an impression, never skin colour.
- The eight sarasCharaka's eight saras: the tissue or quality best developed in a person, named only as the text describes.
- 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.
Your first lesson takes about five minutes
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