The texts of Samudrika
Brihat Samhita, the Garuda Purana, Samudrika Tilaka, the Jain Angavijja and Charaka: what each gives.
- 6-minute lesson
- Basic course: Samudrika Shishya
- Samudrika Shastra
- The main texts
- How a verse reads
A first look at the lesson
A verse names a feature and then its phala, the result the text gives for it. Commentators such as Bhattotpala explain the verses. Editions number the chapters differently, so always say which edition you cite.
Words in this lesson
More lessons on this subject
- 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.
- Reading old texts todayThe texts reflect their age; the fixed limits every Samudrika reader keeps, and why.
- Reading from the feet upThe order the texts read a body in: the feet first, up to the head, then the whole person.
- Kalapurusha: the signs on the bodyJyotish places the twelve signs on the body of time, Aries at the head to Pisces at the feet.
Your first lesson takes about five minutes
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