Reading old texts today
The texts reflect their age; the fixed limits every Samudrika reader keeps, and why.
- 7-minute lesson
- Basic course: Samudrika Shishya
- Samudrika Shastra
- Of their age
- The limits
- Why the limits
A first look at the lesson
The texts rank complexions and castes, judge women's bodies, and some advise choosing a bride by her body. These views belong to the societies that wrote them. Learn them as history, so you know the tradition, and never apply them to a person.
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.
- The texts of SamudrikaBrihat Samhita, the Garuda Purana, Samudrika Tilaka, the Jain Angavijja and Charaka: what each gives.
- 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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