Bhojana Prasna ©Rafal Gendarz 2006

• Charter XXVII of Hari’s Hara Prasna Marga

What houses represent : 1 House Quality of eater, direction of eater 2 House Dinnging plates, leaves 3 House Item used as subsidiary dish 4 House Person who gives the food 5 House Server, butler 6 House Dishes 7 House Appetisers 8 House Quality 9 House Person who takes food 10 House Quantity 11 House Conversation at time of meal 12 House Rest after meal • Situation’s in houses 1 House Lagnesh tell about direction 2 House Saturn – plate has crack Sun or Mars - plate is squezzed or depressed, or leaf is faded Moon – clean, round plate Fixed – eating plate 3 House Sun and Venus – roots surana cheerai Sun – cooked, round, as “Vadai” Moon – sweet laddu, round Jupiter – breed 4 House Strongest planet indicate caste 5 House Mars – angry nature of butler, server Saturn or Rahu – not liberal 6 House Sun – hot dishes Moon – to much salt Mars – burnt / pungent Mercury – all taste Jupiter – sweet dishes Venus – mangoer or fruits Saturn – bitter Rahu Gulika – flesh 7 House Mars or Sun – pepper water Moon – curds Mercury, Venus – buttermilk Jupiter – milk Saturn – rice water / kanji Or : Sun or Mars or Saturn – oily Moon – rice water Jupiter – ghee Venus – butter 8 House Sun – food is half-cooked Mars – burnt Rahu – gives poisonous odor Saturn – bad taste Gulika – vermin/human hari/cinder burnt Benefics gives good-cooked food 9 House Number of grahas – how many associate Gulika – men will be polutted 10 House Malefic – one is not satisfied Opposite for benefic Urdvamukha sign – belly overloaded 11 House Sun – about rulers and politics Moon – women Mars – brave people Mercury – learned Jupiter / Venus – God & Brahmins Saturn – thieves & thugs Rahu – doctors Gulika – dead 12 House Benefics – good sleep Opposite for malefics Mars – lie down on woolen blanket Mercury – on skin of animals Sun – made of grass Moon – wooden logs Jupiter/Venus – soft bed Avastha of lord tell about quality of “bed”

• Other indication Author/Graha Krishneeya Others Sun Saltish & pungent Acidic Moon Soft & cold Saline Mercury Pungent Pungent Venus Sweet Sour Mars Bitter Hot Jupiter Pungent Sweet Saturn Sour & acidic Bitter

• influenced by benefics makes food sufficient • Odd Lagna makes food not soft • Mars & Sun occupy watery sign in eight – very dry food or causing heat, while Saturn & Rahu makes food very cold, Moon & Venus – cold & liquid, Mercury & Jupiter non- aquatic sign – food is with subsidiary dishes • Food Graha Food Sun Stag Moon Crab & fishes Mercury - Venus Cows & she-buffaloes Mars Stag Jupiter Elephants & horses Saturn Pigs & she-buffalloes • Watery signs and planets gives watery vegetables • Village signs and plaents – grown in rural places • Forest signs and planets – forest products • Malefics – liquid : rice water, barley water, cooked with grains appropiate to the planets • Benefics – food prepared with grains Graha’s Drink Sun Goat’s milk Moon Rice water (aspects add to it, Jupiter – ghee, mercury – curries) Mercury - Venus Cow’s milk Mars Goat’s milk Jupiter - Saturn -

Grahas in seventh bhava Sun Food of “Kastha Saka” Moon - Mercury Liquid/green color Venus - Mars Prepared with flesh Jupiter - Saturn Dead small animals

Graha’s Flesh Malefics Flesh of carnivour animals Benefics Flesh of vegetarian animals Mercury Half that and half that Jupiter Vegetarian animals Moon Animals which eats fishes and vermins

• Ninth house represent nimbor of co-dine, their caste & appearance Sign Food Goat’s flesh Cow’s flesh Fish Raw fruits Fish - - Raw fruits Saggitarius Fish Raw fruits - Raw fruits

• Jupiter rules payasa with ghee • Venus food with honey , milk, breed

Arudha What means? Movable Many meals Common Twice Fixed Once Odd + benefics Hungry at time Even + malefics Not hungry

• Gestures, words and action of questioner are important • Lagna influenced by benefics querent had sumptous meals Graha’s Dinning place Sun Cowshed Moon Daughter served meal Mars Co-eaters were thieves Mercury Exchange of words while eating Jupiter Querrent took also money Venus Wife served food Saturn Food connected to sraddha

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