an e magazine from ASSAM & NAGALAND      

rhyme of 'rise and fall' of energy regime in the 27-day solar-terrestrial magnetic disturbance cycle.

In the manuscript stage when the present work was shown to a number of reputed Indian astrologers, they said that it is beyond their comprehension, and when shown to astrophysicists, one of them outright rejected the same and others accepted the logical basis of the work, but declared that, "it is extremely confusing".

The "confusion" part is an unavoidable burden of such work as the original sages themselves were a highly confused lot. They had a gut feeling generated by years of experience and hundreds of years of tradition that there is a periodicity of 'good or bad' days; days suitable for marriage or warefare with definite time gap between them. This periodicity was worked out from experience. The sages tried to synchronize the observed periodicity with the stellar-lunar occultation. They tried different Naksatra numbers; time lag was extended and shortened; space alloted to Naksatras were enlarged or diminished; stars were realloted and renamed; Naksatra series was headed by Kritika, then Varani, ultimately Aswini (because of shift of vernal equinox day). Parasara tried 28 Naksatras, Varahamihira 27, still they could not bring complete sychronization. Varahamihira's Naksatrakargunadhaya stellar classification is the result of at least two thousand years of metriculous observations and calculations. Honour should be given to those sages who could achieve this stupendous co-ordination even without knowing that there exists a 27-day solar energy cycle.

One should not confuse and relate the Dasa system of Indian astrology with the stellar classification.