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8) Now ask anyone which is the house of wife and children they would classically speaking it is 7Hand 5H but Parasara in Verse 12 uses the word PutraJaayadikasya – Putra means children and Jaayameans wife so probably Santhanam translated it as son’s wife.नानावुभवािप पुऽजायािदक च।अं वृिं पशूनां च भवानािरीक्षणम ्॥१२॥nānāvastubhavasyāpi putrajāyādikasya ca |anyaṁ vṛddhiṁ paśūnāṁ ca bhavasthānānnirīkṣaṇam ||12||Whereas Varanasi and Suresh Chandra Mishra edition is clear to say in 11H see Children and Wife(they do not say son’s wife). 11H for children and wife we found out with observation, we lectured onthis at Ahmadabad in a lecture arranged by Upendrasingh Bhadoriya & Sanghvi ji, and then the scholarsthere challenged to quote verse, same night we along with Bhadoriya spent hours going through varioustranslations and found the verse.We do not know Sanskrit at all and know 20 % of Hindi hence our above observation can be wrong atsome places and would happily accept corrections but what has been drawn from above is what isfollowed in common lexicon & also by consulting other scholars. One can infer what the Sage has so farsaid has been ignored till now or vice versa, but may it atleast make you a voracious and tooth-combingreader.2.2 The Controversy & Ambiguity of VersesTwo things are important, One is studying the shastra like a shastra and the other is gaining fromexperience as to what works amongst the written word. When we do not have even 1 % of whatour ancients wrote people spend time debating on forums on any topic in astrology or onmythological points which are only symbolic like South Node (Ketu) not having aspect since he doesnot have head. If ketu was a demon how was he made a graha and what happened after Vishnu severedhis head, was he given the head of a serpent by Vishnu, was he granted the status of graha, how was hegranted that status – this nobody asks nor do they go deep into the mythology is the complaint of thosewho use Ketu’s aspect. Most important that should guide you in your practice of astrology is whatworks, and good majority of practicing & utmost successful astrologers use aspects for Ketu. One of themost important debates lead by modern scholars is when Rahu Ketu are only mathematical points andnot physical planets, how can they have physical aspects. This is a very important point and should beused in this manner to see if they were only physical points how did some of our ancients even mentionaspects to rahu, getting verse for aspect of ketu might be difficult but why did they even mentionaspects (dristhis – sight) to Rahu in the first place, did they not have the basic intelligence to know thata mathematical point cannot give physical aspect/sight.Let us look into some verses which do give some hint on the aspects of the nodes which has beenignored so far otherwise you would land up like us who were insulted rudely by mentor during our 3 rdmeeting with him at Oberoi’s Mumbai, when we asked him if there is any classical base for nodeshaving aspect, he retorted sharply if you have not read jyotish or BPHS 6 then don’t waste my time.Today whip masters like him can only make us better students. Kindly note the words marked in brownin the Sanskrit verse.Verses on Rahu and Ketu aspects.Source: Varahamihira’s Brihajjataka “Vimala” commentary by Shrimadachytananad Jha, 5th edition1986. Published by Chaukhamba Amarabharati Prakashan, Varanasi.6 Mentor had access to elderly parampara people who had different versions of BPHS than available in the market but he hasnot been successful in bringing them out due to socio-economic constraints & unwillingness of people to share manuscripts.42