Prasna Marga
Prasna Marga — what it is, what it added, and what we retired from it.
Prasna Marga — unknown (Kerala horary tradition), translated by B. V. Raman.
Edition consulted: 2 parts, English with Devanagari and notes.
What kind of text this is
Two-volume translation; contents stable.
What it contributed
behavioural-avoidance — novel. A remedy consisting entirely of exposure reduction during an adverse window (22.33).
The corpus’s clearest case of a remedy whose mechanism survives intact. Needs no modernising at all.
gem-correspondence-classical — novel. The nine-stone-to-planet table (22.29), in a transit-remedy context, among things to be gifted.
Locates the real classical origin of the gem table - and shows what it does NOT say.
vedha-transit-cancellation — novel. Vedha and Vipareeta Vedha - transit effects cancelled and counter-cancelled.
A transit layer the vault does not currently compute.
What we do not carry from it
- 23 — Disease attributed to moral debt from previous lives. Excluded by product architecture (health, past-life attribution). Doctrinally it is the ancestor of the modern ‘you have a dosha, do this puja’ sale - worth knowing, never carried.
Reading the text yourself
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