The document discusses the principles of choosing gemstones in Vedic astrology according to ancient Indian texts. It describes the different colors and qualities of gemstones associated with the planets and signs of the zodiac. Various rules are provided for choosing the appropriate gemstone based on the planet's strength in the chart and the desired goals, such as strengthening kendra houses or the ascendant. The document also discusses the classification of gemstones according to deities and seasons, and their use for benefic versus malefic planetary placements.

1. Jyotiṣa in Everyday Life
Pt. Sanjay Rath
Vedic Remedies
Understanding the real power of good quality
gemstones, their appropriate size and the metal
to wear them in as well as the right finger for the
achievement of the purpose of wearing. Learn
the Navagraha mantra for a happy life.

2. Varāhamihira 80.1
1. Auspicious gems endowed with good
qualities ensures good luck for kings
2. Flawed gems with bad marks and qualities
brings disaster
3. Therefore gems must be examined and
tried properly before constant use
• Jyotiṣa gems must be of the highest quality,
spotless, appropriate size enabling constant
use and energized by worship of the graha
devatā

3. Varāhamihira 80.3
• Original source of gems are said to be
1. Created from the bones of Bala daitya
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The word bala also means strength
Jyotiṣa gems strengthen the graha
Therefore must only be used for functional benefic planets
[Anukula School]
Reference to bones = Sun, indicate that they are energized
by sun rays
2. Created from bones of Maharṣi Marīci (Dadhīci)
associated with the Sun
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Dadhīci bones (Sun kāraka) used for Vajra (weapon) for
Indra  Jyotiṣa gems are like astra (weapons) and must be
used carefully
Therefore must be used only for functional malefics which
have to be controlled [Pratikula School]
3. Created from characteristic quality of Earth

4. There are 22 jyotiṣa gems whose Sanskrit names are known
 12 jyotiṣa gems for the rāśi
 9 jyotiṣa gems for the graha
 1 jyotiṣa gem for the lagna
22 Jyotiṣa Gems

5. Classification-1: Pañca ratna
• Pañca ratna: Five principal
gemstones for pañca tattva listed in
veda
• Used when planets are in own sign
indicating the tattva and are lighter
color
1. Vajra (Diamond): Jala  Used to
free the waters by Indra
2. Indra-nīla (Sapphire): Vāyu
3. Marakata (Emerald): Pṛthvi
4. Padmarāga (Ruby): Agni
5. Muktā (Ivory-Pearl): Ākāśa

6. Navaratna śloka
“Bṛhat Jātaka1”, quoted in the “Maṇi- mālā2” also “Jātaka Pārijāta3”
māṇikyaṁ taraṇeḥ sujātyamamalaṁ muktāphalaṁ śītagoḥ
māheyasya ca vidrumaṁ marakataṁ saumyasya gārutmatama
devejyasya ca puṣparājamasurācāryasya vajraṁ śaneḥ
nīlaṁ nirmalamanyayośca gadite gomedavaidūryake
1.
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9.
Māṇikya (Ruby for Sun)
Muktā (Pearl for Moon)
Vidruma (Coral for Mars)
Marakata (Emerald for Mercury)
Puṣparāga (Yellow Sapphire for Jupiter)
Vajra (Diamond for Venus)
Nīla (Blue Sapphire for Saturn)
Gomeda (Hessonite or Opal for Rāhu)
Vaidūrya (Beryl, Cats Eye for Ketu)
1 Varāhamihira
2 page
575, verse 79 by S.M. Tagore (1879)
3 chap. 2, sloka 21 compiled by Śrī Vaidyanātha Dikṣitar

7. Varāhamihira 80.4
• Varāhamihira lists 22 jyotiṣa gems which in all
probability are for the 12 rāśi + 9 graha + 1 lagna
(12+9+1 = 22)
• Expunging the Navaratna (nine graha gems) from the
list of 22, we obtain the 13 jyotiṣa gems for the 12 rāśi
and Lagna
vajra
indranīla
marakata
karketara
padmarāga
rudhira
vaidūrya
pulaka
vimalaka
rājamaṇi
sphaṭika
Diamond
Sky Sapphire
Emerald
Chrysoberyl
Ruby
Carnelian
Beryl Cats eye?
Garnet
Pyrite
Red Diamond?
Rock Crystal
śaśikāntā
saugandhika
gomedaka
śaṅkha
mahānīla
puṣparāga
brahmamaṇi
jyotīrasa
sasyaka
muktā
pravāla
Moon-stone
Lotus-Ruby
Hessonite
Nacre
Blue Sapphire
Yellow ~
Topaz?
Agate
Azurite
Pearl
Red Coral

8. Inner and Outer Life
• In Jyotiṣa life is divided into two
segments – inner and outer life
• Inner life includes
1. Karma (Work) – Karma - 10th bhāva :
Mercury
2. Dārā (Spouse) – Wife and Children –
7th bhāva phala : Venus
3. Sukha (Home, Security) - 4th Bhāva :
Moon
4. Lagna (Self, Body) – 1st Bhāva : Sun
Varāhamihira spends four chapters in
describing these four gemstones for
Sun (Ruby), Moon (Pearl), Mercury
(Emerald) and Venus (Diamond)
Kāraka
1st : Sun
4th: Moon
7th: Venus
10th: Mercury

9. Diamonds BS 80.6-11
• Diamonds have various colors, shape –
1. White, Transparent : hexagon - Indra
2. Yellow, Blue : any shape, square – Viṣṇu
3. White : Female organ shape – Varuṇa
4. Red : Triangular - Agni
5. Pink : Barley corn – Vāyu
6. Black, snake mouth - Yama
• These devatā and colour are based on six
seasons. All gemstone colour, shape
classification is based on six-fold season

10. Diamonds BS 80.12-18
• Diamonds for profession, career are based on the
four varṇa and based on what one really does as a
profession
1. Brāhmaṇa: Teaching, Knowledge : White
2. Kṣatriya: Security, Army : Red, Pink
3. Vaiśya: Business, Trade : Yellow
4. Śūdra: All services : Black, dark
• Ensure that you choose a flawless diamond without
cuts, scratches, hair marks, perforation etc
 Women desiring sons should not wear a diamond
although Varāhamihira recommends triangular
diamond
 Bad diamonds ruins relatives, wealth and life while
good ones destroys enmity, protects from poison

11. Pearl Color BS 81.7
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Pearls have various colors, shape –
Bluish – Viṣṇu
Varāhamihira talks of
White – Indra
pearls for Moon as
well as nodes Rāhu
Yellowish – Varuṇa
and Ketu for which he
Dark – Yama
recommends Ivory of
Elephant and Boar
Reddish – Vāyu
Gray or Pinkish – Agni
Once again Varāhamihira has classified the
choice of colour of pearl based on devatā of
six seasons.

12. Pearl String BS 81.17
• One of the simplest ways to overcome the evil
effects of planets is to make donation of pearls at
a Kṛṣṇa temple or to a brāhmaṇa
Planet
Sun
Moon
Mars
Mercury
Jupiter
Venus
Ketu
Rāhu,
Saturn
String
13
16
20
25
30
40
55
80
Upadeśa
Pikkā
Piccā
Arghā
Ardha
Ravaka
Siktha
Nigara
Chūrṇa
Meaning
Young Elephant [20 Yrs]
Squeeze, Flatten
Proper reception at door
Half, also Region, place
From rava, sound, thunder
Rice ball, water removed
Swallow; smoke of burnt offering
rice with sesam

13. Elephant Ivory Beads BS 81.22
Ivory beads are best used (worn) on
Uttara ayana [Makara saṅkrānti]
Eclipse of Sun or Moon
Puṣyā or Śravaṇa Nakṣatra
Large beads or of various shapes are used
[Yantra etc]
• They should not be perforated for strings and
must be used as single pieces
• They give extreme brilliance in addition to
children, victory and sound health
• Chosen if Ketu is very strongly benefic
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14. Boar, Whale Ivory BS 81.23
• Pearl beads (Ivory) obtained from a boars
tusk or from a whale are said to be very
powerful
• Boars tusk ivory is chosen if Rāhu is strong
while Whale bone is for Saturn, Ketu
• Same rules for wearing –
1. Puṣyā or Śravaṇa nakṣatra
2. Eclipse of Sun or Moon
3. Uttara Ayana

15. Wearing strings
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1008 beads: Indu chandas
504 beads: Vijaya chandas
108 beads: Hāra (garland)
81 beads: Deva chandas
64 beads: Ardha Hāra (half-garland)
54 beads: Raśmi kalāpa (holding rays)
32 beads: Guccha (bunch, group)
20 beads: Ardha-guccha (half bunch)
16 beads: Māṇavaka chandas (Youth, Pupil)
12 beads: Ardha Māṇavaka
08 beads: Mandāra
05 beads: Hāra Phalaka (garland slab)
27 beads: Nakṣatra mālā

16. Examining the use of gemstones for functional malefic planets
1. ‘Parākrama’ (3rd house), or
2. Duṣthāna (6th, 8th and 12th houses)
Pratikula System

17. Dadhīci Bones
• Battle between Sun & Rāhu is related to eclipse
• When Sun is Indra, Rāhu is Vṛtra a brāhmaṇa who
forsakes dharma and fights the devas.
• Vṛtra was created by Tvaṣṭṛ Āditya (Aquarius) to
avenge the killing of his son by Indra (Leo)
• Vṛtra was a Viṣṇu bhakta who fell to wrong ways and
had to incarnate and was finally emancipated by
Viṣṇu by this brāhmaṇa birth
• Vṛtra captures the nāḍi (rivers, kuṇḍalini pathways)
and holds them captive in a fortress [Aquarius is the
pot that holds the waters]
• Indra gets the vajra weapon from the bones of
Maharṣi Dadhīci [power of gāyatrī] as advised by
Viṣṇu. Vajra also means “diamond”

18. Dadhīci Bones
• Viṣṇu takes 3 steps to create
battle field [
om
bhūrbhuva svaḥ]
• Battle between Indra and Vṛtra
lasts 360 [deva?] days and the
asura is slain. Indra regains
control of heavens
• Mantra
bhurbhuva is from
the name of Maharṣi Bhṛgu (
bh)
• Astra (weapons) are seen from
3rd house

19. Vajra - Diamond
• Vajra is in Tula rāśi = 3H from
Leo (Indra āditya)
• shows the weapon of Indra as
3H shows fighting skills,
weapons wielded
• Vajra is normally with two or
four bloated ends
• We have used this a number of
times with considerable success

20. Note to PGA President
1. The continuing debate on anukula (favourable, risk free)
and pratikula (unfavourable, appeasement) gemstones.
In principle, we strongly support the use of anukula
gemstones and would recommend a pratikula gemstone
only if it was involved in a strong favourable yoga in a
kendra (quadrant).
2. The nava-ratna or nine principal gemstones of the
navagraha, their definitions of quality including colour,
clarity etc. All the nine gemstones are ideally used with
the ruby in the centre surrounded with the other eight
gems in an eight-petal heart lotus formation, as a
pendant. We have been admiring your beautiful
creations.
3. Discussion on gemstone conflicts are interesting and in
principle we have found them to alter the strength of the
principal gemstone in a negative manner, provided they
do not form a part of any yoga.

21. Propitiate Maharṣi for 3rd bhāva
• Gemstone of the 3rd bhāva is only used for war
and battles just as the vajra yuddha (diamond)
was crafted for Indra
• The Maharṣi associated with the graha which
gets debilitated in the 3rd bhāva should be
propitiated before wearing the gemstone.
Dadhīci (Marīci) associated with the Sun which
is debilitated in Libra = 3H from Leo
• 3H is also the Guru-Upadeśa bhāva and
therefore without this propitiation of Maharṣi,
gemstone of planets in 3rd bhāva should not be
used. If none, then Nārada and Dattātreya.

22. P.V.Narasimha Rao
Use of gemstone of 3rd lord – became Prime Minister of
India out of the political vacuum created by assassination
of Rajiv Gandhi – Viparīta Rājayoga
Bhadra Mahāpuruṣa Yoga in the 10th house is supported by the two Agni tattva planets Sun
and Mars in digbala in 10th house. Planets in digbala bring blessings on a chart; Mars is Lord of
3rd house in addition to 8th bhāva.
Native wore a red-coral (pravāla) on right hand ring finger and became Prime Minister of India
during Mars daśā

23. Examining the use of Gemstones for –
1. Lagna bhāva 1st
2. Kendra bhāva 4th, 7th, & 10th
3. Koṇa bhāva 5th & 9th
Anukula System: Recommended

24. Amitabh Bachchan
Lagneśa is favorite
It is the safest bet for any astrologer as it makes the
person strive to succeed in this life's mission.
Strengthening the Lagneśa leads to better achievements for an individual. Saturn daśā (1971-90) made him
the king of Indian cinema, starting with Zanjeer (chains, bondage) in 1973
When his business was down, he wore one huge dark blue sapphire for Saturn and doubled it when it gave
huge benefits and brought him success in ‘kaun bangega crorepati’
Saturn is also the lagneśa of dasāṁśa (D10) and yogakāraka for navāṁśa (D9)

25. After choosing the planetary gemstone,
1. Choose metal for ring
2. Finger or pendant
3. Mantra for energizing
Wearing Gemstone

26. Time to Wear
• Choose starting muhurta carefully
1. Day should be ruled by the graha (for
navagraha gem) or tattva lord
2. No planets in 8th bhāva
3. Only benefic in 12th bhāva
4. Kendra beneficial
5. Malefics in 3, 6 or 11th bhāva
6. Jupiter or Venus in Kendra
7. Worship the graha, adhi and pratyādi
devatā before wearing gemstone

27. Details - General
Planet
Primary Gem
Sun
Ruby
Moon
Pearl
Mars
Red Coral
Mercury
Emerald
Jupiter
Yellow
Sapphire
Secondary
Red Spinel,
Rhodolite
Tissue ,
Moonstone
Carnelian
Green
Tourmaline,
Peridot
Yellow Topaz,
Heliodor
Venus
Diamond
Saturn
Blue
Sapphire
Rāhu
Hessonite
Ketu
Chrysoberyl
Cat's Eye
Metal
Weight
Finger
Day
Gold
3 carat
Ring
Sunday
Little
Monday
Ring
Tuesday
White Gold
2 carat
or Silver
Gold or Silver 6 carat
Gold
or Silver
3 carat
Little
Wednesday
Gold
3 carat
Ring
Thursday
White Sapphire
Gold or
Platinum
1 carat
Ring
Friday
Amethyst,
Blue Spinel
Gold
3 carat
Middle
Saturday
6 carat
Middle
Saturday
3 carat
Middle
Tuesday
Opal
Gold
or Silver
Gold
or Silver

28. Graha Mantra
Sun
om hsauḥ śrīṁ āṁ grahādhirājāya
ādityāya svāhā ||
Moon
om hrīṁ śrīṁ khrīṁ aiṁ glauṁ
grahādhipataye bṛhaspataye brīṁ
ṭhaḥ aiṁ ṭhaḥ śrīṁ ṭhaḥ svāhā ||
Venus
om aiṁ jaṁ gaṁ graheśvarāya śukrāya
namaḥ ||
om śrīṁ krīṁ hrāṁ caṁ candrāya namaḥ Saturn
||
Mars
om hrīṁ śrīṁ grahacakravartine
śanaiścarāya klīṁ aiṁsaḥ svāhā ||
Rāhu
aiṁ hsauḥ śrīṁ drāṁ kaṁ
grahādhipataye bhaumāya svāhā ||
Mercury
om krīṁ krīṁ hūṁ hūṁ ṭaṁ ṭaṅkadhāriṇe
rāhave raṁ hrīṁ śrīṁ bhaiṁ svāhā ||
om hrāṁ krīṁ ṭaṁ grahanāthāya
Ketu
budhāya svāhā
Jupiter
om hrīṁ krūṁ krūrarūpiṇe ketave aiṁ
sauḥ svāhā||