In Fate magazine (June 1982), David Christopher Lane, a noted scholar of spiritual movements and cults, described a personal consultation with HinduĪstrologers in Hoshiarpur, Punjab, India, who were custodians of a set of Bhrigu-Samhita leaves.
Indian astrologers reported using the Bhrigu-Samhita include Pandit Devakinandan Shastri of Swarsati Phatak, in the old city of Benares and Pandit Biswanath Bannerjee of Sadananda Road (near the Ujjala movie house) in Calcutta. To give the name of the client compiled from Sanskrit syllables approximating names in any language, with details of past, present, andįuture life, as well as previous incarnations.In addition to his fee, the astrologer usually proposes the sponsorship of a special religious rite to propitiate the gods for past sins. No complete manuscript is known, but large sections are rumored to exist somewhere in India.Ī printed version is said to comprise some 200 volumes, but most Indian astrologers who use the system work with loose manuscript pages.
He compiled this information in his great treatise on astrology, originally written on palm leaves. Vision of everyone who was to be born in every country of the world. Race, it is difficult to identify the compiler of the Bhrigu-Samhita, but according to legend he lived 10,000 years ago and had a divine The original Bhrigu was a Vedic sage and is mentioned in the Mahabharata. "The Bhrigu Samhita: An ancient Hindu astrological treatise, said to contain details of millions of lives, with horoscopes drawnįor the time of consultation.