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Shri Shri Ganapati

Ratna

Aum bum bhudaya namah

Budha Ratna

Jewels for Mercury

Emerald = Panna = green beryl

Budha = malefic or benefic?

When the gem has no effect, Seva will help

75.47 carat (emerald) 13 carats (diamonds)

75.47 carat (emerald) 13 carats (diamonds)

Hooker Emerald-Diamond Brooch at the National Museum of Natural History

Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC - USA

Names for Budha-ratna:

  • harit = a color name, fawn-colored, bay-colored, or greenish-red, often used to describe horses, rivers or grass

  • English: emerald, esmerelda

  • Hindi: Panna

  • Azma-garbha - azma-garbhaja

  • Budha-ratna

  • garuda-maanikya - Garudha - garalaari - garutmata

  • Harit-mani - harit-azma - harit-opala = "greenish stone" = also name for turquoise)

  • indranila (also name for blue sapphire)

  • loma-saara

  • maha-marakata - marakata - masaara - masaaragalvarkamaya (emerald + crystal)

  • naathanIla –

  • rauhineya

  • sauparnya –

  • vaajavaala

  • zani-priya = "dear to Saturn" = dark-colored stones e.g. blue sapphire and emerald

Uparatna = Secondary Gemstone

  • More Affordable but weaker

  • green peridot

  • green obsidianite

  • chrome-green or green tourmaline

  • tsavorite = green grossularite

  • chrome-green or green diopside

  • green jade ( much less effective being aggregate not single crystal; however it is affordable)
Possible Benefits

NASA Milky Way Mosaic

NASA Milky Way Mosaic

Jyotisha viewpoint = emerald strengthens Budha's gifts of rational thought, counting and calculating, handcraft and tool use; hands, arms and lungs.

Because psycho-emotional conditions form the precursor to physical conditions, on the material plane the Budha-ratna may help to alleviate some discomforts related to lack of accuracy:

  • digits-hands-arms-shoulders (similar to Shukra)

  • irrationality, disorderly communications

  • "digital" functions such as counting, reckoning, enumerating

  • vayu-related disorders such as windiness, "spaciness" (similar to Shani)

  • sibling and team-mate relationships

  • business management

Also

  • logical argument and analysis, publications,

  • mercurial wit, examinations, licensing, cultural education,

  • articulation of word and gesture, hand-craft, tool-use;

  • conversations, planning, scheduling, medical treatment,

  • conflict management, communications, intellectual acuity, calculations and computations,

  • mentality, speed and accuracy of customary daily thoughts;

  • mental plane traffic-management

  • relationship with siblings, team-mates, collaborators, ensemble practice;

  • conferences and seminars; adult education and skill-based training

  • matters of Budha's domains in the Jyotisha nativity

Suitability

Emerald is an excellent companion to Mithuna lagna and Kanya lagna nativities.

Not good for Mesha lagna!

Metal setting

Traditionally in Jyotisha, it is recommended to set Emerald in brass

Because Budha is an inherently dual graha, setting in gold or silver is also OK.

Reputable Gem Dealer, emeralds

Mr. Ron Ringsrud at http://www.emeraldmine.com/

Vocabulary for Budha-Ratna

Koeln Sanskrit Lexicon:

Garudamata (garudazman)

  • coming from or sacred or relating to the bird Garuda

  • An emerald

Sauparna

  • relating or belonging to or derived from or treating of or resembling the bird Su-parna

  • the Sauparna hymn [RV] is a Vedic story

    • relating the transformation of the metres into birds

    • that they might fetch the Soma from heaven.

  • An emerald; dry ginger

  • no Budha-ratna for 3-12 Karkata lagna, 3-6 Mesha lagna;

  • 8-11 Vrischika (less likely) and 2-11 Simha (more likely) may have exceptions for financial purposes

  • Meena lagna 4-7 , and Dhanusha lagna 7-10 = Budha does suffer kendra-adhipati-dosha but under certain circumstances the panna may be prescribed, for example during Vimshottari period of Budha AND when Budha is lord of favorable bhava from Chandra]

Budha = malefic or benefic?

B.V. Raman, Three Hundred Important Combinations . (10th ed., Delhi, 1991, 1947).

"Malefics, Benefics, and Neutrals" p. 6

"Budha is

Dr. G. S. Kapoor.

(1994).

Gems and Astrology .

Ranjan Publications, New Delhi.

p. 93-95:

Emeralds National Museum of Natural History"Emerald is the gem stone ruled by Mercury.

Emerald will prove very beneficial to those in whose nativities Mercury is the lord of auspicious house.

  • If such a Mercury is badly disposed or is afflicted by conjunction with or aspect by malefics Emerald will neutralise the evil effect of such adverse influences.

Rituals:

  • Emerald should, as far as possible, be set in a silver ring on a Wednesday.

  • Fridays and Saturdays will also not be inauspicious for this work.

Then after observing the prescribed rituals and reciting the following Mantra 108 times, Aum bum bhudaya namah

  • the ring should be worn in the little finger of the right hand

  • about two hours after Sunrise,

  • on a Wednesday of the bright half of the lunar month.

The weight of Emerald

  • should not be less than 3 carats.

  • Emerald is an expensive stone. Those who cannot afford to buy an Emerald may use any of these substitutes and Aquamarine, Peridot, green zircon, green Agate or Jade; but the Jade which is sold in the market for Rs 1 or Rs 2 a piece is of no use.

Important:

  • Emerald and its substitutes should never be worn with Red Coral, Pearl and Yellow Sapphire and their substitutes."

Prepare to Wear

For all remedial gemstones, be sure to cleanse the stone energetically with extreme attention to proper mantra.

Flawless gems are expensive and hard to find. Use only a trusted Vedic-trained gemologist. It might be easiest to start with single gem and combine them as your finances allow.

According to Dr. G.S. Kapoor (Gems and Astrology, 1994, p 91)

" It is very important for all gem stones that before wearing them

  • they should be kept immersed for sometime in unboiled milk or Ganges water.

  • Afterwards the stones should be worshipped with flowers and incense,

  • and the Mantras of the planets should be recited 108 times."

[BPL note on Pearl + Panna

I take respectful exception to Dr. Kapoor's view that Chandra-ratna should not be mixed with ratna for the cool graha.

  • IMO Chandra is a "bridge" graha who is friendly with both the "hot" group (Guru, Surya, Mangala) and the "cool" group (Budha, Shani, Shukra).

  • If Pearl under the proper circumstances is to be worn simultaneously with a flawless emerald, the Pearl should have a blue or green tone

Moon has no enemies.

However: Budha, Shukra, Shani, and Rahu-Ketu *all* dislike Chandra

Therefore it is probably OK to wear Pearl with Emerald *during the major periods of Chandra*, presuming the two graha are well disposed in the nativity, and presuming that the panna and the mukthi are both flawless and properly set.

It may be preferable to wear Budha-ratna on the left hand and Chandra-ratna in the right hand, or to wear the Pearl as a pendant to touch the 4th chakra while the garudazman is set in a finger-ring of silver, if both stones are to be worn in the same period of life.]

Naturally for such a prescription to be feasible, Chandra and Budha must occupy mutual trines and both should rule good houses from lagna, For example regarding Thula lagna , the combination is warranted in adulthood because Chandra = L-10 for professional responsibility + Budha = L-9 for consciousness of the dharma.

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