Prashna school
Prashna Marga · प्रश्न मार्ग
The comprehensive Kerala treatise on horary judgement.
Attributed to
Panakkat Namboodiripad
Approximate period
c. 1649 CE
Rights status
source_text_public_domain
What it covers
Casting and reading question charts, omens, the querent's condition, illness and affliction analysis, and remedial guidance.
Kerala-school authority on horary astrology, omens and remedial judgement.
Signature methods
- Detailed omen and approach-of-querent material
- Chart-fitness tests before answering
- Extensive medical and affliction chapters
What makes it different
It treats the whole situation — omens, manner, timing — as evidence, not just the chart.
How the Prashna school reads a chartChapter-by-chapter summary
Prashna Marga is set in 32 chapters across two parts. Numbering is stable; the groups below follow its argument.
How to work through Prashna Marga
- 1Read the chapters on the astrologer's preparation and the querent's approach before any chart rule.
- 2Learn the chart-fitness tests next — the text refuses to answer from an unfit chart.
- 3The medical chapters are specialised; treat them as reference, and never as a diagnosis.
9 entries covering the full text
These summaries describe what each chapter covers in Astravya's own words. No verses are translated or reproduced.
Glossary
- Aruda lagna
- Ascendant derived from a number or position given by the querent.
- Nimitta
- Omen taken at the moment of the question.
- Trisphuta
- Calculated sensitive point used in affliction analysis.
Published rules cited from this text
No rules from this text have been published yet. Entries appear here once a reviewer releases them.
Sanskrit source text is public domain; modern English renderings are not.
Every summary on these pages is Astravya's own wording of a classical principle. Sanskrit verses are not reproduced unless the source wording is out of copyright or licensed, and each published rule records its chapter, verse and rights basis.