Lesson S01-M02-L03: Physical and Material Correspondences — Quiz¶

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S01-M02-L03 · Chapter 3, Part 3 — Planetary Characters and Description

Recall¶

Explain, in your own words, the diagnostic logic behind the dhātu correspondence (v.31 Notes).
Explain why Digbala as taught here is a "preview," and name the chapter where it's fully developed.

A Horary chart's Ascendant lord is Venus (a Mūla-lord per v.47) and is well-placed. Using only today's material, what general category of query would this suggest?

Is "Saturn is the eldest of the planets" explicitly stated in verse text, or translator commentary? Cite the verse.
Is the full technical Digbala calculation (used for actual chart strength scoring) contained in this lesson, or deferred to a later chapter? Which one?

Check Answers

Blood (v.31).
Saturn (West) and Sun & Mars (South).
A planet's affliction or strength (especially via the Ascendant lord) shows up physically in its corresponding dhātu — strong/healthy if well-placed, chronically afflicted if badly placed, especially under Saturn's influence.
It's a preview because the translator explicitly flags the full technical system as developed later, in Chapter 29 (Shadbala).
A query about a living being's wellbeing/health, by the same Jīva-lord logic used for Jupiter in the text.
Explicitly stated in BPHS — v.48.
Deferred — the full calculation is in Chapter 29, not this lesson.