Naadi History
Naadi Astrology (Naadi jyothidam) This days we hear about people with powers of extra sensory perceptions. The Rights were holy says who occupied themselves in concentrating of the one DIVINE BEING PARAMATHMA. They far exceeded the powers of ESP people. More than that they were able to know the future by their foresight. With this foresight the Rishis like Agasthiya, Kousiha, Vasishta, MahasivaVakkiyar have given predictions for the human being occupying this world. Let us take for instance any particular moment of a Day. Many lives are born in this world at any given moment-human lives, plant life and animals.The Rishis have ignored the last two and confined their predictions only to function beings. And that not for all the humans. Predictions are given only for such of those persons, who the Rishis out of their wisdom envisaged will come forward to study these predictions. This exact age in which each such person will come for this study has also been foretold by the Rishis.
This predictions were inscribed, on palm leaves, like many other arts and science of ancient days. This were also in Sanskrit. Later day Tamil Kings gathered all such palm leaves irrespective of the subjects they deals upon and stored them in big libraries.
These leaves which are the repository of the wisdom of ancient Rishis would otherwise have been lost to us. The kind of Tanjore, a true patron of Arts and Science found a reserve for these palm leaves in his palace library.
He also got them translated in to Tamil with the help of Pundits. These palm leaves containing the astrological inscriptions were obtained in auction during the British rule by my fore fathers, who were living a Vaitheeswarankoil more than three hundred years back.
Before revealing the predictions of each person, a palm leaf is first identified by furnishing his date of birth details, planetary positions at the time of his birth, parentage, name of some close relatives, positions in life, marital status etc. After this the predictions for the individual follow from the date of his studying the Naadi to his last day. The past, i.e the happening from date of birth to date of studying the leaf is not covered. This is probably in order to avoid any complications arising in human lives.
These palm leaves containing the astrological inscriptions were obtained in auction during the British rule by my fore fathers, who were living a Vaitheeswarankoil more than three hundred years back.