V Vyu: K.P. Astrology - Birth Centenary of founder Late Prof. K.S. Krishnamurthi

'Krishnamurthi Paddhathi' of astrology is the product of 40 years of research by the founder Late Prof. K.S. Krishnamurthi. Prof. K.S.Krishnamurthi was born on 1st November 1908 at Thiruvaiyaru, Tanjore district. He later moved to Madras ie Chennai. KSK passed away in March 1972. (source http://astropskp.com/)

Prof. KSK was blessed with three sons and two daughters. All the three sons, Sri.Ganapathy, Sri Hariharan and Sri. Subrahmaniam and one daughter Smt. Soundara Rajan practise astrology, K P Paddhathi. Sri. Hariharan heads the research institute opened by KSK, now functioning at Spencer Plaza, Chennai.

On 1.11.2008, the family members along with their students and other astrologers who practise K P method had arranged full day grand function at Sri.Dakshinamurthy auditorium, Mylapore.

The function had two sessions, morning and evening with a lunch break in between. The introductory and felicitation part took major time in the morning agenda and so the number of guest speakers were only 3. The audience, who all had a minimum knowledge in Vedic astrology were disappointed that they missed speech by the sons who were to describe in detail what is K.P. Paddhathi.

I was one among the audience in the morning session and could not stay for the next.

I present this article with the meagre information I could grasp and some study through different web sites on this subject.

K.P. Paddhathi is the outcome of 3 styles, 1. Vedic astrology for basics, 2.Prassna Jothidam for the time of approach for predictions and 3. its own unique system which differs from Vedic Astrology.

Vedic Astrology has a definite horoscope set basing on the date, time and place of birth. It takes the centre of the house as the point and predictions made taking into account the natal chart and the gochara effects of major planets like Saturn, Jupiter and the nodes.

In K P Astology the ruling planets basing on the sign lord, star lord and sub lord for both lagna and Moon and the week day planet are first listed, the lagna being arrived at basing on the time a person approaches for prediction. If Rahu and Kethu are in the sign whose lord owns another sign and that planet is one among the ruling planets, then the nodes are also listed.

If any ruling planet thus arrived happens to be retrograde, that planet is to be eliminated.

Also the planet owning 8th and 12th place from the relevant house that is being studied, if happens to be a ruling planet, that should also be eliminated.

The ruling planet thus arrived gives the source, its star lord gives the effects & results and the sub-lord gives the final direction. ( source http://www.jyotishsolutions.com/kp.htm)

Prof. KSK divided each star into 249 divisions and each division called 'sub' and the ultimate result depended on sub. This explains the diverse destiny of twins born on the same star.

K P system considered the cusp as the point in contrast to the centre point of the house that is being considered in Vedic Astrology

Thus if the prediction for a particular event which will take place within a day, the time when the Ascendant will cross the ruling planet will be the result. Similarly for events within two or three days, the movement of Moon is taken for calculation, for events within a month, the Sun's movement is studied to pin point the day and time and for yearly events Jupiter's movement or the dasha, bhukthi, anthara are studied for fixing the events date and time of happening. (source http://www.kpastrology.com/kpbasics.htm)

People practising this method say that KP system gives the accurate prediction and the calculations are very scientific in nature.

Late prof. K.S.Krishnamurthi could do all the calculations manually when the usage of computers was not in vogue.

The function started at around 10.40 A.M on 1.11.2008 and the bust statue was unveiled by Sri. S.V.Shekar, cine actor, stage artiste and MLA of Mylapore constituency. It was also announced that two new books written by KSK will be released in the evening.