Searching the horoscope I was not even searching the horoscope of K.L.

Saigal as I thought that I would never get it. He died in 1947 and I never saw any astrologer ever discuss his horoscope or even refer to it. I met Mr. Raghava Menon, (he died in September 2001) the famous music critic, sometime in the 1988 and came to know of the biography of K.L. Saigal he had written. I got it, read it and saw the reference he had made to three astrologers in whose house Mr. Menon had seen the horoscope. These three astrologers were Yogeshwar Shastri in Moradabad, Rajgarhia in Delhi and Bannerji in Calcutta. Menon has written that he saw Rahu in lagna in all the three horoscopes with three different astrologers in three different cities. So it had to be Kanya lagna. The doubt was only about the correct degrees of the lagna and therefore of the navamsha. K.L. Saigal was born on 4 April 1904 sometime in the evening in Jammu where his father, a Punjabi, was posted as a tehsildar. From what I knew of K.L. Saigal, I could accept his lagna as Kanya and waited to get correct birth time if it ever came. The time I had fixed was around six thirty in the evening. Then came two bits of information. Mr. Raghav Menon told me that Kanya lagna was right, as that is what he had seen at the houses of all the three astrologers he had met. The additional information available was that K.L. Saigal always carried his horoscope in his pocket and had visited some of them in the company of even Pahari Sanyal in his Calcutta days. Then Pinky Karve, the supernormal gifted daughter of Yogi S.E. Karve, wrote to me through e-mail that Kanya lagna was right but the birth time had to be six hours and eighteen minutes in the evening. I worked on it and that is what I am using in this portrait of K.L. Saigal.

Searching the horoscope I was not even searching the horoscope of K.L. Saigal as I thought that I would never get it. He died in 1947 and I never saw any astrologer ever discuss his horoscope or even refer to it. I met Mr. Raghava Menon, (he died in September 2001) the famous music critic, sometime in the 1988 and came to know of the biography of K.L. Saigal he had written. I got it, read it and saw the reference he had made to three astrologers in whose house Mr. Menon had seen the horoscope. These three astrologers were Yogeshwar Shastri in Moradabad, Rajgarhia in Delhi and Bannerji in Calcutta. Menon has written that he saw Rahu in lagna in all the three horoscopes with three different astrologers in three different cities. So it had to be Kanya lagna. The doubt was only about the correct degrees of the lagna and therefore of the navamsha. K.L. Saigal was born on 4 April 1904 sometime in the evening in Jammu where his father, a Punjabi, was posted as a tehsildar. From what I knew of K.L. Saigal, I could accept his lagna as Kanya and waited to get correct birth time if it ever came. The time I had fixed was around six thirty in the evening. Then came two bits of information. Mr. Raghav Menon told me that Kanya lagna was right, as that is what he had seen at the houses of all the three astrologers he had met. The additional information available was that K.L. Saigal always carried his horoscope in his pocket and had visited some of them in the company of even Pahari Sanyal in his Calcutta days. Then Pinky Karve, the supernormal gifted daughter of Yogi S.E. Karve, wrote to me through e-mail that Kanya lagna was right but the birth time had to be six hours and eighteen minutes in the evening. I worked on it and that is what I am using in this portrait of K.L. Saigal.