| The story of how the Bhrigu Samhita came about is interesting. Despite being well versed in the four Vedas and Puranas, the Brahmin community was not economically prosperous. Some academics believe that the Brahmin’s sole devotion to the goddess of learning, Saraswati , was the reason behind their pecuniary existence
As a remedy, an elderly sage advised Maharishi Bhrigu to start worshipping Goddess Lakshmi (the goddess of wealth) to bless the Brahmin community and rid it of daridrya or poverty.
After a long tapa sadhna , the goddess Lakshmi is supposed to have appeared before Maharishi Bhrigu and suggested he formulate a mystical science, a method to predict the past, present and the future. According to her, if this science — or astrology — was to be adopted by the Brahmins or any learned community, the whole world would be drawn to them and would come their way automatically.
While later the Bhrigu Samhita became popular as Astrology or jyotish and was accepted as a scientific method of predicting the past, present and the future, the Bhrigu Samhita as such was used and practised by the Brahmins for a long time. Famous poet Kalidas too quoted the Samhita in his book Uttar Kalamrit . Maharishi Parashar and Varahmihir were also well versed in this ancient ‘science’.
The existence of the Bhrigu Samhita however was not without its fair share of upheavals.
Particularly during the Mughal and other foreign invasions, the Brahmin community was dislocated and dispersed all over India. The invaders also captured these prime assets of Brahmins. For them the Samhita was mystical and miraculous way of fortune telling and some parts of it were
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