
However, there are many superstitions regarding Lal Kitab in our society. These remedies or Upay are simple as compared to wearing costly gems, doing Yagya and Havan which are also costly to the common man. The Lal Kitab Upay has become popular and has become part of daily life as these are simple for example feeding grass to a cow, offering food to girls below 8 years, giving food to dogs, offering coins in flowing water, feeding crows, etc. The Totkas can be performed easily by a native without any kind of assistance. Soon Lal Kitab emerged as a popular astrological book because of simple Totkas that proved to be very efficient for common people. It has domestic usefulness that has been appreciated in Arab countries. Lal Kitab gives more importance to predictive astrology than mathematical astrology. Lal Kitab came into existence from that research. In the Mughal period, especially during the reign of Akbar and Dara Shikoh, a lot of research was done on Indian literature, Vedas, Upanishad, philosophical and astrological texts. These books were written in a simple language so that common man could understand easily. In Hindu tradition, books of accounts are in red color binding. According to him as per Hindu religion the colour red is an auspicious colour which represents Lord Ganesha and Maa Laxmi. He also explained why the name Lal Kitab was given. Pandit Ji kept on improving it version after version. After a year another book titled Samudrik Ki Lal Kitab Ke Armaan was established. This book had many discrepancies and found difficult to understand.

He first published a book titled Samudrik Ki Lal Kitab ke Farmaan in 1939. He aimed to bring together various branches of prediction and make it one.įor the first time,it emerged that whatever is readable from a Kundali can also be judged from the palm and he explained it nicely. He attempted to make a good combination of all these and named it Samudrik Knowledge. Pandit Roop Chand Joshi had a good knowledge of Palmistry, Vaastu and face reading along with astrology. Whichever is the authentic version, it remains true that Lal Kitab is a wonderful treatise of astrology that has some very powerful remedial measures. For many years Pandit Ji studied those scripts and came to a conclusion that the scripts were actually related to astrology and are from Lal Kitab.Īnother school of thought says that the Lal Kitab was actually the work of Pandit Roopchand Ji Joshi who was a cousin of Pandit Girdhar Lal Ji Sharma and that Pandit Sharma was only the publisher of the book.

Pandit Giridhari Sharma was a scholar astrologer and an expert linguist of that time, so the copper scripts were taken to him.

At that time some copper scripts written in Urdu and Persian language were discovered from a Lahore construction site. During the 19th century in Punjab region of Pakistan, Pandit Giridhari Lal Ji Sharma was working for the government under the British administration.
