Artefacts of astragalamancy: In tamil : paachigai sastram

Hello friends,

Every divination of india is constructed based on the strong spiritual basement and natures law, which was founded by perfected beings, namely Rishis. Astragalamancy is an ancient divination practiced through out the ancient lands of the world at B.C.E or even pre-historical periods. It is the fortune telling through dice practiced by ancients before undertaking any important task ie., travels, important decision etc.,

I got a tamil book regarding astragalamancy published at 1905. In which, The related poetic verses was published and the author explains the meaning of the verses in this book. Indian dice is different from westerns though, both uses hexagon dices. Indian dices are found to be rectangular hexagon- length is roughly equal to the finger. In total two dices of same kind should be thrown during dice games. But, The dice used for fortune telling is different from the dice used for dice games.
For fortune telling dice, sandal wood should be shaped like a rectangular hexagon(length of the finger). Only one dice should be used for fortune telling. This dice has 4 broad sides and 2 narrow corner sides. Among the 6 sides, 4 broad sides should be marked with number 1, 2, 10, 100 respectively.
We have to throw the dice thrice. Then, remember the numbers by order and read the results through the verses.

I proud to say hindu have the history of 5000b.c in their great epics which gives the details about origin of astrology, palmistry, martial arts, astragalamancy and other divinations and arts.

In the above mentioned book on astragalamancy, It is clearly stated that sahadeva is the first person revealed this secret to the world. He lived in india around 3100b.c. For Further information about sahadeva, the following link will be helpful.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahadeva?wasRedirected=true
- Regards, stalin.v

I really proud about this....