rang bzhin kha na ma tho ba

kham yu Divination (kham yu)

• A technique for ascertaining the auspicious and inauspicious days for the bride's departure from the family home, in which the twenty-eight constellations are subdivided into two charts- one for the groom reading left to right which includes the first fourteen constellations, and one for the bride reading right to left which includes the last fourteen constellations. The differences between the natal year signs of the bride and groom and that of the present year are calculated in relation to these constellation charts, and juxtaposed with the planets or days of the week and the animal signs governing the respective years, months, days and hours, to indicate the various types of conjunction. See Part V, pp. 000-000. GD (from the Glossary to Tibetan Elemental Divination Paintings)