Precious Stones
Jewellery industry mostly use three metals, gold, silver and platinum. Unlike metals, range of gems stones is vast. Thousands of colours shades, shapes, sizes and other attributes make gemstones unique. In Hindu tradition major gem stones have been attributed to deities. Indian ephemeris, which is thousands of years old has attributed precious stone a deity. This ephemeris gives traverse of nine major planets. Vedic astrology has assumed that these nine planets affect human on earth and have assigned a gemstone to each planet. Incidentally these are major gemstones
Planet English | Planet Indian | Gemstone English | Gemstone Indian |
Sun | Ravi | Ruby | Manik |
Moon | Chandra | Pearl | Moti |
Mars | Mangal | Red Coral | Povala |
Mercury | Budha | Emerald | Pachu |
Jupiter | Guru | Yellow sapphire | Pushkraj |
Venus | Shukra | Diamond | Hira |
Saturn | Shani | Blue sapphire | Neelam |
Dragon Head | Rahu | Agate | Gomed |
Dragon Tail | Ketu | Cats eye | Lasnya |
Apart from above gemstones other gemstones include, colorful Sapphire, Tourmaline Topaz, quartz, citrine, aquamarine, agate, hematite, jade, garnet, and gold stone are among the semi-precious stones.