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  123-C All Season Place, 87/208 Wireless Road, Lumpini, Bangkok-10330, Kingdom of Thailand 02-252-1230 • E-mail: sec@p-g-a.org SPECIAL SURVEY Bangkok - April 15, 2002. The Planetary Gemologists Association has completed an international survey on four of the most important aspects of Vedic Planetary (Jyotish) Gemology. These are: gem choosing methods, use of synthetics, use of semi-precious gems, and use of very flawed gems. Voting is by PGA Patrons & Members from all over the globe, including very senior and venerable personalities (listed below)... Here are the initial results: 1. Use of synthetics (lab created) gems in Planetary Gemology ? (total 96 voters) 10 voted YES or 11% use synthetic stones
2. Use of natural Upa-ratna (secondary) gems in Planetary Gemology ? (total 97 voters) 79 voted YES or 82% use natural semi-precious gems
3. Use of very flawed gems in Planetary Gemology ? (total 93 voters) 16 voted YES or 17% use very flawed stones
4. Gem choosing methods, Anukul or Pratikul ? (total 90 voters) 76 voted for Anukul-graha gem choosing or 84%
Below is the list of voters. PGA PATRON & MEMBER VOTERS Prof. Dr. Mangal Raj Joshi Aniruddha Dutta Anjali J. Arnav Medhi Ayyam Perumal Kanaka Sabhapathi Benjawan Arparpardh Bhaskaranand Lohani Bill Kent Chandra Prakash Shrivastava Darshan Diljit Shah Dennis Harness Dr. Amar Aggarwal Dr. Amar Gautam Dr. Bobbi Anne White Dr. Damodar Lalla Dr. Khilanath Bastakoty Dr. Kursija S.C. Dr. Mahha Dah Sheker Raajha Dr. Neeraj Lalwani Dr. Nilesh J. Chitalia Dr. Nimai Banerjee Dr. Partap Chauhan Dr. Randy Stein Dr. Sudhir Shah Dr. Theja Hettiaratchi Dr. Vikram Pratapsingh Bedi Edith Hathaway G. Kumar Ganesh Nathan Gary Gomes Gregory J. de Montfort Hewa Kurumburage Jayatissa Dharmadasa Hiranmoy Bhattacharyya Howard Beckman Jack Hauck Jai Maharaj Jawahar Mutha Jay Boyle Jayant Gopinath Kulkarni Jennifer Beckman Joanne Greig Jose Zaragoza Lopez K.S.Thampan Kannanchara Kanitha Brown Manmohan Tikku Meena Bhuwania Nick Hodgson Mihir Diljit Shah Mony Singh Nand Kishore Jhajharia Nanda A. Arambewela Nikhil Lalit Parekh Orawan Arkun Pandit Parsai Panditji Prakash Bharadwaj Pandit Siddhanthi Nandiraju Purnaiah Pemmaraju V.R. Rayudu Raaj Shekhar Padmashri Ramkrishna Dahake Raj Kapoor Rajashekar S. Rao Rajiv Verma Ramamurthy M. Muniswamappa Ramiah G. Krishnan Ravindra K Chunodkar Ravindrian K.K. Rekha N. Parekh (Mrs.) Richard S. Brown R.L. Gupta Robert Koch Rodolfo Ciscato Roeland de Looff Roger Perry S. Subba Rao Sandeep Arora S.G.V. Ramanam Shambhu Lal Daulatani Sharan Prabhakher Shikha Jhingran Shyamasundara Dasa Sofija Jasna Sourav Paul Sri Swami Shyamananda Stephen Quong Thiruchelvam S. Nadarajah Tom Hopke Umamaheshwar Subba Hegde Vijay Bharti Vimal Chopra Wendy Vasicek Jyotish Gem Powers AT A
GLANCE The Sanskrit name for the PGA was composed by HONORARY PATRON Prof. Dr. Satya Vrat Shastri, Padma Sri |