Events Some events of the life of K.L. Saigal was collected after my meeting Mrs.

Bina Chopra, (she died in October 2001) the only surviving daughter of K.L. Saigal in April 2001. i. His father Shri Amir Chand Saigal was a tehsildar in Jammu and after retirement settled down in Jullundhar and died after 1933. ii. His mother, Shrimati Kesari Devi was a housewife and a good singer herself, fond of bhajans which K.L. Saigal learnt from her right from his childhood. iii. They were five siblings, brother, brother, sister, K.L. Saigal and a brother. iv. K.L. Saigal married in 1935 (Venus-Sun) v. He had three children, a daughter (3 May 1937) daughter (18 January 1941) and a son. vi. After his fame as a singer spread, the great classical music singer, Ustad Fayyaz Khan , tied a ganda, the thread round his wrist to accept him as his disciple. It could be after 1935. vii. Died on 18 January 1947. (Venus-Sat-Rahu) Early in the morning, Saigal breathed his last. He was 42 when he died on 18th January 1947 in Jullundhar, his hometown. Naushad, the music director, has made a wrong claim that jab dil hi toot gaya was played during his funeral procession. Smt. Bina Chopra told me that it was wrong. When in Bombay, K.L. Saigal's health had deteriorated; he expressed his wish to meet a saintly person in Jullundhar while his family members insisted on his being treated by Bombay's doctors. K.L. Saigal then told them that they could take the doctor they trusted most to Jullundhar. On the day of his death, Moon was in Vrischika, right on the birth Moon of K.L.Saigal. Janma Chandra is a well known principle of fatality. Features of the horoscope a. Lagna lord, Mercury is in the eighth house with Mars hardly good for health. b. Moon, debilitated in the third house is good for musical abilities but in mrityubhaga,aspected both by Jupiter and Mars. c. Jupiter and Sun together in the seventh house gave him a happy marriage with atraditional Hindu women.. d. Venus, both the second and the ninth lord, is in the sixth house. The wrath of his father K.L. Saigal had to face was the well known fact of his early childhood and boyhood. e. The most notable feature of this horoscope is the vargottama position of the tenth lord, Mercury and the eleventh lord Moon. f. The musical potentiality in the horoscope is revealed in many ways. i. Moon in the third house. ii. Venus in the fourth from Moon aspecting the tenth house. iii. Mars in the rashi of Venus in navamsha aspected by Jupiter is a promise of musical abilities. iv. Mars in the navamsha of Venus aspected by Saturn gives love for the classical distinc-tion in life. v. Moon and Jupiter in Meena in trimshamsha is excellent for the love of the classical, the ideal and gives a rare dignity. vi. Then when the lagna is of Mercury and the trimshamsha lagna is of Jupiter, it is most promising for a dignified rise in life after achieving something which is valued by society.