Vedic Garnets. Flawless Rhodolite Garnets. Uparatna for sun. Perfect alternative to ruby.

Superior quality Garnets have a long tradition as Jyotish remedies, allowing us to wear natural, untreated gemstones of excellent clarity at reasonable prices.

(Almost all rubies, the primary gem of the sun, have been thermally-enhanced and are too heavily "included" (imperfect) to be suitable for Jyotish recommendations. Recent changes in thermal-enhancement techniques have added "fracture-filling" to the list of ruby enhancements. Fracture-filling is very deceptive because the filling material is intended to disguise serious fractures that completely disqualify a gem for remedial purposes.)

Flawless, enhancement-free garnets of fine color are always better than rubies that have been thermally-enhanced and fracture-filled.

Beautiful Vedic Garnet with a slight orange tint..

Bright and Flawless and very affordable because of the orangish tint in its color. This is a great gem to select when you're on a budget because it has flawless clarity.

item: #g393
weight: 3.93 carats
total price: $250.

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Vedic Garnet Clarity Grading:
Vedic astrology determines garnet clarity grades with the unaided eye. Jyotish garnets for Vedic astrology should always be examined with magnification before determining the clarity grade but clarity grades are assigned without magnification.

This is also the procedure at the major Gem Labs: first examine the gemstone with a gemological
microscope and then examine, and grade, the gem with the unaided "naked" eye.

This is different from diamond clarity grading where clarity grades are assigned at 10X magnification.

The highest clarity grade at the American Gemological Laboratory is "Free of Inclusion" and the highest grade at the Asian Institute of Gemological Sciences is "Flawless". According to the Gemological Institute of America's Revised Colored Stone Grading Lab Manual, the top clarity grade is "Eye Clean".

These grades: "Free of Inclusion Gem / Flawless Gem / Eye Clean Gem " are assigned when an experienced, fully-trained gem-grader is unable to see any inclusions in a gemstone examined under ideal lighting conditions and without magnification.

When examined with a gemological microscope, almost all gems show some natural inclusions. Even a garnet graded "Flawless Garnet " or "Free of Inclusion Garnet " or "Eye-clean Garnet " almost certainly contains inclusions visible at some level of magnification. (As do most Flawless diamonds.)

Flawless Garnets / Eye Clean Garnets / Free-of-Inclusion Garnets show no inclusions to the unaided eye when examined by a trained, experienced grader using an ideal light source.

The next clarity grade below Flawless / Eye Clean / Free of inclusion is Near Flawless (NFL) / Lightly Included 1 (LI1).
Lightly Included 1 describes a gem that has just the tiniest inclusion, barely visible to the unaided eye of a trained, experienced grader. LI2 is similar but with one or two more inclusions, of the same minute size.

LI1/LI2 inclusions are so small that most people cannot see them without magnification.

Moderately Included gems: MI1 and MI 2 inclusions are slightly more visible but don't affect beauty or durability. These inclusions are often not visible to the casual observer--inclusions in MI1/MI2 gems are so small that many people cannot see them without magnification.

HI1 (Highly Included) show fairly obvious inclusions and they are never acceptable for Vedic astrological Jyotish gems.