Question

describe how astrologer was well equipped for his profession​

Answer 1

What did the astrologer's professional equipment consist of? The astrologer's professional equipment consisted of a dozen cowrie shells, a square piece of cloth with obscure mystic charts on it, a notebook and a bundle of palmyra writing.

Answer 2

The astrologer’s professional equipment consisted of a dozen cowrie shells, a square piece of cloth with obscure mystic charts on it, a notebook and a bundle of palmyra writing.

The author uses a simile to tell readers that people have flocked to the astrologer in the line, “People were attracted to him as bees were attracted to cosmos or dahlia stalks.

With the money that Guru Nayak gave the astrologer, the astrologer’s wife wanted to buy some jaggery and coconut to make sweets for her child.

The astrologer charged his customers three pice per question.

The astrologer’s simple customers mistook the sharp abnormal gleam in his eyes for a prophetic light and felt comforted in his presence.

The speaker of these lines was the astrologer’s last customer, who we later learn was Guru Nayak.