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Chapter 12 Nabhasa Yogas 
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By combinations of two, three and four the multiples of 9, 10, 8 by 3, 3 and 4 respectively will be the number of Nabhasa yogas obtained by this process. Yavanas have described 1800 varieties but I will describe them here briefly. 
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If the planets are in Chara, etc., Rajju, Musala and Nala yogas are formed respectively according to Satya. These are Asraya yogas. Parasara mentions two yogas as Dala under sruk and sarpa when the benefics and malefics are in kendras respectively. 
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Asraya yogas, according to some, are really incorporated in the Yava, Abja, Vajra, Andaja, Golaka, etc., to be stated hereafter. Dala yogas have no separate significance, according to some, as the results of benefics and malefics occupying the kendras have already been indicated. 
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When two adjacent quadrants are combined with all the planets it goes under the name of Gada. 
It will be called Sakata when all the planets occupy the 1st and the 7th houses. When all the planets occupy the 4th and the 10th is called Vihaga. If all the planets occupy the 1st, 5th and 9th houses it is called Sringataka. If all the planets are in5th and 9th it is called Hala. So say the learned in astrology. 
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When benefics are in first and seventh and malefics are in fourth and tenth it is called Vajra. If the planets are reversed then it is called Yava. If the planets are mixed it is called Kamala. If the planets are outside kendras it is called Vapi. 
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I have give these Vajra yogas, etc., in accordance with older sciences, but how can Budha and Sukra be in the 4th from the Sun? 
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If all the planets are within the first four houses of the 1st, 2nd 3rd and 4th kendras Yupa, Ishu, Sakthi and Danda yogas are respectively formed. 
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If all the planets are in the first 7 houses from the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th kendras they give rise to Nau, Kuta, Chatra and Chapa yogas respectively. If these yogas are in other houses they are called Ardachandra. 
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If all the planets are in the alternate houses from the 2nd from lagna, it goes under the name of Samudra. If from lagna planets are similarly situated, it forms Chakra. This is the summary of Akriti yogas. 
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By all the planets occupying 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1 houses, they form seven yogas, viz., Vallaki, Dama, Pasa, Kedara, Shula, Yuga and Gola, respectively. These are to be considered in the absence of the previously mentioned yogas. 
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Rajju produces envy, foreign residence and fondness for traveling. Musala makes one proud, wealthy, and capable of doing many works. Nala makes a person limbless, determined, rich and courageous. Srik makes him happy and Sarpa gives him great misery. 
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Asraya yogas, when they join other yogas become fruitless. The yogas with which Asrayas join will give results. When Asrayas are free, they give their own results. 
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Gada=fond of sacrifices, rich; Sakata=lives by carriages, sickly, bad wife; Vihaga=ambassador, traveler, quarrelsome; Sringataka=happiness after a long age; Hala=agriculturist. 
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Vajra=enjoys happiness in the beginning and end of his life, popular, courageous; Yava=warlike, happy in the end; Padma=wellknown reputation, great happiness, and good character; Vapi=good health, accumulator of money and miser 
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Yupa=liberal, watchful, performs sacrifices; Sara=fond of killing, jailor, maker of weapons; Sakti=mean, lazy, devoid of wealth and happiness; Danda=servitude, rejected by or separated from those who are dear. 
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Nou=famous, unsteady fortune and miserly; Kuta=liar, imprisonment; Chatra=helping relations, enjoyment in old age; Chapa=courageous enjoying life in the first and last parts of his days. 
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Ardhachandra=popular, handsome, leader; Samudra=equal to a ruler, happy; Chakra=respected by sovereigns; Veena=intelligent and skilful, clever in dancing and music. 
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Damini=liberal, philanthropic, protector, many cattle; Pasa=possessing relations and servants who are clever in acquiring wealth, and bad in behaviour; Kedara=agriculturist, helping many; Shula=courageous, having wounds, fond of wealth but poor. 
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Yuga=poor, unbeliever; Gola=penniless, sinful, ignorant, skilful in mean arts, lazy, traveling. These are Nabhasa yogas related by me, and they will always be productive of their own results. 
Chapter 13 Chandrayogadhyaya 
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When Moon occupies quadrants, etc. from Sun, three yogas arise called Adhama, Sama, Varishta respectively, producing politeness, wealth, wisdom, intelligence and skill accordingly. If Moon is in his own or friendly Navamsa during the day and night possessing the aspect of Jupiter and Venus respectively, the person will be wealthy and happy 
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When benefics occupy the 6th, 7th and 8th from Moon, they cause Adhi yoga and the result is the birth of a commander, a minister or king. Persons born in this conjunction (adhi yoga) will be gentlemanly, happy, surrounded with luxury, without foes, long-lived and rejected by diseases 
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With the exception of Sun, other planets in the 2nd from Moon in the 12th from him and in the 2nd and 12th from Moon cause Sunapha, Anapha and Dhuradhura yogas respectively. If these aren’t so, many say it’s kemadruma. If planets are in quadrants from lagna or Moon or if Moon is combined with planets, there’s no kemadruma. Some say these yogas arise from quadrants and navamsas, but their doctrine hasn’t been accepted Stanza 4: 
There are 30 varieties of Sunapha and Anapha conjunction. There are 180 varieties of Duradhara. The intended varieties can be found out by placing planets in regular order and dropping the first in proceeding to the last and repeating this 
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A person born in Sunapha will be king or his equal with self-acquired wealth, intelligent, wealthy and reputed. A person born under Anapha will be a ruler, healthy, moral, renowned, enjoying good pleasures, fond of decorations and free from mental sorrow 
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One born under duradhura enjoys all pleasures, has wealth and conveyances, will be liberal and possessed of good servants. The person born under kemadruma, although he may take his birth in a royal family, will be dirty, sorrowful, doing work against his caste, poor, dependent and roguish 
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If Mars causes these yogas, the person will be energetic, wealthy, warlike and adventurous. If Mercury causes the yogas, the person will be skilful, have sweet speech and be learned in arts. If Jupiter causes the yogas, the person will be rich, charitable, happy and respected by rulers. If Venus, he’ll be fond of women, very wealthy and will enjoy sensual pleasures

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If Saturn causes these yogas, the man will enjoy others’ wealth and articles, will be engaged in various works and be a leader of an assembly. Moon, if visible in the day, does mischief but when he’s invisible, he’ll be auspicious. Otherwise, the results will be different

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When all benefics are in Upachayas from lagna, the person will be extremely wealthy. When all benefics are in Upachayas from Moon, he’ll be wealthy. When two benefics are in Upachayas, there’ll be moderate wealth. Less than that will produce little wealth. The results from these will predominate over others

Chapter 14 Dwigrahayogadhyaya 
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If Sun conjoins Moon, the person will be skilled in machinery and masonry; if with Mars, fond of sinful deeds; if with Mercury, skilful, intelligent, renowned and happy; if with Jupiter, he’ll be cruel and always doing other’s work; if with Venus he’ll make money on stage and by weapons; and if with Saturn, he’ll be skilful in working ores or earthenware Stanza 2: 
Moon with Mars makes a man a counterfeit, a seller of women, wives and pots and doing mischief to mother; Moon with Mercury makes a person polite in speech, clever in interpretation, popular and renowned; Moon with Jupiter makes a person successful against enemies, chief of that sect or family, capricious and wealthy; Moon with Venus makes a man skilful in weaving; Moon with Saturn makes a person the son of a second marriage 
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When Mars joins Mercury, the person will be a dealer in roots, etc., oils, imitation articles and versed in boxing. Mars with Jupiter produces a ruler of a city or king or a rich Brahmin. Mars with Venus produces cowherds, wrestler, skilful, fond of other women and gambler. Mars with Saturn makes the man sorrowful, untruthful, disgraced or blamed 
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When Mercury and Jupiter join, they produce a man who figures constantly on stage, when Mercury joins Venus the man will be fond of music, dancing, eloquence and protection of lands and assemblies. Mercury with Saturn makes a man a cheat and disobedient. Jupiter with Venus produces good education, wife, wealth and men of many virtues. Jupiter with Saturn produces a barber, potter or cook 
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Venus with Saturn gives a man small eyes, wealth from depending upon some females, artistic capacity, ordinary writing and painting. Similarly, results of combinations of more than two planets must be made out 
Chapter 15 Pravarajya yoga 
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When there are four or more powerful planets in one house, the persons born will become Sakya, Aajivika, Bikshu, Vriddha, Chakra, Nirgrantha and Vanyasana, when Mahaya, Gnya, Guru, Kshapakara, Sita, Prabhakari and Ina are powerful respectively. The pravrajya yogas are determined by the most powerful planets. When these planets have suffered a defeat, the person will renounce pravrajya afterwards 
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If powerful pravrajya-causing planets are in combust with Sun, then the persons born won’t take up sanyasa but will greatly worship those who have embraced sanyasa. If the yogakaraka and defeated planets are aspected by other planets, the person would be making an application for diksha Stanza 3: 
When janmesha isn’t aspected by other planets but aspects Saturn, or when Saturn aspects a weak janmesha or if Moon is in Saturn’s Drekkana and occupies the amsa of Saturn or Mars and has saturnine aspect, the person will have diksha Stanza 4: 
If Jupiter, Moon and lagna are aspected by Saturn, and if Jupiter is in the 9th, the persons born would be a king who’d write on shastras or sciences. If 9th is occupied by Saturn unaspected by any planet, the person will become a dikshita when he’s born in rajayoga

Chapter 16 Rikshasiladhyaya 
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The person born In Aswini will be fond of decoration, handsome, popular, skilful and intelligent. One born in Bharani will be determined, truthful, healthy, skilful and happy. 
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The person born in Krittika will be a voracious enter, fond of other’s wives, attractive and renowned. Rohini makes a man truthful, clean, following religious and moral principles, sweet in speech, fixed mind and handsome. Stanza 3: 
Mrigasira-Capricious, skilful, cowardly, good speaker, hopeful, rich and enjoying. Aridra-Dissimulating in self-interest, proud, ungrateful, cruel and sinful. 
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Punarvasu-Religious endurance, happy, good, dull, sickly, thirsty and pleased with small gifts. 
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Pushya-Control over passions, popular, learned, rich and charitable, Aslesha-Dissimulator, clever in selfishness, sinful, ungrateful and a cheat. 
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Makha-Many servants and great wealth, enjoying, respector of elders and gods and very enterprising. Pubba-Sweet speech, liberal, handsome, fond of traveling and royal servant. 
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Uttara-Popular, self-acquired property, enjoying and happy. Hasta-Enterprising, intelligent or (shameless), drunkard, cruel and thievish. 
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Chitta-Using various clothes and garlands, good looks and limbs. Swati-Polite, merchant, kind hearted, not able to endure thirst, sweet tongued and generous. 
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Visakha-Jealous, avaricious, handsome, clever speaker and quarrelsome, or maker of money. Anuradha-Master or chief, living in foreign countries, not able to bear hunger and fond of traveling. 
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Jyeshta-Few friends, contented, charitable, very irritable. Moola-Proud, rich happy, good, steady and enjoying. 
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Purvashada-Good and pleasant wife, proud and a steady friend. Uttarashada-Polite, knowing, virtuous, many friends, grateful and popular. 
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Sravana-Rich surroundings, learned, good and liberal or liberal to wife, wealthy and renowned. Dhanishta-Liberal, rich, courageous, fond of music and money 
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Satabhisha-Plain and truthful, striken from sorrow through females, etc., killer of enemies, adventurous and irreconcilable. Poorvabhadra-Sorrowful, loss of money through females, skilful and miserly. 
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Uttarabhadra-Good and witty speaker in society and meetings, happy, many children and grandchildren, successful over enemies and charitable. Revati-Well- developed organs, popular, courageous, clean and wealthy. developed organs, popular, courageous, clean and wealthy. 
Chapter 17 Rasisiladhyaya (lunar effects in the various signs) 
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Moon in Aries - Round and red eyes, eating hot and light food, fond of grains, easily calmed, traveler, passionate, fleshless knees, changeable wealth, courageous, liked by females, good servant, bad nails, cut or scar in the head, proud, chief among brothers, has Saktirekha (line) in the palm, capricious and dreading water. Another version is Ati Bhiru-one who is afraid very much. The stanza says Thoyecha Bhiru. 
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Moon in Taurus - Handsome, playful walk, long thighs and face, back sides and face contain some marks, liberal, bearing fatigue, possessing paraphernalia, begetting girls-phlegmatic, separated from elders, relations, family, wealth and children; popular, patient, strong digestion, loved by females, firm friendship and happy in the middle and end of his life. 
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Moon in Gemini - Fond of women, skilled in sexual science, red eyes, scientist, ambassador, curled hairs, clever knowledge in wit and human nature and gambling, handsome organs, sweet speech, good eater, fond of music, skilled in dancing, playing with impotents, high nose. 
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Moon in Cancer - Walking incurves quickly, high buttocks, submissive to women, good friends, astrologer, many houses, waxing and waning wealth like the Moon, short, stout neck, amenable to kind words, fond of friends, water and gardens 
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Moon in Leo - Angry, high or broad cheeks, coloured eyes, few children, hater of women, fond of flesh, wilderness and mountains, long displeasure, suffering from complaints arising out of hunger, thirst, stomach, teeth and mind; liberal, courageous fixed, proud mind and obedient to mother. 
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Moon in Virgo - Walt and sight will be characterized by modesty, bent shoulders and hands, happy, sweet speaker, truthful, charitable, skilled in arts, learned in sastras, intelligent, passionate, possessed of other’s wealth and houses, foreign residence, calm speech, female children and few issues. Stanza 7: 
Moon in Libra - Fond of worship ping Gods, Brahmins, pious people, intelligent, clean, submissive to women, tall, long nose, weak and disjointed organs, traveller, rich, ill-developed organs, clever in merchandise, having the second name pertaining to God (meaning that he will not have the names of Gods as Rama, Krishna but that which denotes the names of Gods, as Shanmuga-six faced-Gangadhara, etc.), sickly, helping relations, and coerced and rejected by relations. (Another version is Penangaha having well-developed organs, but this will be inconsistent with what has already been stated). 
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Moon in Scorpio - Broad eyes and chest, round knees, buttocks and thighs, separated from parents and Guru, sickly in infancy, respected by royal members, honey-color, cruel, has marks of fish, vajrayudha, and bird, secret sinner. 
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Moon in Sagittarius - Long face and neck, paternal wealth, liberal, poet, strong, clever speaker, thick teeth, ears, tips and nose; active worker, fine arts, bent shoulders bad nails, strong arms, highly intelligent, skilled in righteous knowledge, hater of relations and won over by fair means and kind words. 
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Moon in Capricorn - Pleaser of wife and children, pretending charity, lean in the lower half, good eyes, lean buttocks, grasping intelligence, popular, idle, not able to bear cold, traveller, strong liberal, poet, learned, miserly, incestuous and low intercourse, shameless and merciless. 
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Moon in Aquarius – Long neck like a camel, bulging veins and arteries, rough and closely haired, and long body, big legs, thighs, buttocks, back, waist, face, stubborn, fond of other’s wealth and women, and sinful, changeable fortune, surrounded by good flowers, scents and friends, bearing fatigue on the way. Stanza 12: 
Moon in Pisces – Enjoying other’s wealth and aquatic articles, fond of wife and clothes, well proportioned and handsome body, prominent nose, big head, conquering enemies, submissive to women, charming eyes, enjoying treasure trove, lustrous articles, wealthy and learned. Stanza 13: 
When the Moon, the sign in which he is, and its lord are powerful, the results indicated above will be fully verified. The other planetary results must be similarly suggested. 
Chapter 18 Rasisiladhyaya (results of planets in the various signs) 
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When the Sun is not in his deep exaltation in Aries, the person will become famous, clever, traveller, possessed of little wealth and bearer of arms. When the Sun is in Taurus, the person will sell scents and clothes, hate females and be clever in drumming and music. 
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When the Sun is in Gemini, the native becomes educated, astrologer and wealthy. In Cancer, he makes the native angry, poor, doing other’s work, and suffer from fatigue in traveling and other cares, In Leo, the Sun makes one love the forests, mountains and cattle, courageous and dull. When the Sun is in Virgo, the person becomes skilful in writing, painting, poetry, philosophy and mathematics, and possess a feminine body. Stanza 3: 
When the Sun occupies Libra, he makes the man a toddy-seller, drunkard, traveller, goldsmith and mean. When the Sun is in Scorpio, he makes the man cruel, adventurous and rash, making profits by sales of poisonous substances, losing wealth by robbers, and skilled in military weapons, and destroyer. When the Sun is in Sagittarius, the person will be respected, rich, angry, doctor and artisan. When the Sun in Capricorn, the person will be mean, ignorant, seller of low articles, little wealth, covetuous and enjoying at other’s cost.

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The Sun in Aquarius makes a man mean, separated from children and wealth, and poor, The Sun in Pisces causes wealth through articles found in water and fondled by women. When the Sun and the Moon are combined in a rasi, marks or moles in the organ which is governed by Kalapurusha, are found. 
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Mars and Aries and Scorpio – Respected by kings, traveller, commander, merchant, rich, cut or scarred body, thief, running through various sense pleasures or objects. Mars in Taurus and Libra – Submissive to women, ungrateful friend, fond of other’s wives, cheat, fop, timid and unsocial.

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Mars in Gemini and Virgo – Jealous, sons,, friendless, grateful, clever in music and martial work, miserly, undaunted and mendicant. Mars in Cancer – Rich, wealth procured through ships or through traveling, intelligent, wanting in organs and cruel. Stanza 7: 
Mars in Leo – Poor, enduring, traveling in forests, few children and wife. Mars in Sagittarius and Pisces – Many enemies, minister, renowned, courageous and few children. Mars in Aquarius – Sorrowful, poor, traveller, untrughful and irritable. Mars in Capricorn – Much wealth and many children, and king or his equal.

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Mercury in Aries and Scorpio – Fond of gambling, borrowing and drinking, atheist, thief, poor, bad wife, cheating and untruthful.

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Mercury in Taurus and Libra – Fond of getting instructors, children, wives and wealth, liberal, and respectful to elders. Mercury in Gemini – Liar, skilled in arts and sciences, polite speeches, and fond of happiness. Mercury in Cancer – Wealth through water, and hateful to his relations.

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Mercury in Leo – Hateful to women, without wealth, happiness and children, traveller, stupid, fond of women, and disgraced by his own community. Mercury in Virgo – Liberal, learned, many noble qualities happy, patient, expedient or resourceful and intrepid.

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Mercury in Capricorn and Aquarius – Engaged in other’s work, poor, not fond of arts, debtor, carrying out other orders. Mercury is Sagittarius – respected by king, learned, timely speech. Mercury in Pisces – Winning over servants to his side, and mean artist.

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Jupiter in Aries and Scorpio – Commander, possessed of large family, children and wealth, liberal and good servants, forgiving, handsome, good wife and famous. Jupiter in Taurus and Libra – Healthy, possessed of happiness, friends, wealth and children, liberal and popular. Jupiter in Gemini and Virgo – Surrounded by worldly paraphernalia or titles, children and friends, minister, consul and happy

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Jupiter in Cancer – Possessed of great wealth and gems, children, wife, enjoyment, intelligence and happiness. Jupiter in Leo – Commander and all the results indicated above in Cancer. Jupiter in Sagittarius and Pisces – Kind or minister or commander or wealthy. Jupiter in Kumbha or Aquarius will produce the results ascribed to him n Cancer. Jupiter in Capricorn – Mean, poor and unhappy.

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Venus in Aries and Scorpio – Fond of other women, losing money through their flattery and hater of his race. Venus in Taurus and Libra – Self-acquired property, respected by rulers, leader of his men, renowned and courageous.

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Venus in Gemini – Doing ruler’s work or service, wealthy and learned. Venus in Virgo – Doing very mean acts. Venus in Capricorn and Aquarius – Popular slave to women, and intercourse with bad women.

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Venus in Cancer – Gives two wives, mendicant, timid, full of sexual passion and sorrow through it. Venus in Leo – Getting wealth through a woman, handsome wife and few children. Venus in Sagittarius – Adorned with many good qualities and rich. Venus in Pisces – Learned, wealthy, respected by rulers and very popular.

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Saturn in Aries – Ignorant, itinerant, cheat and friendless. Saturn in Scorpio – Imprisonment, whipping, capricious and merciless. Saturn in Gemini and Virgo – Childless, poor, shameless, unhappy, not knowing painting, protective office and chief man. (One reading is skilled in painting. Another reading says he will be Rakshasapathi or lord of Rakshasas or evil genii).

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Saturn in Taurus – Connections with prohibited and low caste women, ordinary wealth and many wives. Saturn in Libra – Famous, respected by communities, towns, army and village, wealthy. Saturn in Cancer – Poor, loose teeth, motherless, childless and ignorant. Saturn in Leo – bad, childless and unhappy, carrying loads.

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Saturn in Sagittarius and Pisces – Good death or happy in the end, confident with princes or rulers, good children, wife and wealth, commander of towns, armies and villages. Saturn in Capricorn and Aquarius – Getting other’s women, wealth and other’s houses, chief of towns, villages and army, short sighted, dirty, permanent wealth, general prosperity and enjoying.

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The results which have been stated for the presence of the Moon in each rasi, and the results of aspects of Moon by other planets in the different signs will have to be applied for lagna. The prosperity and adversity of each bhava must be predicted by the strength of the bhava and its lord.  

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