Brihat Jataka

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Chapter 19 Drishti phaladhyaya (results of planetary aspects) 
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When the Moon is in Aries aspected by Mars, etc., the person becomes a king, philosopher, equal to a ruler, virtuous, thief and poor, respectively. 
When the Moon is in Taurus aspected by Mars, etc., the person becomes poor, thief respected by people, ruler, wealthy and servant respectively. 
When the Moon is in Gemini aspected by Mars, etc., the person will be a seller of weapons, ruler, learned, courageous, weak and poor respectively. 
When the Moon is in Cancer aspected by Mars, etc., the person will be a warrior, poet, learned, ruler, living by weapons and have eye complaints respectively. 
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If the Moon is in Leo aspected by Mercury, etc., the person will become learned in astrology, chief or lord, Raja, barber, ruler and thief respectively. 
If the Moon is in Virgo aspected by Mercury, etc., the man becomes a ruler, commander, dexterous and aspected by malefics the person lives as a dependent upon women respectively. 
If the Moon is in Libra aspected by Mercury, etc., he becomes a ruler, goldsmith, merchant and by the evil planets killer of animals respectively. 
When the Moon is in Scorpio aspected by Mars, etc., the person becomes father of twin, polite, washerman, defective in organs, poor and ruler respectively. 
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If the Moon is in Sagittarius aspected by Mercury, etc., the person will protect relations, be a king, master of many, aspected by malefics the person will be showy or dissimulator, inattentive to other’s interests respectively. If the Moon is in Capricorn aspected by Mercury, etc., the person becomes king of kings, Raja, pandit, wealthy, and poor respectively. 
If the Moon is in Aquarius aspected by Mercury etc., he becomes a Raja, equal to a ruler, fond of other’s wives and aspected by other planets he will be fond of other’s wives respectively. If the Moon is in Pisces aspected by Mercury, etc., the person will be a jester, Raja, pandit and aspected by malefics becomes sinful. 
Stanza 4: 
If the other planets occupy the same horas as the Moon and aspect him the results will be beneficial. When the lord of the drekkana occupied by the Moon aspects him the results are favourable. If the Moon is aspected by planets in friendly houses, it is good. The results which have been stated above for each of the houses of the zodiac by the occupation of the Moon and the aspecting of other planets will also be similar when the Moon occupies the Dwadasamsa of those planets. Hereafter the aspects of the Sun, etc., in the navamsas, and the Moon in the navamsas will be detailed. 
Stanza 5: 
When the Moon is in the navamsas of Aries or Scorpio aspected by the Sun, etc., the person will be a ruler or chief of a town, fond of killing, clever in wrestling, king, wealthy and quarrelsome, respectively. When the Moon is in the navamsa of Taurus or Libra aspected by the Sun, etc., he will be obstinate, fond of other’s wives, good poet and happy respectively. Stanza 6: 
Moon occupying the navamsa of Gemini and Virgo, aspected by the Sun, etc., makes the man a stage wrestler, thief, poet, minister, musician and skilful in painting and arts respectively. When the Moon is in his navamsa aspected by the Sun, etc., the person will be lean, miserly or poor, saint, chief, brought up by females and fond of work respectively. 
Stanza 7: 
Moon in the navamsa of Leo, aspected by the Sun, etc., makes a man angry, protégé of a king, get treasure trove, brooking no opposition in command, childless and fond of cruel deeds respectively. If the Moon is in the navamsas of Sagittarius or Pisces, aspected by the Sun, etc., the person becomes well known for strength, clever in arranging armies in a battle, jester or humourist, minister, impotent and righteous respectively. 
Stanza 8: 
If the Moon occupies the navamsa of Capricorn or Aquarius aspected by the Sun, etc., the person has few issues, miserly while wealthy, pride, fondness for his own sectarian deeds, fondness for bad women and miserly habits respectively and when the Sun is aspected by the Moon, etc., similar results must be predicted. 
Stanza 9: 
The results which have now been detailed above for the Moon will be full, moderate and meagre as Chandra is in Vargottama, his own house or other houses. If the results are bad the above should be reversed. If the lord of the Amsa is powerful he will give his Amsaphala in preference to any phala which may be indicated by aspects in the rasi diagram. 
Chapter 20 Bhavadhyaya (planets in houses) 
Stanza 1: 
When Sun is in lagna, the birth will be courageous, slow, short or defective in sight, and cruel. In Aries, Sun makes a man rich and diseased in the eyes, in Leo it makes a man night-blind. In debilitation, Sun gives defective sight. When Sun is in the 2nd house, the person will be very rich, pays heavy sums to rulers and has a diseased face 
Stanza 2: 
Sun in the 3rd produces intelligence and valor. In the 4th, he makes the native unhappy and worried. In the 5th, Sun makes a man poor and issueless. In the 6th, he produces strength and defeat by enemies 
Stanza 3: 
Sun in 7th – disgrace from women. In the 8th, fine children and defective sight. In the 9th – possessed of children, wealth and happiness, the 10th – happiness and courage. In the 11th - very wealthy and in the 12th irreligious

Stanza 4: 
Moon in ascendant makes a man dumb, deranged, stubborn, blind, base, deaf or servant. If that birth falls in Cancer, Aries or Taurus, he gets wealth, many children or rich respectively. In 2nd, Moon produces a big family. In the 3rd, it makes a man cruel. In the 4th or 5th, he’ll increase those significations. In 6th, he gives many enemies, tender body, weak digestion, weak sexual inclination, cruel mind and languor

Stanza 5: 
Moon in the 7th makes a man envious and passionately fond of women. In 8th, Moon produces capriciousness and suffering constantly from physical ailments. In 9th, popularity, children, wealth, relations and friends. In the 10th, Moon gives success in all undertakings, charitable, rich, intelligent and courageous. In 11th, Moon produces fame, gains and all those items indicated by that house. In the 12th, he makes the person troublesome and defective in bodily organs 
Stanza 6: 
Mars in lagna – wounds or cuts in the body. In 2nd, dirty meals. In 9th, sinful. In other houses, his results are similar to that of Sun. Mercury in the first eight houses produces learning, wealth, baseness, wisdom, minister, foeless, versed in philosophy and endowed with good character respectively; in other houses, his results are similar to that of Sun

Stanza 7: 
Jupiter in the 12 houses gives the following results – learned, good speech, miser, happy, intelligent, foeless, eclipsing father, debased, pious, wealthy, profitable work and unscrupulous respectively Stanza 8: 
Venus in lagna gives skill in sexual indulgence and happiness. In the 7th, he makes the native fond of quarreling and sexual intercourse. In 5th, he gives happiness and in other houses, the result will be similar to Jupiter and in the 12th, Venus gives wealth 
Stanza 9: 
Saturn in lagna gives poverty, disease, cupidity, uncleanliness, sickness in early life and indistinct speech. If Saturn occupies exaltation or houses of Jupiter or his own house, which happens to be lagna, he makes the person equal to a king, protector of villages or towns, learned and handsome organs. In other houses, his results are similar to that of Sun 
Stanza 10: 
Take the birth sign, and the body, etc. and predict results by the planets occupying friendly, inimical, neutral, own and exalted houses. Satyacharya declares that benefics and malefics in the houses produce good and bad results in them respectively. And the results are reversed in the 6th, 8th and 12th houses 
Stanza 11: 
Planets in exaltation, in moolatrikona, in own, friendly, inimical, debilitated houses, and in combustion with Sun give good in full, three-fourths, half, quarter, little and nil results respectively 
Chapter 21 Asraya yogadhyaya (certain special combinations) 
Stanza 1: 
When one and more planets are in their own houses, the man becomes equal to his relations, chief of his family, respected by relations, wealthy, equal to a ruler, happy and king respectively. If one and more planets are in friendly houses, the person will be brought up by others, friends, cousins, brothers, chief of a community, commander and king respectively 
Stanza 2: 
If there’s one exalted planet aspected by a friendly one, the person becomes a king. When such a pleanet is conjoined by a friendly planet, he becomes very wealthy and commands universal respect. If one and more planets are in unfriendly or debilitated houses, they produce poverty, misery, dullness, disease, imprisonment, sorrow and hanging respectively

Stanza 3: 
Satyacharya declares Aquarius lagna as bad. Yavanas observe Aquarius Dwadasamsa as evil. Vishnugupta asserts that Yavanas are erroneous as Aquarius Dwadasamsa occurs in every lagna 
Stanza 4: 
If malefics join the solar hora in odd signs, the person becomes famous, undertakes great works, possesses strength, wealth and great personal attractions. If benefics join the lunar hora in even signs, the person becomes happy, tenderhearted, handsome, popular, intelligent and a polite speaker 
Stanza 5: 
If the planets in the same horas are found in other signs, the person born then will have results moderately. If the planets are reversed in horas and signs, the persons born won’t have the above characteristics

Stanza 6: 
If Moon is in his own or friendly Drekkana, the person will be handsome and virtuous. If Moon is in other drekkanas, the person will get the characteristics of the lord of the Drekkana. If Moon is in Vyala, Udyathayudha, Chatuscharana and Andaja drekkanas, the person will be vindictive, very cruel, fouling guru’s wife and traveler respectively Stanza 7: 
A person born in the navamsas of Aries, etc. will become a thief, an enjoyer, learned, wealthy, ruler, impotent, warlike, carrier, servant, sinful, cruel and intrepid. If these navamsas fall in vargottamas, the person born then will become master or chief of the above. The results for the dwadasamsas will be similar to the rasis 
Stanza 8: 
When Mars is in his own trimsamsa, the person will have wife, strength, ornaments, generosity, personal attraction and enterprising spirit. When Saturn is in his own trimsamsa, the person becomes sickly, loses his wife, possesses double heart, enjoys others’ wives, sorrowful, possessed of houses, clothes, servants, etc. and will be uncleanly

Stanza 9: 
When Jupiter is in his own trimsamsa, the person will have wealth, happiness, intelligence, attraction, respect, health, hope and enjoyment. When Mercury is in his own trimsamsa, he gives the man intelligence, education, poetic ability, eloquence, skill in arts, philosophic acumen, enterprise and much respect 
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When Venus is in his own trimsamsa, the man will be blessed with many sons, much happiness, health, popularity, wealth, beauty, vindictiveness, handsome body and enjoyment with many women. When Sun and Moon are in the trimsamsa of Mars, etc., the person will be warlike and slothful, cruel and killing, virtuous and wealthy, happy and learned, handsome and popular respectively 
Chapter 22 Prakirnakadhyaya (mixed results) 
Stanza 1: 
Planets in quadrants, when they happen to be in their own houses, in exaltations or in moolatrikonas, are mutually termed karakas. Of these, the planet in the 10th will be the best karaka 
Stanza 2: 
If birth falls in Cancer with Moon in it and Mars, Saturn, Sun and Jupiter are in exaltations, they become mutual karakas. For the planet in lagna, the planets in the Ambara (10th) and Ambu (4th) become karakas 
Stanza 3: 
If the planet in the 10th from the planet who occupies his own house or moolatrikona or exaltation happens to be a nisarga friend and also tatkalika, he becomes a karaka 
Stanza 4: 
If the lagna falls in vargottama, if good planets are in the vesi, if the quadrants aren’t occupied, if there are karaka planets, the person will be happy Stanza 5: 
If Jupiter, Moon’s dispositor or lagna lord occupies a quadrant, the person will have happiness in the middle of life. Planets in prushtodaya, ubhayodaya and sirshodaya give results in the end, middle and beginning of the man’s life respectively Stanza 6: 
Sun and Mars give results when they enter a house, Jupiter and Venus in the middle and Saturn and Moon in the end and Mercury always 
Chapter 23 Anishtadhyaya (misfortunes) 
Stanza 1: 
If the 5th and 7th houses from lagna or Moon be occupied or aspected by benefics or their lords, then these bhavas will prosper; if not, they’ll suffer. If the birth is in Virgo with Sun in it, the wife will be lost. If in this conjunction Capricorn is occupied by Mars, he causes loss to children

Stanza 2: 
If cruel planets are in the 4th and the 8th from Venus or if Venus is between malefics or if Venus isn’t combined or not aspected by benefics, the wife will be killed by fire, fall or ropes Stanza 3: 
If the 6th and 12th houses from lagna are occupied by Sun and Moon, the husband and wife will have one eye each. If Venus and Sun occupy the 7th, 9th or 5th, the wife will be defective 
Stanza 4: 
If Saturn occupies lagna, Venus in the 7th when it’s in gandantha and if the 5th is unoccupied by benefics, the person will become the husband of a barren woman. If malefics occupy the 12th, 7th and lagna with weak Moon in the 5th, the person will have no wife or son

Stanza 5: 
If Venus is in 7th, which happens to be the varga of Mars or Saturn and aspected by them, the person becomes fond of other women. If Saturn and Mars join Moon in the 7th and have the aspect of Venus, the person and his wife will both become adulterous. If Venus and Moon have Mars and Saturn in 7th, the person becomes wifeless or issueless. If female and male planets have Mars and Saturn in 7th aspected by benefics, the couple would be married when old 
Stanza 6: 
If the 10th, 7th and 4th are occupied by Moon, Venus and malefics respectively, the person destroys his family. If Saturn in a quadrant aspects the house indicated by the Drekkana joined by Mercury, the person becomes a sculptor. If Venus occupies the 12th, joining the Navamsa of Saturn, the person becomes the son of a menial servant woman. If Sun and Moon occupy the 7th aspected by Saturn, the person does degrading acts 
Stanza 7: 
If Venus and Mars join the 7th aspected by malefics, there’ll be serious danger from dysentery. If Moon is in either Cancer of Scorpio Navamsa and is in conjunction with malefics, the person will have diseases in secret places. If Moon joins lagna, Sun in the 7th and two malefics in the 12th and 2nd, the person will be attacked by a serious form of leprosy. If Moon is in the 10th, Mars in 7th and Saturn in 2nd from Sun, the person will be defective in limbs

Stanza 8: 
When Sun is in Capricorn and Moon between two malefics, the person gets asthma, consumption, spleen enlargement, carbuncle or abdominal tumors. If Sun and Moon mutually exchange places in rasi or amsa, the person gets pthisis. If these two join together in any one of their houses, he may become emaciated 
Stanza 9: 
If Moon occupies the 5th amsa of Sagittarius or the amsas of Pisces, Capricorn or Aries, and aspected by or is in conjunction with Saturn or Mars, the person will suffer from leprosy. If Scorpio, Cancer, Taurus or Capricorn becomes one of the trikonas aspected by or in conjunction with evil planets, the person suffers from leprosy 
Stanza 10: 
If Sun, Moon, Mars and Saturn occupy the 8th, 6th, 2nd and 12th in any way, the person loses his sight by the elevation of that dhatu which is indicated by the most powerful of these planets 
Stanza 11: 
If malefics occupy the 9th, 11th, 3rd and 5th houses unaspected by benefics, the person suffers from deafness, If these planets are in the 7th house, there’ll be decomposition of the teeth

Stanza 12: 
If Moon when occupying the lagna is eclipsed by Rahu, and evil planets are found in trines, the person suffers from devils. If Sun is eclipsed and occupies the lagna, the person becomes blind 
Stanza 13: 
If Jupiter occupies lagna and Saturn is in the 7th, the person suffers from windy diseases. If Mars is in the 7th, the person suffers from insanity. If Saturn is in lagna and Mars is found in 9th, 7th or 5th, the person suffers from insanity. If a weak Moon with Saturn is in 12th, the insanity can be predicted 
Stanza 14: 
If the dispositor of Moon’s Navamsa, Sun, Moon and Jupiter are in debilitation or in unfriendly amsas, they produce self-slavery, slavery by purchase or hereditary slavery when one or two or more of the above planets occupy such positions

Stanza 15: 
If the lagna is either Taurus, Aries or Sagittarius aspected by malefics, the person will have ugly teeth. If the lagna is in malevolent signs or Taurus or Sagittarius and is aspected by evil planets, the person becomes bald. If Sun is in the 5th or 9th aspected by malefics, the person will have weak eyesight. If Saturn is so situated, he suffers from many complaints. If Mars is so situated, there’ll be defective organs Stanza 16: 
If evil planets occupy 12th, 5th, 2nd or 9th, the person will be imprisoned according to the nature of that house. If lagna is in bhujaga (2nd and 3rd of Cancer, 1st and 2nd of Scorpio and last of Pisces) or nigada (1st of Capricorn) Drekkana, aspected by powerful malefics, the person will be similarly confined 
Stanza 17: 
If Moon with the ring or halo around him joins Saturn and is aspected by Mars, the person will be harsh, suffer from hysteria and consumption. If Sun, Saturn and Mars are in the 10th unaspected by benefics, the person will become a servant. If three or two or one of them occupy the 10th, the man becomes inferior, ordinary and superior servant respectively 
Chapter 24 Strijatakadhyaya (fem horoscopy) 
Stanza 1: 
Such of those results as the females couldn’t possess or enjoy must be attributed to their husbands. From the 8th in a female’s chart the death of her husband, from the birth sign and Moon her own beauty and from the 7th her husband and his love to her must be predicted

Stanza 2: 
If the lagna and Moon fall in even signs, the female will be modest; if they’re aspected by benefics she’ll be virtuous; if lagna and Moon fall in odd signs, she’ll have a masculine temperament and form and if these two are aspected or are in conjunction with malefics, she’ll be sinful and characterless

Stanza 3: 
If lagna or Moon falls in the house of Mars and occupies the trimsamsas of Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Mercury or Venus, the girl will be immoral before puberty, dancing woman, virtuous, double-hearted or sinful respectively 
Stanza 4: 
If the lagna or Moon is Taurus or Libra and occupies the trimsamsas of the above planets, she becomes sinful, marrying a second husband, virtuous, skilful in arts and reputed respectively. If the lagna or Moon is Gemini or Virgo and occupies the above planetary trimsamsa, the woman becomes deceitful, impotent, virtuous, good and adulterous respectively 
Stanza 5: 
If lagna or Moon is Cancer and occupies the trimsamsa of the above planets, she does what she likes, causes death to her husband, blessed with good qualities, skilled in arts and immoral respectively. If birth or Moon falls in Leo and occupies the trimsamsas of the planets named, she’ll be masculine, adulterous, queen, manly and commit incestuous intercourse respectively. If lagna or Moon falls in Sagittarius or Pisces and occupies the said trimsamsas, the woman becomes a servant, fond of low men, virtuous, sinful and childless respectively

Stanza 6: 
The results so described above for lagna or Moon in the various trimsamsas must be ascertained with reference to the strength or weakness of the lagna and Moon 
Stanza 7: 
If Saturn and Venus are in each other’s navamsas, aspecting mutually, or if the birth falls in Taurus or Libra, with the lagna Navamsa in Aquarius, the woman will get sexual satisfaction from females dressed in male attire

Stanza 8: 
If the 7th house is powerless, unoccupied and unaspected by benefics, the husband will be mean. If Mercury and Saturn are in the 7th, the husband will be impotent. If the 7th is a movable sign, the husband will be constantly traveling. If the 7th is occupied by Sun, aspected by malefics, she’ll be rejected by her husband. If there’s Mars in the 7th aspected by evil planets, she becomes a widow early. If Saturn is in the 7th, aspected by malefics, she’ll become old without marriage

Stanza 9: 
If there are several malefics in the 7th, she becomes a widow. If there are evil and good planets there, she’ll marry a second husband in the same caste. If there’s a powerless evil planet in the 7th aspected by a benefic, she’ll be rejected by her husband. If Venus and Mars are in the 7th, she becomes adulterous with her husband’s connivance Stanza 10: 
If the house of Mars or Saturn becomes lagna with Moon and Venus there aspected by malefics, the girl becomes adulterous along with her mother. If the 7th Navamsa from the lagnamsa falls in the house of Mars, aspected by Saturn, the woman’s sexual organ will be diseased. If the 7th Navamsa falls in a beneficial house, the woman will be beautiful and loved by her husband

Stanza 11: 
If the 7th from lagna or navamsas falls in the house of Saturn, the husband will be old and stubborn; if the 7th from lagna or Navamsa falls in the house of Mars, the husband will be fond of other women and cruel; if the 7th falls in the house of Venus, the husband will be loving and handsome; and if the 7th falls in the house of Mercury, the husband will be learned and intelligent 
Stanza 12: 
If the 7th is Cancer, the husband will be passionate and mild. If the 7th is Sagittarius or Pisces, the husband will be good and has control of his passions. If the 7th falls in Leo, the husband will be mild and hard-working 
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If Moon and Venus are in lagna, the woman will be jealous and fond of happiness. If Moon and Mercury are in lagna, she’ll be skilled in arts, happy and blessed with good character. If Venus and Mercury are in lagna, she’ll be beautiful, beloved and skilled in fine arts. If three benefics are in lagna, the woman will have a lot of wealth, great happiness and fine character

Stanza 14: 
Widowhood comes at that age which is indicated by the lord of the amsa occupied by the 8th lord, when there’s an evil planet in the 8th. If benefics occupy the 2nd, she dies before her husband. If Moon is in Virgo, Scorpio, Taurus or Leo, she’ll have few children Stanza 15: 
If Saturn is moderately powerful, if Venus, Mercury and Moon are powerless and the rest are powerful and if lagna is in an odd sign, the woman will be adulterous. If lagna is in an even sign and Jupiter, Mars, Venus and Mercury are powerful, she’ll become famous, learned in many sciences and a vedantini

Stanza 16: 
If an evil planet occupies the 7th, she’ll embrace that sanyasa which is represented by the planet occupying the 9th house. These results may be foretold during the wedding, during the search for the girl or during the query

Chapter 25 Niryanadhyaya 

Stanza 1: 
The native dies from such diseases as is indicated by the nature of the planet which aspects the 8th house and in that organ or part of the body that’s represented by the 8th house in the division under kalapurusha. If many planets aspect the 8th, there’ll be many diseases before birth. If Sun, etc. occupy the 8th, the person dies from fire, water, weapon, fever, disease, thirst and hunger respectively. If the 8th is movable, etc., death will happen in a foreign country, own land and during traveling respectively Stanza 2: 
If Sun and Mars occupy the 4th or 10th, death will be caused by stones. If Saturn, Moon and Mars are in 4th, 7th and 10th respectively, death will be caused by falling into a well. If Sun and Moon are in Virgo aspected by malefics, he’ll be killed by his own people. If the lagna falls in a common sign with the Sun and Moon in it, the person will be drowned

Stanza 3: 
If Saturn is in Cancer and Moon in Capricorn, the person dies from jalodara. If Moon occupies the house of Mars and is hemmed by malefics, the person dies from weapons or fire. If Moon occupies Virgo between malefics, death comes by corrupt blood or consumption. If Moon occupies one of Saturn’s houses between malefics, the person dies by ropes, fire or fall

Stanza 4: 
If the 5th and 9th are occupied by malefics unaspected by benefics, death comes from bondage. If the Drekkana rising in the 8th falls in a sarpa or nigada, then similar death occurs. If Sun is in lagna, Virgo falls in the 7th with Moon in conjunction with a malefic and Venus in Aries, the person suffers death from a female in his own house 
Stanza 5: 
If Mars is in the 4th and Sun and Saturn are in 10th, the man will be crucified. If malefics and a waning Moon occupy the lagna, 5th and 9th, the same results happen. If Sun occupies the 4th and Mars in the 10th aspected by a weak Moon, there’ll be crucifixion. If Saturn aspects the above conjunction, death results from beating

Stanza 6: 
If a powerless Moon, Mars, Saturn and Sun occupy the 8th, 10th, lagna and 4th respectively, death results from blows from rods or clods of earth. If the same planets occupy 10th, 9th, 1st and 5th respectively, death comes by smoke, fire, bandage or blows on the body 
Stanza 7: 
If Mars, Sun and Saturn occupy 4th, 7th and 10th respectively, death results from weapons, fire or the anger of the rulers. If Saturn, Moon and Mars occupy the 2nd, 4th and 10th respectively, the person dies by worms generated in sore wounds 
Stanza 8: 
If Sun is in the 10th and Mars in 4th, death comes by a fall from conveyances. If Saturn, Moon and Sun occupy the lagna with Mars in 7th, death comes by machinery or rocks. If Mars, Saturn and Moon are in Libra, Aries and a house of Saturn respectively, or if powerless Moon, Sun and Mars are in the 10th, 7th and 4th respectively, the person falls in feces and dies 
Stanza 9: 
If a powerful Mars aspects a powerless Mon with Saturn in the 8th, the person dies from worms or fire or instruments in treating of diseases in secret parts 
Stanza 10: 
If Sun occupies the 7th with Mars and Saturn joining the 8th and powerless Moon in 4th, death is caused by birds. If Sun, Mars, Saturn and Moon are in the 1st, 5th, 8th and 9th respectively, the person dies by falling from the top of a mountain or by lightning or wall 
Stanza 11: 
The learned indicate that the 22nd Drekkana causes death to the person. The death will be caused by the manner attributed to the lord of this Drekkana or the lord of the rasi to which it belongs 
Stanza 12: 
Death will occur in places similar to the rasi occupied by the lord of the Navamsa, in which the birth falls. Further details or specialties must be described by conjunctions and planetary aspects. The time of death has to be identified by the unrisen number of navamsas in the birth. If the birth lord aspects it, the time must be doubled; aspected by benefics, the time will be trebled 
Stanza 13: 
The dead body, as per the Drekkana in the 8th house, viz., dahana, jala and misra, will be reduced to ashes by fire or atoms by water respectively. If the 8th Drekkana is vyala, the body will be disgraced. The disposal of the dead body must be explained in this manner and as regards past and future births, the reader must consult elaborate works on the subject 
Stanza 14: 
Jupiter, Moon and Venus, Sun and Mars, and Saturn and Mercury bring people from devaloka, pitruloka, tiryagloka and narakaloka respectively. According to the position of the lord of the Drekkana occupied by the more powerful between Sun and Moon, we’ve to predict the high, middle or low state of the man in his previous birth

Stanza 15: 
If the lord of the Drekkana of the 6th or 8th or the planet who occupies the 7th indicates the state of man’s future existence after death. If Jupiter is in exaltation and occupies 6th, 8th or any quadrant, if Pisces is lagna occupying a beneficial Navamsa and other planets than Jupiter are powerless, the person attains moksha

Chapter 26 Nasta jataka (unknown horoscopes) 
Stanza 1: 
When a person has no record of his birth time or the time of conception, the birth must be predicted according to the lagna rising at the time of the question. The birth must be predicted in uttarayana or dakshinayana as the first or the second hora in the lagna rises 
Stanza 2: 
By the rising drekkana in the lagna, Jupiter’s position in 1st, 5th or 9th must be ascertained according to the appearance of the querist. If Sun is in lagna, the birth takes place in Greeshma and so on for other planets as stated before. If the rithu falls in a wrong ayana, then it must be corrected by the position of the Sun

Stanza 3: 
If a rithu falls in a wrong ayana, then change Moon, Mercury and Jupiter for Venus, Mars and Saturn respectively. If the first half of a drekkana rises, the first month of the rithu must be predicted, and the day must be proportionately found out 
Stanza 4: 
The learned Brahmin astrologers predict the tithi by reference to the degree of the Sun. The birth must be predicted reversely in the nocturnal and diurnal signs. By the degrees of the lagna, the birth time must be ascertained 
Stanza 5: 
Some say that the lunar month has to be made out with reference to the position of the Moon in navamsa. The position of the Moon must be made out by the most powerful among the lagna and trikona or by the touching of the organs, etc. of the querist 
Stanza 6: 
Moon’s position will be in that rasi which is equal to the number of rasis gained by him from the question lagna. If Moon is in Pisces, then that will be the sign occupied by him at birth. The position of Moon at birth may also be ascertained by the articles of food, by animals and sounds at the question time Stanza 7: 
The birth lagna will be that represented by the rising navamsa at the time of the query or it will be that lagna which, when counted from the question lagna, is similar in number to the drekkanas separating the question lagna from Sun at the time 
Stanza 8: 
Multiply the longitude of the planet in the lagna or that of the most powerful by chayangula and divide it by twelve. The remainder denotes the number of the birth lagna from Aries or the birth lagna will be the 7th, 4th, 10th or 1st as the querist is sitting or lying down or rising or standing respectively 
Stanza 9: 
Taurus and Leo, Gemini and Scorpio, Aries and Libra, Virgo and Capricorn must be multiplied by 10, 8, 7 and 5 respectively. The remaining rasis (signs) must be multiplied by their own number. Jupiter, Mars, Venus and Mercury must be similarly multiplied. The remaining planets must be multiplied like Mercury. This must necessarily be done with the signs. When there’s a planet in the lagna, it must also undergo this multiplication

Stanza 10: 
Multiply the result thus obtained by 7, and divide the total (after adding to or subtracting 9 from it) by 27; the remainder shows the number of the star in which the person is born. From the question lagna, the 7th, 3rd, 5th and 6th bhavas may also be indicated and their stars ascertained 
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By multiplying the total mentioned in Stanzas 9 by 10, etc. and also by adding to or subtracting from it and by dividing that by the various figures already given, the year, season, month, lunar day, night and day, constellation, time, ascendant, navamsa, etc. may be ascertained 
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From the total multiplied by 10, the year, season and month have to be found out. From the total multiplied by 8, fortnight and lunar day have to be ascertained 
Stanza 13: 
Take the total multiplied by 7 and from it, predict the constellation, day and night times 
Stanza 14: 
Take the total multiplied by 5 and ascertain the time, sign, hora, amsa, etc. 
Stanza 15: 
Take the matras of the real name, multiply it by two and add to the result the number of chayangulas obtained at the time and divide the total by 27; then, take the remainder and count it from Dhanishta to get the birth constellation of the querist 
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The figures 2, 3, 14, 10, 15, 21, 9 and 8 from the east, etc. must be multiplied by 15 and the number of persons looking in the same direction as the querist must be added to the total and divided by 27; the remainder shows the number of constellations from Dhanishta 
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Various methods have been expounded about lost horoscopes. The real student will accept that which he finds correct after laborious calculations 
Chapter 27 Drekkana adhyaya 
Stanza 1: 
The first drekkana of Aries represents a man with a white cloth around his waist, dark complexion, pretending to protect, fearful red eyes and a lifted ax 
Stanza 2: 
The second drekkana of Aries is sketched by yavanas as representing a woman with red cloth, fond of ornaments and food, pot-belly, horse-face, thirsty and single-footed 
Stanza 3: 
The third drekkana of Aries represents a man, cruel, skilled in arts, yellowish, fond of work, unprincipled, with a lifted-up stick, angry and covered with purple clothes 
Stanza 4: 
The first drekkana of Taurus represents a woman with torn ringlets, pot-belly, burnt cloth, thirsty, fond of food and ornaments 
Stanza 5: 
The second drekkana of Taurus represents a man possessing knowledge of lands, grains, houses, cows, arts, ploughing and carts, hungry, sheep-faced, dirty clothes and shoulders like the hump of an ox 
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The third drekkana of Taurus is represented by a man with a body like that of an elephant, white teeth, legs like that of a sarabha, yellowish color, and clever in capturing sheep and deer 
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The first drekkana of Gemini represents a female, fond of needlework, beautiful, fond of ornamentation, issueless, lifted hands and in menses 
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The second drekkana of Gemini represents a man, living in a garden, in armor, with a bow, warlike, armed with weapons, face like that of Garuda, fond of play, children, ornamentation and wealth 
Stanza 9: 
The third drekkana of Gemini represents a man, adorned, decked with gems, armored with a quiver and bow, skilled in dancing, drumming and arts, and poet 
Stanza 10: 
The first drekkana of Cancer represents a man, holding fruit, roots and leaves, elephant-bodied, residing on sandal trees in the forest, legs like that of sarabha and horse-necked 
Stanza 11: 
The second drekkana of Cancer represents a female worshipped on the head by lotus flowers, with serpents, full-blown youthfulness, living in forests on the branch of phalasa and crying 
Stanza 12: 
The third drekkana of Cancer represents a man covered with serpents, flat-faced and crossing the ocean in a boat in search of his wife’s jewels Stanza 13: 
The first drekkana of Leo represents a vulture and a jackal on the salmali tree, a dog and a man dressed in dirty garments, leaving father and mother, and crying 
Stanza 14: 
The second drekkana of Leo represents a man resembling a horse’s body with white garlands on the head, wearing krishnajina and kambalam, fierce as a lion with a bow in the hand and bent nose

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The third drekkana of Leo represents a man with a bear’s face, acts like those of a monkey, long beard, curved ringlets and holding a stick, fruit and flesh Stanza 16: 
The first drekkana of Virgo represents a female with a pot, full of flowers, covering the body with dirty garments, fond of money and clothes, and going to the home of the preceptor 
Stanza 17: 
The second drekkana of Virgo represents a man with a pen in hand, dark-complexioned, the head tied around a cloth, counting gains and expenditure, body covered with dense hair and holding a big bow 
Stanza 18: 
The last drekkana of Virgo represents a female, yellowish, covered by a great white silk cloth, tall, holding a pot and spoon, and going to a temple with great sanctity 
Stanza 19: 
The first drekkana of Libra, say Yavanas, represents a man seated in a shop in the middle of the road, holding balances, clever in weighing and measuring with a small scale for weighing gold, diamonds, thinking of his money and the prices of the articles in his shop 
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The second drekkana of Libra represents a man with a vulture’s face, hungry and thirsty, holding a pot which is ready to fall and thinking of his wife and children

Stanza 21: 
The third drekkana of Libra represents a man decked with gems, wearing a golden quiver and armor and frightening animals in the wilderness, resembling a monkey and holding in the hand fruit and flesh 
Stanza 22: 
The first drekkana of Scorpio represents a naked woman without ornaments, coming from the middle of a great ocean to the shore, dislocated from her original place, the feet bound by serpents and handsome 
Stanza 23: 
The second drekkana of Scorpio represents a woman fond of home and happiness for her husband’s sake and covered with serpents with a body resembling a tortoise and a pot Stanza 24: 
The last drekkana of Scorpio represents a lion with a broad flat face, resembling a tortoise, frightening dogs, deer, boars and jackals, protecting localities covered with sandalwood trees 
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The first drekkana of Sagittarius represents a man with a human face and a horse’s body with a bow in hand residing in a hermitage, protecting sacrificial articles and maharishis Stanza 26: 
The second drekkana of Sagittarius represents a beautiful woman, golden-colored, picking up gems from the ocean and sitting in a Bhadrasana fashion 
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The last drekkana of Sagittarius representsa man with a long beard, gold-complexioned, holding a stick, sitting in a splendid posture and keeping silks and deer skins 
Stanza 28: 
The first drekkana of Capricorn represents a man covered with much hair, teeth like those of a crocodile, body like that of a pig, keeping yokes, nets and bandages, and with a cruel face 
Stanza 29: 
The second drekkana of Capricorn represents a woman skilled in arts, broad eyes like lotus petals, greenish-dark, searching all kinds of articles and wearing iron ear ornaments 
Stanza 30: 
The last drekkana of Capricorn represents a man with a body like that of Kinaras, with a quiver, arrows and bow, and bearing a pot on the shoulder decked with gems 
Stanza 31: 
The first drekkana of Aquarius represents a man with a mind disturbed by oils, wines, water and food being brought to him, with a Kambala, silk cloth and deer skin and a face resembling that of a vulture 
Stanza 32: 
The middle drekkana of Aquarius represents a woman, covered with a dirty cloth in a forest, bearing pots on her head and dragging metals in a burnt cart loaded with cotton trees in it 
Stanza 33: 
The third drekkana of Aquarius represents a dark man with ears covered with long hair, wearing a crown and wandering with pots filled with iron, skin, leaves, gum and fruit 
Stanza 34: 
The first drekkana of Pisces represents a man decked with ornaments, holding in his hand sacrificial vessels, pearls, conch shells and gems, and crossing the ocean in a boat in search of jewels for his wife 
Stanza 35: 
The second drekkana of Pisces represents a woman with a color more beautiful than that of Campaka, surrounded by her attendants, and sailing in a boat decked with long flags in search of the coast of the ocean 
Stanza 36: 
The last drekkana of Pisces represents a man crying in a pit in a forest, naked and covered over his body by serpents and with a mind distracted by thieves and fire