Yavana Jataka by Yavanacharya

CHAPTER 41

1. Those planets which are in the upacaya-places from the ascendent or are in their own base-triplicities, friends’ houses, or signs of exaltation, and are not depressed, have a very good influence in the fruition of their dasas; if they are in the opposite situations, their influence is worse.

2. The times belonging to each of the planets within the dasas are called antardasas; dividing the influence of the lord of the dasas, they make a series depending on their positions.

3. A planet in the same place (as the lord of the dasas) possesses a half of its period (as its antardasa); one in the fourth place, a fourth; one in the fifth, a third; one in the ninth, a sixth;

4. and a planet in the eighth place from that occupied on its course by the planet (which is lord of the dasas), a seventh. The sub-periods of the antardasas are to be known by the order of (the planets’) strengths and dasas (vayas).

5. If a malefic planet obtains a portion of an antardasa, it is to be known as worthless and always giving rise to bad consequences; but if a benefit does this, it removes the influence of the bad dasa and establishes the best results.

6. Through the occupancy of each other’s houses, navamsas, and dvadasamsas, and through their mutual aspects and conjunctions, (the planets) cause the fulfillments of the results of actions tobe auspicious, terrible, crooked, honest, or harsh in their dasas.

7. The da.6 of the ascendant belongs to the lord of the sign and the lord of the navamsa (which are rising); the characters of the natives are to be determined by means of their qualities. The time of the end of the native’s life is called the antara; it gets that name thus.

8. The enemy of the lord of the ascendant causes the loss of his life during its sub-period (vipaka = antardasa) (during the dasa of the ascendant), and (from the antardasa) it is called the antara. But a friend (of the lord of the ascendent), (in an antardasa) in this (dasa) gives good results and has whatever is its own influence on the bodies (of men).

9. Whatever influence (of a planet’s dasa) has arrived, but is obstructed by another (planet’s antadasa), though it be desired and already bestowed, it is destroyed; but if the influence of the dasa is known to possess temporal strength, then it attains perfection whether it is good or bad.

10. If, in any (dasa), the (antar)dasa is doubtful, then that (dasa) is thought to exercise its indicated influence in full; and if (a planet) has increased strength at the nativity, it quickly destroys (the influence) coming from another (planet’s) astakavarga.

11. Thus are the influences of the fruitions of the dasas for men; good and bad, they follow along in order. They take hold of the mind, and are useful in determining when to undertake actions.

12. One who looks with knowledge which is full of various investigations, rules, skills, and instructions, considering whatever was determined in a dasa, should predict just that result or what is like it.

13. The embodied (soul), being in the dasa (of the ascendent), when the sub-period (vipaka = antardasa) has a bad influence, on the last day loses its power of action and, impelled by diseases arising from the planets according to the rules, leaves the body and goes forth.

14. I shall here describe the diseases of the planets and signs, which have natures like those of their sources; by them are dissolved the bodies of mortals when they die, by means of the causes of disease (nidanas) which depend on the power of their lords.

CHAPTER 42

1. Whatever planet is lord of the eighth place possesses the end of the years (allotted to the native), or else the lord of the Drekkana (in the eighth place) does; that planet, if it was strong at the nativity, causes the death of the native by means of injuries like itself.

2. Because of the Sun, he dies in a fire; because of the Moon, by means of immersion in water; because of Mars, by means of swords, fire, or a flood; because of Jupiter, by means of diseases arising from pains in the belly; because of Mercury, by means of fevers caused by practicing crafts and studying;

3. because of Venus, by means of faults involving women and drink, or phlegmatic diseases, or diseases occurring in the genitals and belly; and because of Saturn, by means of a black bull, or a quadruped, or (diseases) caused by hunger or wind.

4. A malefic planet in the sign which was in the eighth place at the nativity causes death by killing; a benefit planet in that sign, if it was overcome in the nativity, destroys by a disease which arises in the
body.

5. The various causes of diseases (nidanas) are determined by means of the sign and the planet (in the eighth place) and arise from their qualities; the last period of time in the dasa is two months long, and is determined by the dvadasamsa and navamsa in the seventh place (the descendent).

6. The Sun in the eighth place kills by means of nails, teeth, horns, carnivorous animals, fire, iron spears, pains, poison, stones, or swords, or by means of (injuries) pertaining to the sign or those caused by warriors, foresters, Mlecchas, or kings;

7. the Moon by such things as phlegm, blwd, belly-aches, water, urinary diseases, cold, fevers, and rain-storms; Jupiter by means of injuries caused by head-colds, diseases in the throat and cheeks, hallucinations, phlegm, and dysentery;