Ch. 26. On Death
All the creatures will face death for some reason, or other. To decide the reasons, the several indications are to be known thus: Note the Grah occupying Randhr Bhava. If it is Sūrya, the death is through fire; if it is Candr: fire; if it is Mangal: weapons; if it is Budh: fall; if it is Guru: fever; if it is Śukr: indigestion; and, if it is Śani: hunger.
Depending in Randhr Bhava being a movable, fixed, or dual Rāśi, death will be in foreign, in one’s own house, or, while on the move. The death of a native will be due to so many afflictions, as the Grahas are many in Randhr Bhava. The Grahas in Randhr Bhava from the stronger of Lagn, or Candr are to be considered (for purpose of death).
The death of a native may be expected through the humour (wind, phlegm, or bile) belonging to Randhr Bhava, or the Navamsh occupied by Randhr’s lord. Should the Rāśi, or Navamsh referred to above be Mesh, death will be caused by fever, poison, defects of digestive fire and bile. The humour causing death will be according to the Grah joining, or giving a Drishti.
Should such a Rāśi/Navamsh be, the Vrishabh death will be die to the three humours, weapons, thirst etc. This is so, when the Rāśi/Navamsh above is not occupied by any Grah. If occupied, the humour of the Grah concerned will prevail.
Should it be Mithun Rāśi, or Navamsh, death will be due to cough, breathing troubles, diseases generated by heat, colics etc. The Rāśi, or Navamsh of Candr indicates death due to rheumatic pains, mental affliction, diarrhoea etc.
Should the Rāśi, or Navamsh be Simh, death will be through tumor, poison, weapon etc., or fever. Kanya in such case will cause death through defects in digestive fire, or private parts, disputes, or fall.
Should it be Tula, death will be through the blunders committed by his thoughts, fever, delirium, or the effects of the Dasha ruling at that time.
Should it be Vrischik, death will be due to jaundice and defective spleen etc. Should it be Dhanu having a malefic there in, death will be through a tree, water, weapon, wood etc.
If it is Makar Rāśi, or Navamsh, death is due to hit by spear or, while tilling lands, or by mental aberration. Should it be yuti with a malefic, death is through wild animals, like tiger, fever, cough, consumption (pulmonary disease) and in unnatural circumstances i.e. man-made.
Should it be Kumbh Rāśi, or Navamsh and be with malefic, death will be through tigers, weapons, snakes etc. and cough, fever, consumption
etc.
Should it be Meen Rāśi, or Navamsh, death will be due to snakes, journey, wind machinery, collision of a steamer in the mid-waters, or through the roaring thunders.
Death should normally happen due to dysentery, fever, thirst, diseases of the stomach, poison, lack of continued food, breakage and diseases in the body.
Should Candr be in her fateful degrees, as mentioned before identical with Lagn, Vyaya Bhava, or Randhr Bhava, death should be expected through water, machinery etc.
If Candr and Sūrya are posited in Lagn in a dual (common) Rāśi (i.e. Mithun, Kanya, Dhanu, or Meen) and be yuti with, or receives a Drishti from a malefic Grah, the native’s life ends surely in the midst of water.
If Śani is in Bandhu Bhava, while Candr is in Yuvati Bhava and Mangal is in Karm Bhava, death will take place by falling down from a tree, or in a well.
If Candr is in Mesh, Vrischik, Makar, or Kumbh, between two malefics and without any Drishti from benefics, death will be by ropes, thunderbolt, weapons etc. The same result follows, if Candr is in Kanya.
Should malefics be in Bandhu and Karm Bhava and benefics in Randhr Bhava, or Lagn, death will be by implement through a spear, or trident, or by rheumatic heart, cardiac arrest etc. (Hridayashula).
Should Śani be in Vyaya, Ari, Randhr, or Bandhu Bhava along with Candr, the native’s end occurs in the sea. Two malefics surrounding Randhr Bhava may also bring about such a death. If there are malefics in the Konas from Lagn, or from Candr, or, if Rahu is in Randhr Bhava, death will be caused by hanging.
If Sūrya and Rahu are in Lagn, while Candr is in Ari/Randhr Bhava and malefics are posited in Vyaya Bhava, death will take place through poison, or weapon.
If Rahu is placed in Bandhu, or Randhr Bhava and receives a Drishti from the lord of Randhr Bhava, or, if Randhr Bhava is occupied by malefic, or receives a Drishti from such a Grah, death is indicated by poison, weapon, or fire.
Death by hanging is indicated, if Sūrya is in Yuvati Bhava along with Rahu, or Ketu, while Śukr is in Randhr Bhava.
Should Lagn’s lord be in a Kendr and surrounded by two malefics, while Randhr Bhava is tenanted by a Grah, death is caused by one’s own anger. If Sūrya is in Lagn, while Śani is in Putr Bhava and Mangal is in Dhan, or Dharm Bhava the native’s death is caused by a tree, thunderbolt, or a wall. Death by fall of a log is indicated, if decreasing Candr is in Randhr Bhava, Sūrya is in Bandhu Bhava, Śani in Yuvati Bhava and Mangal in Dhan Bhava.
If decreasing Candr is in Karm Bhava, while Mangal is in Dharm Bhava, Śani is ascending and Sūrya is in Putr Bhava, death will be by fire, or remaining in bondage.
Should Mangal be in Tula, while Sūrya is in Mesh/Vrischik and Candr is in one of the Rāśis of Mangal, or Śani, death will take place amidst filth.
