SU. 17.-
NOTES Karaka in all these Sutras refer to Atmakaraks. Find out the 3rd house from Lagna or Atmakaraka Lagna, whichever of these two is stronger, predict the results from it, by the 3rd house-and the planet who is there. If Kuja is found there, by wounds and injuries, by weapons, by fire and by burning, he will meet death. Kuja is called Angaraka or one who robs and injures the bodily organs or Angas, Lohitanga or bloody planet, Ara or one who injures and burns the limbs. Bloody diseases and blood corruption lead to many painful complaints.
SU. 18.-Sanina vatarogat. If Sani is aspecting or combining with the 3rd from Lagna or Karaka, death comes through windy complaints.
NOTES ‘ Ayurveda or Indian Medical Science mentions three Dhatus or characteristics for all physical constitution, viz. Vata or wind, Pitta or bile and Sleshma or phlegm. No disease comes when these are working in their proper proportions. But when any one of them is excited beyond its normal quantity. ill–health follows in various complications and death will result when any one or more of them are roused and proceed to work out of the normal conditions. All diseases in the Indian medicine are attribute to the excess or want of these in proportions.
SU. 19. Mundamandibhyam vishasarpaja lodbandhanadibhihi. If the 3rd from Lagna or Karaka is occupied by Sani and Gulika, the person will die from the effects of poison, from snakes; from chains and shakles and from water.
NOTES ,The latter means drowning or watery diseases like dropsy, diabetes, etc.
SU. 20:-Kethtina vishucheejalarogadyaihi. If the 3rd from Lagna or Karaka is occupied or aspected by Ketu, the person dies from contageous, watery and epidemic complaints.
NOTES Vishuchi is a comprehensive term and includes various contageous and: epidemic complaints such as small-pox, cholera, plague, influenza, watery diseases or dropsy, diabetes diarrhoea, etc. Here great margin and latitude are given to the student to use his brain, practical knowledge and the instructions he get from his Gurus. No principles of sciences can be explained without sutras. These sutras are the pleasures of the learned and the pains of the ignorant. In Sanskrit adi is used often because all the events, which a principle governs or comprehends, cannot be explained, and if such an attempt is ever made,
SU. 21.-Chandramandibhyam poogamandannakabaladibh ih kshan ikam. If the 3rd from Lagna or Karaka has the con. junction of Chandra and Gulika, death will result immediately from eating hard meals, food end other indigestible articles.
SU. 22.-Gunina sopharuchivimanadyaihi. If the 3rd from Lagna or Karaka is combined by Guru, the death will be caused by dropsy, disgust for food, melancholy and other complaints.
NOTES Dropsy and swellings of the body may be caused by various causes. The bites of insects are often causes for swellings of parts of body and through such swellings death may occur.
SU. 23. – Sukrena mehat. If the 3rd is aspected or joined by Sukra from Lagna or Karaka, death will result from venereal complaints.
NOTES In the flush of passions, people commit all sorts o1 sexual excesses and bring in their train a series of complicated and horrible diseases, some of which are loathsome, repulsive, horrible and excruciating. In painful tortures, the venereal complaints take a prominent rank and punish the offenders with very serious troubles and pains.
SU. 24. -Misrem israt. If the 3rd from Lagna or Karaka has the conjunction or aspect of many planets, then the death will come from various diseases. .
NOTES Sometimes diseases are sharp and pronounced, but often they are complicated and throw the doctors on their wit’s ends. The noses of the medical men will have to be expanded before they correctly diagnose them.
SU. 25.-Chandradrugyogannischayena. It Chandra aspects or joins the 3rd from Lagna or Karaka along with other planets, death is certain to
happen from the causes named in the previous sutras.
NOTES In all deaths, Sani and Chandra must have a hand. Death means
the disruption of mind from the body and mind is represented by Chandra. Vedas say Chandramamanasojatah. If there are many evil planets in the 3rd, then death happens under very painful circumstances. – But when there are many benefics in the 3rd, death will happen after slight complaints or under easy surroundings. .
SU. 26. -Subhaihi subhadese. If the 3rd from Lagna or Karaka has.; beneficial aspects or conjunctions, death happens in good or holy places.
NOTES For various reasons, too numerous to be discussed in short notes like these. People, especially religiously inclined ones covet death in holy places or happy surroundings. This is human aspiration.
SU. 27.-Papaih keekate. If the 3rd from Lagna or Karaka has evil aspects or conjunctions, death will happen- in vicious or sinful countries and places.
NOTES The commentators have interpreted Keekata Desa as Magadha and other sinful countries. When benefics are in the 3rd, death happens in holy places, like Kasi, Tirupathi or other places held holy by the followers of different religions. Mohamedans hold Mecca and Medina as holy. The Christians consider Jerusalem as holy. The Buddhists hold Gaya as holy. The Hindus have many places declared as holy like Kasi, Rameswaram, Jagannath, Haridwara, Tirupathi, etc. When evil planets are in the 3rd, death happens in vicious or sinful places. There are some places which are full of vices and sinful deeds. Death in such places will be considered as a great misfortune. Say a man dies, near a cess pool, in night soil, in gambling or whoring dens, or in dirty wells or dreary forests. Families, communities, religious sects, villages, towns, cities, countries and nations have ebbs and flows in their fortunes, and also in their morals and spiritualities. Sodom and Gamora were destroyed on account of their abominable vices.
We have also many examples of destruction of these by excesses in sins and vices. It will be a consolation to take birth in a virtuous place and in the midst of good and pious people. It will certainly be a misfortune to be born in dirty and sinful surroundings. To die in an agreeable place and have the ceremonies performed as per their religious principles will be a pleasure. To die in dirty and sinful places and be neglected after death or the body exposed to wild animals and vultures, will be a real misfortune which every man tries to avoid.
