Adhyaya 11.
Nature of the planets and their properties.
Sloka. l. The Sun is the sou! of Kalapurusha; the Moon, his mind ; Kuja, his strength ; Budha his speech ; Guru, the essence of atl hie knowledge and
happines; Venus, hie desire or lust and Saturn his misery.
Nort: In the notes to sloka 8 of Adhyaya 1 the several parts of kalapurusha beginning with the head were stated to be counted from Mesha and those of the owner of a horoscope from the Lagna. This is so far as the external appearance etc of the several parts of the body are concerned. Now the inherent qualities of the person are to be ascertained from the planets.
These planets are then known as Karakas and apertein
to the owneor of the horoscope just in the same way they do to the Kalapurusha.
The several constituents of Kalapurusha will be strong or weak in proportion to the strength of the several planets representing them. But Saturn is an exception. When Saturn is strong, there is less of misery, when he is weak, misery predominates. And the effect of these qualities reveal ed. during the dasa periods of the planets concerned. By the word used in the translation of happiness both wealth and projeny are to be understood in addition to health and knowledge. There is no greater happiness or misery than the birth or death of one’s child. Jupiter is therefore the giver of health, wealth, progeny ant that is why his association and aspect arc said to be extremely beneficial. By the word’association’ used above, occupation of the planet’s house is also to be understood. This will be explained in Adhyaya 14, Saturn is the giver of all sorts of misery.
In the horoscope, the Sun and the Moon must – not to say of the
Lagna – be strong, otherwise it is not a satisfactory one. Of these, the Moon is the most important.
