Sloka 19 : (26) the act of bathing according to one’s own inclination, (27) hunger, (28) fear, (29) acquisition of a sacred lore, (30) wantonness, (31) meeting, (32) fighting, (33) doing a virtuous act, (34) practicing evil, (35) perpetrating cruel actions and (36) exultation.
Sloka 20 : The Chandra kriya and others described above will be found to be useful and productive of effect in the case of a birth, a Muhurta (celebration of an auspicious event) and a query. One ought therefore to particularly examine them and then only set about predicting.
Sloka 21 : It is said that Pakshabala (fortnightly strength) is of special importance to the Moon, while the Bala arising from Sthana (position) is important for the other planets. This strength when added to the other varieties of strength of a planet will greatly increase the strength of that planet. There are many such types of strength.
Sloka 22 : The Sun is declared strong when his strength is 6½ Rupas. In the case of the Moon, it is 6½ Rupas. Five Rupas are assigned to Mars and 7 to Mercury. Jupiter’s Purnabala is similar to that of the Sun, that is 6½ Rupas. Venus is strong when he gets 5½ Rupas.
Sloka 23 : Saturn should have 5 Rupas. These are the figures representing the total Shadbala for the several planets. If the respective figures be otherwise, i.e., less than the above, the planets should be considered as weak. It is only after a minute examination of the several kinds of strength (the Shadbalas) of the several planets, one ought to declare their effects.
Sloka 24 : In the case of the Lagna and other Bhavas; add one Rupa to the strength of the lord to the Bhava concerned. Supplement this by the Directional strength (Digbala) due to that Bhava and also by the strength of aspect Drigbala of that Bhava. The aggregate sum-total is the Bhavabala required.
For more details about the several kinds of strength of planets, please see Adhyaya II and III of my edition of Sripatipaddhati.
Thus ends the 4th Adhyaya on “Determination of the Shadbalas of Planet” in the work Phaladeepika composed by Mantreswara.
ADHYAYA – V
Sloka 1 : One ought to declare the acquisition of wealth by any person with reference to the predominance of the Lagna or the Moon as the case may be ill his horoscope. The source of such an acquisition will be the father, mother, a foe, a friend, a brother, a wife or a servant, according as the Sun or any of the other planets taken in order occupies the 10th place from the Lagna or the Moon whichever is strong. His profession will be that prescribed for the lord of the Navamsa occupied by the planet owning the 10th place from the Lagna, from the Moon and from the Sun (severally) whichever is tae strongest.
Sloka 2 : If the lord of the 10th house be posited in the Sun’s Navamsa, the person born will earn his ,livelihood through fruit-trees, by the repetitions of Mantras, by fraud, by gambling, by uttering. Falsehood, through wool, medicine and the like, by working en metals or through service under a king of respectable person.
Sloka 3 : If the Navamsa occupied by the lord of the 10th house be that of tile Moon, the income of the person concerned will be through trade in water product, (pearls, corals, etc.,) through agriculture and cattle-farming, pilgrimage to holy shrines, service under a damsel or trading in clothes.
Sloka 4 : If the Navamsa in question be that of Mars, the sources of income may be through metals, fighting in battles, cooking, lands, gold, inflicting trouble to others, weapons, acts of adventure, association with wicked men, spying or through theft.
Sloka 5 : In the case of a person born with the lord of the 10th posited in a Navamsa owned by Mercury, the earning will be through composing poems, the study of sacred scriptures, by being a scribe or through some clerical work, or some trick, through a knowledge of astrology, through the study of the Vedas on other’s behalf, by repetition of Mantras, or by playing the role of a priest or by some pretext.
Sloka 6 : If the planet concerned be in a “Navamsa of Jupiter, the person born maintains himself through the help of Brahmins, Gods or through royal favour, by reciting Puranas, by the study of Sastras, by the preaching of morality, by religious instructions or by lending money (profession of usuary).
Sloka 7 : The earnings of a person with the lord of the 10th house posited in a Navamsa owned by Venus will be through a woman, cows, buffaloes, elephants, horses, through triple symphony (i.e., dancing in accompaniment to vocal and instrumental music), through silver, scents, milk, ornaments and silken fineries, by virtue of being a companion (Aid de-camp.) to a king, or by his poetic talents.
Sloka 8 : The person in whose nativity the lord of the 10th house is sheltered in Saturn’s Navamsa lives by dealing in roots and fruits, by physical exertion. (sweating labour), through servants, rogues and through the earnings of men of low morality, through bad grains, by carrying burden, by resorting to base avocations, through sculpture, wooden materials and by functioning as an execution or a butcher.
Sloka 9 : When the planet owning the Navamsa is strong, there will be acquisition of wealth without by exertion. If it should be weak, very little wealth accrues. The country of acquisition will be that signified by the sign representing the 10th house or the Navamsa occupied by the lord of the 10th house. But if this sign be occupied or aspected by its lord he will earn in his own country. The same will be the result if the Navamsa occupied by the lord of the 10th house be an immoveable Rasi. And if the said sign be occupied or aspected by planets other .than its lord, the native will earn in the place other than his native country.
Thus ends the 5th Adhyaya on “Profession and Livelihood” in the work Phaladeepika composed by Mantreswara.