ADHYAYA – VIII
Sloka I : If the Sun occupies the 1st house at a person’s birth, he will have very little hair; he will be most inactive to do any work; he will be angry and impetuous, and tall in stature. He will be proud, will have soiled eyes and a lean body. He will be valiant, impatient and cruel-hearted. If the Lagna at birth be Cancer and the Sun occupy it, he will have a cataract in the eyes; if it be Mesha, he will suffer from eye-disease. If the Sun be in Leo identical with the Lagna, the person concerned will be night-blind. If Libra be the Lagna and the Sun occupy it, he will suffer from poverty and loss of children.
Sloka 2 : When the Sun is in the 2nd house in a person’s birth, he will be devoid of learning, modesty and riches and will be stammering. If the Sun should occupy the 3rd house, the person concerned will be strong, brave, wealthy and liberal, but inimical towards his relations. If the Sun be in the 4th house, the person born will have no happiness, no relations, no lands, no friends and no house. He will serve the State and spend away his paternal property.
Sloka 3 : If the Sun should occupy the 5th house from the Lagna, the person born, will be bereft of happiness, riches and children and his life will be short. He will be intelligent and will travel over forest regions. If the Sun be in the 6th house, the person born will become a King, famous, of good qualities, wealthy and victorious. If the Sun occupy the 7th house at a birth, the person concerned will incur the displeasure of the sovereign, and will be deformed; he will be wandering, without a wife and suffer humiliation. If the Sun should De in the 8th house, the person born will lose his wealth, and friend; he will not be long-lived and will have defective eyesight or be blind.
Sloka 4 : If at the time of birth, the Sun should occupy the 9th house, the person concerned will lose his father; he will have children and relations and will revere Gods and Brahmins. If he occupies the 10th house, the person will have sons, vehicles, laudation, intelligence, wealth, strength and fame. He will be a King. The Sun in the 11th house will make the person born very wealthy and long lived. He will be a King and will have no sorrow. If the Sun be in the 12th house, the person born will hate his father. His eye-sight will be defective and he will be without wealth and children.
Sloka 5 : If at a person’s birth, the Moon be waving and happens to be in the first house, the person concerned will possess a strong constitution and a long lease of life. He will be free from fear, very powerful and wealthy. But if the Moon be waning, the effects stated above will be quite the reverse. If the Moon should occupy the 2nd house, the person born will be rich, very learned or soft-tongued; he will be a sensualist but defective of some limb. If the Moon be in the 3rd house, the person born will have brothers, will be lascivious, strong and powerful but very miserly.
Sloka 6 : If at a birth the Moon be in the 4th house, the person concerned will be happy and indulging in sensual pleasures. He will be liberal in gifts; will have friends, vehicles and become renowned. If the Moon should occupy the 5th house, the person born will have good sons, will be very intelligent, will walk gently and will become minister. If the Moon be in the 6th house, the person born will be short lived, ignorant, will suffer from stomach ache, etc., he will also suffer humiliation. If the Moon should occupy the 7th house, the person born will, be agreeable to look at, will be loved by a beautiful damsel, and will be exceedingly lovely.
Sloka 7 : The person at whose birth the Moon is in the 8th house will suffer from diseases and will be short-lived. If the Moon should occupy the 9th house at a birth, the person concerned will be prosperous, virtuous and blessed with children. He will be victorious, and all his undertakings will be crowned with success at the beginning its lf. If the Moon should occupy the 10th house at a birth, the person concerned will do good acts and will be helpful to the virtuous. If the Moon be in the 11th house, the person born will be high-minded, long-lived, and endowed with riches, children and servants. If the Moon be in the 12th house at a birth, the person concerned will be odious to others; he will suffer misery, will be insulted and will be most indolent.
Sloka 8 : If Mars occupy the Lagna at a person’s birth, he will have an injured limb; he will be short lived and will be’ very cruel and adventurous. If Mars be in the 2nd house, the person concerned will be adverse or ugly faced, devoid of learning and wealth and win be dependent on bad people. If Mars occupy the 3rd house, the person born will be of good qualities possess wealth, will be brave, unassailable, happy and will have no brothers. If at a birth Mars should occupy the 4th house, the person concerned will be without friends, mother, lands, happiness, house and vehicles.
Sloka 9 : If at a birth Mars be in the 5th house, the person concerned will be unhappy, without children, full of reverses, back-biting and weak-minded. If Mars occupy the 6th house, the person born will be exceedingly smitten with love, wealthy, and famous: he will be a King and victorious (in battle). Mars in the 7th house makes the person born do improper acts, suffer affliction through disease, wander in the roads and lose his wife. Lf Mars be in the 8th house, the person born will have a deformed body, will be poor, short-lived and cursed by the people.
Sloka 10 : If Mars occupy the 9th house at a person’s birth, the native will, though a friend of the sovereign, be hated by others; he will be fatherless and will commit homicide. Mars in the 10th house makes the person born a king cruel, liberal and praised by important people. If at a birth Mars should be in the 11th house, the person concerned will be endowed with riches and happiness. He will be brave, will have no sorrow and possessed of good character. When Mars occupies the 12th house at a birth, the person concerned will have deformed eyes; he will be cruel, and without a wife. He will be a slanderer and a mean wretch.
Sloka 11 : If at a person’s birth Mercury occupy the Lagna, he will be long-lived, speaking sweetly and cleverly. He will be sharp-witted, and learned in all Sastras. If Mercury be in the 2nd house, the person born will acquire wealth by his own talents, will be eat, sincere and attractive in his speech, and will eat sumptuous food. If Mercury should occupy the 3rd house at a birth, the person concerned will be brave, of medium life, and have good brothers; he will suffer fatigue and be dejected. Mercury occupying the 4th house at a birth makes the person concerned earned, witty in speech happy and possessed of friends, land, corn, wealth and enjoyment.
