Sloka 11 : lf the 6th or the 8th house be occupied by the Sun, there would be fear of fever; if by Mars or Ketu, the danger will be from ulcer; if by Venus, it will be through a disease in the private parts. If Jupiter should occupy the 6th or the 8th house, the native will be seized with consumption. If Saturn be in such a position, the native will suffer from nervous diseases. If Rahu aspected by Mars be in the 6th or the 8th, the person concerned will suffer from carbuncle. If Saturn in conjunction with the Moon occupy any of the above two houses, the native will suffer from the enlargement of spleen. If the waning Moon occupy any of the above houses identical with watery signs, in conjunction with malefic, the person will suffer from a watery disease or consumption.Notes
In all these cases, great care should be used in making predictions. Common sense and experience are to be used as guides.
Sloka 12 : 1 now proceed to explain the manner in which a person meets with pis death, and the cause of the same. If there are planets occupying or aspecting the 8th house, death is caused through diseases pertaining to the strongest of them; ot (if there be no planets occupying or aspecting the 8th house) through diseases declar d for that house or for the house in which the lord of the 8th is placed; and (where the foregoing tests do not apply) it may be predicted with certainty that death will be caused either by the lord of the 8th house or by the lord of the 22nd decanate (counted from the Lagna decanate).
Sloka 13 : When the 8th house is occupied by a planet or aspected by one, death should be declared to be caused by diseases pertaining to that planet. When there are no planets occupying or aspecting the 8th house, death is caused through diseases declared as arising from the nature (or characteristics) of the Rasi representing the 8th house.
Sloka 14 : The Sun causes death through fire; high fever, bile or weapon. The Moon brings on death through cholera, watery diseases (such as Jalodara ascitis) or pulmonary disease in general. The troubles caused by Mars for bringing about death or (accidental) fire, magical spells, witchcraft and weapons. The agency used by Mercury for the same purpose is anemia, bloodlessness and similar diseases and giddiness. Jupiter will bring about death without much trouble or through phlegm, while Venus will do it through venereal complaints or similar ones caused by association with women. Saturn will bring it about by wind disease or a dangerous fever like typhoid.
Sloka 15 : Rahu will bring about death by leprosy, by eating food mixed with poison, by venomous bites, or by small-pox and the like. Ketu will cause unnatural deaths such as suicide) or assassination as a result of the hatred of enemies or through worms etc.
Sloka 16 : One ought to predict death through tine evil effect arising from the 8th house reckoned from the Lagna – or through tire evil effect of the Rasi representing the Navamsa occupied by the lord of the 8th house.
Sloka 17 : If Mesha should happen to be such a Rasi (see previous Sloka), death will be due to bilious fever, heat, and liver or gastric disease. If it be Vishabha, death will be due to vitiation or derangement of the three humours of the body, through fire or weapon; it Mithuna, by catarrah, asthama, or sharp pain such as colic; if Karkataka, by insanity windy disease or loss of appetite (anorexia).
Sloka 18 : If Simha be the Rasi under consideration, death should be declared to be due to wild beasts, fever, boils, or enemies; if Kanya, it will be through women, venereal disease, or by a fall (from a height) ; if Tula, by brain fever and typhoid; an if Vrischika, by disease of the spleen, jaundice, and sprue.
Sloka 19 : If Dhanus be the Rasi under reference, death will be due to a tree, water, wood or weapon. lf the Rasi be Makara, death will be by stomach-ache, want of appetite or aberration of mind, etc. If Kumbha, it will be by cough, fever and consumption; lastly, if Meena be the Rasi concerned, death will be by drowning or by some watery diseases such as ascitis (Jalodara).
Sloka 20 : When the 8th house happens to be owned by a malefic (and is also malefic) and be occupied also by a malefic, death will be due to weapon, fire tiger or snake. If two malefics being in Kendras aspect each other, the native will meet with his death through the dis-pleasure of his sovereign or through a weapon, poison or by fire.
Sloka 21 : If at a person’s birth, the 12th house or its lord be in a house or Navamsa owned by a benefic or be associated with a benefic, his death will be a happy one being free from any anguish or suffering. If otherwise, it will be painful.
Sloka 22 : If the lord of the 12th house occupy his exaltation, a friendly house or a Varga of a benefic planet or be associated with a benefic planet, the (life of the) person concerned will be going upwards to heaven. If it be other wise, he will be going to perdition or hell. Some interpret this as a result of the nature of the Rasi (of the 12th house); i.e., heaven of a Sirshodaya one and hell if a Prishtodaya one.
Sloka 23 : The refuge of the departed is signified by the planet associated with the lord of the 12th, by one posited in the 12th house or by the one occupying the Navamsa of the 12th Bhava. If the Sun and the Moon be such planets, the future world indicated is Kailasa; if the planet in question be Venus, it is Swarga (Heaven, or Indra’s Paradise); if Mars be such a planet, it is the Earth; lift be Mercury, the native goes to Vaikunta; if Saturn, the future abode will be Yama’s world; if it be Jupiter, the native goes to Brahmaloka; if it be Rahu, he goes to other islands; and if it be Ketu, the native’s next abode will be Hell.
Sloka 24 : It is the lord of the 9th house that gives all about the native’s past birth, while all information about his future birth is revealed by ,the planet owning the 5th. The particular caste, the country and the quarter or direction of the individual in his past and future births should be guessed from the two respective planets referred to above.
Sloka 25 : If the planets referred to above be in their exaltation, the particular world indicated should be declated to be the one occupied by the Gods. If they occupy depression or inimical houses, it indicates foreign islands. If the planets be in their own, friend’s or neutral’s houses, then the abode in question should be guessed as India alone.
Sloka 26 : The country pertaining 10 Jupiter is Aryavarta (name of tract extending from the Eastern to the Western ocean and bounded on the North and South by the Himalaya and Vindhya respectively). Venus and the Moon indicate tracts watered by the sacred rivers. Mercury represents all sacred places. Saturn signifies prohibited tracts like those occupied by foreigners, while the Sun indicates mountain and forest regions, and Mars, the country of Bihar.
Sloka 27 : If the planets (referred to in sloka 24 Supra i.e., lords of the 9th and 5th) occupy a fixed Rasi or Amsa identical with a Prishtodaya and an Adhomukha Rasi (vide 1-8 supra) along with malefics, the past and the future births of the native should be declared as trees, plants and the like. If otherwise, i.e., if the lords of the 9th and 5th houses occupy a Sirshodaya and an Urdhvamllkha Rasi identical with a Chara or moveable Rasi or Amsa with benefics, the birth should be of an animal kind.
Sloka 28 : lf the lord of the 9th or the 5th house occupy exaltation or Swakshetra or the house of a friend of the lord of the Lagna, then it should be declared that the native’s previous or the fature birth (as the case may be) must be that of a human being. If the Rasi occupied be that of a neutral (Sama) to the lord of the Lagna, the birth concerned will be that of a beast; It will be that of a bird, if the Rasi be that of an inimical or depression one. All these may also be declared with reference to the appearance of the decanates occupied by the planets owning the 9th or the 5th.
Sloka 29 : If the said two planets be together in one house, the native should have had his birth in his own place. If they be of equal strength, the births (past and future) will be in the same caste. The colour and quality will also be similar to those belonging to the lords of the 9th and 5th houses. Predictions regarding all the rest, should be similarly made by a reference to what has been stated in the Samgnadhyaya
Thus ends the 14th Adbyaya on “Diseases, Death, Past and Future Births” in the work Phaladeepika composed by Mantreswara.
