ADHYAYA – XV
Sloka 1 : All Bhavas will produce completely their good results if they are occupied or aspected by benefics or their own lords, or planets owning benefic Bhavas and are free from association or aspect of malefics. The same will be the result in the case of malefics if they happen to be the owners of the Bhavas concerned. This good effect will be ensured in the case of all the planets when they are not occupying depression signs, when they are not eclipsed and when they are not posited in inimical signs.
Sloka 2 : Astrologers pronounce the strength of a Bhava such as the Lagna to be ample and the Bhava thoroughly beneficient when a Trikona, the 2nd, the 4th, the 7th and the 10th places there from are occupied by auspicious planets or the (the lord of the Bhava) and are unoccupied and unaspected by malefic planets. A Bhava suffers decay when the positions referred to above are differently occupied and aspected. The effect of a Bhava will be mixed when positions noted above are occupied or aspected by benefic and malefic planets promiscuously.
Sloka 3 : Of the Lagna and other Bhavas examined in succession, whichever Bhava has its lord occupying the 8th place or obscured by the solar rays or in depression or in an inimical house while no benefic planets aspect or are associated with it, the result is the total destruction of such a Bhava. The Bhava will be incapable of producing any good effect even if a benefic other than its lord similarly circumstanced occupy the Bhava; if a malefic should be in that position, the total destruction of the Bhava would be the result.
Sloka 4 : Malefics posited in the 6th, 8th and 12th places counted from the Lagna or other Bhava under consideration cause the destruction of the said Bhava. Benefics in such a position are not capable of producing good effects for the Bhava. So say the astrologers with respect to the several Bhavas.
Sloka 5 – When a Bhava has its lord in the 6th, the 8th or the 12th, or is occupied by the lord of any of these three, it suffers annihilation, say those that are proficient in astrology: If such a Bhva be aspected by a benefic planet, it will be in a flourishing condition.
Sloka 6 : A Bhava suffer annihilation when the Bhava itself, its lord and its Karaka are devoid of strength and arc hemmed in betwixt malefics, or are associated with or aspected by malefic or inimical planets and not by others; or if the 4th, the 8th and the 12th houses or the 5th and the 9th house from them be occupied by malefics. This will be all the more clear and evident when any two or are three of the conditions specified above synchronise.
Sloka 7 : In the case of any Bhava, the following planets cause the destruction of the Bhava during their Dasa periods: (1) the lord of the 8th house reckoned from the Bhava, (2) the lord of the 22nd Drekkana counted from the Bhava, (3, 4 and 5) planets posited in the 6th, the 8th and the 7th houses counted from the Bhava, if they are weak. Malefics occupying the 3rd the 6th and the 11th houses and benefics in Kendra and Trikonahouses all reckoned from the concerned Bbava, as also the planets which are friendly to the planet owning the bhava, are declared to ,bring success to the Bhava (during their respective Dasas) if they are possessed of strength.
Sloka 8 : The lords of the 3rd house from the Lagna as well as the Moon, the planet occupying, as well as the one aspecting the 8th house, Saturn, the lord of the 22nd decanate, the planet owning the sign occupied by Mandi, the planets owning the Rasis and Amsas occupied by the several aforesaid planets, Rahu when weak by being posited in untoward houses (the 6th, the 8th or the 12th) or in conjuction with or aspected by malefics; each one of these is declared as causing the destruction of the Bhava in its respective Dasa-period.
Sloka 10 : The lord of the Lagna though malefic will only promote the growth of the Bhava it occupies. If he should also happen to own any of the Dusstthanas 6th, 8th, 12th), the effect of his ownership of the Lagna alone will predominate and not that of the other one. For example, if Mars owning the Lagna, occupy Simha or Meena identical with the 5th house and be aspected by a benefic, astrologers declare that the person concerned will be get sons very soon.
Sloka 11 : In the case of a planet owning two houses, that house which happens to be the Moolatrikona one will predominate and its effects alone will be felt in full while the effects of his own house will be half. The effects of both the Bhavas will come to pass in the Dasa of the planet, the first half of the Dasa period being monopolised by the effects of the Bhava that comes first in order. This is the opinion of some. There are others who hold that a planet posited in an odd house will have the effect of that house felt first while the one that occupies an even house will have its effect in the first half of the Dasa.
Sloka 12 : The destruction of each of the Bhavas from the Lagna onwards should be predicted by the astrologer to a querist during the Dasa-periods of planets which are very inimical to the planet owning the particular Bhava, or which occupy houses where there are no benefic dots in their Asthakavargas.
Sloka 13 : A planet may be in his exaltation or may occupy a friendly house and may be endowed with the 6 kinds of strength. Notwithstanding all this, if he should happen to be in a Bhavasandhi, he becomes ineffective. This should first be noted before predicting, the effects of the Dasas and Bhuktis of planets.
