The Sun with Other Kinds of Strengths.
41. The.Sun with Mitra Bala: If the Sun gets Mitra Bala, the native will have many friends, will conquer his enemies, be honoured by his kinsfolk, endowed with wealth, corns and sons and will be agreeable to Brahmins.
Notes: From now onwards, the text gives effects of the Sun attaining certain score in Shadbala divisions. For example, Mitra bala is a part of Sthaana bala or positional strength. A planet gets 1/3rd of a Rupa (or20 Virupas) if it is in a friend’s Rasi. The reader may remember that Mitra Bala comes under Sapta Vargaja bala in Sthaana bala computation. These have fully been explained in my notes in the chapter entitled “Spashta Baladhyaya”, part 1 of Brihat Parasara Hora Sastra. Repeating them here again will mean a lot of space on our already strained text.
A close look at the details of Shadbala computation will reflect the strengths obtained by a planet at different stages.
Such detailed effects for the various planets are given in the present chapter by Bala Bhadra and the reader will understand these terms accordingly in-those contexts as well. These clues should be applied to cases of full acquisition of the respective strength and not to partial cases. For example, the Sun with Digbala means the Sun with 1 Rupa of such strength. It can acquire partial strength with proportional variations.
For the sake of easy identification, lam using the Sanskrit terms only when required in this part of translation.