UTTARAKALAMRITAM

All this is new information not contained in (Sripati-paddhati).

Sloka 6 ½ : The highest exaltation points of the planets countinbg from the Sun are the 10th, the 3rd, the 28th, the 15th, the 5th, the 27th and the 20th degrees of the several signs (mentioned in sloka 3 ½ – 5 supra), their points of ‘Fall’ being the corresponding degrees in the 7th house from their exaltation ones. The strength accruing to a planet derived by (a consideration of) this position applies only to the Rasi occupied.

Suppose in a nativity, Jupiter is in the 1st Navamsa of Meena, his exaltation Navamsa. He will not be entitled to get one Rupa, as his strength under ‘Navamsa’ in the (Saptavargajabala) but he will be given only what is due to him as occupying a Navamsa belonging to the Moon according to the kind of relationship he holds with him in the particular nativity. 

Sloka 6 ½ – 7 ½: In the case of an odd sign, the Horas or halves of a Rasi belong respectively to the Sun and the Moon, and in an even sign, to the Moon and the Sun. the Drekhanas are owned by the lords of (a) the 1st, 5th and 9th with respect to that Rasi in the case of a moveable sign, (b) the 9th, 1st and 5th, in the case of a fixed sign and (c) the 5th, 9th and 1st in the case of a dual sign. The owners of the Saptamsas or 1/7th portions are, in the case of an odd sign, to be counted regularly from the lord thereof, while in the case of an even sign they are to be reckoned from the lord of the 7th onwards. Next, as the order of the Navamsas :

There are 3 ways declared to find out the lords of the 3 decanates of each sign :

I. They are the lords of the 1st, 5th and 9th with respect to that Rasi.
(i) The 1st, 5th and 9th in the case of a moveable sign ;
(ii) The 9th, 1st and 5th in the case of a fixed sign ;
(iii) The 5th, 9th and 1st in the case of a dual sign.

II. They are the lords of the 1st, 12th and 11th with respect to that sign.

Varahamihira recognizes only the 1st of the above views.

The present author holds the second view.

Yavaneswara says that the 3rd method above cited should be followed only in (Prasna) or a query.

Slokas 7 ½ – 8 ½: The Navamsas of Mesha, Simha and Dhanus belong to the nine signs from Mesha onwards, and they continue till the end of Meena. The owners of the Dwadasamsas or 1/12th portion of any sign are to be reckoned from that assign. The Trimsamsas or degrees, i.e., 1/30th portions of a sign allotted in an odd sign to Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Mercury and Venus are respectively 5, 5, 8, 7 and 5. In an even sign, Venus, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn and Mars have 5,7,8,5 and 5 degrees respectively. The above seven kinds of divisions constitute the Saptavargas. (See chart in the front page).

Slokas 8½ -9½ : Enter against the Rasi column the strength in terms of Rupas already obtained for the Rais, and write out against the other six vargas commencing from Hora a moiety of the strength fixed in the Rasi Varga for the planet owning the Varga in question. The sum-total of these seven kinds of strength constitute the (Saptavargajabala) of the planet. This process should be gone through in the case of all the seven planets.

The following will be the Sapthavargajabala Table of the planets for the Horoscope taken as example in my edition of Sripathi paddhati (pp 29-30) according to the method prescribed in this book.