Slokas 20½ – 21½: To this should be superadded the rectified Drigbala of the planet. Further, if the planet be victorious in planetary war, one more Rupa should be added to its strength ; but if he be vanquished, one Rupa should be taken away. The sum-total thus rectified or the several balas above-mentioned will be the planet’s Shadbala in Rupas. If this strength be found to be less than 5 Rupas. If this strength be found to be less than 5 Rupas, the planet should be declared as weak. It is said to possess normal strength when it ranges from 5 to 10 Rupas.
Slokas 21½ – 22½: Anything exceeding 10 Rupas will be (Purnabala). And such a planet will prove auspicious. His Dasa will be an exceedingly favourable one and will confer on the native concerned all that he cherishes, viz., wealth, happiness, etc., if he has passed his depression and is proceeding to his exaltation point. In the case of a planet possessing medium strength and going towards his exaltation, his Dasa period also will be productive of happiness. But should the planet be on his way to his depression point, the Dasa will prove unfavourable. In the case of a planet whose strength is below the normal (i.e., less than 5 Rupas), his Dasa will only cause misery and unhappiness.
Section-III – Ayurdaya – Length of Life
Sloka 1: The number denoting the asterisms from (Ashwini) that have been passed by a planet should be divided by 3 and the quotient left out of consideration. The remainder should be multiplied by 4 and the product will denote the number of Navamsas (from Mesha) already traveled by the planet and correspond to the number of years contributed by the planet in the (Amsayurdaya) system. The months, days, etc., over and above the years referred to due to the planet’s position in the portion of the next (Pada) should be calculated from the interval lying between the end of the last (Nakshatra pada) and the position occupied by the planet in the next one through the measure in days, ghatikas, etc., taken by the particular planet to pass through its full course. The years thus contributed by the several planets as well as by the Lagna should be similarly obtained and totaled up.
Take for instance the case of Venus in the nativity alluded to in the notes under I-5, supra. He is in the first quarter of the star (Punarvasu). He entered that (Pada) on the 8th of the month Kataka at 14gh. 8 vigh. And left the same for the 2nd (Pada) on the 10th idem at 57 gh. 40 vigh. He has therefore proceeded in the first (Pada) for 1 day, 45 gh. 22 vigh. The distance traversed by Venus from the beginning of Aswini is 6 stars plus of the first (pada) in the 7th star. The stars divided by 3 leaves no remainder. Venus therefore contributes only of a year or 7 month, 22 days, etc. Similarly, in the case of the other planets.
Sloka 2: When malefic planets occupy the 6 bhavas counted backward from the 12th, the whole, a half, a third, a fourth, a fifth or a sixth respectively of their Ayurdaya is lost. If benefics should occupy such positions, the loss is half of that incurred in the case of malefic ones. In the case of a malefic planet occupying the Lagna the whole of the Ayurdaya contributed by the Lagna is lost. When a planet is in its depression point, the period assigned to it is reduced by half. If the planet be posited in an inimical house, he loses a third of his Ayus. When he is eclipsed or defeated in planetary war, his Ayurdaya is further to be diminished by half. This is the peculiarity in the Amsayurdaya method.
Sloka 3: The number of ghatikas that have elapsed in the Lgna Rasi at birth when multiplied by 9 and divided by the number denoting the ghatikas, etc., of the rising period of that Rasi will reveal the number (in terms) of years contributed by the Lagna. From the remainder, the months, days, etc., may be similarly obtained by suitable multiplication and division by their appropriate factors. When the Lagna is strong by the presence in it, or the aspect over it, of its lord or a benefic planet or by its lord being in his exaltation, the number of years contributed by the Lagna will be as many years as are signified by the Rasis, etc., (counted from Mesha) in the figure denoting the Lagna. This is the view according to some astrologers.
Sloka 4: There are two decanates one on each side of the Lagna Drakhana. Find out the Saptavargajabalas in terms of Rupas before of the lords of these three decanates (or of the planets occupying them if be the reading for and take only a fourth. This will represent the religious merit (in Rupas) of the native. The same subtracted from 4 will signify the evil (papa) portion. These two results should be carefully noted and their difference if found to be 4 Rupas of (punya) will enable the person concerned to attain final emancipation.
Sloka 5: Thus should be obtained the figures for the benefic as well as the malefic portions of the Saptavargajabalas of the lords of the three decanates referred to above. The malefic portion should be multiplied by 120 and divided by 7. The result will be the number in years. Out of this take away as many 120 year-periods as are possible. The remainder will be less than 120 and reveal the (Ayus) of the native in the respective (Janma out of the past, present and future). This method has been suggested here only by way of discussion as one simpler than the (Amsayurdaya) method :
Sloka 6: (1) Venus, Jupiter and Mercury when they are in Kendra and Kona houses will make the native long lived. (2) If they occupy the 2nd, 3rd and 11th houses, the person will have medium life, i.e., 60 years (3) If these planets should be in the 6th, 8th and 12th houses the native will live below medium life. (4) The rest, i.e., the malefics, if posited in the 8th, the 12th, a Kendra or a Kona position, will invariably not be productive of good to the person concerned.
Sloka 7 : When the lord of the Lagna is not aspected by benefics posited in a Kendra or Kona position, when the owner of the Rasi occupied by the lord of the lagna and the Lagna itself are not aspected by benefics, the person concerned will be short-lived. He will further have no issues, no wife, and will be lacking in intelligence. But if it be otherwise, the native will be long-lived, fortunate, intelligent and ever renowned for his fame.
Sloka 8. If the Lagna (correctly calculated to the degree and minute) or the Rasi occupied by the Moon, be aspected by the lord of the 8th house; or the lord of the 8th house, reckoned from the Moon or the Lagna, be aspected by Saturn or Mars, and if in both the above cases there be no aspect by benefits on the lord of the Lagna or on the lord of the Rasi occupied by the lord of the Lagna, the native concerned, through ordinarily (expected to be) similar to markandeya in the matter of longevity, will be entitled to an exceedingly short span of life.
This sloka as well as the previous one are very important Sloka 7 gives one Alpayuryoga, The present sloka enunciates more than one yoga – viz.
1.The lord of the Lagna and the lord of the Rasi occupied by the lord of the Lagna should have no benefit aspect. The Lagna or the Chandra Lagna should be aspected by the lord of the 8th house.
2.The lord of the Lagna and the lord of the Rasi occupied by the lord of the Lagna should have no benefic aspect. The lord of the Lagna should have no benefic aspect. The lord of the 9th house reckoned from the Lagna or the Chandra Lagna should be aspected by Saturn or Mars.
