CHAPTER 38
1. If the Moon is in the eighth place from the asccndcnt in the house of a malefic planet or if it is in the sixth place and is aspected by a malefic planet, and if it is not combined with benefit planets, it destroys the whole life; but if it is aspected by them, it does so only after the lapse of eight years.
2. If Jupiter is in its dejection or in a house of Mars and is aspected by malefic planets which have an evil influence, or if the malefic planets are in the sixth and eighth places, they are said to destroy the life immediately.
3. If Jupiter is in the eighth place from the ascendent, in Scorpio or Capri-corn, and is aspected by Mars or Saturn, while neither Venus nor Mercury aspect it, then it is said to destroy the life in a month.
4. If, in this yoga, Venus and Mercury are weak, they destroy the life within a fortnight; but even if they are aspected by Jupiter, if the ascendent is in a navamsa of a malefic planet, they kill in a month.
5. If all the malefic planets are strong, facing the ascendent, and in the house of a malefic planet, while the benefit planets are weak, to the right of the ascendant, and also in the house of a malefic planet, they kill on that very day.
6. If the lord of the ascendent is in the seventh place, overcome by malefic planets and not aspected by benefit ones, it kills quickly; if a malefic planet is in the ascendent aspected by the Moon and in conjunction with (another) malefic planet, (the native) dies within muhurtas.
7. If the ascendent is occupied by either the Sun or the Moon and is aspected by a malefic planet, and if the malefic planets are strong and in the trines; and if the lord of the ascendent or the Moon is in the twelfth place, it causes the loss of life immediately.
8. If Mars is in the ascendant and is not aspected by benefit planets and if Saturn is in the sixth or eighth place, or if both are in the eighth place and are not aspected by benefit planets, they instantly cause the death of the native.
9. If a malefic planet is in the ascendant and if the Moon, either aspected by a malefic, waning, or overcome, is in the descendent, or the lord of the sixth or eighth place is in the descendent and is not mixed with a benefit, it destroys life at once.
10. If Saturn is in the descendent, Mars in the fourth place, the Moon in the ascendent in either Scorpio or Capricorn, and the benefit planets not in the cardines, then the native is said by the Greeks to die at once.
CHAPTER 39
1. Such is the rule relating to the life of people, regulated by the special rules regarding the periods (daya) (of the planets). Whatever is the number of years determined as being the period (daya) of any planet, they call that its dasa.
2. (But also) each (planet) obtains as its own age (vayas) an equal amount of’ time in the course of the lives of embodied beings; and, by means of their o\vn qualities and the influences of their periods (daya), they produce increase or decrease of men.
3. The Moon, Mars, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, the Sun, and Saturn in order (possess) these ages; they are to be understood as existing concurrently with the dasas, from the birth of living beings till their extreme old age.
4. One should know that the age (vayas) of the Moon is one of drinking (one’s mother’s) milk; that of Mars is one of growing teeth; they say that of Mercury is the time of learning one’s lessons, and extends up to the time when one begins to be agitated by a desire for sexual intercourse;
5. they say that of Venus is youth, which has been considered previously in this rule (i.e., it is characterized by agitation by a desire for sexual intercourse); and that of Jupiter extends through middle age; they say the age (vayas) of the Sun is another (period) beyond that middle age; and that of Saturn is the unfortunate time of old age.
6. Whichever of the Moon, the Sun, and the ascendent has superior strength from the configuration of that time (of the nativity), its dasa is seen first, and the rest follow after in the order of their strengths.
7. Whatever planet is ruler of the age (vayas) or rises first, that is said to be lord of the dasa first; if a planet is superior in strength and is in a cardine, it is designated first among the remaining (dasas).
8. The best dasa for a planet is one which occurs during its own age (vayas) or when the planet is in its exaltation and has temporal strength; the middling dada when the planet is in its base-triplicity, in its own house, in a friend’s house, or in the birth-sign (the sign occupied by the Moon at the time of the nativity) ;
9. and a dasa is (called) ruined, pale, and rough when the planet is in its dejection, in an enemy’s house or navamsa, or overcome. Whatever (dasa) is spoken of when the lord of the sixth or eighth place is an enemy of the lord of the nativity, that (dasa) gives many faults.
10. If a malefic planet is in the sixth or eighth place and is aspected by an enemy which is in the house of a malefic, then it causes death in its dasa or diseases, wandering, imprisonment, and impoverishment.
