8. Venus by means of such things as excessive drinking, eating, and sexual intercourse, water, phlegm, fever, old age, and diseases of the anus; Mars by means of thieves, battles, swords, fire, bile, fever, blood, poison, and faults of anger;
9. Mercury by means of such things as time, fatigue, falling down, fever, decay, asthma, (diseases of) the throat, and weariness; and Saturn by such things as stones, swords, wounds, clods, ropes, hunger, bites, wind, and lack of blood in the limbs.
10. These (planets), when they enter the ascendant or the eighth place, cause death; but the malefic planets, if they are of the highest strength, kill when they are in the cardines, even though the benefit planets also are strong.
11. If the eighth place is a forest sign and is aspccted by the Sun, death occurs in the wilderness and is caused by forest animals; if it is aspected by Mars, …; and if the eighth place is aspected by Saturn, …
12. If his eighth place is a water sign, the native loses his life in the water; if it is aspected by the Sun, (he is killed) by hot water; if it is aspected by Mars, by pouring forth his blood and vomiting;
13. and if it is aspected by Saturn, by a dropsical belly (dakodara), as well as by its own pains and diseases caused by the sign. If the Moon is in a town sign and is not aspected by the other (planets), it kills by means of a phlegmatic (disease) ;
14. if it is aspected by the Sun, (it kills) by burning and fever if (it is aspected by) Mars, it kills by means of diseases of the throat caused by dryness and acquired injuries effected by itself;
15. the Moon in the eighth place (in a town sign), if (it is aspected by) Saturn, causes death by the madness of the people. The Moon in the eighth place in a water sign causes death in the water.
16. If the eighth place is the house of a malefic planet and the Sun either aspects it or is in it, then (the native) always dies because of such things as diseases of the genitals, or phlegmatic (diseases).
17. If the eighth place is in a reptile sign and is aspected by the Sun, it slays the body destroyed by a serpent; if it is aspected by Mars, (the native) is afflicted by poison and fire; if it is aspected by Saturn, he is afflicted by ghosts and snakes.
18. If a strong planet is in the ascendant in a navamsa of a town sign, forest sign, water sign, or hole (i.e., reptile) sign, then on the last day (of the native’s life) it applies just these regions (which belong to each category of sign); (a similar interpretation is to be given) in the case of a navamsa belonging to a human sign, a quadruped sign, or a half-human and half-quadruped sign.
19. Whatever sign is occupied by the antara at the time of death, the limb in the body which belongs to that sign is surely injured; if the malefic planets are bright (ujjvalinah) or in the eighth place, they are said to supervise the breaking of the limbs in these cases.
20. When it is observed that the yogas described above are uncertain, even a planet in the sixth place, if it is not aspected by benefit planets, strikes the whole body through pains because of diseases caused by its position and by itself.
21. If the malefic planets bring death at night, they kill with something having qualities like their own; if in daylight they possess the rule of death, they say (that the deaths) are to be determined as depending on the natures of the (planet’s) places.
22. If any planets are said to be in the houses such as their friends’ (and not in their enemies’ houses or their signs of dejection), then this rule applies to them. When Yamanta has given death (to the body), the continuing journey (of the soul) has various results depending on the signs occupied by the planets.
CHAPTER 43
1. The exit (of the soul from this world) is to a part of the many (other) worlds which is determined by (the lord of) the sixth place, the seventh place, the eighth place, or the Decanate (in one of these places); any other rule is unimaginable.
2 . (This part of the many worlds) is to be established as having the qualities of the place belonging to the lord of the Decanate by means of fixed rules which follow the natural order; when (the soul) is carried away (in death), it obtains from among the four paths of progress (open to it) that one which has the qualities of that (lord of the Decanates).
3. There are three ways from the world of men at the time of death – horizontally, up, or down; when a man dies, his own qualities establish paths (for him) which have various sorts of castes, forms, and characteristics.
4. If, at the time of death, (all) the benefit planets are in their own vargas in the signs of their exaltation and in cardines, or if the lord of the eighth place is a benefit and is in this yoga, it provides the way to the abode of the Sun (Suryaloka).
5. If the benefit planets are in their exaltations in the sixth, seventh, or eighth place, they give the way to heaven; the malefic planets in this yoga cause rebirth among the Yaksas, Asuras, and Raksasas.
6. If (the planets) are in their own houses, their friends’ navamsas, or their base-triplicities in the seventh or eighth places or the navamsas of the signs in those places, and if they are not overcome, they cause re-birth to occur in the world of men; the direction and the region (where the birth takes place) is determined by the birth-sign (and its lord).
