8. If these yogas of death occur in the first, fifth, seventh, and eighth places of his natal horoscope, and if they are neither in conjunction with nor aspected by the benefit planets, they quickly exercise the influence on the sick which has been described.
9. If these yogas occur in the upacaya places and are in conjunction with or aspected by the benefit planets, even though they are also aspected by the malefic planets, they say that in them is not death for the sick.
10. If the bad places are in the cardines, they give loss joined with ignobility (anarya); if places which are both good and bad, they say that they have as their effects such things as diseases; and if good places, good effects.
11. If a planet is in the sixth place from the descendent (i.e., the twelfth place) in the house of a benefit planet and aspected by a benefit, and if a sign which rises headfirst is in the ascendant or descendent, then a traveler proceeds propitiously and quickly.
12 . If a malefic planet leaves the descendent and enters the eighth place from the ascendant, and is there aspected by a malefic, then the death of the traveler must be established; but if (it is aspected) by benefit planets, he goes to another country.
13. If a strong malefic planet is in the descendent in the house of a malefic, or if an enemy of the lord of the ascendant is there aspected by a malefic, (the traveler) is distressed by disease and encirclement; even a benefit planet (causes this) if it is in the house of a malefic or of its enemy.
14. But if a sign which rises headfirst is in the ascendent, he first retires to a distance, and then comes near on the road; if a sign which rises backwards, he is afflicted with obstruction and disease; and if one which rises both ways, his gain is insignificant.
In the Yvanajataka: the time of death in queries.
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1. If Mercury is in its base-triplicity in a varga of Jupiter, or if a navamsa of Mercury is in the ascendant in a. varga of Jupiter, or if Jupiter is in the ascendant in a sign which possesses its (i.e., Jupiter’s) qualities and in a feminine varga, a son is born.
2. Their influences are to be described as the planets are in each other’s houses or as their navamsas are in the ascendant; one should establish that a male or a female is born on the basis of the odd and even signs and of the planets.
3. If Saturn is in an odd place from the ascendant and is aspected by a masculine planet, it establishes that a male is born. Or, if an odd sign is in the ascendant, one should know that a male is born; in the opposite case, a female.
In the Yavanajataka: questions about the births of males or females.
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1. If the dvadasamsa of a benefit planet is in the ascendant and the sign is good, they say the food is good; if the dvadasamsa of a malefic planet is there in the house of a malefic, (the food) is uneaten or eating it gives no pleasure.
2. If the odd places are forest signs, (the food) is bad; if town signs, the eater remains hungry; if a dvadasamsa of a benefit planet is in the ascendant in the house of a benefit, the food is dry.
3. If the even places are ruled by benefit planets, the food is good and is well spiced; it is provided with the substances and qualities pertaining to the (significant) sign, and is full of good flavors from the lord of its dvadasamsa.
4. If the Sun is in the ascendant (the food) is dry meat; if the Moon, it is oily, wet, and sugary; if Jupiter, the food is good and superior for eating; if Venus, it is soft and varied, and has a sweet flavour;
5. if Mars, one should say that it is the lowest of meats and flavours; if Mercury, it is perfected by being peppered; and if Saturn, it is stale and stinking.This is modified by the places, signs, dvadasamsas, and navamsas.
6. One should consider (this matter) in the light of the lord of the Dvadasamsa in the ascendant combined with whatever pertains to its house, with the qualities of the planet which is in its house, and with the indications of the house of (that planet) which has entered (its house).
7. If the sign in the ascendant is aspected by Mars, even if it is also aspected by a benefit planet, (the eating) is accompanied by vomiting and fainting. If a navamsa of Scorpio is in the ascendant, bright people admit that they will eat;
8. if a navamsa of Capricorn, that they will drink; if a navamsa of Leo, they will say (the food) is rich with flesh of its own quality (i.e., a lion’s).In the Yavanajataka: questions about food.