13. He who goes forth when Jupiter is in the ascendant obtains vehicles, carriages, honour, position, brilliance, knowledge, wealth, intercourse with wise men and with his elders (guru), an increase of his strength in battle, and victory.
14. If Venus is in the ascendant, he is provided with distinguished garments, clothes, lands, women, sports, gracefulness, delights, perfumes, and garlands, as well as with the ornaments, food, and drink of young ladies.
15. If Mercury is in the ascendant, he attains perfection in his speech and intellect; meets with his friends, relatives, and wife; acquires position, glory, and money; and obtains brilliance, authority, and an increase in self-respect.
16. If Saturn, Mars, the Sun, or the Moon is in the ascendant, he suffers pain on the road from hunger, thieves, diseases, the king, his enemies’ swords, spirits (Bhutas), missiles, carnivorous animals, poison, and fire, and he flees.
17. If it is the day of a malefic planet and that planet is in its own varga, after his own happiness has been lost and his enemy’s army increased, he attains success by practicing tricks which involve falseness and roguishness.
18. If the benefic planets are in the ascendant, the expedition is successful with regard to good health, brilliance, splendor, brightness, elephants, hones, soldiers, weapons, and courage; if the other planets (arc in the ascendant), it is to be known as being such as was described above (in verse 16).
19. The benefic planets in the second place cause an increase in the family (kutumba) and treasure of one who goes forth on an expedition, prosperity, and firm thinking; the malefics, fear, disease, and friendship with evil men.
20. Benefics in the third place give brothers, horses, soldiers, beauty, strength, firmness, and handsomeness in expeditions; malefics cause missiles, heroism, brilliance, and success in battles.
21. Benefics in the fourth place cause one’s allies and relatives to be strong, and the appearance of the full fruits (of the actions) of the wings of the army, the cavalry and the infantry; the malefics, fear, disaster, and despair.
22. The benefics in the fifth place cause success which arises from the muttering of spells (mantra), the donations of friends, tricky behaviour, and splitting and terrifying (one’s foes), and they cause joy; the malefics, misery and fear.
23. Benefics in the sixth place produce joy in the man who goes forth, the acquisition of good possessions, the haughtiness and pride of his allies, and victory; the other planets, the attainment of brilliance and a cane seat.
24. Jupiter and Mercury in the descendent cause the acquisition of the fruits of the procurements and exertions of one’s benefactors and friends-fruits consisting of the enjoyment of one’s wife and friends and of happiness; the other planets give loss and breaking.
25. If the benefic planets are in the eighth place, there is no loss of life and no sickness or harassing by one’s enemies; if the others are there, there is bondage, death, swords, diseases, fire, miseries, and falls.
26. If the benefic planets are in the ninth place, he conquers with an army of allies sustained by many foods and drinks consisting of vegetables, flowers, grains, and liquors of the forest; if the malefics are there, he retreats with his army despised.
27. Benefic planets in the tenth place cause him to attain the fruits acquired by heroism, and produce an increase in sovereignty and strength and the acquisition of money; malefics, success in battles involving divisiveness and falseness.
28. Benefic planets in the eleventh place cause intelligence, the acquisition of various moneys, the increase of one’s treasury, and position, victory, and prosperity; the others, victory and the acquisition of one’s enemy’s army and wealth.
29. Benefic planets in the twelfth place from the ascendant do not produce evil, expense, fraud, weak points, falls, an impassible road, or wandering; malefics do the opposite of what has just been described.
30. If benefit planets have the strength of time and so forth, and are in the cardines or in the upacayas of the ascendant, and are aspected in the strongest aspect – even by malefics – then the expedition is considered to make an effort for the best results.
31. If the benefits are in the ascendant and the others in the cardines, a strong malefic takes away part of the result; if the malefics are thus, even a benefit fails. The Moon when strong is like the malefics.
32. If there are three malefics in the ascendant, neither in conjunction with nor aspected by the benefits, the expedition is injurious to the life of the one who goes forth; if there are both benefits and malefics in (the places) described, (the effects) are mixed.
33. Even one malefic in the eighth place free of aspect from or conjunction with a benefit gives death, with modifications of its own making; if it is conjoined with a benefit, it causes diseases, illness, and distress.
34. One should know about the purpose of an expedition to a (foreign)
country, the nature of the enemy, and the actions (which will occur) by means of the planets in the cardines beginning with the ascendant; one should know the good or evil results by means of the suitable planets in order-the benefits and the malefics.
35. The destruction of one’s body, actions, treasury, and army does not occur when the benefit planets are strong; hut the malefics give evil with respect to these things-especially if they are the lords of the ascendant and of his birth-sign.
