*kendrasthite lagnapatau ca saumyair dṛṣṭe yute vā navapañcamasthaiḥ |* 10 *saukhyaṃ vilāso vijayo bhaved vā kambūlage rātripatau balāḍhye || lagnaṃ yadā pāpakhagaiḥ sametaṃ saumyagrahair no sahitaṃ ca dṛṣṭam | dadāti māndyaṃ bahulaṃ samānte tathā vivādaṃ kujanair narāṇām || śubhagrahāḥ kendragatā balānvitāḥ sadyo 'rthalābhāya sukāryasiddhaye | pāpagrahāḥ pañcamadharmakendragā dāridryaduḥkhāya bhavanti tatra ||* 15 *saumyagrahair upacayopagataiḥ samastair lagnāt tathā himakarāt sabalair narāṇām | dadyur dhanāni vividhāni vilāsahāsyaṃ saukhyāgamaṃ nikhilalokajanāt pṛthivyām ||*

2 ārogyatā] ārogyatāṅ K T 3 gate] gato B N a.c. 4 varṣa] varṣe N ‖ janmany api] janmavyapi G 7 dṛṣṭa] dṛṣṭi B N ‖ sahite] sahito G ‖ vibhunā] vibhutā B N G 8 caivam] tatram B 9 evaṃ … bhavet] om. G ‖ miśraṃ ca] miśra K T M 10 -sthaiḥ] scripsi; -sthe B N G K T M 15 dharma] om. B N K T M ‖ kendragā] vā add. B N K T M 16 saumya] sau T 19 loka] scripsi; yoga B N G K T M

2–3 lagnā- … saukhyam] TS 190 5–8 lagneśvare … vilokyam] DA 17.2 10–11 kendra … balāḍhye] TS191

19 loka] The emendation is supported by MSS TS1, TS2 and TS3.

stood [to occur], and by mixed [planets], mixed [results] should be understood [to occur], as above. Next, particular configurations [are described] in *Tājikasāra* [190]:

If the ruler of the ascendant has full strength, there is great happiness, good health and increase in beauty; if it is of middling strength, there is little happiness; if it is corrupt, there is evil; if occupying the twelfth, eighth or sixth house, little happiness.

Here the ruler of the ascendant of the year is expected to have full strength [and so on] in the nativity as well: thus [says] Tejaḥsiṃha [in *Daivajñālaṃkṛti* 17.2]:

If the ruler of the ascendant has full strength both in the year and in the nativity, there is good health, greatness of mind, and pleasures of the body, if the ascendant is also aspected or joined by its ruler or benefics. Results should be considered thus for all the houses.

Similarly, by [the aspects and occupancy] of malefics, the opposite of all this should be understood [to occur], and by mixed [planets], the results will be mixed. [Continuing from *Tājikasāra* 191:]

If the ruler of the ascendant occupies a quadrant, aspected by or joined to benefics occupying the ninth or fifth [house], there will be happiness, delight and victory, or if the moon endowed with strength forms a *kambūla*.

When the ascendant is beset by malefic planets and neither joined nor aspected by benefic planets, it gives men much illness at the end of the year, and likewise disputes with evil people. Benefic planets occupying angles and endowed with strength immediately leads to gain of wealth and the accomplishment of good deeds; but malefic planets placed in the fifth, ninth, or angles lead to poverty and suffering. By all benefic being planets strong and occupying places of increase12 from the ascendant as well asfrom the moon, they give manifold riches, delight and laughter, and gain of happiness from all the people in the world.13

12 See Chapter 5, note 84.

13 The verses in this paragraph are not attested in available independent witness of the *Tājikasāra*.

#### samarasiṃhaḥ |

*lagneśe kendrasthe śubhagrahe lagnage śubhair dṛṣṭe | lagnāt trikoṇasaṃsthe kṣemaṃ dehasya candramūthaśile || yadi lagne lagnapatiḥ saumyayuto vā vilokitaḥ saumyaiḥ | tat praṣṭur vyākulatā śarīradoṣā vinaśyanti ||* 5 *yatrarkṣe lagneśas tatpatir aśubhe gṛhe tadā kāryam | na syād aste kaṣṭād daśamadṛśā kaṭukatā kārye || jātakalagnād varṣe ṣaṣṭhe 'ntye vā dṛśā grahaiḥ krūraiḥ | dṛṣṭe yute ca vācyaṃ tadvarṣe na śubham anyayoge 'pi || janmani pāpe varṣe lagnagatā munthahā na hi śreṣṭhā |* 10 *krūrayutadṛṣṭacandre lagnasthe vāśubhaṃ bahuśaḥ || lagnāt saptāṣṭamage bhaume varṣaṃ na śobhanaṃ vācyam |*

#### jīrṇatājike |

*udito lagnapo lagnaṃ paśyet sarvagrahekṣitam | sārvabhaumas tadā yogo mahābhāgyasya jāyate ||* 15 *yadrāśijo naras tasya samudeti patir yadā | rāśīśasyodayo vā syād udayas tatra vatsare ||*

2 grahe] grahai T ‖ śubhair] śubhe K T 3 -saṃsthe] -sthe G 4–7 yadi … kārye] om. B N K T M 8 varṣe] varṣaṃ G ‖ dṛśā] daśā N K T M 12 lagnāt … vācyam] om. B N 15 sārva] sarva B N 16 rāśijo] rāśito B N 17–570.1 rāśī … 'thavā] om. G 17 -odayo] -odaye B N

15–574.21 mahā … varṣe] Folios 3v and 4r are missing from the scan of T.

#### [And] Samarasiṃha [says in the *Tājikaśāstra*]:

If the ruler of the ascendant occupies an angle and a benefic planet occupies the ascendant aspected by benefics [or] is placed in a trine from the ascendant with a *mutthaśila* from the moon, there is bodily well-being. If the ruler of the ascendant is in the ascendant joined to a benefic or aspected by benefics, then the querent's anxiety and ailments of the body vanish.

[If] the ruler of the sign where the ruler of the ascendant [resides] is in a malefic house,14 then the querent's purpose will not be accomplished. If it is [heliacally] set with a tenth-[sign] aspect from a malefic, violence will accompany his affairs.

If the year [falls] in the sixth or twelfth house from the ascendant of the nativity,15 aspected by malefic planets with an aspect or joined [to them],16 no good should be predicted for that year even in [the presence of] other configurations.

The *munthahā* occupying the ascendant is not very good if there is a malefic in the [sign corresponding to that] year in the nativity. If the moon occupies the ascendant joined to or aspected by a malefic, evil abounds. If Mars occupies the seventh or eighth [house] from the ascendant, the year should not be declared to be good.

[And] in the *Jīrṇatājika* [it is said]:

Should the ruler of the ascendant, [heliacally] risen, aspect the ascendant [which is also] aspected by all [other] planets, then an allconquering configuration is formed for the greatly fortunate [native].

When the ruler of the sign under which a man was born rises [heliacally], or the [heliacal] rising of the ruler of [that] sign takes place, [the native] rises up in that year.17

14 *Gṛha*, which in the present context could mean either the domicile of a malefic planet or one of the evil houses (6, 8 or 12).

15 Presumably by the annual profection of the ascendant (the *munthahā*); see the Introduction.

16 The phrase 'aspected […] with an aspect' seems either redundant or incomplete (for 'aspected […] with an evil aspect'), but there is no basis in the text witnesses for an emendation.

17 The two conditions given appear to be entirely synonymous. Possibly the text is corrupt, but there is nothing on which to base an emendation.

3 vīkṣate] scripsi; vīkṣyate B N G K M ‖ vīkṣante] vīkṣyaṃte B N K M 4 vindyāl] vidyāl K M 9 śubho dṛṣṭaḥ] śubhadṛṣṭaḥ B; om. N ‖ api] vilokitaḥ add.

[Heliacally] risen or occupying its exaltation, the ruler of the sign [occupied by the moon in the nativity] or the ruler of the ascendant will bring good to him in that year, or a planet joined [to the ruler will do the same].

[If] the ruler of the ascendant aspects the ascendant and benefic planets aspect [it too], then he will have pleasures of the body, or [if] the ruler of the ascendant is in the ascendant.

Should the ruler of the ascendant aspect the ascendant, and the ruler of a house aspects [that] house, or should both of them occupy the house, then there is happiness from that house.

If the ruler of the ascendant occupies its domicile, the moon is joined to the ruler of the eleventh house, and the ruler of the second house is excellent [by dignity], then it brings excellent results.

If the ruler of the ascendant occupies an angle, benefic and aspected by benefics, or it occupies a trine or the eleventh house ahead of the moon,18 it causes well-being.

If Jupiter as ruler of the year is joined to a malefic in the ascendant, there is loss and danger from the king. [If] the ruler of the ascendant is [in] the sixth, [the native] will become his own enemy; [in] the eighth, it will cause death, and occupying the twelfth house, it will cause loss.

If the ruler of the ascendant is corrupt, a man will lose limbs; his vigour, colour and so on will be lost; [but] if [the ruler of the ascendant is heliacally] risen, all is well.

In the month in which the ruler of the ascendant, the ruler of the sign [occupied by the moon in the nativity], the ruler of an angle or the ruler of a house rises [heliacally], in that month there is much happiness from that [planet's significations].

Should the rulers of the sign and of the ascendant, [heliacally] risen, occupy the highest degree19 in an angle, or should the benefics be [placed] thus, then excellent results are declared.

Should the ruler of the house in which the ruler of the ascendant [resides] be in a benefic house,20 good deeds will be accomplished; in

18 The meaning seems to be that the moon is approaching an exact conjunction (or possibly an aspect) with the ruler of the ascendant.

19 Presumably the degree of exaltation is meant, in which case the two planets cannot be conjunct, as each planet has its own sign and degree of exaltation. An alternative meaning is 'the last degree', but this does not seem to agree with astrological doctrine.

20 In both instances, the word for 'house' in this sentence is *gṛha*. In the first instance it clearly refers to the domicile of a planet; the second is less clear.

*nīcasthite cāstamite aśubharkṣasthite tathā | lagneśabhapatau kāryam aśubhaṃ tatra sidhyati || lagnakāryapayor yogaḥ śubhayoḥ siddhikṛd bhavet | pāpayoś ca tayor yogo alpakāryakaro mataḥ ||*

#### hillājaḥ | 5

*vilagnāt pañcamaṃ tasmāt puṇyabhaṃ ca tatas tanuḥ | sthānatraye yadā saumyāḥ sukhasampat tadā bhavet || svoccaṃ tatra yadā saumyās tatra rājyaṃ mahāsukham | svocce lagne śriyaṃ turye saukhyaṃ yoṣid dyune bhavet | vyomni rājyaṃ grahaṃ samyag vicārya phalam ādiśet ||* 10

#### yādavaḥ |

*janmāṅgābdapatiḥ samātanupatir vābde bhaved yadbhagas tadbheśena kṛtetthaśālayutikas tattatpradaś cec chubhaḥ | yad vā bhāvanṛpo 'thavā sahamapo varṣādhināthena vā lagneśena karoti ced yutim ihāsyāptiprado hāyane ||* 15 *lagneśvare vā śaradīśvare vā vīryānvite saumyayutekṣite ca | śarīrasaukhyaṃ bahuduḥkham aṣṭaṣaṣṭhasthite tatpatinātha yukte || janmalagnapatir uttamavīryo yadgṛhe januṣi tatra ca dṛṣṭe | tena vā sahita asya ca labdhis tad yathāṅgasukham abdatanau syāt || bhāvā janmani hāyane svaphaladāḥ saumyasvapekṣāyutā* 20

1 aśubharkṣa] aśubharkṣe G 2 sidhyati] siddhāti K 4 yogo] yoga K M 6 vilagnāt] lagnāt K ‖ puṇyabhaṃ] puṇyabhe G 7 sampat tadā] saṃpattido M 8–9 svoccaṃ … bhavet] om. B N 10 grahaṃ] scripsi; grahe B N G K M 13 tattatpradaś] tatprāptidaś G K M 14 yad vā] yadbhā K 17 patinātha] patinā ca G K M 18 gṛhe] grahe B N 19 ca labdhis] tv alabdhis G 20 bhāvā] bhāvaṃ B N ‖ janmani] janmati N ‖ saumya] saumyā B N; saumyais K M ‖ svapekṣā] svadyekṣā N; svapatyā K M

12–17 janmā- … yukte] TYS 12.12–13 18–19 janma … syāt] TYS 12.15 20–574.7 bhāvā … dhāyane] TYS 12.118–119

19 sahita] This sandhi (for *sahite*), rare but not unheard of, is confirmed by independent witnesses TYS1, TYS2.

the opposite [situation], they cannot. If the ruler of the sign [occupied by] the ruler of the ascendant occupies its fall, is [heliacally] set, or occupies a malefic sign,21 evil deeds are accomplished. A configuration of the rulers of the ascendant and the matter sought, both benefic, will accomplish [the matter], but their configuration when both malefic, is said to produce only a little of the matter.

[And] Hillāja [says]:

The fifth from the ascendant, the ninth sign from it, and then the ascendant: when benefics are in [these] three places, then happiness will abound. When the benefics [are in their] exaltation there, there is dominion and great happiness. In exaltation in the ascendant, [a benefic will make] splendour; in the fourth, happiness; in the seventh house, there will be a wife; in the tenth house, dominion. Having examined the planet carefully, one should predict the result.

[And] Yādava [says in *Tājikayogasudhānidhi* 12.12–13, 15, 118–119]:

Should the ruler of the ascendant of the nativity, [the ruler] of the year, or the ruler of the ascendant of the year form an *itthaśāla* configuration with the ruler of the sign that it occupies in [the revolution of] the year, it bestows [the matter signified by] that [sign], if it is a benefic; or else, if the ruler of a house or the ruler of a *sahama* makes a configuration with the ruler of the year or the ruler of the ascendant, it bestows the attainment of [the matter signified by] that [house or *sahama*] in that year. If the ruler of the ascendant or the ruler of the year is endowed with strength and joined to or aspected by benefics, there are pleasures of the body; [but there is] much suffering if [the same planet] occupies the eighth or sixth [house] joined to its ruler.

If the house in which the ruler of the ascendant of the nativity is [placed] with excellent strength in the nativity is aspected or joined by that [ruler, there is] attainment of [the matter signified by] that [house]: for example, [if it is placed] in the ascendant of the year, there will be pleasures of the body.

The houses of the nativity give their own results in the year when joined by the aspects of the benefics and their own rulers; if the reverse,

21 The word used here is *ṛkṣa*, which unambiguously refers to a division of the zodiac.

*vyastā vyastaphalāś ca tat paridṛḍhāḥ sādāḥ sameśo 'pi ca | evaṃ cāpi vilagnavad dhanasukhaṃ cakraṃ vidhāyātra tu duṣṭāduṣṭakhagodayāstadinato brūyāc chubhaṃ cāśubham || sūtau yadbhavane śubho 'bdasamaye tadgo 'ṅgato 'bdāṅgato munthāto 'pi tadāptikṛt kṣatikaraḥ krūro 'tha varṣeśvaraḥ |* 5 *yadbhāve sahame 'tivīryasahito lagneśvareṇāpi vā tatpenātha kṛtetthaśālayutikas tatprāptikṛd dhāyane ||*

#### tejaḥsiṃhaḥ |

*varṣāṅgapo januṣi yadgṛhago balī syād varṣe ca lagnam atha tadgṛham āśritaś cet |* 10 *tadbhāvajaṃ khalu phalaṃ sakalaṃ dadāti cetthaṃ sadātra muthahābdapatī vicintyau ||*

atra varṣalagneśaphalam āha samarasiṃhaḥ |

*yadi lagneśaḥ sūryo duḥkhaṃ ca vyākulatvaparavaśate | yadi somas tu parānnaṃ bhuṅkte 'tho nāśrayo vigatadhātuḥ ||* 15 *bhaume lagnādhipatau sarvavirodhī vivādakṛd rogī | saumye ca patau vidyābuddhiprabhṛtīni jāyante || gurusitayoś ca patitve sukhāni pūrṇāni sarvāṇi | mandapatitve kalahodvegavikārāśubhāni syuḥ ||* iti |

atra viśeṣam āha hillājaḥ | 20

*janmani ye balayuktā hīnabalāḍhyās tathā varṣe | te varṣapūrvabhāge śubhaphaladāś cottare tv aśubhāḥ || ye janmani balahīnā varṣe balasaṃyutāḥ kheṭāḥ | te varṣacaramabhāge śubhaphaladāḥ pūrvabhāgake tv aśubhāḥ ||*

1 dṛḍhāḥ] dṛḍhas K 2 -vad dhana] varddhana B N ‖ sukhaṃ] mukhaṃ N; svakhañ K ‖ tu] tad K M 3 -odayā-] scripsi; -āhvayā- B N; -āśrayā- G K M 4 tadgo 'ṅgato] scripsi; tadgoṃtago B N; tadgoḥ 'gatoḥ G; tadva gato K; taddharmato M 6 bhāve] bhāvo N ‖ sahito] sahite B N 6–7 vā tatpenātha] vā tat svenātha B; vāstv etenātha N 7 kṛtetthaśāla] kṛtotthaśāla N; kṛtthaśāla K 9 gṛhago] grahago B N 11 dadāti] dadhāti B N 13–19 atra … iti] om. B N 13 lagneśa] lagne M 15 parānnaṃ bhuṅkte 'tho] scripsi; parānnabhuktātho G; parānnabhukūlatho K; parānnabhuk kulato M 18 patitve] pativi K; pativati M 21 balāḍhyās] balādyās N K M 22 varṣa] om. B N 23 ye] ca add. K T ‖ saṃyutāḥ] yutāḥ B N 24 varṣa] varṣe K T M

9–12 varṣā- … vicintyau] DA 17.1

they reverse their results: that [is if they are] powerful, and [likewise] the lots and the ruler of the year. Arranging the circle [of houses] thus, as with the ascendant, [there is] happiness from wealth [from the second house, and so on]. From the days of [heliacal] rising and setting of malefic and benefic planets, one should predict good and evil. In whatever house a benefic [resides] in the nativity, occupying that [house] at the time of [the revolution of] the year, [as reckoned] from the ascendant [of the nativity], from the ascendant of the year, or from the *munthahā*, it causes the attainment of [the matter signified by] that [house]; a malefic causes [its] destruction. And in whatever house or *sahama* the ruler of the year [resides], endowed with great strength and forming an *itthaśāla* configuration with the ruler of the ascendant or with the ruler of that [house], it causes the attainment of [the matter signified by] that [house] in [that] year.

[And] Tejaḥsiṃha [says in *Daivajñālaṃkṛti* 17.1]:

Whatever house the ruler of the ascendant of the year occupied in the nativity, being strong, if it should occupy the ascendant or that [same] house in [the revolution of] the year, it surely gives the full result arising from that house. The rulers of the *muthahā* and of the year are also always to be considered thus.

Concerning this, Samarasiṃha [in the *Tājikaśāstra*] states the results of the ruler of the ascendant of the year:

If the sun is ruler of the ascendant, there is suffering, agitation and subservience to others. If the moon [is ruler, the native] eats another's food, has no shelter and is without substance. If Mars is ruler of the ascendant, he opposes everyone, makes quarrels and is sickly. If Mercury is ruler, learning, understanding and so forth arise. If the rulership goes to Jupiter and Venus, all pleasures are complete. If Saturn holds rulership, there will be evils of strife, agitation and ailments.

Concerning this, Hillāja states a special rule:

Those [planets] that are endowed with strength in the nativity but have little strength in the year give good results in the former part of the year but are evil in the latter. Those planets that have little strength in the nativity but are endowed with strength in the year give good results in *ubhayatra ye balāḍhyāḥ sampūrṇe 'bde śubhapradās te syuḥ | ubhayatra vīryarahitās te varṣe 'niṣṭadāḥ sakale ||*

#### atha lagnabhāvasthitānāṃ sūryādīnāṃ phalaṃ tājikapadmakośe |

*atha pravakṣye yavanāditattvaṃ tanvādigānāṃ ravipūrvakāṇām | sāmānyato bhāvaphalaṃ khagānāṃ kautūhalād daivavidāṃ hitāya ||* 5 *ravir lagnago vātapittaṃ karoti kalatrāṅgapīḍāṃ śiro'rtyakṣirogam | vivādaṃ janānāṃ bhaved guptacintā daśā neṣṭakārī bhaved dhāyane 'smin || tanugatas tanute rajanīkaro vikalatāṃ ca kaphajvarapīḍanam |* 10 *bhavati pāpakhagānvitadṛg yadā tanuvināśakaro balavarjitaḥ || dharaṇitanayalagne syād vraṇaṃ vātapīḍā bhavati ripuvivādo netraśīrṣe ca rogaḥ | jvaravamanavikārād aṅganānāṃ ca kaṣṭaṃ nṛpabhayam atha lohād agnito vā bhayaṃ syāt ||* 15 *rajanikarasutaḥ syāl lagnago hāyanasya bahulabalavivṛddhir yoṣitāṃ cāpi saukhyam | bhavati ripuvināśo bhūpapakṣāc ca lābho dhanajanasukhakārī mitralābhaṃ karoti || jīve lagnagate hayāmbarasukhaṃ prāpnoti vṛddhiṃ parāṃ* 20 *rājyāt saukhyasamāgamaṃ ca bahulaṃ vyāpārataḥ syāj jayaḥ | kīrteś cāpi vivardhanaṃ ripujanā naśyanty avaśyaṃ tathā jāyāsaukhyam athāpi mauktikadhanaṃ hemnaś ca lābho bhavet || tanusthānago bhārgavaś ced iha syāt pratiṣṭhāvivṛddhiṃ samṛddhyāgamaṃ ca |* 25 *ripūṇāṃ vināśam tathā bhūpamānaṃ jayaṃ bhūṣaṇādyaṃ narāṇāṃ karoti || mūrtisthito ravisutaḥ sutalābhakārī hy uccasthitaḥ svabhavane ca karoti labdhim |*

1 balāḍhyāḥ] balādyāḥ N 2 sakale] pi add. M 5 kautūhalād] kautūhalaṃ G K T M 11 khagānvita] guganvita G 12 vraṇaṃ] vraṇo G T; dhaṇo K 14 aṅganānāṃ] aṃganāṃge K T M 16 hāyanasya] hāyane syād B N 21 rājyāt] rāt N 22 janā naśyanty] jano naśyaty G 23 hemnaś] hemaś K T 27 bhūṣaṇādyaṃ] bhūṣaṇāḍhyaṃ K T M

4–5 atha … hitāya] TPK 0.2 6–9 ravir … 'smin] TPK 1.1 10–11 tanu … varjitaḥ] TPK 2.1 12–15 dharaṇi … syāt] TPK 3.1 16–19 rajani … karoti] TPK 4.1 20–23 jīve … bhavet] TPK 5.1 24–27 tanu … karoti] TPK 6.1 28–578.2 mūrti … madhye] TPK 7.1

the latter part of the year but are evil in the former part. Those that are rich in strength in both [figures] will bestow good for the entire year, but those bereft of strength in both give evils the whole year.

Next, the results of the sun and other [planets] occupying the first house [are described] in *Tājikapadmakośa* [0.2, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1]:

Now I shall describe the truth [according to] Yavana22 and others: the general results of the sun and other planets occupying the ascendant and other houses, from an eager desire for the well-being of astrologers.

The sun placed in the ascendant makes [an excess of the humours of] wind and bile, bodily pain for the [native's] wife, headache and ailments of the eyes and quarrels with people [in general]. There will be secret anxiety, and its period in this year will not bring any good.

The moon placed in the ascendant makes defects, suffering from phlegm and fever; when it is bereft of strength and joined to or aspecting malefic planets, it destroys the body.

When Mars is in the ascendant, there will be wounds and suffering from [the humour of] wind; there are quarrels with enemies and ailments of the eyes and head, evils to women [of the family] from disorders with fever and vomiting, and there will be danger from the king and danger from iron or fire.

Should Mercury occupy the ascendant of the year, there is great increase in strength and happiness from women, destruction of enemies and gain from the king's retinue: it brings happiness from wealth and people and makes [the native] gain friends.

If Jupiter occupies the ascendant, [the native] obtains happiness from horses and clothes, great prosperity and gain of abundant happiness from dominion; there will be triumphs in his occupation, his fame will spread, and his enemies inevitably perish; there will be happiness from his wife, pearls and wealth, and gain of gold.

If Venus should occupy the ascendant in this [year], it makes an increase in eminence and acquisition of riches, destruction of enemies and honours from the king, triumphs, ornaments and so forth for men.

Occupying the ascendant, Saturn brings children and gain if occupying its exaltation; in its domicile, it makes gain; in the rest [of the

1 śeṣe ca] śeṣeṣu K T M 3 lagnagaṃ] lagnagaḥ K T M 5 śiro'rtiṃ] śirortiś K T 6 netra] cātra G 7 sarvatra] sarvaṃ G 9 roṣo] rogo K T M 10 cākṣīṇaḥ] cākṣīṇaiḥ N 15 paṭalākṣi] vadanākṣi G ‖ rogataḥ] rogadaḥ G 16 mūrdha] mūrdhva G ‖ rogāṃś] rogaś B; rogāś N G K T ‖ ca dhana] vaṃdhana G 17 kujaḥ] śubhaḥ B 19 dhairya] dhairyasya K p.c. T M ‖ vivṛddhiś] vṛddhiś K T M ‖ vilagnage] vilagne G

3–6 tamo … varṣe] TPK 8.1

signs there is] suffering caused by [the humour of] wind and danger from enemies and bodily evils for the wife, and it makes illness in [that] year.

[If] Rāhu occupies the ascendant, there is suffering to women [of the family], danger and anxiety [on account] of enemies, loss and agitation: it makes headache, danger from the king, loss of honour and suffering from the eyes in this year.

The results of Ketu should be understood to be like those of Rāhu in all [houses].23 [And] Maṇittha [says]:24

There is much anxiety and agitation, pains in the head, eyes and mouth, much anger25 and suffering to women at the beginning of the year if the sun is in the ascendant.

Waning, the moon is a malefic; waxing, a benefic. Likewise, aspected by benefics it is a benefic, but a malefic when aspected by malefics. From the middle of the eighth day of the bright fortnight up to the middle of the eighth day of the dark fortnight,26 the moon is a benefic, good in the places declared [for it]. If the moon is in the ascendant, men suffer from asthma, cough and so on; [the native] is afflicted with cataracts and disorders of the eyes, and with illnesses of phlegm.

Placed in the ascendant, Mars makes illnesses of the head, mouth and so on, strife, loss of wealth, and agitation of blood and bile.

If Mercury is placed in the ascendant in the year, there are pleasures of the body, a broadening of the mind, honours from the king, acquisition of wealth, and increase in vigour and intelligence.

If Jupiter occupies the ascendant, there is happiness from children, wife and so on, a healthy body and a good mind, gain, happiness from service and honours from the king.

23 As Rāhu and Ketu (always identified, in this late period, with the moon's north and south nodes, respectively) are diametrically opposed, this statement by Balabhadra would imply the identical interpretation of the placement of the nodes in each pair of opposing houses (e.g., the first and seventh, the second and eighth, etc.), which does not agree with the descriptions below. It would have been more internally consistent to say that the placement of one node necessarily entails the opposite placement of the other node, so that there is no need to interpret them separately.

24 As discussed in the Introduction, the passages quoted from 'Maṇittha' in this chapter do not form part of the standard text of the short *Varṣaphala* attributed to that author.

25 Text witnesses K T M read 'illness'.

26 That is, from the waxing half-moon to the waning half-moon.

*saukhyaṃ lābhaṃ pramodaṃ ca kulavṛddhir bhaven nṛṇām | mānaṃ bhūmipater datte daityejyo lagnago yadi || kaphamārutakopaṃ ca śirojaṭharapīḍanam | iṣṭadveṣaṃ vaktrapīḍā varṣe lagnagate śanau || dehe marutkṛtā pīḍā kalahaṃ vibhavavyayam |* 5 *putramitrādikaṃ kaṣṭaṃ rāhau varṣavilagnage ||*

iti tanubhāvavicāraḥ ||

atha dhanabhāvavicāraḥ | tatra dhanabhāve kiṃ cintanīyam ity uktaṃ caṇḍeśvareṇa |

atra dhanabhāvaś cet svāmisaumyābhyāṃ dṛṣṭo yukto vā syāt tadā māṇikyamuktāphalaratnavajrāmbarasvarṇādīnām āgamāt sukham aśvāditaḥ sukhaṃ krayavikrayād dhanāgamaḥ dhānyavyāpārādito lābhaḥ | krūraiḥ sarvaṃ viparītaṃ miśrair miśram | atha yogā varṣatantre | 15

*vittādhipo janmani vittago 'bde jīvo yadā lagnapatītthaśālī | tadā dhanāptiḥ sakale 'pi varṣe krūresarāphe dhanadhānyahāniḥ ||*

yādavena nanu janmani dhanabhāvasthaguror yoga uktaḥ |

*yadi devagurur dhane janau śaradi syād api tatra tadbhujā | muthaśīlayutau tadā dhanaṃ bahulaṃ syād iti niścitaṃ vadet ||* 20

4 pīḍā] pīḍāṃ M 5 marutkṛtā] manukritā K ‖ vyayam] kṣayam M 6 mitrādikaṃ] jāyādikaṃ G 12 atra] a G a.c.; atha G p.c. 13 phala] om. B 18 nanu] janu N; tu G K T M 19 bhujā] yutaḥ K T M

16–17 vittādhipo … hāniḥ] VT 6.1 19–20 yadi … vadet] TYS 12.16

If placed in the ascendant, Venus gives men happiness, gain, delight and honours from the king, and their family prospers.

If Saturn occupies the ascendant in the year, there is agitation of [the humours of] phlegm and wind, pains in the head and stomach, enmity with loved ones and pain in the mouth.

If Rāhu is placed in the ascendant of the year, there is pain caused by [the humour of] wind in the body, strife, loss of fortune, and evils [to] children, friends and so on.

This concludes the judgement of the first house.

#### **6.3 The Second House**

Next, the judgement of the second house. Concerning that, Caṇḍeśvara describes what is to be considered from the second house:

Rubies, pearls, jewels, minerals, diamonds, clothes, gold, horses and all such [things], silver and grains, buying and selling and so on are the general [significations] assigned to the second [house].

Here, if the second house should be aspected or joined by its ruler and a benefic, then there is happiness from the acquisition of rubies, pearls, jewels, diamonds, clothes, gold and so on, happiness from horses and so on, acquisition of wealth from buying and selling, gain from dealing in grains and so on. By malefics [aspecting or occupying the house] all is reversed; by mixed [planets], mixed. Next, configurations [are described] in the *Varṣatantra* [beginning at 6.1]:

When Jupiter as ruler of the second house in the nativity occupies the second house in the year and has an *itthaśāla* with the ruler of the ascendant, then there is gain of wealth throughout the year; [but] if there is an *īsarāpha* with a malefic, loss of wealth and grains.

[In *Tājikayogasudhānidhi* 12.6], however, Yādava describes the configuration with Jupiter occupying [rather than ruling] the second house in the nativity:

If Jupiter is in the second house in the nativity and is there again in the year, in a *mutthaśila* configuration with its ruler, then one should predict with certainty that there will be abundant wealth in that year.

tājikasāre muthaśilaṃ vinaiva yoga uktaḥ |

*vitteśvaro janmani devapūjyo varṣe dhanastho dhanalābhakṛt syāt | varṣādhināthena yutekṣito vā jīvas tathā varṣapatir balāḍhyaḥ || dhanapatiḥ kurute dhanago dhanaṃ yadi surādhipatījyasamanvitaḥ ||* iti |

varṣatantre | 5

*janmany arthāvalokījyo 'bde 'bdeśo balavān yadā | tadā dhanāptir bahulā vināyāsena jāyate ||*

evaṃvidho gurur dhanabhāve ced bhavati tadā viśeṣeṇottamaphalam uktaṃ yādavena |

*janane dhanadṛṣṭike gurau śaradīśe śaradīpsitaṃ dhanam |* 10 *dhanagehagate tathā dhanair bahubhiḥ sevya ihārthavān naraḥ ||*

vāmanena tu guror dhanabhāve dṛṣṭiṃ vinaiva yoga uktaḥ |

*gurau varṣādhipatyaṃ ca sabalatvaṃ ca bibhrati | dhanāptir mahatī tatra varṣe bhavati niścayāt | evaṃvidhe site saumye 'thavā bahudhanaṃ bhavet ||* 15 *dhanasthāne śubhayute dhanāptir bahudhā bhavet | nirbale pāpayukte ca dhanahānis tu jāyate ||*

varṣatantre |

1 yoga uktaḥ] yogoktāḥ B N; yogoktaḥ G K T 3 balāḍhyaḥ] valādyaḥ N 6 arthā] athā N ‖ 'bde] om.  B

2–3 vitte- … balāḍhyaḥ] TS 192 4 dhana … samanvitaḥ] TS 178 6–7 janmany … jāyate] VT 6.2 10–11 janane … naraḥ] TYS 12.17

In *Tājikasāra* [192, 178], the configuration is described without a *mutthaśila*:

Jupiter as ruler of the second house in the nativity occupying the second house in the year will make gain of wealth, or [if] Jupiter is joined to or aspected by the ruler of the year; likewise [if it is] ruler of the year, endowed with strength.

The ruler of the second house occupying the second house produces wealth if joined by Jupiter.

[And] in *Varṣatantra* [6.2 it is said]:

When Jupiter aspects the second house in the nativity and, in the year, is ruler of the year and strong, then abundant gain of wealth comes about without effort.

Yādava says [in *Tājikayogasudhānidhi* 12.17] that if such a Jupiter is found in the second house, then results are particularly excellent:

If Jupiter aspects the second house in the nativity and rules the year, there is [gain of] the desired wealth in [that] year; and if it occupies the second house, a man becomes wealthy and attended by many riches.27

But Vāmana describes the configuration without any aspect of Jupiter on the second house:

When Jupiter possesses both rulership of the year and strength, great gain of wealth definitely takes place in that year; or if Venus or Mercury is the same, there will be much wealth. If the second house is joined by benefics, there is manifold gain of wealth; [but] if it is weak and joined by malefics, loss of wealth results.

[And] in *Varṣatantra* [6.3–4, 5.8–9, 6.7, it is said]:

27 Although all available text witnesses of the *Hāyanaratna* agree on this tautological reading, independent witnesses of the *Tājikayogasudhānidhi* read 'attended by many persons'. The latter reading also agrees with the quotation from Samarasiṃha shortly below, which is presumably the source used by the later Tājika authors.

*evaṃ yadbhāvapo janmany abde tadbhāvago guruḥ | lagneśenetthaśālī cet tadbhāvajasukhaṃ bhavet || tathā januṣi yaṃ paśyed bhāvam abde 'bdapo guruḥ | tadā tadbhāvajaṃ saukhyam uktaṃ tājikavedibhiḥ || sūtau dhanapradaḥ kheṭo dhanādhīśaś ca tau yadi |* 5 *varṣe naṣṭau vittanāśānyanikṣepāpavādadau || evaṃ samastabhāvānāṃ sūtau nāthāś ca poṣakāḥ | varṣe naṣṭabalās teṣāṃ nāśāyohyā vicakṣaṇaiḥ || lagnavitteśasaṃyogo vittasaukhyavilāsadaḥ ||*

vāmanaḥ | 10

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yoge lagneśavitteśor vittasaukhyaṃ na jāyate ||
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atra varṣatantre lagneśadhaneśayor yogaḥ śubhaphalada uktaḥ | vāmanenāśubhaphalada uktaḥ | tatrānayor vyavasthā | ekarāśau tayor muthaśile śubhaṃ phalaṃ mūsariphe aśubhaphalam | tad uktaṃ tejaḥsiṃhena |

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svāṅgeśayor muthaśile sukhato 'rthalābho 15
naiḥsvaṃ vyaye tanupater dhanapesarāphāt || iti |
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samarasiṃhaḥ |
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*janmani ca somajanmani ṣaṣṭhapatau tatsthite ca varṣāntaḥ | laghuvittakalābhaḥ syād evaṃ bhaume bhaved rogaḥ ||*

6 nāśānyanikṣepāpa-] nāśāv anyanikṣepāpa- K; nāśāv anyanikṣepa- M 9 saṃyogo] saṃyoge B N 11 lagneśa] lagnena G ‖ vitteśor] vitteśau B G; viteśo N 12 atra] ta a N 15 svāṅgeśayor] svāṅgeśaśayor B ‖ lābho] lābhau G 16 naiḥsvaṃ] nauḥsva N; naiśvaṃ G; naissva K T M ‖ vyaye] vyayo G; vyayau K T M 18 somajanmani] some B N ‖ ca2] om. B N 19 vittaka] vittasya G T

1–4 evaṃ … vedibhiḥ] VT 6.3–4 5–8 sūtau … vicakṣaṇaiḥ] VT 5.8–9 9 lagna … vilāsadaḥ] VT 6.7 15–16 svā- … -esarāphāt] DA 18.7

9 vilāsadaḥ] While Balabhadra's exposition confirms that this is his reading of the text, PK ad VT 6.7 confirms the alternative reading *vināśadaḥ* of opposite meaning.

If Jupiter thus occupies in the year any house that it rules in the nativity, and has an *itthaśāla* with the ruler of the ascendant, there will be happiness arising from [the significations of] that house. Likewise, knowers of Tājika declare that if Jupiter as ruler of the year aspects a house in the nativity [and] in the year, then happiness arises from that house.

A planet bestowing wealth [by its placement] in the nativity, and the ruler of the second house: if both are corrupt in the year, they give destruction of wealth and accusations [of not returning] the pledges of others. Likewise, if the [planets] ruling and supporting any house in the nativity have lost their strength in the year, they should be inferred by the wise to destroy those [houses].

A conjunction of the rulers of the ascendant and the second house gives happiness and delight through wealth.

[But] Vāmana [says]:

By the ruler of the ascendant and the ruler of the second house joining, no happiness from wealth results.

Here, a joining of the ruler of the ascendant and the ruler of the second house is said in the*Varṣatantra* to give good results, [but] it is said by Vāmana to give evil results. The verdict on these two [statements is that] when they have a *mutthaśila* in the same sign, the result is good; when a *mūsariḥpha*, the result is evil. That is described by Tejaḥsiṃha [in *Daivajñālaṃkṛti* 18.7]:

When there is a *mutthaśila* between the rulers of the second house and the ascendant, there is easy gain of wealth, [but] poverty if the ruler of the ascendant has an *īsarāpha* with the ruler of the second house in the twelfth house.28

[And] Samarasiṃha [says in the *Tājikaśāstra*]:

If Mercury rules the sixth [house] in the nativity and occupies it in the year, there will be little gain of wealth; if Mars is thus, there will be illness.

28 Text witnesses G K T M omit 'in the twelfth house' and instead read 'poverty and loss'. Independent witnesses of the *Daivajñālaṃkṛti* omit 'the ruler of the ascendant', leaving it implied, and read 'placed in the twelfth or sixth house'.

yādavena tu janmani ṣaṣṭhabhāvasthabudhasya yoga uktaḥ |

*janane śaśije ripusthite śaradīhāpi gate 'bdake dhanam | laghu bhūmisute tathāvidhe nijadhātūtthagado nirūpitaḥ ||*

*varṣeśe sati śukre dhanage saumyekṣite ca bhūridhanalābhaḥ | saumye 'py evaṃ sabale vyavasāyajñānalikhanato vittam ||* 5 *vittasthite gurau syāc chubhayutadṛṣṭe dhanī ca bahusevyaḥ | muthahārāśiṃ janmani paśyati varṣe 'pi taddṛśi viśeṣāt || mālasahame jñajīve śukre vā saumyadṛṣṭiyuji | svakulocitaṃ ca vittaṃ rājyaṃ bhūyastaraṃ bhavati || mande ca dhanopagate dhanavyayo bhīḥ kṣatiś ca kāryāṇām |* 10 *guruyukte bhrātṛsukhaṃ śubhadṛṣṭyā tasya bhūtayo bhrātuḥ || randhre dvitīyake vā gurau ca pāpārdite bhavati hāniḥ | haddādhipatau jīve śubhadṛṣṭayute dhanaprāptiḥ | viparīte dhanahānir mandasthāne gurau tathāpy evaṃ || dvipadaṃ catuṣpadaṃ vā vicārya rāśiṃ grahoktadhātuṃ ca |* 15 *parasuhṛdādigṛhāṇāṃ yathoktakāryā atho jñeyāḥ || dhanalābhasya praśne lagneśenendunā ca dhananāthaḥ | kurute yadītthaśālaṃ śubhayutidṛgbhyāṃ bhavel lābhaḥ || lagneśadhaneśvarayor naktena ca vānyamānuṣāl lābhaḥ |*

1 yoga uktaḥ] yogoktaḥ B N G K T 3 vidhe] sute B N 5 vyavasāya] vivalāya B N ‖ likhanato] khilato B N 6 syāc chubha] syād yubha G 7 paśyati] scripsi; paśyan B N G K T M ‖ taddṛśi] tādṛśa G; tādṛśi K T M 8 māla] mātu K T; mātuḥ M ‖ yuji] yuti B N 11 yukte] śukre B N ‖ śubhadṛṣṭyā] śubhāgatā B N 12 dvitīyake] dviyake B N ‖ bhavati] om. B N K T M 13 jīve] om. B N ‖ dṛṣṭayute] dṛṣṭayutau N; yutadṛṣṭe G; dṛṣṭiyute K T M 15 rāśiṃ] rāśi K T M 16 parasuhṛd] paraśuhṛd N; dhanasuhṛd G K T M 17–588.3 dhana … api] om. B N 17 lābhasya] ca add. K T M ‖ praśne] praśna G ‖ dhana2] om. K T a.c. M 19 naktena] scripsi; naktaṃ G; naktañ K T M

2–3 janane … nirūpitaḥ] TYS 12.20 17–18 dhana1 … lābhaḥ] Cf. PT 2.6

4 varṣeśe … lābhaḥ] This half-stanza again has 33 morae. 8 mālasahame] G adds in the margin, seemingly as a gloss: *dhanasahame*. 13 jīve] B and N both display a lacuna in this place.

But [in *Tājikayogasudhānidhi* 12.20], Yādava describes the configuration with Mercury occupying [rather than ruling] the sixth house in the nativity:

If Mercury occupies the sixth house in the nativity and is placed there in the year, too, there is little wealth in [that] year; if Mars is such, disease is declared to arise from its own temperament.

#### [Continuing from the *Tājikaśāstra*:]

If Venus, being ruler of the year, occupies the second house aspected by benefics, there is abundant gain of wealth; if Mercury is thus and strong, there is wealth from trade, knowledge and writing. If Jupiter occupies the second house, joined to or aspected by benefics, [the native] is wealthy and attended by many, particularly if [Jupiter] aspects the sign of the *munthahā* both in the nativity and in the year.

If Mercury, Jupiter or Venus is on the *māla-sahama*,29 joined to the aspects of benefics, there is wealth befitting one's family community and expansion of one's dominion.If Saturn occupies the second house, there is loss of wealth, fear and failure in undertakings. If it is joined to Jupiter, there is happiness from brothers; by its good aspects, prosperity for the brother. If Jupiter is afflicted by malefics in the eighth or second house, there is loss; [but] if Jupiter as ruler of the *haddā* is aspected by or joined to benefics, gain of wealth.30 If the opposite, there is loss of wealth; likewise if Jupiter is in a sign of Saturn. After considering whether a sign has two feet or four feet31 and the element signified by the planets, one should understand the matters ascribed to [planets] in inimical or friendly domiciles and so on.

In a question on gaining wealth, if the ruler of the second house makes an *itthaśāla* with the ruler of the ascendant or with the moon, with benefics joining and aspecting, there will be gain. By a *nakta*

29 Arabic *sahm al-māl* 'lot of wealth' (discussed by that name under 4.3 and 4.6 above). While text witness G glosses *māla* with the Sanskrit word *dhana* 'wealth, money', the fact that Balabhadra does not explain the Arabic loanword suggests that it had already gained sufficient currency in North India for him to expect his readers to be familiar with it. In modern Hindi, *māl* means 'goods, property, money'.

30 It is not clear what terms (*haddā*) are meant. If, as is likely, this configuration derives from an Arabic source text, the word most likely refers to the terms through which the ascendant or another significator is currently directed (the *qisma*, making Jupiter the *qāsim*).

31 That is, whether it is represented by a human or animal image.

*yamayāyoge 'pi tathā śubhayukte vā dhane bhadram || krūragrahair dhanasthair dūre lābho 'nyad dāsyād aśubham | krūramuthaśile ca tayor mriyate praṣṭā kathaṃcid api ||*

#### vāmanaḥ |

*gurur janmani yadrāśau tadrāśau varṣalagnage |* 5 *jāyate vittanīruktvaṃ śubhasvāmiyutekṣite || janmany arke lagnagate 'bde dhanasthe dhanaṃ bhavet | gurau pāpārdite randhre dhanasthe vā nṛpād bhayam | sabale 'bdapatau jñe ca lipijñānodyamair dhanam ||*

#### varṣatantre | 10

*janmalagnagatāḥ saumyā varṣe 'rthe dhanalābhadāḥ ||*

yādavena tu budhasyaiva yoga uktaḥ |

*vidi janmavilagnage 'bdake dhanayāte dhanalabdhir uttamā ||* iti |

varṣatantre |

*arthārthasahameśau cec chubhair mitradṛśekṣitau |* 15 *balinau sukhato lābhapradau yatnād arer dṛśā || mitradṛṣṭyā muthaśile 'rthāṅgayoḥ sukhato dhanam | tayor mūsariphe vittanāśadurnayabhītayaḥ |*

1 yamayā] yana K; dhana M ‖ vā] vo G 2 'nyad dāsyād] scripsi; nyadā syād G K T M 3 praṣṭā] praṣṭī K M 5 tadrāśau varṣalagnage] varṣalagnepi tādṛśaḥ G 6 vittanīruktvaṃ] mīvitaniruktaṃ B N 7 dhanaṃ bhavet] dhanasaṃbhavet G 9 'bda] tu B N 12 yoga uktaḥ] yogoktaḥ G 14 varṣatantre] om. B N G 17 'rthāṅgayoḥ] rthāṃgapayoḥ B N

2–3 krūragrahair … api] Cf. PT 2.7 11 janma … lābhadāḥ] VT 6.8 13 vidi … uttamā] TYS 12.25 15–18 arthārtha … bhītayaḥ] VT 6.10–11

between the ruler of the ascendant and the ruler of the second house, there is gain through another person; likewise in a *yamayā* configuration; or if the second house is joined by benefics, it is good. By malefic planets occupying the second house, gain is far away: what is more, there is evil from servitude. And if the two have a *mutthaśila* with a malefic, the querent somehow dies.32

[And] Vāmana [says]:

If the sign in which Jupiter was [placed] in the nativity is on the ascendant of the year, joined to or aspected by benefics and its ruler, wealth and good health result. If the sun occupies the ascendant in the nativity and the second house in the year, there will be wealth. If Jupiter is afflicted by malefics in the eighth or the second house, there is danger from the king. If Mercury as ruler of the year is strong, there is wealth through endeavours of writing and knowledge.

[And] in *Varṣatantra* [6.8 it is said]:

Benefics occupying the ascendant of the nativity and [placed] in the second house in the year give gain of wealth.

But Yādava [in *Tājikayogasudhānidhi* 12.25] ascribes [that] configuration only to Mercury:

If Mercury occupies the ascendant in the nativity and is placed in the second house in the year, there is abundant gain of wealth.

[The description] in *Varṣatantra* [6.10–11, 14–18, continues]:

If the rulers of the second house and of the *sahama* of wealth are strong and aspected by benefics with a friendly aspect, they bestow wealth with ease; with difficulty, if [aspected] with an inimical aspect. In a *mutthaśila* by friendly aspect between [the rulers of] the second house and the ascendant, wealth [comes] easily; in a *mūsariḥpha* between

32 The Arabic text by Sahl ibn Bishr on which this passage is ultimately based speaks not of the querent dying, but of a condition of poverty lasting *until* death.  N ‖ syād] om. G 16 lagna] dhana B N 17 lābho mahāṃs tadā] lābho nahis tadā K T M 21 sve 'rtho] arthe K T M ‖ taddṛśi] tādṛśi G ‖ nṛpādeḥ] nṛpebde G 22 savāṅgaga] savīryaga B N

1–8 krūra … bhavet] VT 6.14–18 10–11 tanuge … nṛpāt] TYS 12.30 12 jananā- … yutaḥ] TYS 12.22 21–22 sve … varṣe] DA 18.6

the two, there is loss of wealth, misconduct, and fear. By malefics joining or aspecting, all [good] results will be reversed.

Whatever houseJupiter, being ruler of the second house in the nativity and holding rulership of the year, occupies in [that] year, it gives wealth in accordance with that: in the ascendant, [it gives wealth originating] from oneself; in the second house, from gold, silver and so on; occupying the sign of the third house, from brothers and so on; in the fourth house, there is wealth from father, mother, the earth and so on; in a friendly [sign] in the fifth, from friends and children; in the sixth, it gives grave danger from enemies; in the seventh house, from women; in the eighth, death is the cause of wealth; when it occupies the ninth, [wealth comes] from journeys; in the tenth house, from the king and so on; in the eleventh house, from a princely family; in the twelfth house, it causes loss.

[And] Yādava [says in *Tājikayogasudhānidhi* 12.30, 22]:

If the sun occupies the ascendant in the nativity and the second house in the year, having an *itthaśāla* with the ruler of the ascendant, aspected by benefics or occupying its exaltation or domicile, there is much wealth from a prince born in one's own lineage.

Rāhu in the second house of the nativity and the year, joined to the aspect of malefics, devours wealth.

[And] in the *Jīrṇatājika* [it is said]:

Should the moon or the ruler of the ascendant be placed ahead of the ruler of the second house, then there will be no gain of wealth; [rather], loss of wealth will certainly occur. The ruler of the ascendant in the second house [and] the ruler of the second house in the seventh house bring gain of wealth. When Venus, the moon and Jupiter are in the second house, then there is great gain. If a movable sign occupies the ascendant and a malefic is located [there], one should predict definite loss of wealth in that year.

If a benefic planet is in the second house of the nativity with full strength and occupies it at the time of the year as well, then there will be wealth. What point is there in saying more? If the second house is endowed with strength, there is gain of wealth; loss of wealth if it is weak. Thus all things should be judged.

If the sun joins the tenth house in the nativity and should occupy the tenth house in the year, in a *mutthaśila*with the ruler of the ascendant, there is greatness [arising] from [the native's] own worth.

Saturn as ruler of the year and [placed] in the eighth house at the time of the year with malefics aspecting or joining it, and in an *itthaśāla* with the ruler of the ascendant, brings death.

[And] in the *Uttaratantra* [it is said]:

When the moon, the ruler of the ascendant, and the ruler of the second house, joined to or aspecting each other, occupy the second house, a trine, or the ascendant, then one should predict gain of wealth for men. Should the moon, Jupiter, Mercury and Venus be endowed with strength, occupying the second, eleventh, ninth or fifth house or an angle and their exaltations and so on and not joined to malefics, they make plentiful and very quick gain.

In a *kambūla* configuration between the moon, the ruler of the second house, and the ruler of the ascendant, there is plentiful gain of wealth. In a *nakta* configuration between the ruler of the ascendant and the ruler of the second house, the querent obtains wealth through another person. He will also find wealth if the two have a *yamayā* configuration, [but] if they are afflicted by malefics, he does not get wealth.

By malefics occupying the second house aspected by or joined to malefics, there is gain of little wealth, far away and after a long time; but by malefics occupying the second house aspected by [other] malefics, there is loss of long-accumulated wealth.

Should the ruler of the ascendant and the ruler of the second house have an *itthaśāla* in any house, aspected by benefics, [then] in the houses of the body, wealth, brothers, friends, children, enemies, and wife,33 [the native] has gains by means of those [persons and things signified]. In the ninth house, [he has gains] from piety; in the tenth house, from the king; in the eleventh house, from his friends; in the

33 That is, the first seven houses.

*lagneśavittādhipatītthaśāle randhre dhanāptir vadhabandhayuddhāt || vitteśvaro lagnagataḥ kuṭumbe lagneśvaraḥ syād dhanado narāṇām | lagnārthapau vittagatau vilagne vittodayeśau sukhavittadau staḥ || lagneśavittādhipatī vilagne nirīkṣyamāṇau gurucandramobhyām | śubhau ca tau vīryayutau viśeṣāl lābhaṃ prabhūtaṃ kuruto narāṇām ||* 5 *śītāṃśuvitteśvaralagnanāthā vittasthitāḥ syur balino viśeṣāt | praṣṭuḥ prakuryuḥ pracurārthalābhaṃ vitteśajīvaḥ sita indujo vā || pūrṇaḥ śaśāṅko vṛṣakarkam āśrito nirīkṣito vā sahitaḥ śubhagrahaiḥ | pāpair vihīno gaganārthalābhagaḥ* 10 *praṣṭuḥ prabhūtārthasukhāspadapradaḥ || devejyacandrātmajabhārgavāṇām eko 'pi tuṅge svagṛhe balāḍhyaḥ | lagne dhane karmaṇi vā trikoṇe sthitaḥ prakuryāt sahasārthalābham ||*

atha dhanabhāvasthitānāṃ sūryādīnāṃ phalāni padmakośe |

1 vittā-] vicā- M ‖ -ītthaśāle] -ītthaśāli G ‖ vadha] dhana M 2 dhanado] dhanage K T M 3 vilagne] om. G ‖ staḥ] saḥ B 4 nirīkṣyamāṇau] nirīkṣamāṇau N 5–6 viśeṣāl … balino] om. K T M 8 āśrito] āśritaḥ M 9 vā sahitaḥ] savāhitaḥ N ‖ śubha] śubhair G 10 lābhagaḥ] lābhaḥ B N G 11 -āspada] -āspadaḥ B N 12 balāḍhyaḥ] balāḍhye B N 13 lābham] lābhaḥ B N 14 dhana] dharma M 16 ārtir] ārtiṃ G 17 prapīḍodare] prapīrodaye N 20 śaśāṅkaḥ] prakuḥ add. N

15–18 kuṭumbād … karoti] TPK 1.2 19–22 kuṭumbāj … kārī] TPK 2.2 23–26 dhanastho … varṣe] TPK 3.2

3 vilagne] G displays a lacuna in this place.

twelfth house, there is loss and so on. If the ruler of the ascendant and the ruler of the second house have an *itthaśāla* in the eighth house, there is gain of wealth from killing, capturing, and fighting.

The ruler of the second house occupying the ascendant [or] the ruler of the ascendant [placed] in the second house will give men wealth; the rulers of the ascendant and of the second house occupying the second house, [or] the rulers of the second house and of the ascendant [placed] in the ascendant, give happiness and wealth.

The ruler of the ascendant and the ruler of the second house [placed] in the ascendant, being aspected by Jupiter and the moon, and particularly [if] the two [rulers are] benefic and endowed with strength, make abundant gain for men. Should the moon, the ruler of the second house and the ruler of the ascendant occupy the second house, particularly [if] strong, they bring about plentiful gain of wealth for the querent [if] the ruler of the second house [is] Jupiter, Venus or Mercury.

The full moon resorting to Taurus or Cancer, aspected by or joined to benefic planets, free from malefics and occupying the tenth, second or eleventh house, bestows abundant wealth, happiness and rank on the querent. Even one among Jupiter, Mercury and Venus [placed] in its exaltation or domicile, endowed with strength, and occupying the ascendant, second or tenth house, or a trine, will bring about sudden gain of wealth.

Next, the results of the sun and other [planets] occupying the second house [are described] in [*Tājika*]*padmakośa* [1.2, 2.2, 3.2, 4.2, 5.2, 6.2, 7.2, 8.2]:

When the sun is in the second house, men will have strife on account of their household, the evil of danger from the king, injury to wealth, suffering to cattle and pains in the stomach; [but] if it is joined to benefics, it makes gain of goods.

Occupying the second house, the moon will bring triumph on account of the household, rich gains from friends, destruction of enemies, [but] also ailments of the eyes. In that year it makes happiness from the king.

Occupying the second house, Mars makes gain of goods, headache, strife with men, danger from the stomach and fire,34 grief and confusion, and eye disease to the wife in this year.

34 Or, perhaps less likely, 'from the stomach-fire', that is, the digestive function.

*dhanasthaḥ sutaḥ syād yadā śītaraśmer bhaved dravyalābhaḥ kuṭumbāj jayaś ca | ripor nāśanaṃ mānakīrtyor hi lābhaḥ pratiṣṭhādhikā hāyane syāt sukhaṃ ca || kuṭumbarāśau ca gate surejye dhanādibhogāl̐labhate manuṣyaḥ |* 5 *catuṣpadānāṃ ca samāgamaḥ syāt taddhāyane bhūpajanāc ca lābhaḥ || dhanasthe kavau dhānyalābho dhanāptir bhaven mlecchajāteḥ sukhaṃ sampadāṃ ca | naro rājatulyo bhavaty atra varṣe paśūnāṃ hayānāṃ gṛhe syāt sukhaṃ ca ||* 10 *divānāthaputro dhanastho dhanānāṃ vināśam vidhatte kuṭumbād virodham | prakuryāc ca netrodareṣu prapīḍāṃ kaphārtiś ca varṣe bhavet sarvadaiva || janāpavādaṃ ca kuṭumbagaś cet tamas tathā bhūpabhayaṃ karoti |* 15

*netrodaravyādhibhayārtidoṣād dhanāpahāraṃ ca bhayaṃ tathābde ||*

#### maṇitthaḥ |

*ripurājānalaiś caurair vivādaṃ vibhavavyayam | kuṭumbakalahaṃ varṣe dvitīyo bhāskaro yadi || iṣṭasthānagataṃ saukhyaṃ dhanāptiḥ śvetavastutaḥ |* 20 *śarīre param ārogyaṃ dvitīye rajanīkare || vahnicauranṛpādibhyo bhayaṃ vā vibhavakṣayam | dṛśo ruk kāminīkaṣṭaṃ dhanasthe dharaṇīsute || śarīraṃ nirujaṃ nityaṃ dravyalābho nṛṇāṃ bhavet | iṣṭasvajanajaṃ saukhyaṃ rauhiṇeye kuṭumbage ||* 25 *dhanalābhaṃ tathārogyaṃ pramodo bandhuvargataḥ | pracaṇḍaiḥ sadṛśaṃ bhogaṃ devejye dhanage bhavet ||*

1 dhanasthaḥ] dhanastho G 3 kīrtyor] kāṃtyor G 6 samāgamaḥ] samā N 8 bhaven] bhaket N ‖ sampadāṃ ca] saṃpadāni B N 21 śarīre] scripsi; śarīraṃ B N G K T M ‖ param ārogyaṃ] paṭam ārāgyaṃ B N 24 śarīraṃ] śarīre B N G ‖ nṛṇāṃ bhavet] bhaven nṛṇām K T M 27 devejye] devejyo K T M ‖ dhanage] dhanago K T M

1–4 dhanasthaḥ … ca] TPK 4.2 5–6 kuṭumba … lābhaḥ] TPK 5.2 7–10 dhanasthe … ca] TPK 6.2 11–14 divā … sarvadaiva] TPK 7.2 15–16 janā- … tathābde] TPK 8.2

When Mercury should occupy the second house, there will be gain of goods and triumph on account of the household, destruction of enemies, gain of honour and renown, great eminence and happiness in [that] year.

And if Jupiter occupies the sign of the second house, a man gains wealth and other pleasures; there will be acquisition of quadrupeds in that year, and gain from royal persons.

If Venus occupies the second house, there will be increase of grains and gain of wealth from those of foreign birth and happiness from riches; a man becomes equal to a king in this year, and there will be happiness from cattle and horses in his house.

Occupying the second house, Saturn gives destruction of wealth, strife on account of the household; it will bring about suffering of the eyes and stomach, and there will always be ailments from [the humour of] phlegm in [that] year.

If occupying the second house, Rāhu makes slander by [common] people and likewise danger from the king; from the ills of pain and danger of illness of the eyes and stomach [it makes] expense of wealth and danger in [that] year.

[And] Maṇittha [says]:

If the sun is [placed in] the second [house, it makes] disputes, loss of fortune, and quarrels in the household in [that] year through enemies, the king, fire and robbers.

If the moon is in the second, there is happiness relating to loved ones, gain of wealth from white articles, and excellent health in the body.

If Mars occupies the second house, there is danger from fire, robbers, the king and so on, loss of fortune, illness of the eyes, and evil to one's wife.

If Mercury occupies the second house, men will have constant good health in the body, gain of goods, and happiness derived from loved ones and one's own people.

If Jupiter occupies the second house, there will be gain of wealth and good health, rejoicing in the company of kinsmen, and objects of pleasure such as white oleander.

*dhanalābhaṃ suhṛdvṛtteḥ strīsukhaṃ śatrusaṃkṣayam | kāntivṛddhir nṛṇāṃ dehe daityejyo dhanago yadi || pīḍā vaktre tathā netre dhananāśo nṛpād bhayam | putrajāyādikaṣṭaṃ ca dvitīye ravinandane || dhanavyayam anārogyaṃ cintā vastyādipīḍanam |* 5 *vaktralocanapīḍā ca dhanasthe siṃhikāsute ||*

iti dhanabhāvavicāraḥ ||

atha sahajabhāvavicāraḥ | tatra sahajabhāve kiṃ cintanīyam ity uktaṃ caṇḍeśvareṇa |

*śūrānujakṣetrasamṛddhilābhaṃ bhṛtyādidāsībhaṭakarmakartuḥ |* 10 *yātrādi cintā vinayaṃ samagraṃ paryāyam etat kathitaṃ tṛtīye ||*

atrāpi saumyasvāmiyutadṛṣṭau pūrvavad vicāraḥ | vāmanaḥ |

*sūrye site vā varṣeśe sahaje bhrātṛtaḥ sukham | śubhadṛṣṭe 'tha taiḥ sārdhaṃ kalahaḥ pāpavīkṣite || śukre dagdhe jhakaṭakas taiḥ sārdhaṃ kaṣṭadaṃ phalam |* 15 *jīve sahajage saukhyaṃ sodarāṇāṃ prajāyate ||*

atra *jīve tṛtīyabhāve punar ākulatā ca sodarāṇāṃ ca* iti samarasiṃhoktaṃ duṣṭaphalaṃ nirbalagurau jñeyam | uktaṃ ca yādavena |

1–2 dhana … yadi] om. B N 1 vṛtteḥ] vṛttiḥ K T; vṛddhiḥ M 5 cintā vastyādi] ciṃtāvasthādi K T M 6 vaktra] vaktre K T M ‖ dhanasthe] dhanastho K 7 iti] bha add. N ‖ bhāvavicāraḥ] bhāvaḥ B N 8 cintanīyam ity] ciṃtanīmāty N 10 dāsī … kartuḥ] mārgaṃ ca vade prakartuḥ K; mārgaṃ ca vadec ca kartuḥ T M 11 vinayaṃ] vilayaṃ B N; ninayaṃ T M 12 dṛṣṭau] dṛśau K; dṛśaiḥ T M ‖ pūrvavad] pūrvavid N ‖ vāmanaḥ] nāmataḥ K 13 varṣeśe] varṣeśaṃ K T M 14 dṛṣṭe] dṛṣṭa T ‖ 'tha taiḥ] dhanaiḥ K T M ‖ kalahaḥ] kattaruḥ K 15 śukre] śukra B N ‖ jhakaṭakas] jñakaṃṭakastraiḥ K 17 punar] yutar K T; pitur M ‖ ca1] om. K M ‖ ca iti] veti G ‖ siṃhoktaṃ] sitoktaṃ K 18 duṣṭa] dṛṣṭa K M ‖ gurau] guror K T M ‖ jñeyam] jñeyaḥ K T ‖ uktaṃ ca] tad uktaṃ K T M ‖ yādavena] vadanena K

If Venus occupies the second house, men have gain of wealth from the affairs of friends, happiness from women, destruction of enemies, and increase in the beauty of the body.

When Saturn is in the second, there are ailments of the mouth and eyes, loss of wealth, danger from the king, and evils to children, wife and so on.

When Rāhu occupies the second house, there is loss of wealth, poor health, anxiety, illness of the abdomen and so on, and ailments of the mouth and eyes.

This concludes the judgement of the second house.

#### **6.4 The Third House**

Next, the judgement of the third house. Concerning that, Caṇḍeśvara describes what is to be considered from the third house:

Valour, siblings, gain of land and prosperity,35 servants and so on, servant-girls, mercenaries and labourers, travel and so on, thought36 and conduct: these are all declared [to be significations and therefore] synonyms of the third [house].

Here, too, in the case of a benefic and the ruler [of the house] joining or aspecting [it], judgement [should be made] as before. [And] Vāmana [says]:

If the sun or Venus is ruler of the year [and placed] in the third house, aspected by benefics, there is happiness from brothers, but quarrels with them if [the ruler of the year is] aspected by malefics. If Venus is burnt, there is conflict with them, an evil result. If Jupiter occupies the third house, happiness from siblings results.

On this matter, the evil result stated by Samarasiṃha [in the *Tājikaśāstra*] – 'And if Jupiter is in the third house, again there is agitation among brothers' – should be understood [to apply] when Jupiter is weak. And Yādava says [in *Tājikayogasudhānidhi* 12.33]:

35 Or 'land and gain of prosperity', or even 'land, prosperity and gain'.

36 *Cintā* 'thought' also has the more specific meaning 'worry, anxiety', and text witnesses B N read 'the vanishing of anxiety'.

*dhiṣaṇe sabale samādhikāre sahajasthe sahajotthasaukhyam asmin | aśubhākṣiyute vinaṣṭadagdhe sahajād vyākulatātiduḥkhitā ca ||*

*bhrātṛsaukhyaṃ vilagnābdanāthayuksahajeśvare | vidhau sahajage sāre bhrātṝṇām arucir bhavet || tatra sthito budhaḥ saumyekṣito 'py anujavṛddhikṛt |* 5 *bhrātṛsadmeśvare naṣṭe 'nujanāśas tadā bhavet | tasmiṃś cābhyudite vīryayute bhrātṛsukhaṃ bhavet ||*

#### tejaḥsiṃhaḥ |

*lagnābdabhuṅmuthaśile sahaje tadīśe dūre 'pi sodaragaṇe yutisaukhyadāyī |* 10 *vādas tu mūsariphato 'tra mitho 'śubhekṣe sāre vidhau sahajage sahajāturatvam || janmābdayos tu sabalo 'nujavṛddhido jña evaṃ gurau sahajage 'khilabandhuyogaḥ | yukte nijeśasahameśadṛśarddhayaḥ syur* 15 *bhrātur vyayo 'śubhayute tu nijeśanāśāt || aste tṛtīyapatitas tanupe 'bdape vā vādo mithas tv aparabhāvapater apīttham | bhrātrīśvare januṣi taddṛśi cāpi varṣe tatsthe śubhekṣitayute sahajeṣu saukhyam ||* 20

1 asmin] asthin N 2 aśubhākṣi] aśubhekṣita B N M; aśubhākṣita K T ‖ yute] yukte K T; yug M ‖ sahajād] sahaja B; sahajaṃ N; sahajā K T 4 sahajage] sahajaro N; saduge K 5 budhaḥ] vadhaḥ K M ‖ 'py anuja] nuja G K T M ‖ vṛddhi] vivṛddhi G K T M 6 'nujanāśas] nujānāśas K; rujo nāśas M 7 cābhyudite] cāpyadite K; cāpy udite T M ‖ vīrya] vīrye K T M 9 tadīśe] tadīśo G 10 dūre 'pi] saumyā hi K T; dūre hi M ‖ dāyī] dāyi K; dāpa M 11 mūsariphato 'tra] mūsariphaḥ tatra B N; mūsariphi tatra G 13 janmābdayos] janmābdapos M ‖ 'nuja] naja K; na ca T M ‖ vṛddhido jña] scripsi; vṛddhido jño B N G; vṛddhirājño K T; vṛddhirājño hy M 14 sahajage] sahajago G 15 sahameśadṛśarddhayaḥ] scripsi; sahame sadṛśārddhayaḥ B N; sahameśadṛśārddhayaḥ G; sahame sadṛśābdapaḥ K T M 16 bhrātur] bhrātar M ‖ vyayo] yamī K T M 18 mithas tv apara] mithostva'para G; mithastapara K; mithaḥ svapara M 19 taddṛśi] scripsi; tādṛśi B N G K T M ‖ cāpi] vāpi K T M

1–2 dhiṣaṇe … ca] TYS 12.33 9–12 lagnā- … -āturatvam] DA 19.2 13–20 janmā- … saukhyam] DA 19.4–5

8 tejaḥsiṃhaḥ] At this point, K T M add a somewhat unmetrical stanza not found in independent witnesses of the DA: *svasvāmisaumyekṣita* (-*saumyekṣiti* K T) *bhrātṛgehe lagnādhināthena nirīkṣito* (*nirīkṣitau* K T) *vā | kendre trikoṇāyagate tadīśe sukhaṃ samutthair bahulaṃ prakalpyam* (*ahulam akalpam* K; *ahalaṃ prakalpam* T) || 19 taddṛśi] The emendation is supported by MSS DA1, DA3.

If Jupiter, being strong and having authority in the year, occupies the third house, happiness arises from siblings in this [year]. If it is joined to the aspects of malefics, corrupt or burnt, there is agitation and great unhappiness from siblings.

#### [Continuing from Vāmana:]

There is happiness from brothers if the ruler of the third house is joined by the rulers of the ascendant and of the year. If the moon occupies the third house along with Mars, there will be dislike among brothers. Mercury placed there and aspected by benefics makes increase of siblings. If the ruler of the lot of brothers is corrupt, then there will be destruction of brothers; but if it is [heliacally] risen and endowed with strength, there will be happiness from brothers.

#### [And] Tejaḥsiṃha [says in *Daivajñālaṃkṛti* 19.2, 4–5]:

If, in the third house, its ruler has a *mutthaśila* with the ruler of the ascendant or of the year, it grants the happiness of meeting even if [the native's] siblings are [settled] far away; but from a *mūsariḥpha* here there are disputes among them if malefics aspect. If the moon occupies the third house with Mars, there is suffering to siblings.

Being strong in the nativity and the year, Mercury [in the third house] gives increase of siblings; likewise, if Jupiter occupies the third house, all kinsmen come together. If it37 is joined by the aspect of its own ruler and the ruler of the *sahama* [of brothers], there are riches for the brother, but loss by the corruption of its own ruler if it38 is joined to malefics. If the ruler of the ascendant or the ruler of the year is in the seventh house from the ruler of the third [house], there are disputes among them; so also for the ruler of [any] other house. If the ruler of the third house aspects it in the nativity and occupies it in [the revolution of] the year, aspected by or joined to benefics, there is happiness among siblings.

37 Presumably the third house is meant, although grammatically the reference appears to be to Jupiter.

38 Again, the reference is not entirely clear.

#### samarasiṃhaḥ |

*sahajapatau sahajasthe 'dhikāravati lagnapasya muthaśilini | varṣapater vā sodarayogāt prītir dvayoḥ saukhyam ||*

varṣatantre |

*krūresarāphe kalahaḥ śanau bhaumarkṣage rujaḥ |* 5 *jñarkṣe 'sṛjy anuje māndyaṃ vadet sahajage sphuṭam ||*

krūresarāphe krūradṛśā lagneśābdeśayoḥ sahajeśenesarāphayoge |

*mandarkṣage 'sṛji budhe kujarkṣe sahaje śubhaiḥ | yutekṣite sodarāṇāṃ mithaḥ sakhyaṃ sukhaṃ bahu || vīryānvitendugṛhago bhṛgujo 'dhikārī* 10 *sūtyabdayoḥ sahajabandhugaṇasya vṛddhyai ||*

atra tejaḥsiṃhena grahasthānāny uktāni |

*sthāne kujasya tu śanau sahajārtidauḥsthye jñasthānage 'nujabhayaṃ sahaje mahīje | sthānaṃ gate ca śaśino balino 'bdakāle* 15 *sūtau ca bandhusahajopacayādi śukre ||* iti |

jīrṇatājike |

2 'dhikāravati] dhikāravartti K T M 3 varṣa] varṣe B 4 varṣatantre] om. B N 5 krūresarāphe] krūresarāphaṃ T ‖ rujaḥ] kujaḥ N; guruḥ G T 7 krūresarāphe] krūresarāphaṃ K T M 8 mandarkṣage] maṃdarkṣe B N ‖ 'sṛji budhe] sṛjavidhe K; mṛtibudhe M 9 sakhyaṃ] saukhyaṃ G K T M ‖ sukhaṃ] om. K M 11 abdayoḥ] abdapoḥ M 12 graha] grahāṇāṃ K T M 13–16 -sya … -cayādi] om. T a.c. M 13 dauḥsthye] dausthaṃ K 14 'nuja] ranuja T 15 sthānaṃ gate] sthānāṃgate K; sthānaṃga T ‖ balino] om. N 16 sahajopacayādi] sahajo yatra pādi K

5–6 krūresarāphe … sphuṭam] VT 7.5 8–9 mandarkṣage … bahu] VT 7.6 10–11 vīryā- … vṛddhyai] VT 7.7 13–16 sthāne … śukre] DA 19.3

13–16 -sya … -cayādi] T adds the omitted passage in a different hand at the bottom of folio U8v.

[And] Samarasiṃha [says in the *Tājikaśāstra*]:

If the ruler of the third house, occupying the third house, has authority [in the year and] has a *mutthaśila* with the ruler of the ascendant or the ruler of the year, there is affection from a meeting of siblings, and happiness to both.

[And] in *Varṣatantra* [7.5 it is said]:

If there is a malefic *īsarāpha*, there is conflict; if Saturn occupies a sign of Mars, ailments; if Mars is in a sign of Mercury, one should predict ill health to a brother, certainly if it occupies the third house.

'If there is a malefic *īsarāpha*' [means] if the ruler of the ascendant and the ruler of the year have an *īsarāpha* configuration with the ruler of the third house by a malefic aspect. [Continuing from *Varṣatantra* 7.6, 7:]

If Mars is in a sign of Saturn [or] Mercury in a sign of Mars in the third house, joined to or aspected by benefics, there is mutual friendship and much happiness.

Venus, occupying the house of the moon endowed with strength39 and having authority in the nativity and the year, makes for increase among siblings and kinsmen.

Concerning this, Tejaḥsiṃha describes the places of the planets [in *Daivajñālaṃkṛti* 19.3]:

If Saturn is in the place of Mars, there is injury and uneasiness to siblings; if Mars in the third house occupies the place of Mercury, there is danger to siblings. If Venus occupies the place of the strong moon at the time of [the revolution of] the year and in the nativity, there is increase of kinsmen and siblings and so on.

[And] in the *Jīrṇatājika* [it is said]:

39 It is not clear whether Venus or the moon should be strong.

*janmalagnābdalagneśau budhaśukrau balānvitau | sahaje sahajāt saukhyaṃ gurau caivaṃ phalaṃ vadet || vikramas tatpatir vāpi yadi saumyagrahekṣitaḥ | nirākulas tadā bandhur duḥsthaḥ krūragrahe mataḥ || ripau vikramapas tiṣṭhet tadgṛhe ripurāśipaḥ |* 5 *bhrātṛpe krūradṛṣṭe vā bhrātā rogeṇa pīḍitaḥ || sahajādhipatiḥ kendre balī sahajasaukhyadaḥ | sahaje pāpasaṃyukte svāmyadṛṣṭe 'nuje bhayam | evaṃ ca bhrātṛsahame phalaṃ jñeyaṃ prayatnataḥ || adhikārī bhṛgur varṣe save vā candrasaṃyutaḥ |* 10 *varṣe syād yatra kutrāpi sahajānāṃ sukhapradaḥ ||*

#### yādavaḥ |

*aśubhākṣiyute śarajjabandhau sati dagdhe svapatau na tena dṛṣṭe | jananīsahameśadṛṣṭihīne vyasanaṃ bandhuṣu nūnam atra vācyam || janibandhupatau samāvinaṣṭe jananīsadmapatāv apīha naṣṭe |* 15 *khalakhecarayogadṛṣṭiyukte sahajānāṃ ca bhaved vināśa ugraḥ || janibandhugate 'bdabandhuge 'smin sabale 'ṅgābdapatītthaśālayoge | paradeśagabandhuyogasaukhye khaladṛṣṭyā musarīphake kalis taiḥ ||*

1 balānvitau] balānvite K T 4 mataḥ] yataḥ G; sthitaḥ K T M 5 vikramapas] vikramayaṃs M 6 bhrātṛpe krūradṛṣṭe] bhrātṛpaidaradṛṣṭair B; bhrātṛpaidaraṣṭair N 10 save] sarvair B N; sarve G p.c. K T M 11 varṣe] varṣo G 13 aśubhākṣi] aśubhekṣita B N M; aśubhākṣita K T ‖ śarajja] saroja K T M 14 bandhuṣu] vuvaṃdhuṣu N ‖ nūnam] nūtanam B 15 jani] janani B ‖ apīha] api B N 16 yukte … ugraḥ] scripsi; hīne vyasanaṃ baṃdhuṣu ugra eva vācyaḥ B N G; hīne vyasanaṃ bandhuṣu ugra eva vācyaḥ K T; hīne vyasanaṃ bandhuṣu ugram eva vācyam M 18 kalis taiḥ] valī staiḥ K; kātostaiḥ T; balis taiḥ M

13–18 aśubhākṣi … taiḥ] TYS 12.37–39

16 yukte … ugraḥ] The emendation is supported byMSS TYS1, TYS3. From the unlikely sense of the passage as given (in addition to the metrical and grammatical irregularities), the version of the HR appears more likely to be an early scribal error than the version used by Balabhadra. Note the similarities with the preceding stanza.

[If] Mercury and Venus in the third house, endowed with strength, rule the ascendant of the nativity and the ascendant of the year, there is happiness from siblings; and if Jupiter is such, one should predict the [same] result. If the third house or its ruler is aspected by benefic planets, then [the native's] kinsman is untroubled; if an evil planet [aspects], he is said to be uneasy.

Should the ruler of the third house be placed in the sixth house [and] the ruler of the sixth house [be placed] in its house,40 or if the ruler of the third house is aspected by malefics, [the native's] brother is afflicted with illness.

The ruler of the third house strong in an angle gives happiness from siblings; if the third house is joined by malefics and not aspected by its ruler, there is danger to a sibling. Thus, too, one should carefully understand the result of the *sahama* of brothers. Wherever Venus should be in the year, conjunct the moon and having authority in the year or in the nativity, it gives happiness to siblings.

And Yādava says [in *Tājikayogasudhānidhi* 12.37–39, 41, 32]:

If the third house41 arising from the year is joined to the aspects of malefics, its ruler being burnt [and the house itself] not aspected by it and bereft of the aspect of the ruler of the *sahama* of the mother, misfortunes to kinsmen is certainly to be predicted in this [year]. If the ruler of the third house42 in the nativity is corrupt in the year, and the ruler of the lot of the mother, too, is corrupt here, joined to the aspect or conjunction of malefic planets, there will be a terrible destruction of siblings. If this [planet]43 occupies the third house of the nativity and the third house of the year,44 strong and in an *itthaśāla* configuration with the ruler of the ascendant or the year, there is reunion with

40 That is, in the third house.

41 The translation is somewhat uncertain: *bandhu* 'kinsman, friend' is typically a designation of the fourth house in Indian astrology, but, as seen from the foregoing quotations, Tājika sources also give this signification to the third house. Appearing in the context of a discussion of the third house, *bandhu* does seem more likely here to refer to that house, and I have translated it accordingly; but the question is made even more problematic by the lot of the mother then being brought up, as sources are unanimous in assigning the mother to the fourth house.

42 Again, *bandhu*.

43 Presumably the planet last mentioned, that is, the ruler of the lot of the mother.

44 Again, 'the third house' is *bandhu* (both occurrences).

*jīvāspade 'bde sahaje surejye balotkaṭe bandhusutādiharṣāḥ | sakrūrayor bandhubhasadmanor vā dagdheśayoḥ syād vyasanāptir eṣām || sahajādhipatau ca kendrage sahaje vā sahajāt sukhaṃ pradiṣṭam | savabandhusamāṅgasaumyakheṭādhikṛtau bandhujasaukhyam asya varṣe | sahajasya tu saumyapāpayogāt sahameśe saśubhe 'pi saukhyam evam ||* 5

#### uttaratantre |

*duścikyanāthaḥ sahajaṃ prapaśyet saumyās tṛtīyaṃ sahajeśvaraṃ ca | paśyanti nānye tv aśubhās tadāsya svasthāḥ pravācyāḥ khalu bāndhavāś ca ||* 10 *ṣaṣṭheśaduścikyapatītthaśāle ṣaṣṭhe sthite vā sahajeśvare ca | tṛtīyage ṣaṣṭhapatau ca pāpe krūrekṣite vā sahajā gadārtāḥ ||*

#### atha sahajabhāvasthitānāṃ sūryādīnāṃ phalāni padmakośe |

1 'bde] om. G ‖ sutādi] sukhādi B N G 2 bandhubha] bandhu B N ‖ sadmanor] sadmayor K T 3–5 ca … tu] om. B N 4 sava] sa ca K T M 7 duścikya] dyūścikya K ‖ sahajaṃ] sahaje B N 9 nānye] nānyais G 10 bāndhavāś] saṃdhanaś B N 11 duścikya] vṛścikya K ‖ ṣaṣṭhe] ṣaṣṭha G p.c. ‖ ca] vā K T M 13 sthitānāṃ] sthināṃ B ‖ phalāni] om. G 15 rāja] rājya G ‖ kṛpāṃ] kriyāñ K T M 16 tṛtīye] tṛtīya K T M 20 sthite] sthito G ‖ kṣmāsute] kṣmāsuto G 22 tathā] tadā B N G 23 pakṣāj] pakṣāñ T

1–2 jīvāspade … eṣām] TYS 12.41 4–5 sava … evam] TYS 12.32 14–15 tṛtīyago … ca2] TPK 1.3 16–19 tṛtīye … varṣe] TPK 2.3 20–23 tṛtīya … 'smin] TPK 3.3

1 'bde] G displays a lacuna in this place.

kinsmen gone abroad and happiness; [but] in a *mūsariḥpha* by malefic aspect, there is quarrel with them.

If the third house in the year is a place of Jupiter, and if Jupiter is endowed with strength, there is joy from kinsmen, children and so on; [but] if the sign of the third house and the lot45 are joined by malefics or their rulers are burnt, they will suffer misfortune.

If the ruler of the third house occupies an angle or the third house, happiness from siblings is predicted. If a benefic planet has authority over the third house46 of the nativity and the ascendant of the year, happiness from kinsmen arises for him in [that] year. When the third house is joined by [both] benefics and malefics, if the ruler of the *sahama* is joined by a benefic, there is likewise happiness.

[And] in the *Uttaratantra* [it is said]:

Should the ruler of the third house aspect the third house, benefics [aspect] the third and the ruler of the third house, and no other, malefic [planets] aspect, then the kinsmen of this [native] should be declared to be in good health. If there is an *itthaśāla* of the ruler of the sixth and the ruler of the third house, or if the ruler of the third house occupies the sixth, or the ruler of the sixth occupies the third, being malefic or aspected by a malefic, siblings are afflicted with illness.

Next, the results of the sun and other [planets] occupying the third house [are described] in [*Tājika*]*padmakośa* [1.3, 2.3, 3.3, 4.3, 5.3, 6.3, 7.3, 8.3]:

Occupying the third [house], the sun makes suffering for siblings in [that] year, [but also] valour, royal favour, riches, destruction of enemies and increase in beauty.

When the moon should be placed in the third, then it will make happiness for siblings; it makes gain of wealth, dawning of fortune, secret happiness and increase of eminence in this year.

If Mars occupies the third, there will be bodily ills to kinsmen, happiness from vehicles, destruction of enemies, gain of goods, and triumph on account of the king and friends in this year.

45 Again, 'the third house' is *bandhu*. The lot is presumably that of the mother.

46 Again, *bandhu*.

*śaśisutaḥ sahaje yadi saṃsthitaḥ sakalatāpavināśakaras tadā | bhavati mānavivṛddhir atho yaśas tanusukhaṃ ca karoti dhanāgamam || tṛtīyasaṃsthaḥ surarājamantrī bhūpāj jayaṃ kīrtivivardhanaṃ ca | sasyāmbarāṇāṃ ca tathā dhanānāṃ karoti vṛddhiṃ mahatīṃ ca varṣe || bhṛgus tṛtīyo hi sahodarāṇāṃ sukhaṃ prakuryād vividhaiḥ prakāraiḥ |* 5 *arthāgamaṃ kāntivivardhanaṃ ca janopakāraṃ ca karoti varṣe || ravisuto bhavatīha tṛtīyago ripuvināśakaro hi dhanapradaḥ | bhavati bhūdhanalābhakaras tadā svajanabandhuvirodhakaraś ca saḥ || śaśivimardakaras tu tṛtīyago dhanayutaṃ nararājasamaṃ naram | prakurute paśuvāhanasaṃyutaṃ sahajapīḍanam āśu karoty asau ||* 10

#### maṇitthaḥ |

*rājamānaṃ tathārogyaṃ dhanalābhaṃ ripukṣayam | sarvopakramasiddhiś ca tṛtīye 'bde dinādhipe || sukhaṃ lābhaṃ jayaṃ puṃsāṃ dhanāgamam anukramāt | dharme buddhir bhavet puṃsāṃ tṛtīyasthe himadyutau ||* 15 *nṛpamānaṃ dhanaprāptī ripunāśo nirāmayam | gehe mahotsavaṃ nityaṃ tṛtīye bhūminandane || lābhālābhaṃ sukhaṃ duḥkhaṃ śatrumitraiś ca saṃgamam | varṣakāle yadā cāndriḥ sahaje kurute nṛṇām || tṛtīye 'lpasukhaṃ lābhaṃ suhṛdbandhusamāgamam |* 20 *nṛṇāṃ strīpakṣataḥ saukhyaṃ sevāyāś ca sukhaṃ gurau || tṛtīye 'lpasukhaṃ puṃsāṃ dhanavyaya upadravaḥ | vivādaḥ svajanaiḥ sārdhaṃ varṣe daityapurohite ||*

4 sasyā] sakhyā G; śasyā K T 13 dinādhipe] dhanādhipe B 14 jayaṃ] bhayaṃ B N K T M 15 bhavet] bhave B N 16 dhanaprāptī] dhanāpti N 19 sahaje] sahame K T M 22 vyaya] om. G

1–2 śaśi … dhanāgamam] TPK 4.3 3–4 tṛtīya … varṣe] TPK 5.3 5–6 bhṛgus … varṣe] TPK 6.3 7–8 ravi … saḥ] TPK 7.3 9–10 śaśi … asau] TPK 8.3

If Mercury occupies the third house, then it removes all sorrows; there is increase of honour and renown; it makes pleasures of the body and acquisition of wealth.

Occupying the third, Jupiter makes triumh on account of the king and increase of renown, and great increase of grains, clothes and wealth, in [that] year.

[Occupying] the third, Venus will bring about happiness in various ways: it makes acquisition of wealth, increase in beauty and assistance from people [in general] in [that] year.

Saturn occupying the third becomes a destroyer of enemies and a giver of wealth: it makes gain of land and wealth then, but makes conflict with one's own people and friends.47

Rāhu occupying the third endows a man with wealth and makes him equal to a prince of men; it brings him cattle and vehicles [but] quickly makes siblings suffer.

[And] Maṇittha [says]:

There is honour from the king, good health likewise, gain of wealth, destruction of enemies and success in all endeavours if the sun is in the third [house] in the year.

Men will have happiness, gain, victory over men, acquisition of wealth and inclination towards piety, in [that] order, if the moon occupies the third.

There is honour from the king, gain of wealth, destruction of enemies, good health, and continuous celebrations at home if Mars is in the third.

If Mercury is in the third house at the time of [the revolution of] the year, it makes gain and loss for men, happiness and sorrow, and encounters with enemies and friends.

If Jupiter is in the third, there is little happiness [but] gain, the company of friends and kinsmen, happiness from women for men, and happiness from service.

If Venus is in the third in the year, there is little happiness for men, loss of wealth, misfortune and quarrels with one's own people.

47 Giving *bandhu* the extended meaning of 'friend' to distinguish it from the otherwise synonymous *svajana*.

*sarvaduḥkhādimokṣaś ca rājamānaṃ dhanāgamam | varṣakāle yadā sauris tṛtīye kurute nṛṇām || rājamānaṃ tathaiśvaryam ārogyaṃ vibhavāgamam | śatrukṣayaḥ suhṛtsaukhyaṃ rāhau varṣe tṛtīyage ||*

iti sahajabhāvavicāraḥ || 5

atha caturthabhāvavicāraḥ | tatra caturthabhāve kiṃ cintanīyam ity uktaṃ caṇḍeśvareṇa |

*gṛhaṃ nidhānaṃ vivarapraveśo latauṣadhikṣetrakhalādi vāpī | mitraṃ dhṛtastrīparapuṃprayogo gamāgamau yānasukhādikaṃ ca || sthānacyutir lābhagṛhapraveśau buddhir janitrī janakaś ca tadvat |* 10 *deśādikāryāṇy api lābham asya vicintyam etat tu caturthabhāve ||*

atrāpi vicāraḥ pūrvavaj jñeyaḥ | yādavaḥ |

*arke ca candre sakhale caturthe pituś ca mātuḥ kramaśaḥ prapīḍā | sūryoḍupasthānagate 'rkaje 'tra tābhyāṃ virodho hy apamānitā ca ||*

janmasthasūryacandrarāśige śanau varṣe | 15

*janmābdayos turyapatī savīryau naṣṭānyabhasthau tu sasaumyam ambu |*

1 sarva] sarve B N 4 kṣayaḥ] kṣayaṃ K T M 6 uktaṃ] uktaś K T 8 nidhānaṃ] vidhānaṃ N K T M ‖ latauṣadhi] latauṣadha G ‖ vāpī] vāpi B N 9 dhṛta] dhṛtaṃ B N G ‖ strīpara] strīpaṭa G 12 yādavaḥ] om. B N 13 sakhale] sabale B N 14 sūryoḍupa] sūrye duṣṭa M ‖ apamānitā] apamānatā K T M 15 janmastha] janmasthe T M

13–14 arke … ca] TYS 12.42 16–612.2 janmā- … kāvyayoḥ] TYS 12.44

When Saturn is in the third at the time of [the revolution of] the year, there is release from all unhappiness and so on; it makes honour from the king and gain of wealth for men.

There is honour from the king, dominion likewise, good health, acquisition of fortune, destruction of enemies and happiness from friends if Rāhu occupies the third [house] in the year.

This concludes the judgement of the third house.

#### **6.5 The Fourth House**

Next, the judgement of the fourth house. Concerning that, Caṇḍeśvara describes what is to be considered from the fourth house:

Home, treasure, entering a crevice, creepers, plants, fields, granaries and so on, pools, friends, one's mistress taking another man [as her lover], coming and going, happiness from vehicles and so on, losing one's place, gain and entering a [new] house, intelligence, mother and likewise father, working with the land and gain from that: this is to be considered from the fourth house.

Here, too, [the method of] judgement should be understood as before. [And] Yādava [says in *Tājikayogasudhānidhi* 12.42]:

If the sun or the moon is with a malefic in the fourth, there is suffering to the father or mother, respectively.If Saturn here48 occupies the place of the sun [or] the moon, there is quarrel with them or disrespect.

[This means] if Saturn in the year occupies the sign occupied by the sun [or] the moon in the nativity. [Continuing from *Tājikayogasudhānidhi* 12.44]:

[If] the rulers of the fourth [house] in the nativity and in the year are strong, not occupying a sign where they are corrupted, and the fourth house is with a benefic, there will be happiness for them, unhappiness

48 'Here' can be understood as 'in this house' (the fourth) or 'in this year'. Balabhadra seems to favour the latter interpretation.

*sukhaṃ tayoḥ syād asukhaṃ vilomād arkendubhe tatsukham ijyakāvyayoḥ ||*

#### bhe sthāne |

*sūtau bhaved yo hibuke 'bdake ca tasmiṃs tu mandārayute viśeṣāt | pitror vyathā syād atha vāhagehakṣetrādikānām idam evam ūhyam ||* 5

yaḥ rāśiḥ | tejaḥsiṃhena janmacaturthabhāvādhīśasthāne śanibhaumayute pitror aśubham ity uktam |

*pitro rujo 'bdajanuṣoś ca sukheśadagdhe śanyārayoḥ savasukheśapade 'pi caivam ||* iti

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tājikabhūṣaṇe | 10
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*kuryād vilupto vijito 'ribhītiṃ pituḥ sukheśaḥ sahameśvaro vā ||*

jīrṇatājike |

*sukhasaṃsthe sukhādhīśe vā lagneśetthaśālake | pitroḥ sukhaṃ mūsarīphe tayor duḥkhaṃ prajāyate || sukhaṃ paśyati turyeśas turye ca sahameśvarau |* 15 *mātāpitroḥ sukhaṃ tatra varṣe bhavati niścayāt || mātāpitroś ca sahame krūrite muthahā tayoḥ | daśamasthā tadā duḥkhaṃ pitroḥ syād yavanā viduḥ ||*

1 asukhaṃ] asuṃ N 2 arkendubhe tat] arkendum etat K T M 4 sūtau] sūto B N ‖ hibuke] hinuko G; hituke K T 5 vyathā] vāpyā K T; vīrya M ‖ atha vāha] athavābda G; apavāda K M; athavāda T ‖ geha] gehe G ‖ ādikānām] ādhikānāṃ B N ‖ evam] om. B N ‖ ūhyam] ūhya B N 6 yaḥ] om. B N K T ‖ rāśiḥ] om. K T ‖ bhāvādhīśa] bhāvādhīśaḥ B N ‖ sthāne] sthani K T ‖ yute] yute add. G 9 sava] sa ca B N; śava G; sa na K M 11 vijito] viyuto G ‖ sukheśaḥ] sukheśo B N G 13 lagneśettha-] lagnettha- G 15 turyeśas] scripsi; turyeśo B N G K T M ‖ ca] om. G 17 mātā] mātrā B 18 yavanā] yāvanā B N T

4–5 sūtau … ūhyam] TYS 12.45 8–9 pitro … caivam] DA 20.2 11 kuryād … vā] TBh 4.42

2 tatsukham ijyakāvyayoḥ] This phrase appears from the evidence of MS TYS1 to have been transposed from 12.43 by a *saut du même au même*. 4–5 sūtau … ūhyam] This stanza is misnumbered as 44 in MS TYS1 (following the actual verse 44).

if the reverse. If Jupiter and Venus are in the sign of the sun [or] moon [in the nativity], there is happiness for them.49

'In the sign' [means] in the place. [Continuing from *Tājikayogasudhānidhi* 12.45]:

In particular, if that which was in the fourth house in the nativity is joined by Saturn and Mars in the year, there will be anguish for the parents, and the same should be judged concerning vehicles, home, fields and so on.

'That which' [means] the sign. Tejaḥsiṃha says [in *Daivajñālaṃkṛti* 20.2] that if the place of the ruler of the fourth house in the nativity is joined by Saturn and Mars, there is misfortune for the parents:

There is illness for the parents if the ruler of the fourth house of the year and of the nativity is burnt, and likewise if Saturn and Mars are in the place of the ruler of the fourth house in the nativity.

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[And] in Tājikabhūṣaṇa [4.42 it is said]:
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The ruler of the fourth house or of the *sahama* [of the father] being deprived [of light] or vanquished will make danger from enemies for the father.

[And] in the *Jīrṇatājika* [it is said]:

If the ruler of the fourth house occupies the fourth house or has an *itthaśāla*with the ruler of the ascendant, there is happiness for the parents; if there is a *mūsariḥpha* between them, unhappiness results. [If] the ruler of the fourth aspects the fourth house, and the rulers of the *sahamas* [of the father and mother] are in the fourth, there is certain happiness for the mother and father in that year. But if the *sahama* of the mother [or] father is afflicted, [and if] the *munthahā* occupies the tenth [sign] from those two,50 then Yavanas understand that there will be suffering to the parents. If the ruler of that sign [which was] the

49 That is, for the parents.

50 That is, from the *sahama* in question.

*janmakāle 'mbubhavanaṃ tadīśe vābdaveśane | dagdhe kleśo bhavet pitror vā tatsthāne 'rkabhūmijau ||*

#### vāmanaḥ |

#### varṣatantre |

*mātuḥ pituś ca sahame tanupetthaśāle turye 'pi cettham avagaccha sukhāni pitroḥ | ced aṣṭamādhipatinā kṛtam itthaśālaṃ pitror vipad bhayam aniṣṭakhagesarāphe ||* 10

#### granthāntare |

*lagnādhipenendunā vā muthaśīlaṃ sukheśvaraḥ | kurute saumyayugdṛṣṭo gṛhabhūmyādilābhadaḥ || lagne sukheśvaraś candralagneśau turyasaṃsthitau | saumyayuktekṣitau varṣe gṛhabhūmyādilābhadau ||* 15 *lagne lagneśaturyeśau turye vā lagnaturyapau | candrānvitau vā saumyāḍhyau gṛhabhūmyādilābhadau ||*

#### samarasiṃhaḥ |

*jāte ca naktayoge lagnapaturyeśayoś ca parahastāt | sidhyati pṛcchakakāryaṃ viparītaṃ vyatyayāj jñeyam ||* 20

1 kāle 'mbu] kāleṃdu G T ‖ tadīśe] tadīśośe K; tadīśo M 8 turye] turyo B N ‖ cettham] vettham K T M ‖ sukhāni] sukhāva N 8–616.2 pitroḥ … jīva] om. N 9 itthaśālaṃ] ne add. B 11 granthāntare] om. B N G 12–20 lagnādhi … jñeyam] om. B N 12 vā] ca K T M 14 candralagneśau] candras tadrāśau K T M 18–20 samarasiṃhaḥ … jñeyam] om. K T M

7–10 mātuḥ … khagesarāphe] VT 8.5

fourth house at the time of the nativity is burnt in the revolution of the year, there will be suffering to the parents, or [if] Saturn and Mars are in that place.51

[And] Vāmana says:

If the ruler of the lot of the mother [or] father is corrupt, they will die; but if it is [heliacally] risen and endowed with strength, happiness results for them.

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[And] in Varṣatantra [8.5 it is said]:
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If the *sahama* of the mother or father has an *itthaśāla* with the ruler of the ascendant, or the fourth similarly [has such an *itthaśāla*], understand there to be pleasures for the parents. If an *itthaśāla* is made with the ruler of the eighth [house], there is misfortune to the parents; if an *īsarāpha* with a malefic planet, danger.52

[And] in another book [it is said]:

[If] the ruler of the fourth house, joined to or aspected by benefics, makes a *mutthaśila* with the ruler of the ascendant or with the moon, it gives gain of houses, land and so on. [If] the ruler of the fourth house is in the ascendant [and] the moon and the ruler of the ascendant occupy the fourth, joined to or aspected by benefics, they give gain of houses, land and so on in [that] year. [If] the ruler of the ascendant and the ruler of the fourth house are in the ascendant, or the rulers of the ascendant and the fourth are in the fourth, accompanied by the moon or joined to benefics, they give gain of houses, land and so on.

[And] Samarasiṃha says [in the *Tājikaśāstra*]:

If a *nakta* configuration is produced between the ruler of the ascendant and the ruler of the fourth, the business of the querent is accomplished by another's hand; from the reverse [situation], the opposite is to be understood.

51 Or, possibly but less likely, 'the sun and Mars'.

52 It is not clear how the author envisions these configurations to arise, as they normally apply only to aspects between planets and depend on their respective velocities.

#### hāyanasindhau |

#### hillājaḥ |

*sukhādhīśasya daśame tasmāt saptamakarmabhe | śubhe lābhāya saukhyasya vināśāyāśubhānvite || sukhabhāve śubhair dṛṣṭe śubhagrahayute 'thavā | dhṛtabhāryālābhayogaḥ śukradṛṣṭau viśeṣataḥ ||* 20 *caturthe krūrakheṭas tu śubhadṛṣṭivivarjitaḥ | dhṛtabhāryāmaraṇado varṣe proktaḥ purātanaiḥ ||*

atha caturthabhāvasthitānāṃ sūryādīnāṃ phalāni padmakośe |

*paśoḥ pīḍanaṃ turyasaṃsthe ravau syāt kṛṣeḥ karmaṇo hānir atyantam uktā |* 25 *nṛpād bhītikaṣṭaṃ bhaven mātṛpīḍodare hṛdy api syāt prapīḍābdamadhye ||*

2 jīvendū] jīvendu B N 3 'tra] ca K T M 4 'thavā] śravāḥ M 5 svakīyaṃ] scripsi; svakīyāṃ B N G K T M ‖ parakīyaṃ] scripsi; parakīyāṃ B N G K T M 8 lābheśasya] lābhesaspha B N 9 sva] om.  Or else, [if] one among the moon, the sun, Jupiter and Venus is in its own division in the fourth house, [that] strong planet will give [the native] a treasure, whether [it be] his own or another's.

[If] the rulers of the fourth and the ascendant are joined to or aspected by a benefic planet, union with a friend is certain in that year. For encounters with friends, the results of the ruler of the eleventh house should be understood in the same way. [If] the ascendant is aspected by its own ruler and the fourth is joined by a friend of that [ruler], one should predict prosperity from the land in that year.

From the sign of the fourth [house] being joined or aspected by the ruler of the fourth house, or joined or aspected by Jupiter, Mercury and Venus, or by the moon, one should predict happiness and increase in vehicles in that year. [But] if a malefic occupies the eleventh or eighth house, and the fourth is joined by a malefic, then one should predict the arrival of suffering.

[And] Hillāja [says]:

If a benefic is in the tenth [sign] from the ruler of the fourth house [or] in the seventh or tenth from that [sign], it makes for increase of happiness; for destruction, if [the sign in question is] joined by a malefic. If the fourth house is aspected by benefics or joined by benefic planets, it is a configuration for acquiring a mistress, particularly if Venus aspects. But a malefic planet in the fourth, devoid of the aspects of benefics, is said by the ancients to bring death to one's mistress in [that] year.

Next, the results of the sun and other [planets] occupying the fourth house [are described] in [*Tājika*]*padmakośa* [1.4, 2.4, 3.4, 4.4, 5.4, 6.4, 7.4, 8.4]:

If the sun occupies the fourth, there will be suffering to cattle, and exceedingly [great] loss is declared from agriculture; there will be the evil of danger from the king, suffering to the mother, and ailments of the stomach and heart in [that] year.

*prathamadaityaguruḥ sukhago yadā sukhakaraḥ kṛṣivāhanayos tadā | dharaṇivājisuvarṇasamāgamo bhavati bhūpasamo manujas tadā || bandhusthānagato divākarasutaḥ syād dhāyane kaṣṭado bhītiṃ hānim upakrame ca kurute netrodare pīḍanam |* 20 *bandhūnām atha pīḍanaṃ prakurute lokāpavādaṃ vyathām agneś cāpi bhayaṃ paśoś ca maraṇaṃ hāniṃ kṛṣīṇāṃ tathā || himāṃśo ripus turyago vāhanānāṃ vināśaṃ tathā bhūpapakṣād bhayaṃ ca | kaphārtiṃ ca kaṣṭaṃ tathā vāyupīḍāṃ* 25 *videśe bhramaṃ hāyane 'smin karoti ||*

1 jayaḥ syāt] jayaś ca G 11 labheta] labhe tatra B N 12 vāhanam] hāyanam G 16 karmaṇaś] karmaṇe K T; karmaṇā M 17 daitya] deva B G ‖ sukhago] sukhado G ‖ yadā] ya G 21 vyathām] vyayaṃ tv B N; vṛthām K; vṛthā M 22 agneś] vahneś M ‖ hāniṃ] hāniḥ B N; hāniṣ K T

1–4 śaśāṅke … ca] TPK 2.4 5–8 caturthe … tathaiva] TPK 3.4 9–12 budhaś … varṣe] TPK 4.4 13–16 surejye … ca] TPK 5.4 17–18 prathama … tadā] TPK 6.4 19–22 bandhu … tathā] TPK 7.4 23–26 himāṃśo … karoti] TPK 8.4

4 ca] At this point B N add a metrically somewhat defective stanza in the same style and metre as the surrounding verses, apparently an alternative to the one immediately following but not present in independent witnesses of the TPK: *kujas turyago vahnibhītiṃ prakuryād gṛhe vāhane mātṛpakṣe ca pīḍām | bhaved duṣṭavairaṃ rudhirodbhavārtiṃ daśā neṣṭakārī tathā kaṣṭadaṃ syāt ||* 17 daityaguruḥ] N repeats *daityaguruḥ* in the margin.

But if the moon occupies the fourth, there will be triumph on account of the king; [the native] will profit from agriculture and be happy. [It makes] gain of wealth from buying and selling in [that] year, happiness from vehicles and the destruction of enemies.

If Mars is in the fourth, it will make damage by fire, injury likewise, suffering to cattle, agitation, the evil of affliction and loss from agriculture, and likewise from buying and selling, in [that] year.

Mercury [in] the fourth brings about happiness, acquisition of goods and the company of friends; [the native] will gain cows, land, gold and so on, happiness, great joy, and vehicles in this year.

If Jupiter occupies the fourth house, there is happiness from vehicles; it makes a man gain from buying and selling; there will be triumph on account of the king in this year, and it gives great gain from agriculture.

When Venus occupies the fourth house, it makes happiness from farming and vehicles; there is acquisition of land, horses and gold; then a man becomes equal to a king.

Occupying the fourth house, Saturn will give evils in [that] year: it makes danger, loss in undertakings and suffering of the eyes and stomach; it further brings about suffering to kinsmen, the censure of the world, anguish and danger from fire, the death of cattle, and likewise loss from farming.

Rāhu occupying the fourth house destroys vehicles and likewise makes danger on account of the king, illness from phlegm, evil, and likewise suffering from [the humour of] wind, and roaming abroad in this year.

#### maṇitthaḥ |

iti caturthabhāvavicāraḥ ||

atha pañcamabhāvavicāraḥ | tatra pañcamabhāve kiṃ vicāraṇīyam ity uktaṃ caṇḍeśvareṇa | 20

2 iṣṭasva] iṣṭas tu K T M 6 ca kaṣṭaṃ ca] sakaṣṭaṃ ca G; ca saṃkaṣṭaṃ K T M ‖ hṛdi] suhṛd K T M 12 mānam] yānam B N 14 pravāsaṃ] gravāsaṃ N ‖ dhanakṣayam] dhanāgamaṃ B N 16 vivādaḥ] pravādas K T M 17 catuṣpadāḥ] catuṣpadāṃ B N; catuṣpadā G ‖ yadi] ta add. N 18 bhāvavicāraḥ] bhāvaḥ G K T M

#### [And] Maṇittha [says]:

There is enmity with loved ones and one's own people, danger arising from the king, and danger from quadrupeds and men, if the sun occupies the fourth.

There is happiness from friends, kinsmen, wife and so on, acquisition of wealth, and gain of cows, buffaloes and so on, if the moon is in the fourth.

There is roaming through the land and evils, suffering of the heart and loss of friends, and quarrels in the household, if Mars is in the fourth.

Occupying the fourth in the year, Mercury surely makes happiness from friends, women and kinsmen and acquisition of quadrupeds and wealth for men.

There is happiness from wife, children and friends, honour from the king, acquisition of wealth and gain of land, vehicles and learning, if Jupiter is in the fourth in the year.

There is honour from the king and rulership, good health, acquisition of fortune, and happiness from friends and one's own people, if Venus is in the fourth house in th year.

There is evil on the mother's side, living abroad and loss of wealth, discontent and suffering from the king, if Saturn is in the fourth.

There is anxiety, suffering, living abroad and disputes with one's own people, and quadrupeds are destroyed when Rāhu occupies the fourth.

This concludes the judgement of the fourth house.

#### **6.6 The Fifth House**

Next, the judgement of the fifth house. Concerning that, Caṇḍeśvara describes what is to be judged from the fifth house:

*nānāprayogo vinayaprabandhā vineyavidyānayabuddhimantrāḥ | saṃdhānagarbhāṅgabhavādi kiṃcit prajñā sutākhyaṃ sutasaṃjñabhāve ||*

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atrāpi vicāraḥ pūrvavat | samarasiṃhaḥ |
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*varṣapatau sati jīve putre cāye ca putrataḥ saukhyam | krūrārdite ca duḥkhaṃ bhaume 'py evaṃ phalaṃ tādṛk ||* 5 *ravibudhayor apy evaṃ sthitayoḥ śubhasaṃyute phalaṃ pūrṇam | varṣapatau sutasahame śubhadṛṣṭe 'patyasaṃtoṣaḥ || śukre sutasaptapatau varṣe tatsthānage ca tanupatinā | kṛtamuthaśile ca tanayayuvatiprāptiḥ svabalapramāṇena ||*

atra janmani pañcamasaptamabhāvādhīśe śukre varṣe pañcamasaptama- 10 sthe lagneśena kṛtetthaśāle krameṇa putrastrīprāptiḥ syād ity arthaḥ | tejaḥsiṃhaḥ |

*jīvāspade januṣi tatra gate 'tra cābde saukhyaṃ sutād asukham ittham inātmaje tu | evaṃ budhe sutasukhaṃ na ca tat sabhaume* 15 *caivaṃ sute śanipade vibale tadīśe ||*

atra viśeṣam āha samarasiṃhaḥ |

*mandasthānagaputre tannāthe jñe 'dhikāriṇi tu putrāptiḥ ||*

1 vinaya] vinayā K 2 garbhāṅga] garmāṅga G 4 cāye] cāpe K T M 6 budhayor apy] budhayopy B N 8 sapta] saptama G 9 tanaya] tanayaṃ K T M 10 saptama2] om. K T M 11 putra] putraḥ N 15 ca] va B N 16 vibale] py abale G K T M 18 tannāthe] tabhāthe N ‖ tu] om. B N

13–16 jīvāspade … tadīśe] DA 21.2

Different practices, compositions on conduct, bringing knowledge to pupils, understanding, incantations, [sexual] union, the forming of the limbs of a foetus and other such [meanings], wisdom and children are said [to be judged] from the fifth house.53

Here, too, judgement is [to be made] as before. [And] Samarasiṃha [says in the *Tājikaśāstra*]:

If Jupiter as ruler of the year is in the fifth or eleventh house, there is happiness from children. If it is afflicted by malefics, there is unhappiness, and if Mars is such, the result is similar.54 Of the sun and Mercury placed thus, if [the one ruling the year] is joined to benefics, the [good] result is full. If the ruler of the year is on the *sahama* of children, aspected by benefics, there is satisfaction with children. If Venus rules the fifth or seventh house and occupies it in the year, forming a *mutthaśila*with the ruler of the ascendant, [the native] obtains children or a woman, in accordance with its strength.

This means that if Venus, ruling the fifth or seventh house in the nativity, occupies the fifth or seventh in the year,forming an *itthaśāla*with the ruler of the ascendant, [the native] obtains children or a woman, respectively. [And] Tejaḥsiṃha [says in *Daivajñālaṃkṛti* 21.2]:

If [the fifth house] is the place of Jupiter in the nativity and [Jupiter] is there in this year too, there is happiness from children; unhappiness, if Saurn is so [placed]. If Mercury is such, there is happiness from children, but not if it is joined by Mars, nor if the fifth house is the place of Saturn [in the nativity] and its ruler is weak.

Concerning this, Samarasiṃha states a special rule [in the *Tājikaśāstra*]:

But if the fifth house is the place of Saturn and its ruler Mercury has authority [in the year, the native] gets children.

[Continuing from *Daivajñālaṃkṛti* 21.3:]

53 Although text witnesses largely agree, the grammar of this verse is eccentric, and several meanings are uncertain.

54 That is, if Mars as ruler of the year occupies the fifth or eleventh house.

*bhaumendujau śubhagṛhe śubhavīkṣitau cel lābhe sute 'pi ca tadā sadapatyasaukhyam | putrādhipe bhṛgusute tu kalatrage 'ṅganāthetthaśālakṛti putrakalatrasaukhyam ||*

#### tājikasāre | 5

*devārcito janmani yatra rāśau varṣe sa rāśir yadi pañcamasthaḥ | tatra sthite varṣapatau budhe vā bhaume 'pi vā putrasamudbhavaḥ syāt || yadrāśigo janmani sūryasūnur varṣe ca tadrāśigataṃ vilagnam | saṃtānakaṣṭaṃ ca kujaḥ sutastho vilomagaḥ putraharo niruktaḥ || sutagataḥ sutapaḥ sabalo yadā sutasukhaṃ bahulaṃ tanute tadā ||* 10

#### yādavaḥ |

*sute savīrye śubhayuṅnirīkṣite suteśvare kendragate balānvite | tathaiva sāde sutasaukhyam īritaṃ sutātyayaḥ syād viparītage tathā || budhakṣamājau ca śubhāspadāyadhīgatau bhavetāṃ śubhadṛgyutau sukham |* 15 *januḥsuteśe 'bdakalatrage bhṛgau tanūpamukhyākhyayutau sukhaṃ bhavet || sūtau putrapatau samātanugate 'ṅgeśetthaśāle balodrikte putrasukhaṃ januḥsutapatau sādeśvare 'bde 'thavā | vyaste vā sutage śubhe śubham atho krūrārdite nirbale* 20 *sūtau sūnupatau ca duḥkham atulaṃ sāde 'pi sādeśvare ||*

3 kalatrage 'ṅga] scripsi; kalatragāṃga B N G; kulatragāṃga K T; kulatrapāṃga M 6 devārcito] devārcite B N K T M ‖ varṣe sa] varṣeśa M 8 sūrya] bhānu K T M ‖ gataṃ] gamaṃ G 9 kujaḥ] kuje B N ‖ sutastho] sutasthe B N; sutasthau K T ‖ niruktaḥ] niyuktaḥ G 10 sutapaḥ sabalo] sutapastyabalo N ‖ tanute] kurute K T M 13 sāde] scripsi; sādhye B N; śāde G a.c.; hāde G p.c.; sāvde K T; sābde M ‖ sutātyayaḥ] sutālpayas K T 14 kṣamājau] kṣmājau B N 18 patau] gatau K T M ‖ gate 'ṅgeśetthaśāle] gateṃśatthaśāle B; gateṃśetthaśāle N 19 rikte] putre add. G ‖ suta] sute B N ‖ sādeśvare] sādeśvaro B; sāvdeśvare K T; sābde khare M 20 śubhe] śubhai B 21 duḥkham] duṣṭam B N ‖ sāde] sābde M ‖ sādeśvare] sāvdeśvare K T; sābdeśvare M

1–4 bhaumendujau … saukhyam] DA 21.3 6–9 devārcito … niruktaḥ] TS 203–204 10 suta … tadā] TS 178 12–13 sute … tathā] TYS 12.47 14–21 budha … sādeśvare] TYS 12.49– 50

3 kalatrage 'ṅga] The emendation is supported by MSS DA1, DA3.

If Mars and Mercury are in the domicile of a benefic, aspected by benefics, in the eleventh or fifth house, then there is happiness from good children. And if Venus as ruler of the fifth house occupies the seventh house, forming an *itthaśāla* with the ruler of the ascendant, there is happiness from wife and children.

[And] in *Tājikasāra* [203–204, 178 it is said]:

If the sign whereJupiter was in the nativity occupies the fifth [house] in the year, and Mercury or Mars occupies it as ruler of the year, the birth of a child will take place. And if the sign where Saturn was in the nativity occupies the ascendant in the year, there is evil to one's progeny. Mars retrograde, occupying the fifth house, is declared a destroyer of children.

When the ruler of the fifth house occupies the fifth house in strength, then it bestows abundant happiness from children.

And Yādava says [in *Tājikayogasudhānidhi* 12.47, 49–50]:

If the fifth house is strong, joined or aspected by benefics; if the ruler of the fifth house, endowed with strength, occupies an angle; and if the lot likewise [is strong and benefic], happiness from children is declared [as the result]. Likewise, if [all are] conversely situated, the death of a child will occur.

Should Mercury and Mars occupy the ninth, tenth, eleventh or fifth house, joined to the aspects of benefics, there is happiness. If Venus, ruling the fifth house of the nativity, occupies the seventh house in the year, in the configuration called the foremost with the ruler of the ascendant, there will be happiness.55 If the ruler of the fifth house of the nativity, full of strength, occupies the ascendant of the year, in an *itthaśāla* with the ruler of the ascendant, there is happiness from children, or else if the ruler of the fifth house of the nativity is ruler of the lot [of children] in the year. Or if a separate benefic occupies the fifth house, there is good [fortune relating to children]; but if the ruler of the fifth house in the nativity is weak and afflicted by malefics, there is unequalled suffering, or if the ruler of the lot [of children or] the lot [itself is so afflicted].

55 'The configuration called the foremost' is the application or *itthaśāla-yoga*.

#### vāmanaḥ |

*puṇyasadmani putrasthe putrāptiḥ śubhavīkṣite | lagnaputreśvarau putre śukraś candro 'thavā guruḥ || putradaḥ putrabhavanaṃ yaduccaṃ sa graho yadi | svoccaṃ prayāti tvaritaṃ putrāptis tu tadā bhavet ||* 5 *putrasadmeśvare naṣṭe putranāśaṃ samādiśet | tasminn abhyudite putrasthite putrāptim ādiśet ||*

#### varṣatantre |

*yatrejyo januṣi gṛhe vilagnam etat putrāptyai budhasitayor apīttham ūhyam |* 10 *yadrāśau januṣi śaniḥ kujaś ca so 'bde putrārtiṃ tanusutagaḥ karoti nūnam || yadrāśigo grahaḥ sūtau sa rāśis tatpadābhidhaḥ | balī janmotthasaukhyāya varṣe tadduḥkhado 'nyathā ||*

cet padābhidho rāśir varṣe balī tadā janmakālīnatadbhāvotthaśubhaphala- 15 janako bhavati | nirbalaś cet tadā tadbhāvotthāśubhaphalajanako bhavatīti jñeyam | hillājaḥ |

*yadi lagneśaputreśau mitroccopacayarkṣagau | gurujñavīkṣitau yuktau putrasaukhyakarau matau || lagnāt kendratrikoṇasthau viṣamāṃśagatāv ubhau |* 20 *putrajanmapradāv etau samāṃśe strījanipradau || nīcāstārigatāv etau yadi vakragrahānvitau | tad yogaghātakāv etau samarkṣe viṣame 'pi vā ||*

atra saṃtānayogakartāro grahāḥ viṣamarkṣe viṣamanavāṃśe vā sthitāḥ puṃjanmakarāḥ | samabhe samanavāṃśe ca kanyājanmakarāḥ syur iti viśe- 25 ṣaḥ | jīrṇatājike |

2 putrasthe] putrepsthe G 3 lagna] lagne B a.c. N 4 sa graho] sadgraho K T M 9 yatrejyo] yatrejye G ‖ gṛhe] grahe G 10 putrāptyai] putrātthai N ‖ ūhyam] ūhye B N 12 putrārtiṃ] putrāptiṃ G 13 tatpadābhidhaḥ] tatpabhidhaḥ N 14 janmottha] janmokta K T M 15 padābhidho] padābhidhau M ‖ varṣe] varṣo N ‖ tadā] tadā add. G 16 tadā] om. G ‖ tad] om. B N 18 lagneśa] lagnepa G ‖ mitroccopacayarkṣagau] mitroccapacayakṣagau G 25 puṃjanma] putrajanma T

9–12 yatrejyo … nūnam] VT 9.5 13–14 yad … 'nyathā] VT 9.8

#### [And] Vāmana says:

If the lot of fortune occupies the fifth house aspected by benefics, [the native] has a child. The rulers of the ascendant and the fifth house in the fifth house, or else Venus, the moon, or Jupiter, give children. If the planet whose exaltation the fifth house is enters its exaltation, then [the native] will soon get children. If the ruler of the lot of children is corrupt, one should predict the death of children; [but] if it is [heliacally] risen, occupying the fifth house, one should predict having children.

#### [And] in *Varṣatantra* [9.5, 8, it is said]:

The ascendant being the domicile where Jupiter was in the nativity makes for having children [in that year]; the same is to be judged for Mercury and Venus. [But] the sign where Saturn and Mars were in the nativity occupying the ascendant or fifth house in the year certainly makes suffering for children.

The sign that a planet occupied in the nativity is called its place. Strong in the year, it makes for happiness produced [by the house occupied] in the nativity; otherwise, it gives suffering from that [house].

It is to be understood that if the sign called the place [of a planet] is strong in the year, then it produces good results arising from the house [falling] there at the time of the nativity; if weak, then it produces evil results arising from that house. [And] Hillāja [says]:

If the ruler of the ascendant and the ruler of the fifth house occupy the sign of a friend, their exaltation or a place of increase, aspected by or joined to Jupiter and Mercury, they are said to make happiness from children. Both these [planets] occupying angles or trines from the ascendant and uneven divisions bring about the birth of sons; in even divisions, they bring about a female birth. If these two [planets] occupy their fall, [heliacal] setting or [the sign of] an enemy, joined to retrograde planets, whether in an even sign or an odd one, then they destroy the configuration [for children].

Here, the planets forming the configuration for progeny occupying an uneven sign or uneven ninth-part cause male births; in an even sign and even ninth-part, they cause the birth of a girl. This is a special rule. [And] in the *Jīrṇatājika* [it is said]:

*lagne putrādhipaḥ putre lagneśo yadi saṃsthitaḥ | bhāvī putras tadā varṣe vaktavya iti niścitam || śukrendū lābhasutagau paśyato vā yathākramam | putrāl lābhaṃ sutaṃ lābhāt saṃtatis tatra vatsare || garbhe garbhādhipas tuṅge pumān sarvagrahekṣitaḥ |* 5 *bhāvī nṛpas tadā putraḥ strīgrahaḥ syāt tadaṅganā || pāpakheṭaḥ sthito garbhe garbheśena na vīkṣite | tadā garbhacyutir vācyānyathā ced garbhasaṃsthitiḥ || sutādhīśe lābhagate śubhayukte 'tha vīkṣite | vā lagnapāt trikoṇasthe pañcameśe śubhekṣite ||* 10 *tathaiva garbhasahame śubhasvāmiyutekṣite | tasmin varṣe bhaved garbham ity āha yavaneśvaraḥ || jīvakṣetragate candre śukrakṣetragate kuje | svakṣetrasthe bhṛgusute tadā garbhaṃ na saṃśayaḥ || lagnādhipaḥ sutasthāne jāyāsthānagato 'pi vā |* 15 *sutajāyādhipau lagne tadā garbhas tu yoṣitaḥ || janmalagnāt trikoṇasthaḥ śaniḥ putreśagur yadi | tasmin varṣe bhaved garbhaṃ devaśālamuner matam || vidyāgṛhaṃ candrabudhejyaśukrair yutekṣitaṃ vā svanavāṃśakaṃ vā | vā svāminā dṛṣṭayutaṃ tadābde satsphūrtividyārucibuddhibhāvaḥ ||* 20 *vidyāgṛhaṃ krūrakhagena yuktaṃ na svāminā naṣṭaśarīrakeṇa | candreṇa dṛṣṭaṃ sahitaṃ tadābde phalaṃ puroktaṃ viparītakaṃ syāt ||*

3 paśyato vā yathākramam] putrajanmakarau mataḥ B; putrajanmakaro mataḥ N 4 putrāl lābhaṃ sutaṃ lābhāt] putrāl lābhaṃ sutāt saukhyaṃ G; sutāt saukhyaṃ sutaṃ lābhāt K T M ‖ lābhaṃ] lāmaṃ N 5 sarvagrahekṣitaḥ] aṃsahasaṃgame B N p.c.; aṃsahagasaṃgame N a.c. 6 tadaṅganā] scripsi; tadāṃganā B N G; tadāṅganā K T M 7 garbheśena na] scripsi; garbheśo naiva B N G K T; garbheśenaiva M 10 vā] om. B N ‖ śubhekṣite] śubhe sthite B N 13 śukra] śukre B N 17 putreśagur yadi] putreśasūryadi K; putre gurur yadi M 20 sphūrti] phūrti B N K T

21 gṛhaṃ] At this point G adds three quarters of a stanza:*caṃdrabudhejyaśukrair yutekṣitaṃ vā svanavāṃśakaṃ vā vā svāminā dṛṣṭayutaṃ tadābde satputrakaṃ*.

56 For the ruler of any house in a horoscope to occupy the same house and its exaltation simultaneously, its domicile and exaltation would need to be identical. This is true only of Mercury, whose gender is typically considered ambiguous. Possibly the author is thinking of the ruler of the fifth house of the *nativity* occupying the fifth house of the *revolution*.

If the ruler of the fifth house occupies the ascendant, [and] the ruler of the ascendant, the fifth house, it should be predicted with certainty that a child will be born in that year. [If] Venus and the moon occupy the eleventh [or] fifth house, or aspect the eleventh house from the fifth [and] the fifth house from the eleventh, respectively, there is progeny in that year.

If the male ruler of the fifth house is in its exaltation in the fifth house, aspected by all [other] planets, then the son [born] will become a king; [if the ruler of the fifth house is] a female planet, [the child born will become] the wife of one.56

[If] a malefic planet occupies the fifth house, which is not aspected by the ruler of the fifth house, then a miscarriage should be predicted; if the opposite, [a completed] pregnancy. If the ruler of the fifth house occupies the eleventh house joined to or aspected by benefics, or the ruler of the fifth occupies a trine from the ruler of the ascendant, aspected by benefics, and the *sahama* of pregnancy57 is likewise joined to or aspected by its ruler and benefics, there will be pregnancy in that year: so says the lord of the Yavanas.

If the moon occupies a domicile of Jupiter, Mars occupies a domicile of Venus, and Venus occupies its own domicile, then no doubt there is pregnancy. [If] the ruler of the ascendant is in the fifth house or else occupies the seventh house, [and] the rulers of the fifth and seventh houses are in the ascendant, then [the native's] wife [becomes] pregnant. If Saturn occupies a trine from the ascendant of the nativity, [casting] its rays on the ruler of the fifth house,58 there will be pregnancy in that year: [this is] the opinion of the sage Devaśāla.

[If] the fifth house is joined or aspected by the moon, Mercury, Jupiter and Venus, or [its] own ninth-part [is so],59 or aspected or joined by its ruler, in that year flashes of insight, relish for learning, and intelligence come to be. [But if] the fifth house is joined by a malefic planet [and] not aspected by or joined to its ruler, the body of which is lost,60 [or] the moon, in that year the results stated above will be reversed.

57 That is, of children.

58 That is, aspecting it.

59 Although all text witnesses agree on this phrase, its meaning is unclear.

60 That is, in the rays of the sun; in other words, heliacally set.

#### samarasiṃhaḥ |

*asmin varṣe 'patyaṃ mama bhavitā lagnapañcamādhīśau | bhajato yadītthaśālaṃ tatraivādbe bhaven nūnam || yadi vā mitho gṛhagatau syātāṃ cet saṃtatis tad api | vācyā tasmin varṣe śubhayogād anyathā na punaḥ ||* 5 *lagnapaputrādhipatī na paśyataś cen mitho bhavanamūrtam | krūrayutīkṣaṇamuthaśilam anayos tat saṃtatir na syāt || yadi sutapatir vilagne lagnapacandrau sute 'thavā syātām | tat tvaritam eva vācyā savilambaṃ naktayogena || dviśarīre ca vilagne śubhayutaputre dvyapatyagarbho 'sti |* 10 *yadi lagnapaputrapatī puṃkheṭau tat suto garbhe || atha candraḥ puṃrāśau puṃgrahakṛnmuthaśilas tadāpi sutaḥ | horāsvāmī puruṣaḥ puṃrāśau cet tadāpi sutagarbham | pūrvoditamiśratve sūrye puṃkheṭasaṃśrite putraḥ ||* iti |

atha pañcamabhāvasthitānāṃ sūryādīnāṃ phalāni padmakośe | 15

*dineśe sutasthe sutāṅgeṣu pīḍā svabuddheś ca hānir vivādo janānām | bhavec chokamohādi cāṅgeṣu rogo dhanārtiś ca bhūpād bhayaṃ taddaśāyām || sutasthānago rātrināthaḥ svabuddhyā* 20 *jayaṃ mitrapakṣāc ca lābhaṃ karoti | sutāṅgeṣu pīḍā bhavet pāpadṛṣṭe sutasyāpi lābhaṃ yadā saumyadṛṣṭaḥ ||*

1–14 samarasiṃhaḥ … iti] om. B N 2 'patyaṃ] apatyaṃ G 3 bhajato] bha ⁕ to K; bhavato T M 7 yutīkṣaṇa] yutīkṣā K T M 9 tat] om. K T M ‖ vācyā] vācyaṃ K T M 10 ca vilagne] caiva lagne K T M 12–13 sutaḥ … tadāpi] om. K T M 17 svabuddheś] subuddheś B N G 18 mohādi … rogo] mohādikāṃge surāgo K T M 19 dhanārtiś ca] dhanārjjita G ‖ bhūpād] bhūyād B N G 20 suta] sukha G 22 dṛṣṭe] dṛṣṭaḥ B N; dṛṣṭas K T M 23 lābhaṃ] saukhyaṃ G

8–13 yadi … garbham] Cf. PT 2.26–29 16–19 dineśe … daśāyām] TPK 1.5 20–23 suta … dṛṣṭaḥ] TPK 2.5

#### [And] Samarasiṃha [says in the *Tājikaśāstra*]:

'Will I have progeny in this year?' If [a client asks thus and] the rulers of the ascendant and the fifth [house] partake of an *itthaśāla*, it will certainly happen in that very year. Or if they should both occupy each other's domicile, then too progeny should be predicted in that year – from a benefic configuration, however, not otherwise.If the ruler of the ascendant and the ruler of the fifth house do not aspect each other's house [or] body, [but] they are joined to, aspected by, or in *mutthaśila* with malefics,61 then there will be no progeny.

If the ruler of the fifth house should be in the ascendant, or the ruler of the ascendant and the moon in the fifth house, then [progeny] should be predicted soon; with delay [if they are connected] by a *nakta* configuration. If the ascendant is a double-bodied [sign] and the fifth house is joined by benefics, there is a twin pregnancy. If the ruler of the ascendant and the ruler of the fifth house are male planets, then a son is in the womb. Or if the moon is in a male sign and makes a *mutthaśila* with a male planet, then too there is a son. If the ruler of the hour62 is male, in a male sign, then too there is pregnancy with a son. If the above [criteria] are mixed, [but] the sun is joined to a male planet, there is a son.

Next, the results of the sun and other [planets] occupying the fifth house [are described] in [*Tājika*]*padmakośa* [1.5, 2.5, 3.5, 4.5, 5.5, 6.5, 7.5, 8.5]:

If the sun occupies the fifth house, [the native's] children will suffer in their bodies; there will be loss of one's reason, quarrels with people [in general], grief, confusion and so on, illness in the body, loss of wealth, and danger from the king in its period.

Occupying the fifth house, the moon makes triumph through [the native's] own intelligence and gain on account of his friends; if it is aspected by malefics, [the native's] children will suffer in their bodies, [but] when it is aspected by benefics, [it makes] gain of a child.63

61 Or: 'in *mutthaśila* with malefics by conjunction or aspect'.

62 Or, possibly, of the ascendant, as the Greek loanword *horā* may mean either.

63 Meaning that the native will have a child in that year, or, less likely, that an existing child gains something.

*tathā sarvathā kleśacintāṃ karoti ||*

#### maṇitthaḥ |

*putraruk kāminīkaṣṭaṃ vighātaṃ cāpi mūḍhatā | dravyanāśaḥ sveṣṭaduḥkhaṃ varṣe pañcamage ravau ||* 25 *strīsukhaṃ vijayaṃ mānaṃ rājapūjā dhanāgamam | sadbuddhiṃ saṃtateḥ saukhyaṃ yadā putropagaḥ śaśī ||*

1 sutānāṃ] sutāṃ B N 3 svabuddher] subuddher B N; om. G ‖ vināśo] nāśo G ‖ cāgnighātaḥ] cātmaghātaḥ G; cāpi ghātas K T M 4 saśophodare] saśokodare B N K T M 6 sukha] svakha K 7 bhṛtajanasukhakārī] bhṛtakajanasukhaṃ syād G K T M ‖ hemasasyā-] dehaśayyā- G K T M 8 nṛpa] pitṛ G ‖ mitra] mātṛ G 10 pravṛddhiṃ] pravṛddhiḥ G; pravṛddhis K T M 11 sukhānāṃ ca] sukhaṃ cāpi G K T M ‖ bhogāṃs] bhogas B N; bhogan K T M 14 bhaya] bhayaṃ B N 18 viphalatā] vikalatā G K T M 20 saṃtateḥ] saṃtatiḥ K T 21 svakīyodare] svakāyodare G ‖ bādhāṃ] pīḍāṃ G 24 vighātaṃ] vighātaś M ‖ cāpi] cāti G K T M 25 sveṣṭa] kleśa B N 26 strīsukhaṃ] strīsutaṃ sukhaṃ N 27 saukhyaṃ] prāptiṃ G ‖ yadā putropagaḥ] paṃcamopagataḥ G

1–4 sutānāṃ … madhye] TPK 3.5 5–8 suta … ca] TPK 4.5 9–12 suta … karoti] TPK 5.5 13–16 sutānāṃ … karoti] TPK 6.5 17–18 suta … hāyane] TPK 7.5 19–22 sva … karoti] TPK 8.5

If Mars occupies the fifth, there will be suffering to children, conflict with enemies, agitation, loss of one's reason, injury from fire,64 and secret suffering from a stomach tumour in that year.

If Mercury occupies the fifth house, it will make great happiness from children and give gain of wealth. It makes happiness from servants, happiness from gold, grains and clothes,65 and triumph on account of the king and of friends.66

Occupying the fifth house, Jupiter makes increase of children and triumph through one's intelligence in that year; destruction of enemies, enjoyment of pleasures, and gain of cattle, gold and clothes.

If Venus occupies the fifth, there is increase of children; it banishes fear, suffering, anxiety and misfortune, causes the destruction of enemies and makes [the native] rich in wealth and possessed of great pleasures in [that] year.

Occupying the fifth house, Saturn makes loss of children and gives the evil of stomach pains; it will make futility67 and much suffering, and brings about danger from the king in [that] year.

If occupying the fifth house, Rāhu causes the loss of one's understanding, suffering to children, affliction to [the native's] own stomach from [the humour of] wind, harm with regard to wealth, and likewise all manner of anguish and anxiety.

[And] Maṇitthaḥ [says]:

There is illness to children, evils to wife, injury, bewilderment, destruction of property, suffering to loved ones68 in a year when the sun occupies the fifth.

When the moon occupies the fifth house [it makes] happiness from women, triumph, honour, reverence from the king, acquisition of wealth, a good mind, and happiness from progeny.

64 Text witness G reads 'suicide', K T M simply 'injury'.

65 Text witnesses G K T M read 'from the body, beds and clothes'.

66 Text witness G reads 'on account of the father and of the mother'.

67 Text witnesses G K T M read 'mutilation'.

68 Text witnesses B N read 'anguish and suffering'.

*putrārtiḥ kāminīkaṣṭaṃ vyādhiś caivodare nṛṇām | durmatiḥ svajanair vādaḥ pañcame bhūminandane || jāyāputrasuḥrtsaukhyaṃ mānaṃ bhūpālasambhavam | prāpyate buddhito dravyaṃ pañcame śaśinandane || sadbuddhiḥ saṃtatiprāptiḥ saukhyaṃ lābho bhaven nṛṇām |* 5 *mantravidyādijaṃ saukhyaṃ pañcamasthe surārcite || jāyāputrādikaṃ saukhyaṃ sadbuddhir vibhavāgamam | mantropadeśe kauśalyaṃ pañcame bhṛgunandane || jāyāputravirodhaś ca vigraho 'nyajanaiḥ saha | jaṭhare vātajā bādhā pañcame sūryanandane ||* 10 *sutāsaukhyaṃ vyathāprāptir durmatir vairinigrahaḥ | viyogaḥ svajane pīḍā saiṃhikeye tu pañcame ||*

iti pañcamabhāvavicāraḥ ||

atha ṣaṣṭhabhāvavicāraḥ | tatra ṣaṣṭhabhāve kiṃ cintanīyam ity uktaṃ caṇḍeśvareṇa | 15

*asvāsthyatāsphoṭagavoṣṭradāsakrūrograkarmāparakṛtyaśaṅkāḥ | yuddhāritanmātulamāhiṣādyaṃ rogo vicintyo ripusaṃjñabhāve ||*

1 putrārtiḥ] putrārtiṅ K T 2 vādaḥ] vairaṃ G 3 putra] putro K T 4 buddhito dravyaṃ] sanmatiḥ puṃsāṃ G 5 bhaven nṛṇām] bhavebhṛṇāṃ N 6 mantravidyādijaṃ] iṣṭamitrakṛtaṃ G 7 sadbuddhir] sadbuddhi K T M 8 mantropadeśe] vidyāvijñāna G ‖ bhṛgunandane] bhṛguje nṛṇāṃ G 9 jāyāputravirodhaś ca] jāyāpatyasuhṛtkaṣṭaṃ G K T M ‖ vigraho 'nyajanaiḥ saha] duṣṭabuddhir dhanakṣayaṃ G K T; duṣṭabuddhir dhanakṣayam M 10 jaṭhare vātajā bādhā] udare vātapīḍā ca G K T M ‖ sūrya] ravi G K T M 11 sutā-] putra G K T M ‖ vyathā] suta G K T M ‖ nigrahaḥ] vigrahaḥ K T M 12 viyogaḥ] niyataṃ G K T M ‖ svajane] jaṭhare G K T M 16 asvāsthyatā] āsvāsthyatā G 17 māhiṣādyaṃ] māhiṣāḍhyaṃ B

There is suffering to children, evils to wife, ailments of the stomach, foolishness and quarrels with one's own people for men if Mars is in the fifth.

There is happiness from wife, children and friends, honour deriving from the king, and goods obtained by understanding,69 if Mercury is in the fifth.

Men will have good understanding, gain of progeny, happiness, profit, and happiness from knowledge of incantations and so on,70 if Jupiter occupies the fifth.

There is happiness [from] wife, children and so on, good understanding, acquisition of fortune, and skill in instruction in incantations,71 if Venus is in the fifth.

There is conflict with wife and children,72 discord with other people,73 and affliction of the stomach produced by [the humour of] wind, if Saturn is in the fifth.

There is unhappiness from children,74 suffering of anguish,75 foolishness, oppression from enemies, separation and suffering to one's own people,76 if Rāhu is in the fifth.

This concludes the judgement of the fifth house.

#### **6.7 The Sixth House**

Next, the judgement of the sixth house. Concerning that, Caṇḍeśvara describes what is to be considered from the sixth house:

Ill health, boils, cattle, camels, servants, harsh and cruel actions, low work, fear, fighting, enemies, one's uncle, buffaloes and disease are to be considered from the sixth house.

69 Text witness G reads 'a good mind for men'.

70 Text witness G reads 'happiness caused by friends and loved ones'.

71 Text witness G reads 'skill in learning and wisdom'.

72 Text witnesses G K T M read 'evils to wife, children and friends'.

73 Text witnesses G K T M read 'an evil mind and loss of wealth'.

74 Text witnesses G K T M read 'happiness from children'.

75 Text witnesses G K T M read 'gain of children'.

76 Text witnesses G K T M read 'constant pains in the stomach'.

atrāpi vicāraḥ pūrvavat | atha yogāḥ jīrṇatājike |

tājikabhūṣaṇe tu vakriṇo 'bdeśasya śaner yatra kutra sthitasya saṃnipātarūpaṃ phalam uktam |

*vilomagāmī yadi mandagāmī svāmī sa varṣe kurute tridoṣam ||*

tājikatilake | 15

*varṣādhipe ravisute kila vakrabhuktau syāt saṃnipātarudhirāmayapīḍanaṃ ca ||*

vāmanena tu janmalagneśānāṃ śanigurubhaumānāṃ ṣaṣṭhagānāṃ phalam uktam |

*śanau janmavilagneśe varṣe vakriṇi ṣaṣṭhage |* 20 *tridoṣapīḍā lagneśe gurau varṣe ripusthite || pāpākrānte vātapīḍā hy evaṃ raktottharuk kuje | evaṃ pāpārdite saumye vātapīḍā bhṛśaṃ bhavet ||*

2 vakriṇi] vikriṇi K T 3 rogāsṛg] rogo 'sṛk G 5 rogālpatvaṃ] rogā'lpaṃ G 6 rogaḥ] yogaḥ G ‖ tathāvidhe] tathābhidhe B N G 7 vidhe] vidhau G ‖ nṛṇām] bhṛṇāṃ N 8 vidhe] vidhadhe N ‖ eva] ṇava N ‖ hi] ca G 9 rogaḥ] saigaḥ G 13 uktam] om. K T M 14 mandagāmī] maṅgalāmī K; maṅgagāmi T; hy aṅgagāmī M 15 tilake] pi add. G 20 janmavilagneśe] janmani lagneśe N 21 sthite] sthitau N

14 viloma … doṣam] TBh 4.49

Here, too, judgement is [to be made] as before. Now, [these] configurations [are given] in the *Jīrṇatājika*:

If Saturn as ruler of the year is in the sixth, beset by malefics and retrograde, compounded illnesses, eye disease, bleeding, fever, abdominal tumours and so on are produced. If Jupiter is thus, there will be disease of [the humour of] wind and jaundice; [but] if Jupiter forms a *kambūla* in the year, one should declare the illness to be a minor one. If Mars is thus, there is illness of the blood; [disorder of] bile if the sun is thus, and if the moon is thus, men will have illness of phlegm. If Mercury is thus, the illness is mainly of [the humour of] wind. If Venus is such, there is illness of bile; [but] if Venus, being such, should occupy a human sign, it is said to make illness of phlegm. The sun as ruler of the year joined to a malefic in the twelfth gives pain in the eyes.

But in *Tājikabhūṣaṇa* [4.49], the result of Saturn as ruler of the year being retrograde, wherever it is placed, is said to take the form of compounded illnesses:

If Saturn in retrograde motion is ruler, it makes [disorders of] the three humours in [that] year.

[And] in the *Tājikatilaka* [it is said]:

If Saturn as ruler of the year is in retrograde motion, there will be compounded illnesses and suffering from ailments of the blood.

And Vāmana describes the results of Saturn,Jupiter and Mars, [respectively], as rulers of the ascendant of the nativity occupying the sixth [house of the revolution]:

If Saturn, ruling the ascendant of the nativity, occupies the sixth in the year, being retrograde, there is suffering from the three humours. If Jupiter, ruling the ascendant, occupies the sixth house in the year, beset by malefics, there is suffering from [the humour of] wind. If Mars is thus, there is illness produced by blood; if Mercury, afflicted by malefics, is such, there will be much suffering from [the humour of] wind.

#### yādavo 'pi |

*janustanūpe dhiṣaṇe 'bdaṣaḍbhe krūrārdite vāyubhavo vikāraḥ | evaṃ kuje kāmalaroga ukto hastotthapīḍāpi ca hāyane 'smin || evaṃ ravau dvādaśage 'kṣiśūlaṃ ṣaḍbhe sacandre 'pi ca pittarogaḥ | tathaiva śukre ripuge nṛrāśau krūrārdite śleṣmabhayaṃ mṛtiś ca ||* 5 *evaṃ vidhau syāt kapharuk tathaiva jñe pāpadṛṣṭe pavanotthabādhā |*

#### hillājaḥ |

2 tanūpe] tanūne G 4 ṣaḍbhe] ṣaṣṭhe M ‖ sacandre] sacaṃdro B N 5 bhayaṃ] bhavaṃ B N ‖ mṛtiś] mṛtiñ K T M 10 grahā] grahāj K T 11 yutaṃ] yute B N 12 svagṛhādy] sagṛhādy K T ‖ adhikārataḥ] scripsi; adhikārakaḥ B N G K T M 13 praveśataḥ] praveśanaḥ B N 17 vāhni] vanhi B K T; vahni N M 18 vidhuḥ] viduḥ N; vithuḥ G 22 tannāthau] scripsi; tannāthaḥ B; tannāthāḥ N G K T M ‖ madhyagāḥ] mavyagāḥ N 23 nyūnā roga] nyūnāḥ pāpa G

2–6 janus … bādhā] TYS 12.52–54

[And] Yādava [says in *Tājikayogasudhānidhi* 12.52–54]:

If Jupiter as ruler of the ascendant of the nativity is in the sixth sign in the year, afflicted by malefics, there is a disorder produced by [the humour of] wind. If Mars is thus, there is said to be the disease of jaundice, and also suffering arising from the hands, in this year. If the sun is thus [but] occupying the twelfth, there is pain in the eyes; if it is in the sixth sign with the moon, there is a bilious disease. If Venus similarly occupies the sixth house in a human sign, afflicted by malefics, there is danger from phlegm and death. If the moon is thus, there will be illness of phlegm; if Mercury similarly is aspected by malefics, affliction arising from [the humour of] wind.

[And] Hillāja [says]:

The ruler of the ascendant of the nativity being a malefic, aspected by the ruler of the year with a *kṣuta* aspect, causes illness; being with [another] malefic, it gives death. The malefic planets occupying angles at the time of the nativity and occupying the ascendant in the revolution of the year give illness, [if] the lot of illness is likewise joined to malefics. If the sun or Mars has authority of domicile and so on in the ascendant of the year or of the nativity, and the revolution of the year takes place by day, there is suffering from fever; but if the ascendant is aspected by benefics, one should predict well-being.

If, in a nocturnal nativity, the moon has gone out from under the sun and begun to wax, the moon having an *itthaśāla* with Mars in the year alleviates illness; [but] having an *itthaśāla*with Saturn, it aggravates illness. In a diurnal nativity in the dark fortnight,77 the moon having an *itthaśāla* with Mars gives illness; [but] by an *itthaśāla* with Saturn in the revolution of the year, it alleviates illness.78