Brihajjataka 23

English (machine translation) 23

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If the house of children or wife from the ascendant or from the Moon is occupied by a benefic or by its lord, or aspected [by them], there is prosperity regarding them; otherwise, [misfortune] is to be understood. / If the Sun is in the ascendant rising with less than six signs (the first half), Saturn situated in Pisces kills the wife; and if the son of the Earth (Mars) has gone to the house of children, he causes the death of children.

23.2

When malefic planets are situated in quadrate houses from Venus, or when Venus is situated between two malefics, / and it is unaccompanied and unaspected by benefic planets, the death of the wife is caused by fire, a fall, or a rope.

23.3

When the Moon and the Sun are in the twelfth and sixth houses from the ascendant, they say one is born one-eyed together with one's wife; / when Venus and the Sun are in the seventh, or in the ninth and fifth houses, they declare the native to have a disabled wife.

23.4

When Saturn is in the ascendant and Venus in the setting zodiacal juncture (the seventh house cusp), one is the husband of a barren woman, if the house of children is not joined with a benefic; / when malefic planets are in the twelfth, seventh, and ascendant signs, and the Moon is waning in the fifth house, one is born without children and wife.

23.5

If Venus is in the division of Saturn or Mars, situated in the seventh and aspected by them, he goes after other women; if those two with the Moon [are there], he is adulterous along with his wife. / If Venus and the Moon are in the seventh, a man is wifeless or also childless; if they are aspected by benefics, the husband and wife have aged bodies.

23.6

He destroys his family lineage when the Moon, Venus, and malefics are in the tenth, seventh, and fourth houses; he is an artisan when the decan is joined by Mercury and aspected by Saturn situated in a cardinal house; / he is born of a slave-woman when Venus is in the twelfth house in a degree of Saturn; he is base when the Sun and Moon are in the seventh house and aspected by Saturn.

23.7

When Venus and Mars are aspected by malefics or situated in the seventh, one has diseases of the groin; when the Moon has gone to a navāṃśa of Cancer or Scorpio and is joined with malefics, one has diseases of the private parts; / when malefics are in the twelfth and second houses, one has white leprosy; when the Moon is in the ascendant, the Sun in the seventh, the Moon in the tenth, and Mars in the seventh, he is disabled if Saturn is in the veśi position.

23.8

When the Moon is between two malefics and the Sun is in Capricorn, one suffers from asthma, consumption, spleen disease, internal abscess, or abdominal swelling; / when the Sun and Moon are in each other's signs or navāṃśas, one is emaciated, or when they are together in one sign [of each other], one is lean.

23.9

When the Moon is in a navāṃśa of Aries, Taurus, Cancer, Capricorn, or Pisces, joined with or aspected by Saturn and Mars, one has leprosy; / and when Scorpio, Cancer, Taurus, and Capricorn have gone to the trine, joined with or aspected by malefics, one also has leprosy.

23.10

The Sun, the Moon, Mars, and Saturn situated in the eighth, sixth, second, and twelfth houses in any manner / cause blindness in men through causes arising from defects of the stronger planet.

23.11

Malefics placed in the ninth, eleventh, third, and fifth houses, and not aspected by benefics, / certainly cause impairment of hearing; and in the seventh, they cause deformities of the teeth.

23.12

When the Moon is rising in Rāhu's mouth (the node) and malefics are in the trines, he is possessed by a demon; / when the Sun is in the ascendant with an eclipsed disc, he is deprived of eyes.

23.13

Touched by wind disease (gout/insanity) when Saturn is in the seventh and Jupiter is in the ascendant; insane when Mars is in the seventh house and Jupiter is situated in the ascendant; / likewise when Saturn is in the ascendant and Mars is in the ninth, fifth, or seventh; or born [insane] when Saturn is [in the ascendant] and the waning Moon is in the twelfth.

23.14

When the lords of the sign and navāṃśa, the Sun, the Moon, and Jupiter have gone to degrees of the lord of their debilitation or to enemy degrees, / those born under these, according to whether few, middling, or many [are so situated], should be known respectively as voluntary slaves, purchased slaves, or born slaves.

23.15

A man has deformed teeth when Taurus, Aries, or Sagittarius is the ascendant aspected by malefics; he is bald when an inauspicious sign, or Sagittarius or Taurus, is the ascendant; / when the Sun is in the ninth or fifth and aspected by malefics, his eyesight is not firm; under Saturn [similarly placed], he has many diseases; under Mars, he is disabled.

23.16

Imprisonment corresponding to the sign is to be deduced when malefics are in the twelfth, fifth, second, and ninth houses, / and likewise from serpent, fetter, and noose decans aspected by powerful malefics.

23.17

A person has a harsh voice, suffers from epilepsy, and is consumptive when the Moon is with Saturn, in aspect with Mars, and surrounded by a halo; / when the Sun, Saturn, and Mars, unaspected by benefics, occupy the midheaven, a man is a servant; according to the order previously stated (Sun, Saturn, Mars), they are excellent, lowest, and middling.

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