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# Brihajjataka 9

English (machine translation) 9

- **Language:** English

### [9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.astro.hora.yavana.brhajjataka~en-mt.9)

The Aṣṭakavarga.

### [9.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.astro.hora.yavana.brhajjataka~en-mt.9.1)

From itself, the Sun \[is auspicious\] when situated in the first, eleventh, fourth, eighth, second, tenth, ninth, and seventh; from Mars, just as from itself; likewise from Saturn; from Venus, in the seventh, twelfth, and sixth;  
from Jupiter, in the ninth, fifth, eleventh, and sixth; from the Moon, in the tenth, third, eleventh, and sixth; from Mercury, in these same and in the twelfth, ninth, and fifth; and from the ascendant, along with the fourth and twelfth.

### [9.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.astro.hora.yavana.brhajjataka~en-mt.9.2)

From the ascendant, the Moon \[is auspicious\] in the sixth, third, tenth, and eleventh; from Mars, in these and the second, fifth, and ninth; from itself, in the first and seventh, and in the eighth and seventh; from the Sun, in the sixth, third, eleventh, and fifth; from Saturn,  
in the fifth, third, eleventh, eighth, and angles; from Mercury, in the twelfth, eleventh, and eighth from Jupiter, and also situated in angles; and from Venus, in the ninth, fourth, fifth, third, eleventh, tenth, and seventh.

### [9.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.astro.hora.yavana.brhajjataka~en-mt.9.3)

Mars, however, is auspicious in the upacaya houses from the Sun; from the ascendant, in those \[upacaya houses\] along with the fifth and the first; from the Moon, in the angles, eighth, eleventh, and second, excluding the tenth; from itself,  
in the ninth, eleventh, eighth, and angles; from Saturn, in the sixth, third, fifth, and eleventh from Mercury; from Venus, in the sixth, twelfth, eleventh, and eighth; and from Jupiter, in the tenth, other than the eleventh and sixth.

### [9.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.astro.hora.yavana.brhajjataka~en-mt.9.4)

In the second, first, eleventh, eighth, ninth, and fourth from Venus, and along with the third and fifth; in the tenth and seventh from Saturn and Mars; in the twelfth, sixth, eleventh, and eighth from Jupiter;  
in the ninth, eleventh, sixth, fifth, and twelfth from the Sun; in the first, tenth, and third from himself; in the sixth, second, eleventh, eighth, fourth, and tenth from the Moon; and together with the first from the ascendant, Mercury is auspicious.

### [9.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.astro.hora.yavana.brhajjataka~en-mt.9.5)

In the tenth, second, first, eighth, fourth, and ninth from Mars; in his own three \[houses\]; from the Sun, in the third and ninth; in the fifth, second, ninth, tenth, eleventh, and sixth from Venus;  
in the seventh, eleventh, fourth, ninth, and fifth from the Moon; in the third, sixth, fifth, and twelfth from Saturn; in the tenth, fifth, sixth, second, fourth, eleventh, first, and ninth from Mercury; and together with the seventh from the ascendant, Jupiter \[is auspicious\].

### [9.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.astro.hora.yavana.brhajjataka~en-mt.9.6)

From the ascendant up to the fifth, in the eleventh, eighth, ninth, together with the twelfth from the Moon, Venus \[is auspicious\]; from himself in the tenth, fourth, third, fifth, ninth, tenth, eighth, and eleventh; from Saturn  
in the eighth, eleventh, and twelfth; from the Sun in the ninth, tenth, eleventh, eighth, and fifth; from Jupiter; from Mercury in the fifth, third, eleventh, ninth, and sixth; and in the third, ninth, sixth, fifth, eleventh, together with the twelfth from Mars.

### [9.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.astro.hora.yavana.brhajjataka~en-mt.9.7)

Saturn is auspicious from himself in the third, fifth, eleventh, and sixth; from Mars in the tenth and twelfth; from the Sun in the cardinal houses, eleventh, eighth, and second; from the ascendant in the upacaya houses, the first, and the fourth;  
from Mercury in the ninth, eleventh, sixth, tenth, twelfth, and eighth; from the Moon in the third, sixth, and eleventh; from Venus in the sixth, eleventh, and twelfth; and from Jupiter in the eleventh, twelfth, fifth, and sixth.

### [9.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.astro.hora.yavana.brhajjataka~en-mt.9.8)

Thus the auspicious has been declared; anything else is not auspicious. In particular, they bestow the manifestation of increased results \[in houses reckoned\] from the natal sign.  
The auspicious is reinforced when \[the planets are\] in upacaya houses, friendly signs, or their own exaltations; \[whereas\] wealth that is not desired \[results\] when they are in non-upacaya houses, debilitations, or inimical signs.

## Commentaries (1)

- [Daśādhyāyī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.astro.hora.yavana.brhajjataka!govindabhatta.9.1) — Govinda, Sanskrit

## Linked texts (1)

- [Bṛhajjātaka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.astro.hora.yavana.brhajjataka.9) — Varāhamihira, Sanskrit

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