History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c82.543

v6.c82.543

If a person's rising sign at birth (lagna) is not known, then the lagna at the time of asking a question about Yātrā may be used for astrological purposes. If such a lagna is either Meṣa, Karka, Tulā or Makara and is occupied by auspicious planets or has an auspicious aspect with any of them, then the questioner becomes successful in his undertaking; but if the lagna, whatever it may be, is occupied by Mars and the Moon or if the Moon is aspected by Saturn or is in the 7th or 8th place and the Sun is in lagna or if a malefic planet occupies the lagna or the 4th, 7th or 8th place, then in all these cases the questioner would be defeated or destroyed (by his enemies)⁹⁴⁷ The week-days were regarded as not of much importance in Yātrā. The 6th, 8th, 12th tithi, Full Moon tithi, amāvāsyā, riktā tithi (4th, 9th, 14th) and the first of the bright half were not commended for Yātrā (the rest were commended) and yātrā was commended on nine nakṣatras, viz. on Aśvinī, Punarvasu, Anurādhā, Mṛgaśiras, Puṣya, Revatī, Hasta, Śravaṇa and Dhaniṣṭhā The Yogayātrā IV, Rājamārtanda (verses 695-752), Ratnamālā XV verses 1-74, Muhūrtacintāmaṇi XI. 55-74 furnish numerous conjunctions that would make a king successful. A few are set out here by way of sample That king that has at the time of marching on an expedition Jupiter in the *lagna*, Mercury and Venus respectively in 4th and 5th places, Mars and Saturn in 6th, the Sun in the 3rd and the Moon in the 10th secures the complete fruit of what he desires⁹⁴⁸, (the king is victorious) if Jupiter is in the lagna and the other planets are in the 2nd and 11th places,⁹⁴⁹ when at the time of marching the king has Venus, Mercury and the Sun respectively in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd places his enemies fall into the fire of battle like moths,⁹⁵⁰ when Venus occupies either the 4th, 3rd or 11th house, if he has an aspect with Jupiter that is in a *kendra* (1st, 4th, 7th or 10th house) and the malefic planets are in places other than the 7th, 8th or 9th place such a conjunction procures for the king heaps of wealth (and victory)⁹⁵¹