History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c82.598

v6.c82.598

Kalhana⁹⁷⁶ in the Rājatarangiṇī says that king Harṣa of Kashmir( born 1059 A.D., ruled 1089-1101 A.D ) was born on the *Karkaṭa lagna* when Mars and Saturn were in the 5th house, Jupiter and Mercury in the 6th, Venus and the Sun in the 7th and the Moon in the 10th, that like Duryodhana he caused the extinction of his family as the astrological conjuction at his birth indicated and as the authors of *Saṃhitās* declared that Kauravas destroyed their families because in their horoscopes the Moon, Venus and malefic planets were in the 10th, 7th and 5th houses. This horoscope may be true, as Kalhaṇa wrote only about fifty years after Harṣa's death.