Bharatiya Jyotihshastra (History of Indian Astronomy), translated by R. V. Vaidya v2.c14.5

v2.c14.5

The diagram drawn in the margin is known as Kuṇḍali (Horoscope). The number indicating the rising sign† (ascendant) at birth is noted in the place numbered one(1). This house is always termed the ‘first house’, no matter what sign out of the twelve occupies it. The places marked 2, 3, etc. in the horoscope are respectively called the ‘second house’, third house’ and so on, and the planets are posited in the respective houses according to the signs they occupy at birth. These twelve houses are successively termed : body wealth, brothers, friends, sons, enemies, wife, death, religion, occupation gains and expenses. All matters denoted by these terms, as also other matters associated with them are considered on the basis of the planets occupying the signs in the houses and the aspectual and other relations of other planets to