1. A person gets wealth from his father, mother, enemy, friend, brother, wife or servant according as the planet which occupies the 10th house from the Lagna or from the Moon is the Sun, or the Moon, or Mars or Mercury, or Jupiter or Venus or Saturn respectively (a). The avocation of a person will be that stated for the planets (b) which might be the lords of the Navamsas occupied by the lords of the 10th houses from Lagna, the Moon and the Sun (c).

Notes

(a) He will get wealth in the manner stated in the Text in the Dasa period of the planet, according to Garga. If the 10th house from the ascendant and the 10th house from the Moon be both occupied by planets, a person will acquire wealth from both sources; and if several planets occupy the 10th house, there will be several sources of wealth.

(b) Vide Stanzas 2 and 3.

(c) Suppose, sign Cancer is the Lagna; the 10th house from Cancer is Aries; the lord of Aries is Mars; suppose, Mars to occupy the Navamsa of Sagittari; the lord of Sagittari is Jupiter and the avocation stated for Jupiter (vide 3rd Stanza), will be the avocation of a person in the Dasa period of Jupiter, according to Garga. It also follows that a person's avocation will be all the three stated for the lords of the Navamsas occupied by the lords of the 10th house from the Lagna, the Moon and the Sun.

2. If the lord of the Navarnsa (a) be the Sun, a person will get wealth by dealing in perfumes, gold, woollen fabric, medicine and by medical treatment of patients. If the lord be the Moon, he will get wealth by tilling lands, by dealing in the productions of water (b) and through women (c). If he be Mars, the person will get wealth by dealing in metals or minerals, fire (d) weapons and will also acquire wealth by acts of boldness; if he be Mercury, the person will be a writer, an accountant, and the like (e) and will also acquire wealth by various handicraft (f).

Notes

(a) That is, the lord of the Navarnsa occupied by the lord of the 10th house from Lagna, the Moon and the Sun.

(b) Such as pearls, corals, conch-shells, whale-bones and the like.

(c) By serving under or otherwise following them.

(d) Fire: he may be the driver of a fire engine or a dealer in matches and the like.

(e) By writing commentaries on the works of writers and the like.

(f) Such as painting, book-binding, arrow-making or the making of flower-wreaths, sandal paste, perfumes and the like.

3. If the lord of the Navarnsa be Jupiter, a person will get wealth through Brahmins, the Devas or learned men, through mines (a) and the like (b) and through acts of virtue (c); if he be Venus, the person will get wealth by dealing in gems, (d) silver and other metals, in cows and buffaloes; and if the lord be Saturn, the person will acquire wealth by means of hard labour (e), by acts of torture (f), by carrying burdens and by low deeds unsuit-ed to his rank. Thus, persons acquire wealth by avocation stated for the lords of Navamsas occupied by the lords of the 10th house (g) aud in the Autardasa periods of such lords (h).

Notes

(a) The word in the text is Akara which includes gold and silver mines, places where salt is produced or where elephants are found.

(b) Such as contract work. ,

(c) Such as sacrificial rites, gifts, acts of charity, fasting, pilgrimage, service under Guru or preceptor.

(d) Such as diamonds, rubies and the like.

(e) Such as walking and the like.

(f) Either by self torture or torturing other creatures.

(g) From Lagna, the Moon and the Sun.

(h) Vide, Stanza 20, Ch. 8, and subject to planetary strength determined by Stanza 11, Ch. 20.

4. If such yoga planet (a) occupy (6) a friendly sign, a person will acquire wealth (in the Antardasa period of such planet) through a friend. If such yoga planet occupy an inimical sign, the person will get wealth through his enemy; and if such planet occupy his own house, the person will get wealth by means of or from his house. If, when the Sun happens to be the yoga planet, he occupy his exaltation sign, the person will acquire wealth by his own powers. If, (at the time of birth) powerful benefic planets occupy the 11th house, the Lagna or the 2nd house, the person will acquire wealth in various ways (o).

Notes

(a) That is, either the planet which occupies the 10th house from the ascendaut or from the Moon or the planet which is the lord of the Navamsa occupied by the lord of the 10th house from the Lagna, from the Moon and from the Sun.

(b) At the time of birth.

(c) In other words, he will prosper well whatever may be the avocation he may choose to follow.