1. Planets occupying their own signs or their exaltation or Moolatrikona signs are said to be Karaka planets to one another, if, at the same time they occupy the Ken- dras from the Ascendant. In the above case, a planet occupying the 10th house from another planet is said to be the special Karaka of that planet.

Notes

In this and in the next two stanzas, the term "Karaka (helping) planets " is defined,

2. Accordingly, if the rising sign be Cancer and the Moon occupy it and if Mars, Saturn, the Sun and Jupiter occupy their exaltation signs, these four planets are known as Karaka planets to one another (a) Again, to a planet occupying the rising sign all planets (b) occupying the 10th or the 4th house are Karaka planets (c).

Notes

(a) In other words, Jupiter occupies sign Cancer which is at the same time the rising sign, Saturn occupies the 4th house Libra, Mars the 7th house Capricorn and the Sun the 10th house Aries. The Commentator infers from this stanza that planets occupying their Swakshetra, Ucha and Mulatrikona signs are also mutually Karaka planets, if they occupy Kendra signs from one another though not the Kendra signs from the Ascendant.

(b) All the planets whether they occupy their own signs, their exaltation signs or their Mulatrikona signs or not, according to the Commentator.

(c) That is, the reverse does not hold. In other words, the planet occupying the Ascendant is not a Karaka planet of those occupying the 4th or the 10th house.

3. A planet occupying its Mulatrikona and exaltation sign (a) is also said to be a Karaka planet to one that occupies the 10th house (b) from such sign, and to the latter, his Atimitra planet is also said to be a Karaka planet.

Notes

(a) But not occupying the Kendra houses from the Ascendant.

(b) This latter planet must be in his Swakshetra, Mulatrikona or exaltation house. The effects of the Karaka planets are described in Varaha Mihira's work on Yoga Yatra in which it is stated that when a prince loses his kingdom, he recovers it in the Antardasa period of a Karaka planet; again, it is there said that a man enjoys comfort, wealth and success when the Moon passes through the house of a Karaka planet, or through the 2nd house from that occupied by the Sun. Also, that the journey may be a successful one, it shall be commenced when the Moon occupies either of the two places mentioned above; otherwise, the traveller will receive blows on his way.

4. A person born when the rising Navamsa is a Vargottama one or when the Moon occupies a Vargottama position will be happy and prosperous. The same remark applies to a person at the time of whose birth the 2nd house from the Sun may be occupied by benefic planets (a) or the Keudra houses may happen to be occupied by no planets at all (b). Also, a person at the time of whose birth there are Karaka planets occupying the signs of the Zodiac will be happy and prosperous.

Notes

(a) Mercury, Jupiter or Venus according to the Commentator.

(b) If one of the Kendras be occupied the person will be happy; if two or more be occupied he will be happier still, and if the planets be benefic the person will be exceedingly happy and prosperous.

5. If at the time of birth of a person, Jupiter, or the lord of the sign occupied by the Moon, or the lord of the Ascendant occupy a Kendra house, such person will be happy when in his manhood. Again, if at the time of commencement of a dasa period the lord of such period happy to occupy a Prishtodaya sign, he will produce his effects (a) at the end of the period. If such lord occupy a Sirodaya sign he will produce his effects at the commencement of the period and if he occupy a Sira-Prishtodaya sign, the effects will be felt in the middle of the period. 26

Notes

(a) Whether benefic or malefic.

The Dasa period is to be divided into three equal parts; and the Sirodaya, Prishtodaya and Siraprishtodaya signs are defined in Stanza 10 of Chapter I (Definitions And Elementary Zodiacal Principles).

6. The Sun and Mars produce their effects (a) immediately after entering a sign; Jupiter and Venus when passing through the middle of a sign; Saturn and the Moon before quitting a sign and Mercury throughout his course.

Notes

(a) Both benefic and malefic.

The sign must be supposed to be divided into three equal parts of 10 degrees each.