1. If at the time of birth of a person the 5th and 7th houses from the Ascendant or from the Moon be either occupied or aspected by benefic planets or by their lords, such person will have respectively sons (a) and a wife------ otherwise, (b) he will not have either the one or the other. If Virgo be the rising sign and if the Sun occupy it, the person will lose his wife provided Saturn occupies sign Pisces at the same time and will lose his sons if Mars occupysign Capricorn at the same time.

Notes

(a) One of 12 sorts of sons (1) Ourasa, (2) Kshetraja, (3) Datta, (4) Kritrima, (5) Adhamaprabhava, (6) Gudhot - panna, (7) Apaviddhi, (8) Pounarbhava, (9) Kaneena, (10) Sahodha, (11) Kreeta and (12) Dasiprabhava.

(b) That is if the 5th and 7th houses from the Ascendant or the Moon be not occupied or aspected by benefic planets or by the lords of the houses.

If the Moon and Saturn occupy the 7th house a person's wife will quit him and marry another.

If the 7th house be aspected by the Moon and Saturn, the number of wives of a person will be the number represented by the Navamsa occupied by the lord of the 7th house counting from the Navamsa of Aries.

If Jupiter or the Moon and Venus occupy the 7th house and the Navamsa of the Sun or Mars, the person will have a single wife; but if the 7th house be aspected by the Moon and Venus, the person will have several wives.

2. If, at the time of birth of a person, three malefic planets (a) occupy the 4th and 8th houses from Venus or if two malefic planets be on both sides of Venus, one on each side (b) or if Venus be not accompanied or aspected by benefic planets the person's wife will die by fire, by fall or by ropes respectively (c).

Notes

(a) The Sun, Mars and Saturn. (b) Either in the same sign occupied by Venus or in the next sign before or behind.

(c) During the life time of her husband.

Provided, in the first Yoga, Venus at the same time occupies an Agni (fiery) Drekkana, in the second a Nipata (falling) Drekkana and in the third a Pasa (rope) Drekkana - Vide Chapter XXVII (On The Drekkanas) (On the Drek- kanas.)

3. If, at the time of birth of a person one of the two houses, the 12th and the 6th, from the Ascendant be occupied by the Sun and the other by the Moon, the person and his wife will each have a single eye. Again, if Venus and the Sun (a) occupy one of the three houses the 7th, the 9th and the 5th from the Ascendant, the person's wife will be of defective limbs.

Notes

(a) Venus or the Sun according to some. This is opposed to Garga whom the Commentator quotes.

4. If, at the time of birth of a person, Saturn occupy the rising sign (a) and if Venus occupy the Chakra- sandhi Navamsas and the 7th house, the person's wife will be barren (b) provided the 5th house is not occupied by benefic planets. Again, if the malefic planets occupy the 12th and the 7th houses and the Ascendant (c) and the waning Moon occupy the 5th house, the person will have neither wife nor sons.

Notes

(a) It is clear that the rising sign must be Taurus or Virgo or Capricorn in which case the 7th house will respectively be Scorpio, Pisces and Cancer and the last Navamsas of these three houses are known as Chakra- sandhis or Rikshasandhis (Vide Stanza 7, Ch. I.)

(b) If the person marry again, he may get sons according to some.

(c) All the three houses or any two houses or any one house according to the Commentator.

5. If, at the time of birth of a person, Venus occupy the 7th house from the Ascendant and be in the varga (division) of Saturn or Mars and be aspected by Saturn or Mars, the person will commit adultery. Again, if when Venus occupies the varga of Saturn or Mars and is aspected by Saturn or Mars, the Moon, Saturn and Mars occupy the 7th house from the Ascendant, both the man and his wife will commit adultery. Again, if when Venus occupies the varga of Saturn or Mars and is aspected by Saturn or when Mars occupy the 7th house from the Ascendant, both the man and his wife will commit adultery. Again, if when Venus and the Moon occupy a sign, Saturn and Mars occupy the 7th house from the Ascendant, the person will have neither wife nor sons. Again, if when male and female planets occupy a sign, Saturn, Mars occupy the 7th house from the Ascendant and be aspected by benefic planets, the person's wife will be of advanced age and the man will marry late in life.

6. If, at the time of birth of a person, the Moon occupy the 10th house, Venus the 7th house and the malefic planets (a) the 4th house, such a person will destroy his family, (b) If, at the time of birth, Saturn occupy a Kendra house and aspect a sign, the Drekkana of whose lord may be occupied by Mercury, the person will become a painter. If, at the time of birth, Venus occupy the 12th house from the Ascendant and the Navamsa of Saturn, the person will be the son of a serving woman; and if at the time of birth, the Sun and the Moon, occupy the 7th house and be aspected by Saturn, the person will do deeds unsuited to his rank in life.

Notes

(a) These are the Sun, Mars and Saturn.

(b) The family will become extinct with him. The Commentator instances the case of the Kuru prince, Duryodhana.

7. If, at the time of birth of a person, Venus and Mars occupy the 7th house from the Ascendant and be aspected by malefic planets such person will be afflicted with swelling illness (a). If, at the time of birth of a person, the Moon occupy the Navamsa of Cancer or Scorpio and be accompanied by malefic planets, the person will be afflicted with diseases of the genital organ. If, at the time of birth, the Moon occupy the Ascendant, Saturn and Mars occupy the 12th and 2nd houses and the Sun the 7th house, the person will be afflicted with white leprosy. If at the time of birth of a person, the Moon occupy the 10th house from the Ascendant, Mars the 7th house and Saturn the 2nd house from the Sun, such person will be of defective limbs.