1. If, at the time of birth of a person, the 8th house from the rising sign be unoccupied and be aspected by a powerful planet, the person will die of an excess of the humour belonging to such powerful planets (a). The part of the body attacked will be the part which such 8th house represents in the body of the Kalapurusha (6). If several planets aspect the 8th house, the part of the body will be subject to several attacks resulting from an excess of the various humours belonging to such powerful planets and death will ensue. But if the 8th house be occupied by the Sun, the death of the person will be caused by fire if it be occupied by the Moon, the death will be caused by water; if by Mars, death will be caused by weapons; if by 28

Mercury, it will be caused by fever; if, by Jupiter, it will be caused by some unknown disease; if, by Venus, it will be caused by thirst; and if it be occupied by Saturn, death will be caused by starvation (c). Again, if the 8th house be a movable sign, the person will die in foreign lands; if it be a fixed sign, he will die in his own country; and if it be a common sign, he will die on his way.

Notes

(b) Vide Stanza 4, Chapter 1.

(c) If the planet be powerful, there will be death while the person is engaged in a good work; if the planet be weak, death will ensue while the person is engaged in a bad work and if the planet be neither powerful nor weak the person will die while engaged in a work of an indifferent character.

2. If, at the time of birth of a person, the Sun and Mars occupy the 4th or the 10th house from the rising sign, the person will die being struck with stones. If the 4th, 7th and 10th houses be respectively occupied by Saturn, the Moon and Mars, the person will die by falling into a well. If the Sun and Moon occupy sign Virgo and if they be aspected by a malefic planet there will be death caused by the person's kinsmen. If the rising sign be a common sign and if it be occupied by the Sun and the Moon, there will be death by drowning.

3. If, at the time of birth of a person, Saturn occupy sign Cancer and the Moon sign Capricorn, the person will die from an attack of dropsy. If the Moon occupy sign

Aries or Scorpio and be between malefic planets, death will be caused by weapons or by fire. If the Moon occupy sign Virgo and be between malefic planets, death will be caused by a corruption of the blood or by want of blood. If the Moon occupy sign Capricorn or Aquarius and be between malefic planets, there will be death by hanging, by fire or by fall.

4. If, at the time of birth of a person, the 5th or the 9th house be occupied by two malefic planets and if such planets be not aspected by benefic planets, the. person will meet his death by being shut up in a prison or by other restraint. If the 8th house from the rising sign contain a Sarpa or Pasa or Nigala Drekkana (a), death will also result from imprisonment or other restraint. If Virgo be the 7th house from the Ascendant and if it be occupied by the Moon accompained by a benefic planet, if Venus occupy sign Aries and the Sun the rising sign, the person will die in his own house and such death will be caused by a woman.

Notes

(a) Vide notes to Stanza 16 of Chapter XXIII (On Malefic Yogas) and to Stanza 6, Chapter XXI (On The Planets In The Several Vargas).

5. If, at the time of birth of a person, (1) the 4th house from the Ascendant be occupied by Mars or the Sun and if the 10th house be occupied by Saturn or, (2) if the Sun, Mars, Saturn and the waning Moon occupy the Ascendant, the 5th house and the 9th house or, (3) if the Sun occupy the 4th house and if Mars which occupies the 10th house be aspected by the waning Moon, the person will die, in each case, being stabbed with a spear. Again, if the Sun occupy the 4th house and if Mars which occupies the 10th house be aspected by Saturn, the person will die being struck with a piece of wood.

6. If, at the time of birth of a person, the 8th, 10th 1st, and 4th houses be occupied respectively by the wa -

ning Moon, Mars, Saturn and the Sun, the person will die being struck with a club or stick. If the 10th, 9th, 1st and 5th houses be occupied respectively by the waning Moon, Mars, Saturn and the Sun, the death of the person will be caused by smoke, by fire, by imprisonment or by blows.

7. If, at the time of birth of a person, the 4th, 7th, and 10th houses be respectively occupied by Mars, the Sun and Saturn, the person will die by weapons, by fire or by the king. If the 2nd, 4th and 10th houses be respectively occupied by Saturn, the Moon and Mars, the person will die of sores and worms.

8. If, at the time of birth of a person, the Sun occupy the 10th house and Mars occupy the 4th house, the person will die in consequence of a fall from a vehicle or conveyance. If Mars occupy the 7th house and the Sun, the Moon and Saturn occupy the rising sign, the person will die being caught in a machine. If (1) sign .Libra be occupied by Mars, sign Aries by Saturn and sign Capricorn or Aquarius by the Moon, or (2) if the 10th, 7th and 4th houses be respectively occupied by the waning Moon, by the Sun and by Mars, the person will die in the middle of excrement.

9. If the waning Moon be aspected by powerful Mars and if Saturn occupy the 8th house, the person will die of diseases affecting the privities (a) - the part affected will be either eaten through by worms or cut with the lancet or burnt or blistered.

Notes

(a) Such as piles and fistula in the Pudendum Muliebre.

10. If, at the time of birth of a person, the Sun and Mars occupy the 7th house, Saturn occupy the 8th house and the waning Moon occupy the 4th house, the death of the person will be caused by birds. If the 1st, 5th, 8th and 9th houses be occupied respectively by the Sun, Mars, Saturn and the Moon, the person's death will be caused by a fall from mountain top, by an attack of lightning or by the fall of a wall.