The happiness of a house is lost when its lord is destroyed, is joined with the lords of the 6th, 8th or 12th, does not aspect the house, or is dead, old, asleep or afflicted in avasthā. The matters of that house come to fruition when benefics aspect it and its lord is joined with benefics and is young, awake or in the royal state.

A house joined with or aspected by benefics or by its own lord, and free from the aspect and company of malefics, gives its full results. The result is good even if every house lord is a malefic, when no planet is debilitated, combust or in an enemy's sign.

A house prospers when benefics occupy its trines and the kendras counted from it, no malefic aspects it, its lord joins it, and no malefic joins it. A house is destroyed under the contrary conditions, and mixed planets give a mixed result.

A house lord in the 8th, combust, debilitated or in an enemy's sign, with neither the company nor the aspect of a benefic, destroys its house. A planet in that condition placed in the house gives the house no result when it is a benefic and destroys it when it is a malefic.

A planet gives good results in full in exaltation, three quarters in mūlatrikoṇa, half in its own sign, a quarter in a friend's sign, little in an enemy's sign, and none in debility. It gives bad results in the reverse order, and a combust planet gives results like a debilitated one.

When the lords of the signs occupied by the house lords fall in the 6th, 8th or 12th, evil is predicted for the matters of those houses.

The lagna lord in a good division, when joined with the strong lord of a house, brings the native the good of that house. When it is joined with a weak house lord and connected with censured divisions, it brings the opposite, and this holds for every house.

In its daśā, a house lord that is retrograde, in its own sign, in its exaltation, in a friend's sign or in a good house gives the good results listed in the preceding verses for that house. One in an enemy's sign, in debility, in combustion or in the 6th, 8th or 12th gives the adverse results that follow them.

The happiness of a house is declared according to the strength of its lord's aspect on it.

A house is destroyed when its lord is in the 6th, 8th or 12th, or when the lord of one of those houses occupies it. A benefic aspecting the house saves it and brings happiness to it.

The matters of a house come to fruit in the daśā of its lord, with good results from a strong lord and the reverse from a weak one; the text gives the strong lord's results house by house.

The lords of the trines give good results. Between the 5th and 9th lords, the 9th lord is stronger.

Natural malefics that own kendras do not give evil. This effect is weakest for the 4th, stronger for the 7th, and strongest for the 10th.

The lords of the 3rd, 6th and 11th give bad results. The 11th lord gives the most, the 6th lord less, and the 3rd lord the least.

The lords of the 2nd and the 12th give results according to the planets they join and the other house each owns.

When the 9th and 10th lords are also the lords of the 8th and 11th, their association alone gives no yoga.

A weak graha does not make the rāja yoga. A graha joined with or aspected by an enemy, or aspected by a malefic, does not make it either.

The lords of a kendra and a trikoṇa, though tainted by their other lordships, become strong and produce yoga through their connection alone.

The result such planets give follows their benefic or malefic nature, their own signs and like dignities, their positions and the strength of the sign aspect.

Danger to life from the birth chart lasts to the twenty-fourth year, and the length of life is not reckoned before then.

A child in danger is protected by recitation, oblation and medicine. Some children die through the faults of the parents and some through the maternal grahas.

Childhood death is of three kinds according to the inauspicious combinations, and for one born under a short-life combination death is declared in the dangerous period.

The 8th and the 3rd, the 8th from the 8th, are the houses of life, and the 7th and the 2nd, the 12th from each of them, are the māraka houses.

Of the two māraka houses, the 2nd is the stronger. The mārakas are the lords of the 2nd and 7th, the malefics placed in those houses, and the malefics joined with their lords.

When those mārakas are absent, death comes in the daśās of planets connected with the 12th lord, sometimes in the daśās of benefics, and in the daśās of the 8th lord.

Saturn, as a malefic, becomes the killer in preference to all the others when he is connected with the mārakas.

When malefics crowd the 6th, its lord becomes the chief killer, and in middle life death comes in the daśā of the 6th or the 8th lord.

The 3rd, 6th, 8th, 12th and 2nd counted from the ātmakāraka and from the lagna are examined for death, as is the weaker of them.

The 8th lord, a planet aspecting the 8th, the 3rd lord, the 10th lord and the lord of the sign Māndi occupies give suffering. The weakest of them destroys in its own daśā and bhukti.

Every lord of a māraka house is a māraka except the Sun and the Moon, and the lords of the 6th, 8th and 12th and Rāhu and Ketu are mārakas too.

For a Meṣa lagna Venus is the direct māraka, and Saturn and the other malefics kill. Jupiter does evil only through another planet.

For a Vṛṣabha lagna Jupiter and the other malefics bear the marks of a māraka, and Mercury does too.

For a Mithuna lagna the Moon does not kill, and her malefic mark bears no fruit.

For a Karka lagna Saturn is the killer and the other malefics are mārakas.

For a Siṃha lagna Mercury and the other malefics are the mārakas.

For a Kanyā lagna Venus kills, and Mars and the other malefics are mārakas.

For a Tulā lagna Mars kills and Jupiter and the other malefics are mārakas, and Venus does not kill.

For a Vṛścika lagna Jupiter kills, and Venus and the other malefics are mārakas.

For a Dhanus lagna Saturn is the killer, and Venus and the other malefics kill as mārakas.

For a Makara lagna Saturn himself kills, and Mars and the other malefics kill too.

For a Kumbha lagna Jupiter is the killer, and Mars and the other malefics kill as mārakas.

For a Mīna lagna the malefics Saturn and Mercury kill.

When no malefic is in the kendras or the trines, and the lagna lord and Jupiter are in kendras, the native enjoys many pleasures, does meritorious deeds, and lives a full hundred years free from disease.

When no malefic is in the kendras, the trines or the 8th, and the lagna lord and Jupiter are in kendras, the native has every enjoyment, is charitable and virtuous, is free from disease, and lives to a hundred years.

Death comes in the daśā of the lords of the navāṁśas occupied by Saturn, Māndi, Gulika, the lord of the 22nd drekkāṇa and the 8th lord. This occurs when Saturn transits a troublesome sign and those planets are weak.

In a māraka’s daśā, death is declared in the bhukti of a malefic in a māraka house or of a planet joined with the māraka.

Failing that, death comes in the daśā of the 12th lord, or else in the bhuktis of planets connected with the 12th lord.

Death does not come in a māraka's own daśā and its own bhukti together. Some allow it in the māraka's daśā, never in its own bhukti.

When the Moon joined with a malefic is in the lagna, the 7th or the 9th, with no benefic joined with her or aspecting her, the child dies.

When malefics occupy the lagna and the 7th, and the Moon is joined with a malefic and unaspected by benefics, death comes swiftly.

When the waning Moon is in the lagna and malefics occupy the kendras and the 8th, the child dies.

When the Moon in the lagna, the 7th, the 8th or the 12th lies between two malefics, the child dies before long.

Malefics in the 12th and in the 6th cause death.

Malefics in the 2nd and in the 8th cause death.

A planet gives the results of its own daśā only during the subperiods of planets connected with it and of planets that share its nature.

In a daśā, results from other planets that are opposed to the lord's results are judged from the nature of each planet.

In its periods and subperiods, a planet gives the results assigned to it by its occupation, ownership, aspects and conjunctions, along with the influence of the sign it occupies. The results of the planets most powerfully aspected or joined in their houses are predicted in their periods and subperiods by weighing the planets, their signs, their significations, the planets aspecting and joining them and the houses they occupy.

The body resembles the lord of the ascendant's navāṁśa or the strongest planet. The complexion follows the lord of the Moon's navāṁśa, and the limbs are assigned from the ascendant beginning with Aries.

The mother, a brother, the father, a son and the rest are judged from each relation's house, its significator and the lord of the house. When the three are strong, there is happiness from that house.

Houses joined with or aspected by benefics or by the lords of good houses, and free from the company and aspect of malefics and of the lords of evil houses, become very good and give every desired result. Malefics that own good houses become good too, and planets debilitated, in an enemy's sign or combust give unfavourable results.

Yogas formed elsewhere in the chart modify the reading of a house, and the final judgment combines the house with them.

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The reading of a house is adjusted to the native's stage of life, social position and sex.

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The friendship of a house lord with the planets well placed for the lagna is weighed in judging that house.

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A natural benefic that owns a kendra and occupies that same kendra is freed from the taint of kendra lordship and gives good results.

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A natural malefic that owns a kendra and occupies that same kendra loses the good standing its kendra lordship gave it.

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A yoga works only when the planets forming it lie within twelve degrees of one another.

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The planets joined with the lords of the 2nd and 7th are the strongest of the mārakas, and the two lords are the weakest.

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Benefics joined with the lords of the 2nd or 7th act as mārakas of the second rank.

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