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Daivajna Vallabha · Chapter 4
सामान्यगमाऽऽगमाध्यायः
This chapter gives the general rules of a prashna for travel: going and coming. The astrologer first looks at whether the rising sign is fixed, moving or dual.
Certain planets in certain houses then show a quick journey or a turn back. Other verses ask whether an absent person will come. The last verses give ways to tell when the traveller returns.
The English below is our translation from the Sanskrit.
सामान्यगमाऽऽगमाध्यायः
स्थिरे विलग्ने न गमागमौ स्तश्चरे विलग्ने तु विनिश्चितौ तौ ।मिश्रं फलं स्याद्वि तनौ तदर्धं द्वये चरस्थावरवत्तदूह्यम् ॥ १ ॥
If the rising sign is fixed, there is no going and no coming. If the rising sign is moving, both are sure. If it is a dual sign, the result is mixed. Its two halves are read like a moving sign and a fixed sign.
Simple meaning: Fixed rising sign: no travel. Moving: sure travel. Dual: mixed, one half like moving, one like fixed.
सामान्यगमाऽऽगमाध्यायः
सूरसौरिगुरुसौम्यसितानामेककोऽपि चरलग्नगतश्चेत् ।आशु तर्हि गमनं स्पृहणीयं वक्रतामुपगतस्तु न हीति ॥ २ ॥
Sun, Saturn, Jupiter, Mercury and Venus: if even one of them is in a moving rising sign, the journey will come soon and is good. But if that planet is moving backward, it is not so.
Simple meaning: One of these planets in a moving rising sign: a quick, good journey. Not if it moves backward.
सामान्यगमाऽऽगमाध्यायः
स्थिरराशिलग्नवर्ती गुरुबुधसितभास्करेषु यद्येकः ।गन्तुः पथो निवृत्तिं जनयति निःसंशयं प्रश्ने ॥ ३ ॥
At the question, one of Jupiter, Mercury, Venus and the Sun may be in a fixed rising sign. Then, without doubt, the traveller turns back from the road.
Simple meaning: One of these planets in a fixed rising sign makes the traveller turn back from the road.
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रविर्वा गुरुर्वा बुधो वा सितो वा भवेदायराशिस्थितः प्रश्नकाले ।गतिः प्रच्छतः शीघ्रमेवाभिधेया निवृत्तिं पथोऽमीभिरन्त्यालयस्थैः ॥ ४ ॥
At the time of the question, the Sun, Jupiter, Mercury or Venus may be in the 11th house. Then say the asker will go quickly. If these planets are in the 12th house, say he will turn back from the road.
Simple meaning: These planets in the 11th house: the asker goes quickly. In the 12th house: he turns back.
सामान्यगमाऽऽगमाध्यायः
सौरांगिरसोः पश्येदेकोऽपि वा स्थिरं समुद्यन्तम् ।प्रष्टाऽऽगमनं प्रच्छेत्तस्यागमनं न वक्तव्यम् ॥ ५ ॥
A fixed sign may be rising, and Saturn or Jupiter, even one of them, may look at it. If the asker then asks about someone's coming, do not say that person will come.
Simple meaning: If Saturn or Jupiter looks at a fixed rising sign, do not say the absent person will come.
सामान्यगमाऽऽगमाध्यायः
षष्ठत्रिकोणसंस्थैः पापैश्च पापसंदृष्टैः ।गमनागमनं च वाच्यं स्थिरलग्ने चेच्चरे तु विपरीतम् ॥ ६ ॥
Bad planets may be in the 6th, 5th or 9th house, and bad planets may look at them. If the rising sign is fixed, then say there will be going and coming. If it is moving, the result is the opposite.
Simple meaning: Bad planets in the 6th, 5th or 9th house: with a fixed rising sign, travel happens; moving, it does not.
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चन्द्रतोऽथ् यदि वा विलग्नतो द्वादशद्वितयराशिगामिनः ।शुक्रवाक्पतिशशान्कनन्दनाः का गमाऽऽगमकथाऽस्ति पृच्छतः ॥ ७ ॥
From the Moon or from the rising sign, Venus, Jupiter and Mercury may be in the 12th and 2nd signs. Then what talk can there be of going or coming for the asker? There will be neither.
Simple meaning: Venus, Jupiter and Mercury in the 12th and 2nd from the Moon or rising sign: no going, no coming.
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बलेन सर्वोत्तमतामुपागतो ग्रहो गृहे यावति लग्नतो भवेत् ।प्रवासतस्तत्समसंख्यमासतो निवर्तनं गन्तुरसंशयं वदेत् ॥ ८ ॥
See which planet is the strongest of all. Count its house from the rising sign. Say without doubt that the traveller returns that many months after leaving.
Simple meaning: The strongest planet's house number from the rising sign gives the months before the traveller returns.
सामान्यगमाऽऽगमाध्यायः
चरांशकस्थे किल काल एष स्थिरांशके तद्विगुणस्तु वाच्यः ।द्विदेहलग्नांशगते ग्रहे तु विचिन्तितस्तत्त्रिगुणो विधेयः ॥ ९ ॥
This time holds when that planet is in a navamsha (one-ninth part of a sign) of a moving sign. If it is in a navamsha of a fixed sign, say twice that time. If it is in a navamsha of a dual sign, take three times that time.
Simple meaning: Moving sign's navamsha: that time. Fixed: twice the time. Dual: three times the time.
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यातुः पृच्छालग्नतः सप्तमस्य स्वामी यायाद्यावता वक्रभावम् ।कालेनैति प्रस्थितस्तावतेति प्राहुस्त्वेते प्रश्नतत्त्वप्रवीणाः ॥ १० ॥
Take the traveller's question chart. Find the lord of the 7th house from its rising sign. See how long that lord takes to start moving backward. The one who has left will come back in that much time. So say the experts in question charts.
Simple meaning: The traveller returns when the lord of the 7th house from the question's rising sign starts moving backward.
Verse 4.1 says there is no going and no coming when the rising sign is fixed.
Verse 4.8 counts the strongest planet's house from the rising sign for the months. Verse 4.10 gives another way, from the lord of the 7th house.