Planets, Signs, Year Entry

The wanted time may be less than the Sun's remaining time. Then multiply that time by its own three. Divide by the sign's own rising time. Add the degrees and so on to the Sun. The lagna (rising sign) is then like that Sun. At night the lagna comes from the Sun plus six signs. (Our text is unclear here: 'its own three' gives no clear multiplier for this working.)

Here, make the lagna (rising sign) true with the rising measures of Aries and the other signs for the birth country. Do not use the risings of another country.

Now a special point in finding the lagna (rising sign) by plus and minus. For ghatikas (24-minute units) gone since sunrise, use the Sun's degrees still to go. For time left of the day, use the degrees passed of the Sun plus six signs. For time gone in the night, use the degrees to go of the Sun plus six signs. For time left of the night, use the Sun's degrees passed. Go through the risings of the signs gone or to come, with the part used. The lagna by plus and minus comes out just the same.

Now finding the 10th-house lagna (rising sign). Take the Sun with the ayanamsha (the zodiac shift) added. Take its degrees gone or to come. Multiply them by the Lanka rising. Divide by 30. That is the Sun's time passed or to go. Take it away from the eastern or western nata (time from midday or midnight), turned into palas (24-second units).

Then take away the risings of the signs gone or to come, in order. Multiply the rest by 30. Divide by the rising that could not be taken away. This gives degrees and so on. Take it from the sign before the cleared ones, or add it to the sign after them. Remove the ayanamsha (the zodiac shift). That is the 10th house. The lagna (rising sign) plus six signs is called the 7th. The 10th plus six signs is called the 4th.

Now my own verse to find the [10th-house] lagna (rising sign) by the plus method even when the nata (time from midday or midnight) is eastern. From the eastern nata, make the unnata (time from midnight). Make the Sun plus six signs. With the Lanka risings, by the method called plus, the 10th house comes out true.

Now, finding the 10th from the lagna (rising sign) alone, without the nata (time from midday or midnight), as told in the Vivahavrindavana. Treat the lagna like the Sun and find the half-night. Then, with those ghatikas (24-minute units), find a lagna again by the risings for no latitude. Take half the circle (6 signs) from both. In this way you get, for that time, the setting lagna and the midday lagna.

This is the meaning. First make the lagna (rising sign) for your wanted time with your own country's risings. Then, to get the 10th, treat that same lagna as the Sun. Find the chara (day-length difference) by the rule "from the Sun with the ayanamsha (the zodiac shift) added". Then find the half-night by this rule: "15 ghatikas (24-minute units), plus or minus the chara palas (24-second units), are the half-day. The half-night is the reverse in the southern half." Then take the half-night itself as the wanted time. Treat the lagna found before as the Sun. Find a lagna with the Lanka risings for no latitude, as told. That lagna is the 4th. Then the first lagna and the 4th, less six signs, are the 7th and the 10th in turn.

Now my own verses, for when the lagna (rising sign) and the 4th are found. They find all the houses with their sandhis (junctions between two houses). Take the lagna away from the 4th. Divide the rest by 6. Add the signs and so on to the lagna. That is the sandhi of the lagna and the 2nd.

The sandhi (junction between two houses) plus the sixth part is the true 2nd house. The 2nd house plus the sixth part is the sandhi of the 2nd and 3rd.

The sandhi (junction between two houses) plus the sixth part is called the 3rd house. The 3rd plus the sixth part is the sandhi of the 3rd and 4th.

Here the 3rd sandhi (junction between two houses) plus one [sign] is the 4th sandhi. And the 3rd house plus two [signs] is the true 5th house.

The 2nd sandhi (junction between two houses), increased, is the sandhi of the 5th house. The 2nd house plus four [signs] becomes the 6th house. The lagna (rising sign) sandhi plus five [signs] is the sandhi of the 6th house. (Our text is unclear here: the first line says 'increased' but not by how many signs.)

The houses from the lagna (rising sign), with their sandhis (junctions between two houses), plus six signs, are the houses from the 7th. So all the houses come with their sandhis.

Now my easy way to find the signs of all the houses from knowing the lagna (rising sign) alone. From your own wanted lagna, find the chara (day-length difference) by the method to be told. When the lagna is in the six signs from Aries, take it away from 15 ghatikas (24-minute units).

With the lagna in the six signs from Libra, they are increased by it. Take these again as degrees. The lagna (rising sign) plus those degrees is the lagna sandhi (junction between two houses).

The lagna sandhi (junction between two houses) plus those [degrees] is the 2nd house here. The 2nd house plus those is the 2nd sandhi.

The 2nd sandhi (junction between two houses) plus those [degrees] is the true 3rd house. The 3rd house plus those is the sandhi called the 3rd.

The 3rd sandhi (junction between two houses) plus those [degrees] is the 4th house. Work out the other houses and their sandhis as told before.

The revered Nilakantha Daivajna tells the result in judging the houses. The same verse is in Tajika Nilakanthi 1.28, with our English meaning there.

Also elsewhere: When a planet is less than the starting sandhi (junction between two houses), it gives the result of the earlier house. When it is more than the ending sandhi, it gives the result of the coming house.

Note this here. Sometimes one sign comes into two houses. Or one sign is passed over and left out. Then place the signs in the house chart just so.

A planet equal to a sandhi (junction between two houses) in sign, degree and so on is placed right on the sandhi line. That is the line between the earlier and the later house.

And the house chart is only for house results. All other Tajika judging is done from the planet chart alone. So say the old teachers.

Now finding the house vishopaka (twentieth part), as told in the Muktavali. Divide the gap between the planet and the sandhi (junction between two houses) by the gap between the house and the sandhi. The result is the house result. One-third of it is the vishopakas.

A special point on the last step here is told in the Paddhati. When the planet is less than the house, take the first sandhi (junction between two houses) away from the planet and from the house. When the planet is more than the house, use the house's [later] sandhi. Take the planet and the house away from it likewise.

All results come from the houses, by the measure of the vishopakas (twentieth parts). This is so in birth, the year, vows and the like. It is so too in journeys, questions and building.

Now, what kind of house gives good or bad results by its link with planets? This is told in the Tajikatilaka. A house may be joined with and seen by its own lord, Jupiter, Mercury or Venus. Then it gives very full results. Not so when it is joined with the other planets, or seen by the rest.

Here, by the house strength to be told later, know this. A strong house gives results. A weak one gives none at all.

Now the Chintamani gives the mutual count by the view of the Yavana (foreign teachers). It shows in which place one planet stands from another. From the Sun and the others, take away the Moon and the others, with the lagna (rising sign). Look at the degrees under the signs in the remainder. If they are less than 15, the planet counts in the sign the remainder gives. Otherwise it counts in the next sign.

Thus ends the first chapter. It is on the nature of the planets and signs, finding the year's entry, and the like. It is in the Hayanaratna, written by Balabhadra, son of Pandit Damodara, best of the daivajnas (astrologers).