Aspects, Strength, Results

This table lists the friends and the enemies of the Sun and the other planets. A slash divides each cell. Sun: friends, Moon and Mars / Jupiter. Enemies, Venus / Saturn. Moon: friends, Sun and Mars / Jupiter. Enemies, Mercury and Venus / Saturn. Mars: friends, Sun and Moon / Jupiter. Enemies, Mercury and Venus / Saturn. Mercury: friends, Saturn / Venus. Enemies, Sun and Moon / Mars and Jupiter. Jupiter: friends, Moon and Sun / Mars. Enemies, Mercury and Venus / Saturn. Venus: friends, Mercury / Saturn. Enemies, Sun and Moon / Mars. Saturn: friends, Mercury / Venus. Enemies, Sun and Moon / Mars and Jupiter.

The fourth kind, with fixed friends and enemies, in two kinds, is told in the Tajikasara. The friends are listed in seven sets. First: Mars, the Moon and Jupiter. Next: Mars, the Sun and Jupiter. Next: Jupiter, the Sun and the Moon. Next: Saturn and Venus. Next: the Moon, the Sun and Mars. Next: Mercury and Saturn. Last: Mercury and Venus. From the Sun, these are enemies: Saturn, Mercury and Venus. In the Tajika view they are to be known so, as the wise have said.

The arrangement of all these schemes is to be seen as the tradition directs. The use of the maitri chakra (friendship wheel) is to be known in the panchavargi (five-part strength), which will be told later. All of that will become clear later.

Now the strength by panchavargi (five-part strength), and its use, is told by Yadava Suri. Knowing strength in vishopakas (twentieth parts) cannot happen without the panchavargi strength. So now I shall tell how the panchavargi is worked out.

Also in the Tajikalankara. Since, in the years, the year lord cannot at all be settled in the knowing of strength. I will therefore tell the way of panchavargi (five-part strength). It is for knowing the strength of the planets, from the Sun on.

Samarasimha names the five vargas (divisions of a sign): own house, own uchcha (high point), hadda (a planet's own small part of a sign), trairashika (of a four-sign group), and then musallaha (its own one-ninth part of a sign). These are a planet's five claims to charge. Without such a claim, a planet is not strong.

For this, Vamana names the planets that rule the signs. These are the lords of Aries and the signs after it. Mars, Venus, Mercury, the Moon, the Sun, Mercury, Venus. Then Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Saturn and Jupiter.

Now Yadava tells the signs of the high and low points of the planets, and their highest degrees. Aries, Taurus, Capricorn, Mrigadrik (the deer-eyed one), Cancer, Pisces and Libra: these are the high signs of the planets. The degrees of the high points equal 10, 3, 24, 15, 5, 27 and 20. But those that go to the seventh from their own [high sign] are low. (Our text is unclear here: the words after Libra, 'adinavapurva', do not read clearly.)

This table gives a high point and a low point for each planet. Each is a sign number and degrees. The first row is the high points. The second row is the low points. First row: Sun 0/10, Moon 1/3, Mars 9/24, Mercury 5/15, Jupiter 3/5, Venus 11/27, Saturn 6/20. Second row: Sun 6/10, Moon 7/3, Mars 3/24, Mercury 11/15, Jupiter 9/5, Venus 5/27, Saturn 0/20.

The hadda (a planet's own small part of a sign) lords in the signs are given in the Samjna Tantra. The same verse is in Tajika Nilakanthi 1.33, with our English meaning there.

The same verse is in Tajika Nilakanthi 1.34, with our English meaning there.

This table lists, for each of the twelve signs, five planets and their parts, in the order given. Aries: Jupiter 6, Venus 7, Mercury 8, Mars 5, Saturn 5. Taurus: Venus 8, Mercury 6, Jupiter 8, Saturn 5, Mars 3. Gemini: Mercury 7, Venus 6, Jupiter 5, Mars 7, Saturn 6. Cancer: Mars 7, Venus 7, Mercury 6, Jupiter 6, Saturn 4. Leo: Jupiter 6, Venus 6, Saturn 7, Mercury 6, Mars 6. Virgo: Mercury 7, Venus 10, Mercury 4, Mars 7, Saturn 2. Libra: Saturn 6, Mercury 8, Jupiter 7, Mercury 7, Mars 2. Scorpio: Mars 7, Venus 3, Mercury 8, Mercury 5, Saturn 6. Sagittarius: Jupiter 12, Venus 5, Mercury 4, Mars 5, Saturn 4. Capricorn: Mercury 7, Jupiter 7, Venus 8, Saturn 4, Mars 4. Aquarius: Mercury 7, Venus 6, Jupiter 7, Mars 5, Saturn 5. Pisces: Venus 12, Jupiter 4, Mercury 3, Mars 9, Saturn 2.

The same verse is in Tajika Nilakanthi 1.35, with our English meaning there.

The same verse is in Tajika Nilakanthi 1.36, with our English meaning there.

In Sagittarius, the degrees are 12, 5, 4, 5 and 4 for Jupiter, Venus, Mercury, Mars and Saturn. In Capricorn, they are 7, 7, 8, 4 and 4. The hadda (a planet's own small part of a sign) lords there are the Moon (soma), Jupiter, Venus, Saturn and Mars.

In Aquarius, the degrees are 7, 6, 7, 5 and 5 for Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Mars and Saturn. In Pisces, they are 12, 4, 3, 9 and 2 for Venus, Jupiter, Mercury, Mars and Saturn.

Now the lords of the three parts of each sign [trairashika lords] are told in the Tajikalankara. In Aries: Mars, the Sun and Venus. In Taurus: Mercury, the Moon and Saturn. In Gemini: Jupiter, Mars and the Sun. In Cancer: Venus, Mercury and the Moon. In Leo: Saturn, Jupiter and Mars. In Virgo (the young woman): the Sun, Venus and Mercury. In Libra: the Moon, Saturn and Jupiter. In Scorpio: Mars, the Sun and Venus. In Sagittarius: Mercury, the Moon and Saturn.

This table lists the lords of the three drekkanas (one-third parts of a sign) of the twelve signs. The top row has the numbers 1 to 12, then 'ra'. The next three rows end in 'a10', 'a20' and 'a30'. Row 'a10': Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn. Row 'a20': Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter. Row 'a30': Venus, Saturn, Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, Sun, Moon, Mars.

In Capricorn: Jupiter, Mars and the Sun [padminisha]. In Aquarius: Venus, Mercury [vit] and the Moon. But in Pisces: Saturn, Jupiter and Mars are told. The good astrologers have told these as the lords of the drekkanas (one-third parts of a sign).

Thus the lords of the three parts of each sign [trairashika lords] are told in brief in the Samjna Tantra. From Aries, these are the lords of the drekkanas (one-third parts of a sign). The first ones begin with Mars. The middle ones begin with the Sun as well. The third ones are from Venus.

The lords of the three parts of each sign [trairashika lords] are told very briefly by the astrologer Hari Bhatta. The sign joined with 2, 0 and 5, cut by seven: the drekkana (one-third part of a sign) lords.

Here the present sign is to be known. This present sign is joined with 2 in the first drekkana (one-third part of a sign). It is joined with 0 in the second drekkana. It is joined with 5 in the third drekkana. It is then cut by seven, counting from the Sun. That gives the lord of the drekkana. This is the meaning.

The musallahas (its own one-ninth part of a sign) are told in the Tajikaratnamala. The musallahas are those that begin with Aries, Capricorn, Libra and Cancer, of [the groups] that begin with Aries.

Yadava Suri says this plainly. Aries, Sagittarius and Leo are remembered from Aries. Scorpio, Cancer and Pisces are from Cancer. Those that start from the pot (ghata) are held to be the pot, the twins (yugma) and the pot. Then mriga (Capricorn), vrisha (Taurus) ... beginning with makara (Capricorn). (Our text is unclear here: a few syllables before 'mriga' are lost, so the last group is not complete.)

Here, in the Tajikabhushana, the Tajikalankara and the like, the musallaha (its own one-ninth part of a sign) lords are told in a different way. The sets are these. First: the Sun, Jupiter and Saturn. Next: Venus, the Moon and Mars. Next: Saturn, Mercury and Jupiter. Last: Venus, Mars and the Moon. These are the musallaha lords [of four signs each], from Aries, from Leo and from Sagittarius. [Each set gives the lord] by day, by night, or for both.

This is not pleasing. For Samarasimha himself told the trairashika (of a four-sign group) lords, to settle the year lord, and not the musallaha (its own one-ninth part of a sign) lords.

For the four signs from Aries, the trairashika (of a four-sign group) lords are, [by day], the Sun, Venus, Saturn and Bhrigu (Venus). By night they are Jupiter, the Moon, Mercury and Mars. Always they are Saturn, Mars, Jupiter and the Moon.

These trairashika (of a four-sign group) lords, told by the split into day and night, are only for the year lord. This is said in the Samjna Tantra. For the year lord, the trirashipas (lords of Balabhadra's four-sign group) are told by the split between day and night.

So here the musallaha (its own one-ninth part of a sign) lords are only the navamsha (one-ninth part of a sign) lords told before.

It is also said in the Sudhanidhi: Musallaha (its own one-ninth part of a sign) and navamsha (one-ninth part of a sign) are told in the Tajika view.

In the Tajikatilaka too: The musallaha (its own one-ninth part of a sign) lords are always told to be the navamsha (one-ninth part of a sign) lords, by Khindaka, Romaka and others.

In the Tajikamuktavali too: The verse speaks of the musallaha (its own one-ninth part of a sign) lords and the navamsha (one-ninth part of a sign) lords. It says that those who spoke so are not knowers of Khindaka's science. (Our text is unclear here: the words split two ways, with opposite senses. One way: those who call the musallaha lords navamsha lords do not know Khindaka's science. The other: those who call the navamsha lords other than the musallaha lords do not know it.)

The result of panchavargi (five-part strength) is told by Yadava. The varga (division of a sign) born of its own house and the rest is good. The one born of a papa (bad planet) or an enemy has the opposite nature. The one born of a friend and the rest is among the middling results. The vargas are 5. Now I tell how to find the special strength.

Earlier, the places for knowing the strength of planets were told. Now how much strength each place gives is told in the Grahajnabharana. Thirty (30) in its own sign. Twenty in the uchcha (high point). Fifteen (the figure with it reads 25) in its own hadda (a planet's own small part of a sign). Ten (10) in the drekkana (one-third part of a sign). Five (5) in the navamsha (one-ninth part of a sign). These make eighty. In this way the vishopakas (twentieth parts) come by fours ('yugasha').

Now, in the maitri chakra (friendship wheel) of friend, neutral and enemy, the split of strength is told in the Samjna Tantra. The same verse is in Tajika Nilakanthi 1.40, with our English meaning there.

Vamana tells how to find the strength of the uchcha (high point). Take the planet less its nicha (low point). If it is more than six signs, take it away from 12 (the circle). Divide the degrees of the rest by nine (9). That gives the strength of the high point.

Now here is my own verse. Take the difference between the planet and its low point, so that it comes out less than six signs. Then one ninth (9) of its degrees is the planet's own high-point strength, plainly, in Tajika.

The planet is taken away from the low point, or the low point from the planet. Do it so that the rest, when taken away, is less than six signs. Its degrees, divided by nine, give the strength of the uchcha (high point).

Now, the split of strength is told in the Tajikatilaka. It is for the maitri chakra (friendship wheel) of great friend, friend, neutral, enemy and great enemy. The stated parts are full for a planet in its own sign, in each varga (division of a sign). In a great friend's house, they are less a quarter of its own. In a friend's house, they are less its own half. They are less three of its own quarter-parts ...

... in a neutral sign. Gone to an enemy's house, the strength is an eighth part of its own. Gone to a great enemy's sign, its own strength becomes a sixteenth part, in minutes ('nripamsha-lipta'). This is the varga (division of a sign) strength. The high-point strength, as it comes, is joined with that. The varga strength so joined would be the strength.

In the maitri chakra (friendship wheel) of friend and enemy, the strength is told in the Paddhati. In its own, a friend's and an enemy's sign, the strength is 30, 15 and 7/30 ('sarddhadrayo'). In the hadda (a planet's own small part of a sign), half of each of those. In the drekkana (one-third part of a sign), a third. In the amsha, a sixth.

'In the amsha' means 'in the navamsha (one-ninth part of a sign)'.

This is told plainly in the Tajikasara. In its own sign: thirty parts. In its friend's house: 'ghasra' parts, 15. In an enemy's sign: seven and a half parts, 7/30. In its own thirtieth part ('kha-agni'): the parts are 'pancha-indu', 15. In the trimshamsha (one-thirtieth part of a sign), in its friend's sign: seven and a half parts, 7/30. In an enemy's sign: four less a quarter, 3/45. In its own third part ('guna-amshaka'): 'dala-lava' parts, 10. In a friend's sign: 'bana' parts, 5.

This table lists the strength in a planet's own, friend's, neutral and enemy's house, hadda, drekkana and navamsha. The head cells are '00', 'sva', 'mi', 'sa' and 'sha'. Row 'gri' (house): 30/0, 22/30, 15/ [no minutes given], 7/30. Row 'hadda': 15/0, 11/15, 7/3, 3/45. Row 'dri': 10/0, 7/30, 5/0, 2/30. Row 'na': 5/0, 3/45, 2/30, 1/15.

In the drekkana (one-third part of a sign), for one gone to an enemy's sign, 'yama' with its half: 2/30. In its own navamsha (one-ninth part of a sign): 'shara', 5. In the navamsha, for one gone to its friend's sign: 'yama-lava' parts and a half, 2/30. In an enemy's: half of that, 2/15 (as our text has it).

A quarter part of the total of these is the measure of the strength. Above ten, the planet is strong. Below five, its strength is small.

Here Vamana says that the panchavargi (five-part strength) is to be done for the lagna (rising sign) too. The five are own uchcha (high point), navamsha (one-ninth part of a sign), hadda (a planet's own small part of a sign), house and drekkana (one-third part of a sign). This panchavargi is told for the sahama (special point for one life topic) and the planets.

Now the marks of lost strength and the rest are told in the Tajikasara. They are for settling the strength of the year lord and the dasha (planet period) lord. They go by vishopakas (twentieth parts). With less than five, the planet has lost strength. With ten (10), it is middling. Next, with fifteen (15), it is best. With twenty (20, 'kha-dasra'), it is said to bring comfort and wealth.

But a strength of twenty vishopakas (twentieth parts) does not come to any planet at all. For example, take the Sun in Aries. Its high-point strength and the rest do come in full. Yet strength varies with the kind of house. It may be its own, a friend's, a neutral's or an enemy's. So there is surely a shortfall, measured at two and a half vishopakas. That being so, the strength is seventeen and a half vishopakas. Now take the Sun in Leo. Its own-house strength does come in full. Yet there is no high sign. So the high-point strength falls short. The strength may be sixteen vishopakas, not twenty.

Now take Mercury in Virgo, at the fifteenth part. Its own-house strength and its own high-point strength do come in full. Even so, the strengths of its hadda (a planet's own small part of a sign), drekkana (one-third part of a sign) and navamsha (one-ninth part of a sign) cannot all be full.

The reason is this. The first six parts of Virgo are Mercury's hadda (a planet's own small part of a sign). The last third is Mercury's drekkana (one-third part of a sign). The last three degrees and twenty minutes are Mercury's navamsha (one-ninth part of a sign). If the last navamsha of Virgo is taken, the drekkana and own-navamsha strengths come in full in its own house. But the maxim says: of one who wishes to join one, another slips away. So the high-point strength is a little less. The hadda and other strengths are also less, since the signs there are a friend's and the like. So the highest strength may be eighteen vishopakas, by one means or another, not twenty. For the others, the strength is surely less than twenty vishopakas, because house and high point differ.

This table gives the strength of a planet in its house, hadda, drekkana and navamsha for the five-kind friendship scheme. The head cells are 'kha', 'bhi', 'mi', 'sa', 'sha' and '0'. Row 'gri' (house): 30/0, 22/31, 15/0, 7/30, 0/15. Row 'ha' (hadda): 15/0, 12/15, 7/30, 3/45, 0/56. Row 'dre' (drekkana): 10/0, 7/3, 5/0, 2/30, 0/37. Row 'na' (navamsha): 5/0, 3/45, 2/30, 1/15, 0/18.

This table lists the strength in a planet's house, hadda, drekkana and navamsha in the friend and enemy scheme. The head cells are '18', 'dre', 'ha', 'na' and '0'. Row 'svasya' (of own): 30, 15, 10, 5. Row 'mitra' (friend): 15, 7/30, 5/0, 2/30. Row 'shatroh' (of an enemy): 7/30, 3/45, 2/30, 1/15.

Here some say this. Take the total of the panchavargi (five-part strength), the dvadashavargi (twelve-part division) and the strength of the harsha (a planet's place of joy) place. Divide it by three. If it measures twenty vishopaka (twentieth part), the planet is to be known as fully strong.

And it was said by Yadava: Take the strengths in the dvadashavargi (twelve-part division) and the panchavargi (five-part strength). These are shown here by surya (12) and shara (5). Add the strength born of place. Divide the total by agni (3). If it comes to twenty, the planet is fully strong. By weighing the strength, [there is] the middling grade and the rest.