Hayanaratna · by Balabhadra
Chapter 5 · Year Lord and Muntha
वर्षेशादिविचाराध्यायः
ताजिकतिलकेप्येवमेवोक्तम् ॥पश्येन्न लग्नं यदि पंचमध्ये को वा तदा बह्वधिकारनाथः ॥एवं न चेत्स्याद्बहुवीर्यखेटोह्यस्याप्यभावेब्दविलग्नपेन ॥स्यान्मूथशीलं शरदीश्वरोस्याभावे भवेन्मुंथहनाथ ईश इति ॥
The same is said in Tajikatilaka. Suppose none of the five sees the lagna (rising sign). Then the planet holding the most charges is year lord. If there is none such, take the planet with the most strength. If even that is missing, the planet in ithasala (planets moving toward an exact aspect) with the year lagna lord is year lord. If that is missing too, the lord of the muntha (the point that moves one sign each year) is the lord.
Simple meaning: Year lord, no one looks at the lagna: first the planet in charge of most places, then the strongest, then the one in ithasala with the year lagna lord, then the muntha lord.
अथ पंचाधिकारिणां दृष्टयभावे वर्षलग्नेशोब्दप इत्युक्तं मुक्तावल्याम् ॥
Year lord, no one looks at the lagna: the lord of the year chart lagna becomes year lord.
एवंविधे विषये प्रकारांतरमुक्तं ताजिकभूषणे ॥
Year lord, no one looks at the year lagna: take the planet that looked at that sign at birth, else the muntha lord.
अत्र पंचाधिकारिणां दृष्टयभावे यादवसूरिमतेन परिणामे मुथहेशो वर्षपः तत्तुकज्योतिर्विन्मतेन वर्षलग्नेशः ॥
Year lord, no one looks at the lagna: Yadava says the muntha lord. The astrologer Tuka says the year lagna lord.