The Twelve Houses

Tejahsimha: The 11th lord may be strong and make an ithasala (planets moving toward an exact aspect) with the lord of the body [lagna]. Then there is growth of family, wealth and the like. The result is the same with the lord of the muntha (the point that moves one sign each year) and the lagna (rising sign) lord. All planets that have gone to the house of gain, if strong, give wealth.

Vamana: The year lord may have gone to the 11th, joined or looked at by good planets. Then there is gain from writing and reading. It is likewise from dealings.

In the Varsha Tantra: The same verse is in Tajika Nilakanthi 19.5, with our English meaning there.

In the Tajikabhushana: The muntha (the point that moves one sign each year) may stand in the 10th house at the time of the year, joined with strength. It gives gain from writing and reading. It may be with its own lord and placed in the 8th or 6th. Then it gives people many obstacles at the time of gain.

The 11th lord may be in the 11th, looked at and joined by good planets. It may stand in its own uchcha (high point), far from the Sun. Then it gives gain of elephants and horses, land, finery and women. (Our text is unclear here: the words 'harshat karshayuktam' in the last line.)

Yadava: The lord of the birth lagna (rising sign) may be in ithasala (planets moving toward an exact aspect) with the [year] lagna lord. It may also be so with the muntha (the point that moves one sign each year) lord and with the year lord. The two may be joined with the 2nd lord and the like, in the 11th. At birth and in the year, the 11th may hold good planets and the Moon.

The sahama (special point for one life topic) lord may have gone to the lagna (rising sign). Jupiter may be afflicted by bad planets. Then there is heavy loss of money. The year lagna lord may be in ithasala (planets moving toward an exact aspect) with the birth 2nd lord. Then there is gain that suits one's own [standing].

Hillaja: The lagna (rising sign) lord and the 11th lord may be in the 11th. Or the lagna lord and the 11th lord may be in the lagna. Or the 11th lord may be in the lagna. Or the lagna lord may be in the 11th.

If even one such combination arises, then gain is quite certain. With a link to the Moon, in particular, full gain is declared.

If the lagna (rising sign) lord stays in the 11th, joined with the 11th lord, it then brings gain quickly. Joined with the Moon, it gives growth.

The 11th lord and the lagna (rising sign) lord may be in the 11th. Or the lagna lord may be ahead of it. Or a strong good planet may be in the 5th. Then there is gain along with dharma (right duty).

The look of the lagna (rising sign) lord and the 11th lord on the 11th is held to bring gain. The combinations are said to be fruitless if the Moon does not look.

When the 11th is looked at by all the planets, the gain is twenty vishopakas (twentieth parts). In the same way, the result for all the houses is told from the look of all the planets.

The Moon, the 11th lord and the lagna (rising sign) lord may be joined with or looked at by one another. They may stand from the lagna in a trikona (luck house) or the 2nd house. They are held to give gain quickly.

The lagna (rising sign) may be an animal sign. Or the 11th lord may be in an animal sign. If the 11th lord is looked at by good planets, there is gain of cattle.

Good planets may stand in the lagna (rising sign), the 7th, the 8th and the 5th. Or the Moon and the lagna lord may be strong in the 6th. They give gain of a loan.

Samarasimha: 'Will I gain honour from the king?' [It is told] from the lagna (rising sign) lord and the 11th lord. By a friendly look, it comes quickly. By an enemy's look, only after many days.

The 11th lord may stand in a kendra (corner house), joined with the Moon or looked at by it. Then the result is full. In a sthira rashi (fixed sign) it is complete. In a chara rashi (moving sign) it is small. In a mixed sign it is half.

Jupiter may be in a kendra (corner house), and in his own uchcha (high point) or the like. Then the good hoped for from the king bears full fruit. If bad planets trouble him, there is quick loss [of it].

Next, the Padmakosha gives the results of the Sun and the other planets in the house of gain. The Sun in the 11th house is a giver of gain. Wealth comes from the king. Grain, cloth and gold come. There is comfort in pleasures and the like. Enemies are destroyed. In his dasha (planet period), there may be pain in the children and in the body.

The Moon may stand in the house of gain. Enemies are destroyed. There is much gain of wealth in buying and selling. There is gain of comfort from the king. A son may come. Standing and growth may come in this year.

Mars may stand in the house of gain. There is gain of rule and gain of wealth. Enemies are destroyed. Victory comes from the side of friends. Horses, a house, gold and clothes are obtained. The comfort from children is lost in this year.

Mercury in the house of gain surely makes victory and riches. He makes much grain and cloth. Beauty (lustre) grows, and pain is destroyed. Animals grow in this year. There is gain here.

Jupiter in the 11th house brings victory among people. There is gain of cows, horses, vehicles and sons. A son rises. Enemies are destroyed. Standing grows. Comfort comes from the king too.

Venus in the 11th house brings gain and gives gold. He makes victory among people here in the year. Children grow. There is comfort from the king's side. Enemies are destroyed. Friends grow in number.

Saturn in the 11th house brings gain of gold, cows, land, a chariot and horses. Wealth comes and fame grows. In the year he also brings trouble to the children.

If Rahu is in the 11th house, he makes a man equal to a king. Gold, cows, land and wealth gather. Enemies are ruined. There is also fear concerning sons.

In the year when the Sun is in the 11th house, wealth like horses and bulls is gained. There is joy from one's own dear group. There is the king's favour and good health.

In the year when the Moon is in the 11th house, a son, clothes and the like are gained. Wealth and a home of one's own come about. There is gain from white goods for sale.

When Mars is in the 11th house, there is comfort from wife, sons and friends. There is power, and wealth comes. Enemies are ruined. There is comfort from the king.

When Mercury is in the place of gain, wealth is gained, and health. The master's love grows. There is gain from good goods for sale.

If Jupiter is in the 11th house, there is ayus (lifespan), health and lordship. There is comfort from wife, children and friends. People gain four-footed animals.

Wealth comes by the water road, and from good goods for sale. A loved woman comes, and comfort too, when Venus is in the 11th house.

Wealth comes, with lordship, health and comfort from women. This is in the year when Saturn is in the 11th house. There is gain that rests on the brave and on small [people].

When Rahu is in the 11th house, there is bodily health and lordship. There is comfort from women, and wealth comes. There is gain from people of mixed castes.

Here ends the judging of the house of gain.

Next, the judging of the 12th house. What is to be judged in the 12th house is told by Chandeshvara. Giving up and the like, enjoyments and the like, marriage and gifts. Dark deeds and the like, and what is called vyaya (spending). The father's brother, the mother's sister and the mother's brother. Fighting, harm, and defeat in a fight. If there is sampreksana (looking), the wealth of the father-in-law and the like, and the family. This is told for the house called vyaya.

Here too the judging is as before.

Next, the combinations, in the Jirna Tajika. The lagna (rising sign) lord and the year lord may lose strength and stand in the 12th, 8th or 6th house. In nripe (literally 'in the king'), servants may be lost. In another sign, four-footed animals may be lost.

Venus is the year lord and stands in the 6th house. In a human sign, there is loss of servants. In a four-footed sign, there is loss of dogs and the like. [This holds] when he is weak and looked at by bad planets.

When the Moon, with Mercury, is in the 10th house, four-footed animals may be lost. Restlessness may also come with Mars and the year [lord], when the Moon has gone to the 12th.

The Sun is the year lord, in the 6th house, with bad planets, in an animal sign. Then, with servants 'samangalih' in the year. The same result comes when he is in the 12th or 8th house. (Our text is unclear here: 'samangalih', after 'with servants', is not a clear word.)

Saturn may be the year lord, joined with strength, gone to the 6th or 12th house. Then a bhutasana (a seat for beings) may be made. Trees may be planted. A water tank may be made.

The year lord, Saturn or Jupiter, may be in the 12th house. Good planets look at it. Then one should say there is gain of land made into a place to live.

Mars may be joined with a four-footed [sign], in the 10th or the 4th house. Saturn may look at him or join him. Then there is harm to oneself, and pain.

Venus may be the year lord, in the 6th or the 4th house. A bad planet may look at him or join him. Then there is illness and pain.

In the Tajikasara: The Moon, joined with Saturn, stands in the 12th house. Jupiter has gone to the 6th from the lagna (rising sign). Then it quickly brings loss of wealth. The loss is from the king, and from thieves, wicked people.

Here Tejahsimha states a special point. These houses give their own result when they have strength in both the year and the birth. Weak ones bring loss of the result. For wealth and the other houses, the lagna (rising sign) is the proper base. Counting from it, the experts hold this for all the houses, the kendras (corner houses) first. (Our text is unclear here.)

In the 12th house, a good planet brings good spending on marriage and the like. A bad planet too brings bad spending, because of kings and thieves.

In the 12th house: the Sun brings a fine from the king. A waning Moon brings [spending] through hardship. Mars brings spending on play, amusement and the like. Mercury brings spending through buying and selling.

With Jupiter there, spending is on dharma (religious duty). With Venus, it is on acts such as those with courtesans. With Saturn in the 12th, spending is on cruel things, when the planet is not destroyed.

In the Varsha Tantra: The same verse is in Tajika Nilakanthi 20.8, with our English meaning there.

In the Tajikabhushana: What I have said, born of the twelve houses, fully agrees with the earlier way of judging. After looking at the result and the strength of the planets, apply it in their dashas (planet periods).

Next, the results of the Sun and the other planets standing in the 12th house are given in the Padmakosha. If the Sun stands in the 12th house, he makes quarrels with women and worry, and illness of the foot. He causes spending. He causes pain in the head, belly and eyes. There is worry, and ruin through enemies.

When the Moon is in the 12th house, there is hurt from the enemy. There is good spending, and he causes eye disease. There is quarrel among people. There is kapha (the phlegm humour) trouble, hard to cure, and a rise of gulma (a lump in the belly) there in the year.