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Jataka Tattva · Chapter 7
पञ्चमविवेकः
This chapter is about 5th house children and the mind. It has 219 sutras.
It tells how a person thinks and learns. It lists chart signs for poets, scholars and the learned. It then spends many sutras on children. These cover the chance of a son or daughter, delay, and the number of children.
The English below is our translation from the Sanskrit.
पञ्चमविवेकः
पुत्रे स्त्रीग्रहदृक्तुल्या कन्या ।
Say female planets aspect the 5th house. Then the daughters are as many as those planets.
पञ्चमविवेकः
राहौ लाभे वार्द्धके पुत्रसुखम् ।
Say Rahu is in the 11th house. Then the joy of sons comes in old age.
पञ्चमविवेकः
नीचे पुत्रेशे षष्ठादित्रयगे पापयुते काकवन्ध्या ।
Say the 5th lord is at its low point. Say it is in the 6th, 7th or 8th house, with bad planets. Then the person has only one child.
पञ्चमविवेकः
पुत्रेशे नीचे मन्दयुते काकवन्ध्या ।
Say the 5th lord is at its low point, joined by Saturn. Then the person has only one child.
पञ्चमविवेकः
सुते शुक्रभौमान्यतरादृष्टे द्वित्रविवाहेष्वप्यसन्तानः ।
Say neither Venus nor Mars aspects the 5th house. Then the person has no children, even after two or three marriages.
पञ्चमविवेकः
कोणे शुक्रर्क्षगेन्दावेकपुत्रः ।
Say the Moon is in the 5th or 9th house, in the sign of Venus. Then the person has one son.
पञ्चमविवेकः
सुते राहुकेतू कुपुत्रः ।
Say Rahu or Ketu is in the 5th house. Then the son is bad.
पञ्चमविवेकः
धीस्थेऽर्के शुभदृष्टे त्रिपुत्रः ।
Say the Sun is in the 5th house, aspected by good planets. Then the person has three sons.
पञ्चमविवेकः
मृगेऽर्केजे सुते त्रिपुत्रः ।
Say Saturn is in Capricorn in the 5th house. Then the person has three sons.
पञ्चमविवेकः
सुते मृगगे भौमे त्रिपुत्रः ।
Say Mars is in Capricorn in the 5th house. Then the person has three sons.
पञ्चमविवेकः
कुम्भे मन्दे सुते पञ्चपुत्रः ।
Say Saturn is in Aquarius in the 5th house. Then the person has five sons.
पञ्चमविवेकः
सुते सूर्यभौमगुर्वन्यतमे क्रमादेकत्रिपञ्चपुत्रोत्पत्तिः ।
Say the Sun, Mars or Jupiter is in the 5th house. Then one, three or five sons are born, in that order.
पञ्चमविवेकः
सुते चन्द्रज्ञसितशनयो द्वित्रिपञ्चसप्तकन्योत्पत्तिः ।
Say the Moon, Mercury, Venus or Saturn is in the 5th house. Then two, three, five or seven daughters are born, in that order.
पञ्चमविवेकः
पुत्रे ज्ञे नेत्रपाणौ पुत्रहानिः कन्याप्तिश्च ।
Say Mercury is in the 5th house, in netrapani avastha (state of a planet). Then sons are lost and daughters come.
पञ्चमविवेकः
पुत्रे द्यूने ज्ञे सभावस्थागे कन्याधिक्यम् ।
Say Mercury is in the 5th or 7th house, in the sabha avastha (state of a planet). Then there are more daughters.
पञ्चमविवेकः
सुतभे समर्क्षवर्गे ज्ञमन्दान्यतरयुते शुक्रचन्द्रान्यतरदृष्टे कन्याप्रजावान् ।
Say the 5th house is an even sign and falls in the divisions of even signs. Say Mercury or Saturn is with it. Say Venus or the Moon aspects it. Then the person has daughters.
पञ्चमविवेकः
शुक्राब्जवर्गे सुतभे समर्क्षे शुक्राब्जदृष्टे बहुकन्यावान् ।
Say the 5th house is in the divisions of Venus and the Moon, and is an even sign. Say Venus and the Moon aspect it. Then the person has many daughters.
पञ्चमविवेकः
सितेन्दुवर्गे पुत्रर्क्षे ओजभे सितेन्दुयुते बहुपुत्रः ।
Say the 5th sign is in the divisions of Venus and the Moon, and is an odd sign. Say Venus and the Moon are with it. Then the person has many sons.
पञ्चमविवेकः
सुते शुक्रभांशौ वा शुक्रदृष्टे बहुप्रजः ।
Say the 5th house is in the sign and navamsha (one-ninth part of a sign) of Venus. Or say Venus aspects it. Then the person has many children.
पञ्चमविवेकः
लाभे ज्ञे शुक्रे चन्द्रे वा कन्याप्रजः ।
Say Mercury, Venus or the Moon is in the 11th house. Then the person has daughters.
पञ्चमविवेकः
सुतेशेऽर्थेऽष्टमे बहुकन्याः ।
Say the 5th lord is in the 2nd or 8th house. Then the person has many daughters.
पञ्चमविवेकः
लग्नाद्वा चन्द्रात्पञ्चमे शुभर्क्षे शुभसम्बन्धे पुत्रसम्भवो नान्यथा ।
Say the 5th house from the 1st house or from the Moon is the sign of a good planet. Say good planets are linked to it. Then a son can be born, and not otherwise.
पञ्चमविवेकः
पुत्रेशे पुंभांशगे पुंग्रहे प्रथमं पुत्रोऽन्यथा कन्या ।
Say the 5th lord is a male planet. Say it is in a male sign and a male navamsha (one-ninth part of a sign). Then the first child is a son. Otherwise it is a daughter.
पञ्चमविवेकः
सुताङ्गेशौ समौ पुत्रेण सहौदासीन्यम् ।
Say the 5th lord and the 1st lord are neutral to each other. Then the person and the son stay cool toward each other.
पञ्चमविवेकः
लग्नपुत्रेशयोरन्योन्यदृष्टौ सुत आज्ञानुवर्ती ।
Say the 1st lord and the 5th lord aspect each other. Then the son does as he is told.
पञ्चमविवेकः
पुत्राङ्गेशावन्योन्यभांशगौ सुत आज्ञानुवर्ती ।
Say the 5th lord and the 1st lord are in each other's sign and navamsha (one-ninth part of a sign). Then the son does as he is told.
पञ्चमविवेकः
पुत्रपेऽङ्गेऽङ्गेशे पुत्रे पुत्रवाक्यवश्यः ।
Say the 5th lord is in the 1st house and the 1st lord is in the 5th. Then the person goes by his son's word.
पञ्चमविवेकः
सुतेशदृष्टेऽङ्गे सुतेऽङ्गेशदृष्टे पुत्रवाक्यवश्यः ।
Say the 5th lord aspects the 1st house. Say the 1st lord aspects the 5th house. Then the person goes by his son's word.
पञ्चमविवेकः
ज्ञेन्द्वच्छानामन्यतमे सुते कन्योत्पादः ।
Say Mercury, the Moon or Venus is in the 5th house. Then daughters are born.
पञ्चमविवेकः
लाभे सेन्दौ मन्देऽप्रजत्वम् ।
Say Saturn is in the 11th house with the Moon. Then the person has no children.
पञ्चमविवेकः
पञ्चमे एकतमे गुरुवर्गे शुभराशौ वौरसः पुत्रः ।
Say the 5th house falls in one of the divisions of Jupiter. Or say it is the sign of a good planet. Then the son is born of the person's own body.
पञ्चमविवेकः
मन्दक्षांशे सुते चन्द्रे मन्दान्यतरयुते दत्तपुत्रः ।
Say the Moon is in the 5th house, in the sign and navamsha (one-ninth part of a sign) of Saturn. Say Saturn or one other [planet] is with it. Then the son is adopted.
पञ्चमविवेकः
तुर्ये मन्दारौ दत्तपुत्रः ।
Say Saturn and Mars are in the 4th house. Then the son is adopted.
पञ्चमविवेकः
वंशविच्छेदयोगे दत्तपुत्रः ।
Say there is the combination that cuts off the family line. Then the son is adopted.
पञ्चमविवेकः
धीस्थे मन्दे ज्ञेन्दुयुते क्रीतपुत्रः ।
Say Saturn is in the 5th house, joined by Mercury and the Moon. Then the son is a bought son.
पञ्चमविवेकः
पुत्रस्थनवांशो यावत्पापदृष्टः शुभादृष्टः तावद्गर्भपातः ।
Take the navamsha (one-ninth part of a sign) in the 5th house. Say bad planets aspect it and good planets do not. Then there are as many miscarriages as bad planets aspecting it.
पञ्चमविवेकः
जीवात्सुते पापे सन्तानसुखाभावो नान्यथा ।
Say a bad planet is in the 5th house from Jupiter. Then there is no joy of children, and not otherwise.
पञ्चमविवेकः
सकेतावंशे ज्ञशुक्रदृष्टे दासीपुत्रः ।
Take the navamsha (one-ninth part of a sign) of the atmakaraka (the planet that stands for the self). Say Ketu is in it. Say Mercury and Venus aspect it. Then the son is born of a maid.
पञ्चमविवेकः
शुक्रेऽन्त्ये सौरांशे दासीपुत्रः ।
Say Venus is in the 12th house, in the navamsha (one-ninth part of a sign) of Saturn. Then the child is the son of a maid.
Yes. Sutra 7.172 says the joy of children may come after a delay when good planets are in the 10th house and bad planets are in the 5th.
Sutra 7.178 says the first child may be a son when the Moon, Mars and Venus are in dual signs.
Sutra 7.49 says a person may please the learned when Mercury is with Mars in the sign of a good planet.