Effects like marriage, oblations, charities, performance of religious rites, close relations with the king (government), social contacts with men of learning, acquisition of pearls, corals, Mani (jewels), conveyances, clothes, ornaments, good health, affections, enjoyments, drinking of Soma rasa and other tasty syrups etc., will be derived in the Antardasa of Mercury, if he be in kendra or trikona, the 11th or the 2nd from the lord of the Dasa (the Moon).

दायेशात्केन्द्रकोणे वा लाभे वा धनगेऽपि वा । विवाहो यज्ञदीक्षा च दानधर्मशुभादिकम् ॥42॥