Pains in the body, loss in agricultural ventures, imprisonment, distress to wife and children, will be the inauspicious effects, if Mercury be in the 6th, the 8th or the 12th from the lord of the Dasa (the Moon) or be in his sign of debilitation. If Mercury be the lord of the 2nd or 7th, there will be fear of fever. The remedial measures to be adopted for obtaining relief from the evil effects, are recitation of Vishnu Sahasra Nam and giving a goat in charity.

दायेशाद्रिपुरन्धस्थे व्यये वा नीचगेऽपि वा । तदुक्तौ देहबाधा च कृषिगोभूमिनाशनम् ॥44॥