Uttara Kālamṛta
Chapter 5 · Karakatva of Bhavas and Planets · Verse 1
Sanskrit · DevanāgarīUttara Kālamṛta manuscript tradition
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The details about the folowing have to be read from the first house which is the Lagna: (1) Body, (2) Limbs, (3) Happiness, (4) Unhappiness, (5) Old age, (6) Knowledge, (7) Birth place, (8) Fame, (9) Dreams, (10) Strength, (11) Dignity, (12) Political life, (13) Longevity, (14) Peace, (15) Age, (16) Hair, (17) Appearance, (18) Self-respect, (19) Livelihood, (20) Gambling for others, (21) Stigma, (22) Honour, (23) Skin, (24) Sleep, (25) Wisdom, (26) Wealth, (27) Nature to insult and to avenge, (28) Freedom from ill health, (29) Nature to renounce, (30) Ability to do work, (31) Endeavouring to preserve live-stock, (32) Loss of decency, and (33) Defamation from one’s own Kinsmen or persons of the same caste. The following items are to be judged from the second house: (1) Speech, (2) Wealth, (3) Faith in the sacred texts, (4) Maintaining others, (5) Nails, (6) Enjoyment of pleasures, (7) Truth and falsehood, (8) Tongue, (9) Eyes, (10) Clothes, (11) Diamond, copper and precious stones, (12) Pearl, (13) Determination or control, (14) Artificial products, (15) Family, (16) Sale and purchase, (17) Soft speech, {18) Generous or charitable nature, (19) Efforts to acquife money, (20) Helping others, (21) Friends, (22) Splendour or grace, (23) Miserliness in giving money, (24) Great eloquence, (25) Learning, (26) Gold, (27) Fine silver; (28) Corn, (28) Humility, (30) Nose, (31) Firmness or steadiness of mind, (32) Close follower or neighbour, (33) Following the rules of going and arriving, and (34) Powerful or prosperous living. From the third house the following factors have to be interpreted: (1) Courage, (2) Brothers, (3) War, (4) Ears, (5) Feet, (6) Road, (7) Land or place, (8) Mental instability, (9) Ability or fitness, (10) Abode of the gods, (11) Causing sorrow, (12) Dream, (13) Soldier, (14) Valour, (15) One's near relations, (16) Friends, (17) Wandering, {18) Throat, (19) Taking clean food and the like, (20) Power, (21) Partitioning of inheritance, (22} Ornaments, (23) Good qualities, (24) Education, (25) Pastime or hobby, (26) Strength, (27) Profits, (28) Physical growth or development, (29) Descent from a good family, (30) Servants, (31) The part of the hand between the thumb and the index finger (which is sacred to the dead ancestors), (32) Maid servants, (33) Smiall good vehicles or short good journeys, (34) Pilgrimages, (35) Great undertakings, and (36) Performing personal religious duties. : The things that can be delineated from the fourth house are the following: From the fifth house one has to examine the following: (1) Children, (2) Virtuous deeds of the father, (3) King, (4) Minister (or minister of a king or ruler), (5) Good character, (6) Sculpture, (7) Mind, (8) Education, (9) Pregnancy, (10) Discretion, (11} Umbrella, (12) Listening to or spreading good stories, (13) Auspicious documents or parchments, (14) Clothes, (15) Employing great prayogas or mantras for achieving varied desired ends, (16) Paternal property, (17) Foresightedness, (18) Wealth and prosperity We can judge the following from the sixth house: (1) Diseases, (2) Obstacles, (3) Fighting in war, (4) Maternal uncle, (5) Phlegm, (6) Tumor, (7} Cruel or fierce activitics, (8) Madness, (9) Smallpox, (10) Foes and enmity, (11} Miserliness, (12) Ill-health, (13) Venereal boils, (14) Boiled rice, (15) Heavy breathing, (16) Debts, (17) Slanders, (18) Delight of the foes, (19) Tuberculosis, (20) Healed constitution, (21) Wounds, (22) Mental agony or worry, (23) Many intense worries, (24) Hated by many, (25) Frequent diseases of the eyes, (26) receiving alms, (27) Untimely food, (28) Fall or loss or destruction brought about by foes who are collaterals, (29) Profits, (30} Wearisomeness, (31) Poison, (32) Peptic or duodenal ulcer, (33) Fetters, (34) Protecting one’s own fame, (35) Urinary ailment, (36) Dysentery, (37) Six flavours {tastes in food like hot, sweet, bitter etc.}, (38) Reproach, (39) Sorrows from servants and theft, (40) Imprisonment, (41) Quarrels from brothers and others. The seventh house reveals the details about the following: (1) Marriage, (2) Loose sex life, (3) Victory in love or passion, (4) Hatred of a loose woman, (5) Deviation from the right or proper path, (6) Having perfumes, music and flowers, (7) Delicious food, drinks and the like, (8) Chewing betal leaves (tambula), (9) Break in travels, (10) Curd, (11) Loss of memory, (12) Possessing clothes and the like, (13) Semen, (14) Husband's (or wife's) purity, (15) A pair of wives, (16) Generative organ, (17) Urinary track, (18) Anus, (19) Commerce or trade, (20) Milk, (21) Sweet or pleasant Mansion, (22) Food with cereals and ghee, (23) Charities, (24) Valour, (25) Destruction of enemies, (26) Victory, (27) Acquisition of money that is kept at a different or distant place, (28) Arguments, (29) Sexual union, {30) Adopted son, (31) Preparations with ghee, (32) Own place, (33) Foreign or distant place, (34) Wife (or husband), (35) All secret sex affairs, and (36) Theft. From the eighth house we have to judge the following: (1) Longevity, (2) Happiness, (3) Disgrace or defeat, (4) Money coming from the death of some one as in insurance or as in the case of a dead distant relative, (5) Afflicted face, (6) Worry about or arising from death, (7) Absence of quarrels, (8) Sorrow from an ailment of meha, (9) worries arising from brother, enemy, wife (or husband), (10) The ‘fortress of the enemy, (11) Misery or worry, (12) Idleness, (13) Fear of punishment from the government, (14) Loss of money, (15) Debts, (16) Receiving the money of others out of ignorance, (17) Long awaited money, (18) The arrival of a wicked person, (19) Sin, (20) Killing a live being, (21) Loss of a limb, (22) Capital punishment, (23) Terrifying sorrows, _ (24) A story that disturbs the mental peace, (25) Series of afflictions, (26) Attempting to do highly cruel acts, (27) Battle, and (28) Utmost mental] anguish., (1) Charity, (2) Virtuous acts, (3) Pilgrimages, (4) Penance, (5) Respectful devotion and service to the teachers and other elders, (6) Purity of mind, (7) Worship of _ the gods, (8) Effort to learn, (9) Splendour, (10) Travel or conveyance, (11) Fortune or prosperity, (12) Polity, (13) Valour, (14) Listening to or spreading good stories; (15) Travels, (16) Worshipping Shiva by pouring water on - 120 . Uttara Kalamrita the image, (17) Nourishment, (18) Coming into contact with the virtuous, (19) Auspiciousness, (20) Paternal property, (21) Sons and daughters, f22} Eight forms of wealth, (23) Horses, elephants and buffaloes, (24) Coronation, (25) Temple, (26) Establishing or consecrating Brahma, or firmly securing the Brahmanic faith, (27) Vedic rituals and sacrifices, and (28) Circulation or distribution of money.

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