Chapter 36.

Many Other Yogas

1-2. BENEFIC AND MALEFIC YOGAS:
If there be a benefic in the ascendant, Subha yoga is produced while a malefic therein causes Asubha yoga. Similarly benefics in both the 12th and the 2nd cause Subha yoga. Malefics in both the 12th and the 2nd also cause Asubha yoga. One born in Subhas yoga will be eloquent, charming and virtuous while his counterpart will be sensuous, will do sinful acts and will enjoy (or swallow) others' wealth.

3-4. GAJAKESARI YOGA:
Should Jupiter be in an angle from the ascendant or from the Moon, and be conjunct or aspected by (another) benefic, avoiding at the same time debilitation, combustion and inimical sign, Gajakesari yoga is caused . One born in Gaja Kesari yoga will be splendorous, wealthy, intelligent, endowed with many laudable virtues, and will please the king.

5-6. AMALA YOGA:
If there be exclusively a benefic in the 10th from the ascendant or the Moon, Amala yoga exists. Amala yoga will confer fame lasting till the moon and stars exist and will make the native honored by the king, enjoy abundant pleasures, be charitable, fond of relatives, helpful to others, pious, and virtuous.

7-8. PARVATA YOGA:
Benefics in angles will produce Parvatha yoga, as the 7th and 8th are vacant or are occupied by only benefics. One born in Parvatha yoga will be wealthy, eloquent, charitable, learned in Shastras, fond of mirth, famous, splendorous, and be the leader of a city.

9-10. KAHALA YOGA:
Should the 4th lord and Jupiter be in mutual angles while the ascendant lord is strong, Kahala yoga occurs. Alternatively the 4th lord being in his own or exaltation sign should be conjunct the 10th lord. In effect, the native will be energetic, adventurous, cunning, endowed with a complete army consisting of chariots, elephants, horses, and infantry, and will lord over a few villages.

11-12. CHAMARA YOGA:
If the ascendant lord is exalted in an angle and be aspected by Jupiter, Chamara yoga is formed. This yogas also occurs if two benefics are in the ascendant, or 9th, or 10th, or 7th. The effects of Chamara yoga are: the native will be a king or honored by the king, long-lived, scholarly, eloquent, and versed in all arts.

13-14. SANKHA YOGA:
If the ascendant lord is strong as the lords of the 5th and 6th are in mutual angles, then what is known as Sankha yoga is produced. Alternatively if the ascendant lord along with the 10th lord is in a moveable sign as the 9th lord is strong, Sankha yoga is obtained.
One born with Sankha yoga will be endowed with wealth, spouse and sons, be kindly disposed, propitious, intelligent, meritorious, and long-lived.

15-16. BHERI YOGA:
If the 12th, ascendant, 2nd and 7th are occupied as the 9th lord is strong, the native obtains Bheri yoga. Again another kind of Bheri yoga is formed if Venus, Jupiter and the lord of the ascendant are in an angle while the 9th lord is strong. The results of Bheri yoga are the native endowed with wealth, wife and sons, be a king, be famous, virtuous, and endowed with good behavior, happiness, and pleasures.

17. MRIDANGA YOGA:
If the ascendant lord is strong as others occupy angles, trines, own houses or exaltation signs, Mridanga yoga is formed. The native concerned will be a king or equal to a king and be happy.

18. SRINATHA YOGA:
If the 7th lord is in the 10th while the 10th lord is exalted and be in the company of the 9th lord, Srinatha yoga takes place. The native with this yoga will be equal to lord Devendra (the god of gods).

19-20. SARADA YOGA:
Should the 10th lord be in the 5th while Mercury is in an angle as the Sun with strength is in Leo, Sarda Yoga is formed. This will again obtain if Jupiter or Mercury is in a trine to the Moon, while Mars is in the 11th. One born in either kind of yoga will obtain wealth, spouse and sons, be happy, scholarly, dear to king, pious, and virtuous.

21-22. MATSYA YOGA:
Benefics in the 9th and the ascendant, mixed planets in the 5th and malefics in the 4th and 8th - this array of planets at birth will produce Matsya yoga. In effect the native will be an astrologer, be a synonym of kindness, be virtuous, strong, beautiful, famous, learned and pious.

23-24. KOORMA YOGA:
If the 5th, 6th, and the 7th are occupied by benefic planets identical with own house or exaltation or friendly sign while malefics are in the 3rd, 11th, and the ascendant in own house or in exaltation, Koorma yoga is formed. The results of Koorma yoga are: the native will be a king, be courageous, virtuous, famous, helpful, happy, and be a leader of men.

25-26. KHADGA YOGA:
Should there be an exchange of signs between the lords of the 2nd and the 9th as the ascendant lord is in an angle or in a trine Khadga yoga is obtainable. One with Khadga yoga will be endowed with wealth, fortunes, and happiness be learned in Shastras, be intelligent, mighty, grateful, and skillful.

27-28. LAKSHMI YOGA:
If the 9th lord is in an angle identical with his Moolatrikona sign or own sign or exaltation sign while the ascendant lord is endowed with strength, Lakshmi yoga occurs. The native with this yoga will be charming, virtuous, kingly in status, endowed with many sons and abundant wealth, be famous, and be of high moral merits.

29-30. KUSUMA YOGA:
Venus in an angle, the Moon in a trine along with a benefic and Saturn in the 10th - these planets thus cause Kusuma yoga for one born in a fixed sign ascending. Such a native will be a king or equal to him, be charitable, will enjoy pleasures, be happy, prime among his race men, virtuous, and red-lettered.

31-32. KALANIDHI YOGA:
Should Jupiter be in the 2nd or the 5th and be aspected by Mercury and Venus, Kalanidhi yoga is caused. In effect, the native will be virtuous, honored by the kings, bereft of diseases, be happy, wealthy and learned.

33-34. KALPADRUMA YOGA:
Note the following four planets: a) the ascendant lord, b) the dispositor of the ascendant lord, c) the dispositor of the planet at "b", d) the Navamsa dispositor of the planet at "c".
If all these are disposed in angles and trines from the ascendant, or be exalted, Kalpadruma yoga exists. One with this yoga will be endowed with all kinds of wealth, be a king, pious, strong, fond of war, and merciful.

35-36. TRIMURTHI YOGAS:
Counted from the 2nd lord if benefics occupy the 2nd, 12th, and 8th, Hari yoga is formed. If the 4th, 9th, and 8th with reference to the sign occupied by the 7th lord are occupied by benefics, Hara yoga is obtainable. Brahma yoga is generated if, counted from the ascendant lord, benefics are in the 4th, 10th, and 11th signs. One born in anyone of the said three yogas will be happy, learned, and endowed with wealth and sons.

37. LAGNADHI YOGA:
Should benefics be in the 7th and the 8th counted from the ascendant and be devoid of conjunction/aspect of malefics, Lagnadhi yoga is produced making one a great person, learned in Shastras, and happy.

38-39. EFFECTS OF ASCENDANT LORD'S DIVISIONAL DIGNITIES:
The ascendant lord in Parijathamsa will make one happy, in Vargothama immune to diseases, in Gopuramsa rich with wealth and grains, in Simhasanamsa a king, in Paravathamsa a scholar, in Devalokamsa opulent and endowed with conveyances, and in Iravatamsa famous and honored by kings.