Raja Yogas

1-2. O excellent of the Brahmins, I now narrate below the Rajayogas making one entitled to royal honors. These were told to Parvati by Lord Siva once upon a time, the gist of which follows.

3-5. These yogas are to be known from the Karakamsa ascendant and the natal ascendant. On the one hand the pair of Atmakaraka and Putrakaraka and on the other the natal ascendant lord and the 5th lord be considered. The effects due to such association will be full, or a half, or a quarter according to their strengths.

6-7. MAHA RAJA YOGA:

Should the ascendant lord and the 5th lord exchange their signs or if Atma Karaka and Putra Karaka (Chara) are in the ascendant, the 5th, exaltation sign, own sign, or own Navamsa in aspect to a benefic, Maha Raja yoga is produced. The native so born will be famous and happy.

8. If the ascendant lord and Atmakaraka are in the ascendant, 5th, or 7th in conjunction with or in aspect to a benefic, there obtains a Raja yoga.

9-10. Should there be benefics in the 2nd, 4th, and 5th counted either from the ascendant lord or from Atmakaraka sign, one will become a king. Similarly malefics in the 3rd and 6th from the said places.

11. One will be related to royal circles if Venus is in the Karakamsa, or in the 5th therefrom, or in the ascendant, or in Arudha ascendant in aspect to or in the company of Jupiter or the Moon.

12. Even if a single planet aspects the natal ascendant or Hora Lagna or Ghatika Lagna, the native will become a king.

13-14. If the six divisions (shadvargas) of the ascendant is occupied or aspected by one and the same planet, a Raja yoga is doubtlessly formed. According to the aspect is full, half, or one-fourth, results will be in order full, medium, and negligible.

15. If the 3 ascendants (i.e. natal ascendant, Hora Lagna, and Ghatika Lagna) are occupied by planets in exaltation/own sign or if the natal ascendant, Drekkana ascendant, and Navamsa ascendant have exalted planets, Raja yoga is formed.

16. If the Moon and a benefic are in the Arudha Lagna, as Jupiter is in the 2nd from natal ascendant and both the places are aspected by planets in exaltation or in own sign, there will be Raja yoga.

17. If the ascendant, 2nd, and 4th are occupied by benefics while a malefic is in the 3rd, one will become a king or equal to a king.

18. The native will be wealthy if one among the Moon, Jupiter, Venus, and Mercury is exalted in the 2nd house.

19. If the 6th, 8th, and the 3rd are occupied by debilitated planets as the ascendant lord is exalted or is in (his other) own house and aspects the ascendant, there is a Raja yoga.

20. Again a Raja yoga is formed if the 6th, 8th, and 12th lords are in fall or in inimical signs or in combustion as the ascendant lord placed in his (other) own sign or in exaltation sign aspects the ascendant.

21. If the 10th lord, placed in his own house or in exaltation, aspects the ascendant, a Raja yoga is formed. Similar is the cause if benefics are in angles.

22. If the Atmakaraka is in a benefic's Rasi/Navamsa, the native will be wealthy. If there are benefics in angles from Karakamsa Lagna, he will become a king.

23. If the Arudha Lagna and Darapada are in mutual angles or in mutual 3rd/11th or in mutual trines, the native will doubtlessly become a king.

24. If two or all of Bhava Lagna, Hora Lagna, Ghatika Lagna are in aspect to exalted planets, a Raja yoga is formed.

25. If the said 3 ascendants, their decanates and Navamsa or the said ascendants and their Navamsas or the said ascendants and their decanates are aspected by a planet, a Raja yoga is formed.

26-27. If Arudha Pada is occupied by an exalted planet particularly the Moon in exaltation or by Jupiter/Venus (with or without exaltation) while there is no Argala by a malefic, the native will become a king. If the Arudha Pada is a benefic sign containing the Moon while Jupiter is in the 2nd house, the same effect will prevail.

28. Even if one among the 6th, 8th, and 12th lords being in debilitation aspects the ascendant there will be Raja yoga.

29-31. The native will become a king if a planet ruling the 4th, 10th, 2nd, or the 11th aspects the ascendant, while Venus aspects the 11th from Arudha Lagna as Arudha Lagna is occupied by a benefic. The same effect will be obtained if a debilitated planet aspects the ascendant and is placed in ths 6th or the 8th. Again similar result will prevail if a debilitated planet placed in the 3rd/11th lends aspect to the ascendant.

32. I now till you of the Raja yogas based on the planets with different dignities and on the aspects and conjunctions of the planets.

33-34. The 9th lord is akin to a minister, and more especially the 5th lord. If these two planets mutually aspect, the native will obtain a kingdom. Even if these two are conjunct in any house or if be in mutually 7th places, one born of royal scion will become a king.

35. The native will attain kingdom if the 4th lord is in the 10th and the 10th lord is in the 4th and be in aspect to 5th and 9th lords.

36. If the lords of the 5th, 10th, 4th, and ascendant join in the 9th, one will become a ruler with fame spreading over the four directions.

37. Should the lord of the 4th or of the 10th join either the 5th lord or the 9th lord, the native will obtain kingdom.

38. If the 5th lord is in the ascendant, 4th or the 10th in the company of the 9th lord or of the ascendant lord, the native will become a king.

39. Should Jupiter be in his own sign identical with the 9th house and be in the company of either Venus or of the 5th lord, the native will obtain kinghood.

40. Two and half ghatis (i.e 60 minutes of time) from midday or from midnight is auspicious time. A birth during such an auspicious time will cause one to be a king or equal to him.

41. Should the Moon and Venus be mutually in the 3rd and 11th and be in aspects, placed elsewhere, a Raja yoga is obtained.

42. Should the Moon, endowed with strength, be in Vargothamsa and be aspected by four or more planets, the native will become a king.

43. One will become a king if the ascendant in Uttamamsa is aspected by four or more planets out of which the Moon should not be one.

44. If one or two or three planets be in exaltation one of a royal scion will become a king while another will be equal to a king or be wealthy.

45. If 4 or 5 planets occupy their exaltation signs or Moolatrikona signs, even a person of base birth will become a king.

46. If 6 planets are exalted, the native will become an emperor and will enjoy various kinds of royal paraphernalia.

47. Even if one among jupiter, Venus, and Mercury is in exaltation while a benefic is in an angle the native will become a king or be equal to him.

48. If all benefics are relegated to angles while malefics are in the 3rd, 6th, and 11th, the native, though he may be of mean descent will ascend the throne.