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 KANDA - 1
Section-II – Calculation of the several kinds of strength, etc.
Sloka – 1: All the twelve Rasis are ascending, each in its turn from (the nadir towards the Lagna or) the East. The six houses from the Lagna onwards, viz., 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th, constitute the right side of the native, while the other six denote his left side. These latter also denote the right portion of his partner. The Lagna is life or souls of the native while the (Janma Rasi) or the sign occupied by the Moon denotes his (Deha) or body. All about these, (soul and body), should be predicted through these two significations (Lagna and the Moon) and also with special reference to the planets owning the houses they occupy, the particular Bhavas in which they are in and the (Bhava Karaka) concerned.
Sloka – 2: The Moon, Jupiter and Mars are the friends of the Sun. the Sun and Mercury are the friends of the Moon. The friends of Mars are the Sun, the Moon and Jupiter. Venus and the Sun are the friends of Mercury. The friends of Jupiter are the Sun. the Moon and mars. Mercury and Saturn are the friends of Venus. Saturn’s friends are Venus and Mercury. The Sun’s enemies are Saturn and Venus. The Moon has no enemies. Mars and Mercury have each got only one enemy, and they are mercury and the Moon respectively, Venus and Mercury are the enemies of Jupiter. The enemies of Venus are the Sun and the Moon. The Sun, Moon and Mars are the enemies of Saturn. The rest are neutrals. From a consideration of the (Tatkalika) friendship (friendliness obtaining for the time being) between two planets and the (Nisarga) or natural friendship one has to judge whether the two planets are exceedingly friendly or exceedingly inimical, etc.
Sloka 2 ½-3 ½: Mars, venus, Mercury, the Mon, the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Saturn and Jupiter are respectively the lords of the signs from Mesha onwards. Of the several kinds of divisions of the zodiac, the first is known as (Griha) or (Rasi). A half of a Rasi is termed (Hora). A third portion of a Rasi is known as (Drekhana) or Decanate. There are also other kinds of sub-divisions, viz., the (Saptamsa = 1/7th portion of a Rasi), (Navamsa – 1/9th portion of a Rasi) (Dwadasamsa = 1/12th portion of Rasi) and (Trimsamsa = a degree of 1/30th portion of a Rasi).
Sloka 3 ½ - 5: Sumha, Vrishbha, Mesha, Kanya, Dhanus, Tula and Kumbha are the Moolatrikona signs of the planets commencing with the Sun. Mesha, Vrishabha, Makara, Kanya, Kataka, Meena and Tula are the exaltation signs of the seven planets respectively from the Sun onwards. When a planet is posited in his exaltation, he gets one full Rupa as his strength. The strength for a planet placed in his Moolatrikona house is 3/4ths of a Rupa. For a planet occupying his own house, the strength is ½ a Rupa. In a friend’s house, it is 1/4th and 3/8ths when in the house of a dear friends. In an inimical house, the strength is 1/16th. It is 1/32 when in a sign owned by the planet’s inveterate enemy. It is 1/8th of a Rupa in the house of a neutral.
Cf. III-2, 3.
Sloka -6: When a planet is retrograde in his motion, his strength is similar to that when in his exaltation. If a planet is conjoined with a retrograde planet, his strength is ½ a Rupa. If a planet be retrograde in his motion while in his exaltation house, he gets only his (Neechabala), i.e. nothing. If a planet be retrograde while in his debilitation house (of ‘Fall’), his strength is similar to that when in his exaltation. A planet in conjunction with another planet who is in exaltation gets ½ a Rupa. When he is associated with another who is in his debilitation, he gets nothing, a planet if he be in conjunction with malefics who are his friends, or with benefics who happen to be his enemies, gets only ½ a Rupa.
All this is new information not contained in (Sripati-paddhati).
Sloka 6 ½ : The highest exaltation points of the planets countinbg from the Sun are the 10th, the 3rd, the 28th, the 15th, the 5th, the 27th and the 20th degrees of the several signs (mentioned in sloka 3 ½ - 5 supra), their points of ‘Fall’ being the corresponding degrees in the 7th house from their exaltation ones. The strength accruing to a planet derived by (a consideration of) this position applies only to the Rasi occupied.
Suppose in a nativity, Jupiter is in the 1st Navamsa of Meena, his exaltation Navamsa. He will not be entitled to get one Rupa, as his strength under ‘Navamsa’ in the (Saptavargajabala) but he will be given only what is due to him as occupying a Navamsa belonging to the Moon according to the kind of relationship he holds with him in the particular nativity.
Sloka 6 ½ - 7 ½: In the case of an odd sign, the Horas or halves of a Rasi belong respectively to the Sun and the Moon, and in an even sign, to the Moon and the Sun. the Drekhanas are owned by the lords of (a) the 1st, 5th and 9th with respect to that Rasi in the case of a moveable sign, (b) the 9th, 1st and 5th, in the case of a fixed sign and (c) the 5th, 9th and 1st in the case of a dual sign. The owners of the Saptamsas or 1/7th portions are, in the case of an odd sign, to be counted regularly from the lord thereof, while in the case of an even sign they are to be reckoned from the lord of the 7th onwards. Next, as the order of the Navamsas :
There are 3 ways declared to find out the lords of the 3 decanates of each sign :
I. They are the lords of the 1st, 5th and 9th with respect to that Rasi.
(i) The 1st, 5th and 9th in the case of a moveable sign ;
(ii) The 9th, 1st and 5th in the case of a fixed sign ;
(iii) The 5th, 9th and 1st in the case of a dual sign.
II. They are the lords of the 1st, 12th and 11th with respect to that sign.
Varahamihira recognizes only the 1st of the above views.
The present author holds the second view.
Yavaneswara says that the 3rd method above cited should be followed only in (Prasna) or a query.
Slokas 7 ½ - 8 ½: The Navamsas of Mesha, Simha and Dhanus belong to the nine signs from Mesha onwards, and they continue till the end of Meena. The owners of the Dwadasamsas or 1/12th portion of any sign are to be reckoned from that assign. The Trimsamsas or degrees, i.e., 1/30th portions of a sign allotted in an odd sign to Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Mercury and Venus are respectively 5, 5, 8, 7 and 5. In an even sign, Venus, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn and Mars have 5,7,8,5 and 5 degrees respectively. The above seven kinds of divisions constitute the Saptavargas. (See chart in the front page).
Slokas 8½ -9½ : Enter against the Rasi column the strength in terms of Rupas already obtained for the Rais, and write out against the other six vargas commencing from Hora a moiety of the strength fixed in the Rasi Varga for the planet owning the Varga in question. The sum-total of these seven kinds of strength constitute the (Saptavargajabala) of the planet. This process should be gone through in the case of all the seven planets.
The following will be the Sapthavargajabala Table of the planets for the Horoscope taken as example in my edition of Sripathi paddhati (pp 29-30) according to the method prescribed in this book.
Sloka 9½ -10½ : In the case of a planet approaching its exaltation, the (Uchachabala) or exaltation strength in terms of a Rupa is repsented by a fraction whose numerator is the number of degrees intervening between the planet’s depression point and the planet’s present position and whose denominator is 1800. The defect of this from unity will denote the planet’s (Uchchabala) when the planet is (Avaroha), i.e., when it has crossed the exaltation point and is proceeding towards its depression. When a planet occupies a Kendra a Panaphara and an Apoklima house, it strength is 1 Rupa, ½ a Rupa and 1/4th of a rupa respectively.
Cf. Sripatipaddhati, III-2, 5.
Slokas 10 ½-11½ : The Moon and Venus, when they are in an even sign or in a Navamsa owned by an even sign, get 1/4th of a Rupa as strength. It is reserve in the case of the other planets : i.e., the Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Mercury get the same amount of strength (viz., 1/4th of a Rupa) when they are in an odd sign or in a Navamsa owned by an odd sign. When masculine, hermaphrodite and feminine planets occupy respectively the initial, middle or the last portion of a Rasi, 1/4th of a Rupa is to be assigned as their strength. The total of these 5 kinds of strength constituted the (Stthanabala) or Positional strength of planets, the first of the Shadbalas or six major divisions of strength.
(Vide Sripatipaddhati, III-4)
Sloka 11½ - 12½: Mercury and Jupiter are strong in the Lagna or East. The Moon and Venus are powerful in the 4th of North; Saturn in the 7th or West : Mars and the Sun, in the 10th or South. The strength of these planets is zero or nil when they respectively occupy the 7th place from the above. Such directional strength or (Digbala) in the interventing positions must be calculated by rule-of-three process.
Slokas 12½ - 14: In the bright half of a month, the (Pakshabala) of benefic planets corresponds to the number of Tithis passed in the Paksha, while that of the malefics, to the number of Tithis remaining to be passed or gone through. This process is reversed in the other or dark half of the month. The Pakshabala in the case of the Moon will be doubled. If a birth takes place in the middle portion of the Day, the strength (of the Rupa) accrues to the Sun ; if it be in the last or third portion of the Day, the strength goes to Saturn. The Moon gets it if the birth be in the first portion of the night. If the birth be in the middle portion of the night, the strength goes to Venus. If the birth takes place in the third or last portion of the night, Mars gets this strength. Mercury has it during the first portion of the Day. Jupiter has this strength at all times. This is called the (Ahoratraja) or (Dinaratritribhagabala). The (Nata) in ghatikas multiplied by 2 and divided by 60 will denote the (Natabala) in terms of a Rupa. (Cf. Sripatipaddhati III-9-14).
Sloka 14 ½: The same subtracted from unity will be the strength resulting from the (Unnata). The Moon, Mars and Saturn have the (Natabala), while the Sun, Mercury, Jupiter and Venus have the (Ummatabala). (Cf. Sripatipaddhati III-10).
Slokas 14 ½ - 15 ½: The ghatikas that intervene between mid-day and the Sun at a birth is termed (Nata), while (Unnata) indicates similar interval (in ghatikas) between the Sun and midnight. These two intervals when divided by 30 express the (Natonnatabala) of planets in terms of a Rupa, and form a sub-division of (Kalabala). About instruments (such as Sanku) and the like, they have been described in detail in the previous half of the work.
Cf. Sripatipaddhati I-3, III-10)
Slokas 15 ½ - 16 ½: The lord of the year, the lord of the month, the lord of the week-day and the lord of the (Hora=hour) have respectively ¼, ½, ¾, and 1 Rupa as strength when a birth has taken palce under their sway. The sum of these four kinds of strength goes to swell the (Kalabala). To find the lord of the Hora at any given time, multiply the ghatikas elapsed since Sunrise by 2 and divide the product by 5. The quotient will reveal the number of Horas that have elapsed. The lord of the first Hora on any week-day will be the lord of the week-day itself; the lords of the 2nd and succeeding Horas have to be reckoned from that planet in the following order: the Sun, Venus, Mercury, the Moon, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars.
Slokas 16 ½ - 17 ½: The Moon and Saturn are strong in their Southern course. Mercury possesses strength always. The rest become strong in their Northern course. The strength accruing from this is known as (Ayanabala). The planets taken in regular order from Mars should be declared to be strong when in their retrograde motion, their (Cheshtabala) being calculated from the degrees in there respective Sighra Kendras already described (by others). When two planets are conjoined in such a way that they happen to be in the same house and their longitudes agree even to the degree and minute, they are said to be in war and that planet which is North of the other is declared to be the conqueror and gains the strength of the other in the South who is considered as vanquished.
Slokas 17½ - 18½: Saturn casts a full glance over the 3rd and 10th houses, while the other planets view the two houses only with a quarter glance. Jupiter aspects the 5th and 9th houses with a full eye, while the rest see these houses with half a glance. Mars casts his full eye over the 4th and the 8th houses, while the other planets aspect them with 3/4ths aspects. All planets aspect the 7th with a full eye. Planets do not aspect the 2nd, the 11th, the 12th and the 6th houses reckoned from the one occupied by them.
Slokas 18½ - 19½: Subtract the aspecting planet from the aspected one. The result will indicate the extent in signs, degrees, etc., of the range of aspect. The (Drigbala) of the aspected planet (in terms of Rupas) can be accurately ascertained from these degrees, etc. by rule-of-three process by the addition to, or subtraction from, as the case may be, of the proportionate difference in strength between that fixed for that sign and the strength allotted for the succeeding sign. The Drigbala thus obtained should be classified under “Malefic” and “Benefic” according as the aspecting planets are malefic and benefic, and written in two tables in terms of Rupas. Their algebraic sum will reveal the exact Drigbala got for each planet. Cf. Sripatipaddhati-II.
SLokas 19½ -20½: The Sun, the Moon, Venus, Jupiter, Mercury, Mars and Saturn decrease successively by 1/7th of a Rupa in their natural strength. The (Nisargabala) of the Sun should be put down as one. The several kinds of strength, viz., those derived from (1) (Stthana-Position) (2) (Dik-Direction) (3) (Kala-Time) (4) (Nisarga-Natural) and (5) (Cheshta-motion) should now be totaled up.
Slokas 20½ - 21½: To this should be superadded the rectified Drigbala of the planet. Further, if the planet be victorious in planetary war, one more Rupa should be added to its strength ; but if he be vanquished, one Rupa should be taken away. The sum-total thus rectified or the several balas above-mentioned will be the planet’s Shadbala in Rupas. If this strength be found to be less than 5 Rupas. If this strength be found to be less than 5 Rupas, the planet should be declared as weak. It is said to possess normal strength when it ranges from 5 to 10 Rupas.
Slokas 21½ - 22½: Anything exceeding 10 Rupas will be (Purnabala). And such a planet will prove auspicious. His Dasa will be an exceedingly favourable one and will confer on the native concerned all that he cherishes, viz., wealth, happiness, etc., if he has passed his depression and is proceeding to his exaltation point. In the case of a planet possessing medium strength and going towards his exaltation, his Dasa period also will be productive of happiness. But should the planet be on his way to his depression point, the Dasa will prove unfavourable. In the case of a planet whose strength is below the normal (i.e., less than 5 Rupas), his Dasa will only cause misery and unhappiness.
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