(b) Varga: If, for instance, the Lagna be the sign, Hora, Drekkana, Navamsa, Dwadasamsa or Trimsamsa of the lord of Dasa period.

(c) Or Antardasa period according to the Commentator.

(d) If either the friendly planet or the benefic planet occupying the Lagna be an Atimitra planet to the lord of the dasa period, such period will be a very prosperous one; if such benefic planet be an Atisatru planet, the period will not be a prosperous one; but if the planet be a neutral one, just the effects of the dasa period will occur.

(e) The Moon causes prosperity while it passes through the several places mentioned in the text. These places are with reference to the signs occupied by the lords of the Dasa and Antardasa periods in the course of their motions in the ecliptic.

(f) Friendly for the time being.

(g) Or Antardasas according to the Commentator. (h) Vide, note (e).

(i) That is when the Moon passes through the other places.

The first para, of the text will determine the character of the Dasa and Antardasa period. The second para. will enable a person to determine the happy or unhappy days indicated by the Dasa and Antardasa periods. It will also enable one to determine which of the 12 Bhavas from the rising sign at the time of birth the Moon occupies (for the time being). The good or bad effects will affect according to Garga the object signified by the several Bhavas - Vide, Stanza 15, Ch. I.

11. If, at the time of commencement of the Dasa period of a planet, the Moon occupy sign Cancer, the native will become rich, will live in comfort and will be respected; if, at the time, the Moon occupy sign Aries or sign Scorpio, his wife will become unchaste; if the Moon occupy either sign Gemini or sign Virgo, the person will become learned, get friends and become rich; if the Moon occupy sign Leo, the person will work in forests, on roads and near houses; if the Moon occupy sign Taurus or sign Libra, he will eat sumptuous meals; if she occupy sign Capricorn or sign Aquarius, he will get a bad woman; and if the Moon occupy sign Sagittari or sign Pisces, the person will become rich, happy and respected.

12. In the dasa period (a) of the Sun, a person will acquire wealth by dealing in perfumes or nails, tusks of elephants and the like animals, in tiger skin and the like, in gold, by acts of cruelty, by means of roads, by the king and by battle. He will become cruel, courageous, persevering, renowned and valorous, will get into trouble through his wife, son, money, enemy, weapons, fire or the king; and he will become liberal in gifts and addicted to sinful deeds; he will quarrel with his servants and will become afflicted with pain in his chest and belly and the like diseases.

Notes

(a) Or Antardasa period according to the Commentator. The technical names, such as Sampurna, Adhama, etc, given to the planets indicate the benefic or the malefic character of their Dasa period - Vide note (d) to Stanza 7.

If the dasa period be good, the good effects alone will come to pass and if bad, the bad effects alone will come to pass; and if both, the effects will be both good and bad - Vide, Stanza 19.

13. In the Dasa period of the Moon, the person will derive benefits from dealing in or by means of the mantras, the Brahmins, the productions of sugar-cane, milk, ghee, and the like, cloth, flower, play, sesamum seeds, and food; he will be of patient nature; he will respect virtuous Brahmins and the Devas; he will get daughters and will acquire an increase of wisdom, wealth and renown.

The person will indulge in sleep and idleness, will lose his wisdom, wealth and renown and will quarrel with powerful men and with kinsmen.

14. In the Dasa period of Mars, the person will acquire wealth, by fighting with his enemies, through his brother, the king, lands, woollen goods and goats.

He will hate his sons, friends, wife, and brothers and will dislike learned men and men of importance; he will suffer from diseases caused by or connected with thirst, blood, fever, bile, loss of limbs or sexual intercourse with other women. He will associate with men doing wicked deeds; he will become vicious, harsh in speech and cruel.

15. In the Dasa period of Mercury, the person will acquire wealth by doing acts of message and through friends, preceptors and Brahmins. His praises will be sung by learned men. He will become famous and will get brass and the like mixed metals, gold, horses, lands, popularity, comfort and ease. He will be skilled in the art of ridiculing others and serving under other men. He will get an increase of wisdom and successfully do deeds of virtue.

He will suffer from harsh words, will suffer from grief, imprisonment, pain of mind and diseases arising from an affection of the three dhatus - vata (the air), pitta (bile), and sleshma (phlegm).

16. In the dasa period of Jupiter, the person will acquire wealth by acts of worship, by his learning, valour ingenuity, bright personal appearance, military fame, by acts of generosity, mantras, diplomacy, the king and the Vedas. He will have an increase of gold, horses, sons, elephants and cloths, and will acquire the friendship of good kings.

He will learn things requiring much ingenuity, will suffer from foot journey and pain in the ear and will quarrel with wicked men.

17. In the Dasa period of Venus, the person will enjoy sweet music, various pleasures, perfumes, sumptuous meals, alcohol, fine cloths, women, and precious stones. He will be of fine appearance, valorous, and will enjoy every substance provoking sexual passion, will become learned in the Sastras, will obtain the object of his desire, will acquire friends, will become skilled in trade and in Agriculture and will get hidden treasures and wealth.

He will quarrel with crowds of people, with the king, hunters and wicked men and he will suffer grief from his own friends.

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