6. When the rising sign is Taurus and the Moon occupies it, when the Sun occupies sign Leo, Jupiter sign Scorpio and Saturn sign Aquarius, a person born becomes a king.

Again, when the rising sign is Capricorn, and when Saturn occupies it, and when the Moon occupies the 3rd house, Mars the 6th house, Mercury the 9th house, and Jupiter the 12th house, a person born becomes a virtuous and famous king.

7. When the Moon and Jupiter occupy sign Sagittari, and when Mars occupies sign Capricorn, a person born becomes a king when Pisces is the rising sign and Venus occupies it, or when Virgo is rising sign and Mercury occupies it.

Again, when the rising sign is Virgo and when Mercury occupies it, when Mars and Saturn occupy the 5th house, when the Moon, Jupiter and Venus occupy the 4th house, a person born becomes a king.

8. When Pisces is the rising sign, and the Moon occupies it, and when Aquarius, Capricorn and Leo are respectively occupied by Saturn, Mars and the Sun, a person born becomes a king.

Again, when Mars occupies sign Aries and Jupiter sign Cancer, a person born becomes a king when Aries is the rising sign, or when Cancer is the rising sign.

9. When Cancer is the rising sign and Jupiter occupies it, and when the Moon, Venus and Mercury occupy sign Taurus and the Sun sign Aries, a person born becomes a powerful king.

10. When Capricorn is the rising sign and Saturn occupies it, when the signs Aries, Cancer and Leo are occupied by their lords and when Gemini and Libra are respectively occupied by Mercury and Venus, a person born becomes a famous king.

11. When Virgo is the rising sign and Mercury occupies it, when Venus occupies sign Gemini, the Moon and Jupiter occupy sign Pisces, and Mars and Saturn occupy sign Capricorn, a person born becomes a king.

12. Persons born under the various yogas described above (a), though they may be born in low families will become kings. If such persons are born in a king's family, they will doubtless become kings. We shall now proceed to describe certain yogas, persons born under which will become kings if they belong to a king's family and will become rich, if otherwise.

Notes

(a) 96 Rajayogas have been described in all.

13. When three or more planets are powerful and occupy either their exaltation signs or their Moolatrikona signs, a person born becomes a king if he belongs to a king's family.

Again, when five or more planets are powerful and occupy their exaltations signs or their Moolatrikona signs, a person born becomes a king even if he be born in alow family. If, in either case, the number of powerful planets be less than three "or five, the persons described above will not become kings but will become only rich.

Notes

If the 3 or 5 planets be not all powerful, the person will not become a king. Again, it is not necessary that all the planets must occupy their exaltation or Moolatrikona signs. It will be enough if some be in the exaltation signs and some in the Moolatrikona signs.

14. When Aries is the rising sign and the Sun (a) and the Moon occupy it, when Mars occupies sign Capricorn, Saturn sign Aquarius, and Jupiter sign Sagittari, a person born becomes a king if he belongs to a king's family (b).

Notes

(a) According to another reading, the Sun is made to occupy sign Leo and the yoga remains the same in other respects.

(b) And will become only rich, if otherwise.

15. When Venus occupies the 4th house, and when such house is his own, when the Moon occupies the 9th house, and when the other planets occupy the 3rd, 1st and the 11th houses, a person born becomes a king if he belongs to a king's family (a),

Notes

(a) And only rich, if otherwise.

As Venus is said to be in his Swakshetra he might be either in sign Taurus or in sign Libra. The Lagna must therefore be either sign Aquarius or sign Cancer respectively. As the Moon is said to be in the 9th house he occupies sign Libra in the former case and sign Pisces in the latter, and as the other planets are said to occupy the 3rd, 1st and 11th houses from Lagna, these houses are signs Aries, Aquarius and Sagittari in the one case and Virgo, Cancer, and Taurus in the other. Thus two yogas are referred to in this stanza.

16. "When Mercury is powerful and occupies the rising sign (a), when a powerful benefic planet (b) occupies the 9th house (c) and when the other planets occupy the 9th, 2nd, 3rd, 6th 10th, and 11th houses (d), a person born becomes a virtuous king if he belongs to a king's family.

Notes

(a) This may be any one of the 12 signs. (b) This is, either Jupiter or Venus. (c) The 4th house, according to a different reading. (d) In any way according to the Commentator. (e) And only rich, if otherwise.

17. When Taurus is the rising sign and the Moon occupies it, when Jupiter occupies the 2nd house, Saturn the 6th house, and the other planets the 11th house, a person born becomes a king if he belongs to a king's family (a)

Again, when Jupiter occupies the 4th house, the Sun" and the Moon occupy the 10th house, when Saturn occupies the Lagna (b;) and when the other planets occupy the 11th house, a person born becomes a king if he be born in a king's family (c).

Notes

(a) And only rich, if otherwise. (b) This may be any one of the 12 signs according to the Commentator.

(c) And only rich, if otherwise.

18. When the Moon occupies the 10th house, Saturn the 11th house, Jupiter the rising sign, Mercury and Mars the 2nd house, and the Sun and Venus occupy the 4th house, a person born becomes a king if he belongs to a king's family (a).

Again, when Mars and Saturn occupy the rising sign, when the Moon occupies the 4th house, Jupiter the 7th house, Venus the 9th house, the Sun the 10th house, and Mercury the 11th house, a person born becomes a king if he belongs to a king's family (b).

Notes

, (a), (b) And only rich, if otherwise.

19. Of the planets producing a Rajayoga either in the Dasa periods (a) of those which occupy the 10th house or the Lagna (b) or in that of the most powerful planet (c), a person obtains kingdom and he loses it and courts the friendship of another king in the Dasa periods (d)of the planets occupying inimical or depression signs (e).

Notes

(a) Or Autardasa periods, according to the Commentator.

(b) If there be planets both in the Lagna and in the 10th house or if there be several planets in either, then in the Antardasa period of the most powerful of them.

(c) If there be no planets both in the Lagna and in the 10th house.

(d) Or Antardasa periods according to the Commentator.

(e) If such planets be powerful, the king will lose his kingdom permanently, and if they be not powerful, he will recover it by the help of his allies.

20. When Jupiter, Venus and Mercury occupy the rising sign, (a) when Saturn occupies the 7th house and the Sun the 10th house, a person born will live in great comfort and luxury (b).

Again, when powerful benefic signs (c) form the Ken-dras (d) and malefic planets occupy malefic signs, a person born becomes rich and the chief of hunters or robbers.

Notes

(a) The rising sign is Aries according to the Commentator.

The interpretation given of this portion of the text is objected to by some on the ground that when Venus and Mercury (the inferior planets) occupy the rising sign the Sun cannot occupy the 10th house - a place more than 60 degrees removed from them. For, the greatest elongations of the two planets from the Sun are respectively 47 and 29 degrees. Accordingly, the following interpretation is proposed:-

"If the rising sign be the house of Jupiter, Venus or Mercury,"

Bhatta Utpala, the Commentator, while granting the validity of the objection, says, that the interpretation objected to has the support of Garga whom he quotes. A similar remark applies to the Vajra and other yogas described in Stanza 5 of the next Chapter, and in stanza 6 of the Same. Varaha Mihira, while admitting the impossibility of the yoga, says that his task is simply to state the views of the ancient writers and nothing more. Vide, notes to Stanza 6, Chapter XII (On Nabhasa Yogas).

(b) Though he may be poor and under whatever Yoga he may be born.

(c) The signs of benefic planets.

(d) This portion of the text is interpreted by some as follows:

"When powerful benefic planets occupy the Kendras."

But this interpretation is opposed to Garga whom the Commentator quotes.