Chapter 2: Definitions and Elementary Principles (Planetary)

Wounds will occur in those parts of body the signs representing which are occupied by malefic planets; •but if such signs be occupied or aspected by benefic planets, moles will appear in those parts ; if such malefic or benefic planets be in their own signs or Navainsas or in fixed signs Or fixed Navamsas, the wound or the mole £4 terihat Jdtakd. [Cn. V. will exist from birth ; otherwise, they will appear at a future time. As regards wounds, if the planet causing it be Saturn, the wound will be caused by a stone or by wind ; if Mars, then by fire or weapon or by poison ; if (malefic) Mercury, it will be caused by earth (fr) ; if the Sun, then by wood or by quadrupeds ; if the (waning) Moon, then by horned animals or by water animals. There will be no wound in those parts of the body which are represented by signs occupied by the other (benefic) planets,

If three planets, whether malefic or benefic to- gether with Mercury occupy a single sign, a wound or a inole will appear without fail in the parts of body represented by the sign. Again, in the division(<5) of the body into twelve parts beginning from the head (which the Lagna represents), if a malefic planet occupy the sixth house, a wound will appear(^) (in the hip) ; but if the malefic planet be aspected by a benefic planet, both a dark and a white mole will appear; but if benefic planets occupy the sixth house, there will appear only a crowded growth of hair.