Chapter 4: Matters Connected with Birth Time

The menses that appear monthly, because of Mars and the Moon bring about conception when the CH. IV.] Brihat Jdtakd. 29 Moon is in one of the Amipachaya signs (&). If the Moon be otherwise and be aspected by a benefic male planet d}, there will be sexual union between a woman and her husband.

If, at the time of sexual union, the Sun, the Moon Venus and Mars be in their Navamsas, or if Jupiter occupy the rising sign or the 5th or the 9th sign from it, such union will produce a child. To persons devoid of virility, the above Yoga (planetary positions) will be as useless as the rays of the Moon to the blind. NOTES- The Commentator adds that there would also be conception when these four planets are not in their Na- vamsas, if the Sun and Venus should occupy the Upachaya signs in the horoscope of the man and at the same time be in their Navamsas, or if Mars and the Moon should occupy the Upachaya signs in the horoscope of the woman and at the same time be in their Navamsas.

If at the time of conception, either Mars or Saturn should occupy the seventh house from the Sun or the Moon, the man and his wife would respectively fall ill • but if one of the two planets, Mars and Jupiter, should occupy the twelfth and the other the second house from the Sun and the Moon, or if one of the planets should be in conjunction with the Sun or the Moon and the other should aspect either the Sun or the Moon, the man and his wife will respectively meet with death (3).

In the case of conception by day, the Sun and Venus represent respectively the father and the mother ; and by night, Saturn and the Moon represent respectively the father and the mother. In the former case, Saturn and the Moon represent respectively the paternal uncle and the maternal aunt ; and in the latter case the Sun and Venus represent respectively the paternal uncle and the maternal aunt. If the planets representing the father and the paternal uncle should occupy the odd signs, or if the planets representing the mother and the maternal aunt should occupy the even signs at the time, then the father and paternal uncle or the mother and the maternal aunt would be happy.

If at the time of conception malefic planets occupy the twelfth house G/), and if then the rising sign be not aspected by benefic planets, or if Saturn occupy the rising sign and be aspected by the waning Moon and Mars (in either case) the pregnant woman will die.

If (at the time) either the rising sign or the Moon or both be between malefic planets and at the same time not aspected by the benefic planets, the pregnant woman will die (£.

If (at the time) malefic planets occupy the fourth house and Mars the eight house from the ascendant or the Moon, or again if Mars occupy the fourth house and the Sun, the twelfth house from the ascendant and if it be the waning Moon at the time, the pregnant woman will die.

If (at the time) Mars occupy the L,agna and the Sun occupy the seventh house, the pregnant woman will suffer death from weapons. If the lord of any month (0), be afflicted (£), the pregnancy will miscarry in that month.

If the benefic planets («) be with the Moon or in the ascendant 0$), or if they occupy the second, fourth, fifth, seventh, ninth and the tenth houses from the Moon or the ascendant, there will be safe delivery, provided malefic planets occupy the third or eleventh house from the Moon or the ascendant, and the Moon or the ascen- dant is at the same time aspected by the Sun, CH. IV.] Brihat Jdtakd. S3

If the rising sign, the Sun, Jupiter and the Moon be powerful and occupy the odd (male) signs and the odd Navamsas, the issue will be a male child ; if they occupy the even (female) signs and the even Navani- sas, the issue will be a female child ; if again, the Sun and Jupiter occupy the odd signs, the issue will be a male child ; and if the Moon, Venus and Mars occupy the even signs, the issue will be a female child. Also, if the Sun and Jupiter occupy the two male double bodied Navamsas (/) and beaspected by Mercury, the issue will be male twins ; and if Venus and Mars occupy the two female double bodied Navamsas and be aspected by Mercury, the isssue will be female twins (//).

If (at the time) (/?), Saturn occupy any of the odd signs from the rising sign (3), the issue will be a male child. 5 The sex of the issue in all the above cases shall be determined by the position of the most powerful planet.

If (at the time of conception), the Moon and the Sun, occupying respectively any of the even and odd signs, aspect each other, or (2), if Saturn and Mercury (occupy- ing, respectively any of the even and odd signs) aspect each other, or (3) if Mars (in an odd sign) aspect (or beaspected by) the .Sun in an even sign, or (4) if the Moon and L/agna in odd signs be aspected by Mars (in an even sign), or (5) if Mars aspect the Moon and Mercury occu- pying respectively even and odd signs, or (C) if Venus, L,agua and the Moon occupy (male signs and) male Navamsas, the issue will be a hermaphrodite.

If, when the Moon and Venus are in even signs, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter and Lagna be in odd signs, or if a male planet aspect Lagna and the Moon in the even signs, or if Mercury, Mars, Jupiter and L,agna be power- ful and occupy even signs, the issue will be a male and a female child. Again, if L,agna and all the planets occupy the Ubhaya (common) Navamsas and be aspected by Mercury in his Navamsa, the issue will be three children : Of these, two will be male children if the Navamsa occu- CH. IV.] Brihat Mtakd. 35 pied by Mercury be that of Gemini, and two will be female children if such Navamsabe that of Virgo. Again, if, when Mercury occupies the Navamsa of Gemini, the other planets and Lagna occupy the Navamsas of Gemini and Sagittari, all the three will be male children; and if, when Mercury occupies the Navamsa of Virgo, the other planets and Lagna occupy the Navamsas of Virgo and Pisces, all the three will be female children.

If the last Navamsa of sign Sagittari begin to rise, if all the planets occupy the Navamsa of Sagittari and be powerful, and if the rising sign be aspected by powerful Mercury and Saturn, the issue will be more than three children. NOTES, That is 5 or 7 or 10 according to the Commen- tator.

In the first month of pregnancy, the embryo is formed ; in the second, it becomes flesh ; in the third, the limbs are formed ; in the fourth, the bones are formed ; in the fifth, the skin is formed ; in the sixth, the hair be- gins to grow ; in the seventh, intelligence is infused into the child. The lords of the several months from the first to the seventh are Venus, Mars, Jupiter, the Sun, the Moon, Saturn and Mercury respectively.

If Mercury occupy the fifth or the ninth house from the rising sign, and if at the same time the other planets be powerless, the face, the legs, and the hands of the child will be doubled. If the Moon occupy sign Taurus and if malefic planets occupy the Riksha Sandhis (6) the issue will be a mute child ; but if the Moon be aspected by a benefic planet, there will be speech after a long time.

If Saturn and Mars occupy either the signs or the Navamsas of Mercury, the issue Will be a child born with teeth. If Cancer be the rising sign and if the Moon occupy it and be aspected by Saturn and Mars, the child will be humpbacked ; if Pisces be the rising sign and if jt be aspected by Saturn, the Moon and Mars, the child CH. IV.] .BrihatJdtakd. 37 will be lame. If a malefic planet (6) and the Moon be in any of the last Navamsas of Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces, the child will be born deaf. In all the above Yogas the effects described will occur only if the several planets are not aspected by benefic planets.

If the last Navatnsa of Makara begin to rise and if it be aspected by Saturn, the Moon and the Sun, the issue will be a dwaif. If Mars occupy the rising Drekkana of the L,agna or the corresponding Drek- kana of the fifth house or of the ninth house the issue will be either without a head or without arms or without legs respectively, if Mars be aspected by the Sun, the Moon and Saturn.

If Leo be the rising sign and if it be occupied by the Sun and Moon and aspected by Mars and Saturn, the issue will be a blind child («) ; if in the above case, beuefic planets aspect the rising sign, the child will be born with a mote in its eyes. If the Moon or the Sun occupy the twelfth house from the rising sign (3), the child will be born blind, respectively, of the left or the right eye. The several Yogas mentioned above will not wholly come to pass if the planets of each Yoga be aspected by benefic planets.

Find out the number of the particular Dwada- samsa occupied by the Moon at the time in any Zodi- acal sign. Note the Zodiacal sign whose name the Dwa- dasamsa bears. Count from the next sign as many signs as the number of Dwadasamsas by which the Moon may have advanced in any particular sign. When the Moon comes to such last sign, the birth of the child will occur. Again, the birth will occur by day or by night accord- ing as the rising Navamsa at the time is a day or a night Navamsa. The hour of birth from sun-rise or sun-set may be calculated from the portion of the rising Xavamsa that may have risen above the horizon.

If at the time of conception, the Navamsa of Saturn begin to rise and if Saturn occupy the seventh house from the rising sign, there will be delivery after three years ; and in similar case of the Moon (<$) there will be delivery after twelve years. Which of the several Yogas described in this Chapter are applicable to the time of birth also, shall be deter- mined on the nature of such Yogas (c\