31. Dhanus, Taurus or Aries be the Ascendant and be aspected by malefics the person born will have irregular teeth.
He will have a bald head in whose birth Aries, Scorpio, Leo, Capricorn or Aquarius (sings ruled by malefics), or Dhanus or Taurus is rising and is aspected by malefics.
If all the malefics be posited in the 9th, 2nd, 12th and the 5th houses, the man will suffer imprisonment. Should in the above case Aries, Dhanus or Taurus be rising, he will further be put in chains or bound by ropes.
32. If Venus occupy a house of Saturn, the person’s body will emit foul smell. The same effect should be predicted (1) when the lord of the 6th house occupies a sign owned by Mercury (Gemini or Virgo) or Capricorn; or (2) when Venus occupying a sign of Mercury is conjoined with that planet and is in a Kendra; or (3) when Venus and Saturn are posited in their own Trimsamsas. Similarly foul smell will be emitted from the face of the native when the Moon occupies Aries identical with the Ascendant.
33. Thus should astrologers predict, after a careful deliberation with a keen intellect the good and bad effects arising at the birth of persons from the combination of planets which are capable of giving both auspicious and inauspicious results.
34. In this beautiful work named Jatakalankara, the chapter on Yogas has thus been composed with 33 charming verses by Ganesha, the learned astrologer, for the delectation of the wise.
Chapter 4 Visha Kanya Adhyaya
1. A girl born (1) in the asterisms Ashlesha, Krittika and Satabhisha, (2) in the week days – Sunday, Saturday and Tuesday and (3) in the Bhadra Tithis – i.c., Dwitiya, Saptami and Dwadasi – is termed a Visha Virgo when (1), (2) and (3) synchronously combine. That girl will be a Visha Virgo in whose nativity two benefics are in the Ascendant, one malefic in the 10th and two other malefics are in the 6th.
2. Note the following combinations: (1) Saturday, Ashlesha and Dwitiya; (2) Tuesday, Saptami and Satabhisha; (3) Sunday, Dwadasi and Visakha. If a girl be born in any one of these combinations, she will be a Visha Virgo.
Mars in the 9th, Saturn in the Ascendant and the Sun in the 5th in the nativity of a girl make her a Visha Virgo.
3. If the lord of the 7th house reckoned from the Ascendant or the Moon occupy the 7th, the yoga words off (1) the evil termed Visha, (2) childlessness and (3) widowhood. The same result would follow if benefic planet should occupy the 7th house reckoned form the Ascendant or the Moon.
4. Thus has been described the chapter on Visha Virgo by Sri Ganesha in three well-chosen verses in this beautiful work – Jatakalankara- composed in pleasing verses for the edification of the learned.
Chapter 5 Ayurdaya Adhyaya
1. The extent of one’s life is the basis on which depend all predications about (one’s) his career in this world, just as nectar is to the Gods. Thus declare the ancients. I am therefore dealing with the subject of one’s longevity.
2. If the lord of the Ascendant be possessed of superior strength and be aspected by benefics occupying Kendra position, the person born will be endowed with all good qualities, prosperity, wealth and a long lease of life.
Benefics posited in Kendras, the Moon in her own or exaltation Rashi and the lord of the Ascendant strong, will confer a lease of sixty years of life on the native concerned.
3. If the benefics be posited in Kendra houses, Jupiter be in the Ascendant, and the 8th house whether reckoned from the Ascendant or from the Moon be free from the association or aspect of malefics, the native concerned will live for 70 years.
If benefics occupy their Moola-Trikona Rashis, Jupiter be in his exaltation Rashi and the lord of the Ascendant be exceedingly strong, the person concerned will live up to 80 years.
4-5. If Mercury possessed of strength occupy a Kendra position, and the 8th house be vacant (without any planet occupying it), the person born will live for 30 years. But if the 8th house be aspected by a benefic planet, the native will live for 10 more years.
If Jupiter occupy his own Rashi and decanate, the native will live for 27 years.
If the Moon should be posited in her own Rashi or in the Ascendant, and a benefic planet be in the 7th bhava, the native will live for 60 years.
If benefics occupy the 5th and 9th houses, and the Ascendant happen to be a centipede sign with Jupiter in it the person concerned will have a lease of 80 years of life.
If the lord of the 8th house occupy the 9th, the lord of the Ascendant be in the Ascendant and the planet (if any) in the 8th be aspected by a malefic, the native will live for only 27 years.
If the lords of the Ascendant and the 8th house be posited in the 8th, the lease of life will be 27 years.
With Mars and Jupiter in the Ascendant and aspected by the Moon and with another planet posited in the 8th, the person concerned will live for 22 years.
6. With the Ascendant and the Moon devoid of the association of malefics, Jupiter in the Ascendant, the 8th house vacant and a benefic posited in a Kendra, the native will live for 70 years.
If Venus and Jupiter occupy Kendras, the person will live 100 years.
Jupiter in Kataka identical with the Ascendant, Venus is a Kendra will confer on the native 100 years lease of life.
