Now effects for Mercury.
279 – 280. Mercury in Sayana Avasta: (a) One will be strong, be troubled by hunger and will have some physical defect. He will be impotent. These apply to Mercury’s position in the ascendant in Sayana Avastha.
(b) In a house other than the ascendant, Mercury in this Avasta will cause utter poverty and greed.
281 – 283. Mercury in Upavesa Avasta: (a) One with Mercury in Upavesa Avasta will be eloquent, endowed with poetic skills and virtues, fair in complexion and very pure.
(b) Maha Paataka Yoga: If a malefic joins Mercury who is in Upavesa Avasta, with an aspect from an inimical planet, Maha Paataka Yoga is caused. As a result of this Yoga, the person will commit sins of a great order. So has been declared by Vishnu.
(c) Mercury in his own sign in this Avasta and begetting the company of a friendly planet will bless one with various kinds of happiness. Further, he will perform meritorious acts and be munificent. The only negative effect of this combination is disorders of eyes.
284 – 285. Mercury in Netrapani Avasta: (a) Morbid enlargement of feet, inclination to gather wealth, lack of learning and loss of progeny in particular are the results that will follow Mercury’s attaining Netrapani Avasta.
(b) Mercury in the 5th house in this Avasta will destroy the first son and will give many daughters.
286. Mercury in Prakasa Avasta: Mercury in Prakasa Avasta will make the subject charitable, affluent highly virtuous and learned in scriptures.
287 – 288. Mercury in Gamana Avasta: One with Mercury in Gamana Avasta will suffer from blemishes of bodily fluids (or from frigidity), will earn through trading activities, will incur fear through snakes and water, be grieved in various ways, will lose his spouse and kinsfolk, be a fool, be distressed and devoid any virtues.
289 – 290. Mercury in Gamanechcha Avasta: One with Mercury in Gamanechcha Avasta will be greedy, skilful, subdued by his wife, will have a wicked wife, be lustful, garrulous and subjected to many kinds of grief. He will suffer from a number of diseases, will have injured teeth and be fond of quarrels.
291 – 293. Mercury in Sabha Avasta: (a) One with Mercury in Sabha Avasta will surely be a fool. He will also be rich, charitable and will for a long time be ill.
(b) Mercury in the 5th or the 12th in this Avasta will cause birth of many daughters. In addition, the person will be specially industrious.
(c) If Mercury is in the 7th house in Sabha Avasta, the subject will enjoy every kind of happiness, be dark-bodied and wicked.
294 – 295. Mercury in Gamana Avasta: One with Mercury in Gamana Avasta will be cruel, wicked, very foolish, sinful and mean. He will have two sons, limited wealth and various kinds of dispositions. He will incur diseases of the privities and unbearable pains in urination.
296 – 297. Mercury in Bhojana Avasta: One with Mercury in Bhojana Avasta will be devoid of wealth, will hate others, will live in foreign (distant) lands be a victim of many diseases, will have injuries in the left part of the body, will incur ulcer and itches, be troubled by spirits and will particularly suffer from diseases of the head.
298 – 299. Mercury in Nrityalip Avasta: One with Mercury in Nrityalipsa Avasta will be wealthy, learned, be a poet, be enthusiastic, highly satisfied and will enjoy wonderful pleasures. He will have five sons, four daughters and two wives and be endowed with various virtues.
300 – 302. Mercury in Kautuka Avasta: (a) One with Mercury in Kautuka Avasta will be liked by all and will suffer from piles, itches and skin disorders.
(b) In the 5th or the 10th house, this Avasta for Mercury will endanger the first child. The subject will have many f male issues.
(c) If in the 10th or the 9th house, one will enjoy various kinds of pleasures. and will be involved in multiple callings.
Notes: The results mentioned at “b” as well as at “c” will occur if Mercury is in the 10th house with Kautuka Avasta. Those mentioned at “b” and “c” will also occur when Mercury has this state in the 5th and 9th, in that order.
303 – 305. Mercury in Nidra Avasta: (a) One with Mercury in Nidra Avasta will incur all kinds of grief, be short lived and argumentative. These will materialize even if the houses involved are one of the ascendant and the 10th house. (To wit, this applies to any house including the said two.)
(b) Barring the ascendant and the 10th house, Mercury in Nidra Avasta will grant wealth and food comforts.
Notes: Mercury’s Nidra Avasta in any of the twelve houses will be bad for happiness and life-span. In the ascendant and 10th, he will specially deprive one of wealth whereas in other houses he will give wealth in the company of evil effects cited.
Thus end the effects for Mercury’s Avastas.
