22. KHARA DREKKANA. The 22nd decanate from the Ascendant will denote the nature of one’s death. For example, by the nature of its Lord, (i.e. the humour, place etc.)
23-24. EFFECTS OF ARIES DECANATES AS RELATED TO DEATH. If the first decanate of Aries be the 22nd decanate from the Ascendant and be in aspect to a malefic the native’s death will be due to water (i.e. drowning etc.), snake, poison, or bilious imbalances. If the 2nd decanate of Aries be so related, water, insects, ice and forests will cause death. The 3rd decanate of Aries denotes tanks, well etc.
25-26. DECANATES IN TAURUS. If the first decanate of Taurus be the 22nd decanate at birth, death will be caused by animals, like ox, horse, donkey, camel etc. The second decanate in Taurus denotes the end due to bilious/windy complaints, fire and thieves. The concluding decanate of Taurus leads to one’s death in journey, or due to fall from the back of a horse, or due to hit by weapon in battle.
27-28. DECANATES IN GEMINI. If the first decanate of Gemini be the 22nd decanate at birth, one’s end will be due to tuberculosis, or pulmonary disorders. The second decanate in Gemini identical with 22nd decanate denotes death through a buffalo, or through poison, or delirium. If the 3rd decanate in Gemini becomes the 22nd decanate the end will be through forest tribes, quadrupeds in general, or elephants in particular.
29-30. DECANATES IN CANCER. If the 22nd decanate is the first decanate of Cancer, the reason of death will be a crocodile (or a shark), wine, thorn, or dreams. The second decanate will cause end by beating, or by consuming of poison. The terminating decanate indicates death by respiratory diseases, urinary diseases (viz. gleet, diabetes etc.), spleenary disorders, affliction to blood, or by swooning caused by excessive labor.
31-32. DECANATES IN LEO. The 22nd decanate identical with the first decanate of Leo will cause one’s end due to water, poison, or diseases of the foot. The second decanate of Leo indicates death by diseases caused by water, or movements in forests. The last decanate thereof will bring one’s end through poison, weapons, calumny, or fall from heights.
33-34. DECANATES IN VIRGO. Should the death decanate be the first decanate in Virgo, one’s life will end due to diseases of the head, or by wind, (gale, hurricane, or outburst of violent wind etc.,) The middle decanate in Virgo will cause death by snake-bites, or in hills, forts, forests etc., or by the son of a king. The concluding decanate in Virgo will bring death by camels, asses, weapons, water, deep pits, females and unhealthy eating and drinking.
35. DECANATES IN LIBRA. When the 22nd decanate at birth is held by the first decanate of Libra, death will be through a female, or quadrupeds, or fall from heights. The middle decanate of Libra denotes end on account of stomachial diseases, while last decanate indicates snakes, or animals living in water, as a source of death.
38-39. DECANATES IN SAGITTARIUS. The first decanate of Sagittarius being the 22nd decanate at birth, denotes, that death will be due to various windy disorders, or due to diseases of the anus. The second decanate will cause one’s end to poison, or faults of elders, or windy diseases. The concluding decanate will inflict death in water, or through abdominal disorders.
40-41. DECANATES IN CAPRICORN. The opening decanate of Capricorn will bring death through royal torture, or through tigers. The middle decanate will inflict death on account of damage to thighs, or through creatures/animals living in water, poison, snake, fire, weapons, robbers, fever and living beings other than human beings. The last decanate will bring end through a female.
42-43. DECANATES IN AQUARIUS. The first decanate in Aquarius will bring death through females, water, hills, elephants and stomachial disorders. The middle decanate denotes one’s end through miseries caused by a female, venereal diseases etc., while the third decanate will cause death through copulation, facial diseases and quadrupeds.
44-15. DECANATES IN PISCES. If the first decanate of Pisces be related to death, it will be due to diarrhea, spleenary, or urinary disorders affliction to stomach/thighs, females, elephants, or planetary evils. If the second decanate be so related, one’s end of life will come through a tragedy in a boat and the third one denotes death due to dreaded diseases.
Thus ends the 47th Ch. entitled “APHORISMS OF DEATH” in Kalyana Varma’s Saravali.
Ch. 48. Lost Horoscopy
1. When the time of birth, or time of conception is unknown, through horary method the lost birth details can be traced.
2. The effects of ten divisions (Dasa Vargas) will help to arrive at the natal Ascendant. These ten divisions are explained infra, the first being the effects of Ascendant.
3-6. EFFECTS OF BIRTH IN ARIES ASCENDANT. One born in Aries Ascendant will be highly susceptible to fire, be interested in visiting foreign places, be miserly in disposition, emaciated, not happy, be jealous, stammering in speech, troubled by bilious and windy diseases and complaints of heat, be skillful in performance, timid, religious, not very intelligent and will destroy others’ wealth.
He will be fickle-minded. He will enjoy pleasures, be famous, will have bad (ugly) nails, be bereft of brothers, be discarded by his father, will walk fast, will have inactive (or unlucky) children, be endowed with various kinds of wealth and be, virtuous. His wife will belong to a base family, be virtuous and be reproached even by her own people. The native will derive happiness and wealth in undesirable manners.
