Chapter on the Examination of Ariṣṭa (Afflictions Threatening Early Death) — Bṛhat-Pārāśara-Horāśāstra, Adhyāya 10

अरिष्टविवेचनाध्यायः

The complete Chapter on the Examination of Ariṣṭa (Afflictions Threatening Early Death) chapter of the Bṛhat-Pārāśara-Horāśāstra — all 45 verses, each in the original Sanskrit with VedicSpace's clean-room English translation, cited by śloka. Translated from the Chaukhamba (Devachandra Jha) edition and audited against the printed plates.

Śloka 1 — Method: examine ariṣṭa and its cancellation before any bhāva prediction

मैत्रेयादौ जन्तुलग्नादरिष्टं तद्भङ्गमेव च । विचार्य तदनु ब्रूयात् फलं तन्वादिभावजम् ॥ १ ॥

Parāśara said: O Maitreya, first of all, from the native's lagna one should examine the ariṣṭa and likewise its cancellation (bhaṅga); only thereafter should one pronounce the results arising from the bhāvas beginning with tanu (the first).

BPHS Adhyāya 10, śloka 1

Śloka 2 — Duration of janmāriṣṭa; suspension of āyurdāya reckoning

चतुर्विंशतिवर्षाणि यावद् गच्छति जन्मतः । जन्मारिष्टं तु तावत् स्यादायुर्दायं न चिन्तयेत् ॥ २ ॥

For as long as twenty-four years pass from birth, for just so long janmāriṣṭa (the natal affliction) holds; during that span one should not compute the āyurdāya (the allotted span of life).

BPHS Adhyāya 10, śloka 2

Śloka 3 — Ariṣṭayoga: Moon in 6/8/12 aspected by malefics

षष्ठाष्टरिष्फगश्चन्द्रो ग्रहैः क्रूरैश्च वीक्षितः । जातस्य मृत्युदः सद्यस्त्वष्टवर्षैः शुभेक्षितः ॥ ३ ॥

The Moon placed in the sixth, the eighth, or the twelfth (riḥpha) and aspected by cruel grahas gives death to the newborn at once; but if it is [also] aspected by benefics, [death comes] within eight years.

BPHS Adhyāya 10, śloka 3

Śloka 4 — Retrograde benefics as death-givers; benefic-void lagna

शाशिवन्मृत्युदाः सौम्याश्चेद् वक्राः क्रूरवीक्षिताः । शिशोर्जातस्य मासेन लग्ने सौम्यविवर्जिते ॥ ४ ॥

Benefics too give death just as the Moon does, if they are retrograde and aspected by cruel grahas; and when the lagna is devoid of benefics, [death comes] to the child born, within a month.

BPHS Adhyāya 10, śloka 4

Śloka 5 — Sun, Saturn, Moon, Mars in the 5th — death of mother and brother

यस्य जन्मनि धीस्थाः स्युः सूर्यार्कीन्दुकुजाभिधाः । तस्य त्वाशु जनित्री च भ्राता निधनमाप्नुयात् ॥ ५ ॥

He in whose birth [chart] those named Sun, Saturn (Arki), Moon (Indu) and Mars (Kuja) stand in the fifth (dhī) — his mother and his brother swiftly meet destruction.

BPHS Adhyāya 10, śloka 5

Śloka 6 — Afflicted Mars in lagna or 8th as death-giver

पापेक्षितो युतो भौमो लग्नगो न शुभेक्षितः । मृत्युदस्त्वष्टमस्थोऽपि सौरिणाऽर्केण वाऽन्वितः ॥ ६ ॥

Mars in the lagna, aspected by or joined with malefics and not aspected by benefics, gives death; and so too when placed in the eighth and joined with Saturn or with the Sun.

BPHS Adhyāya 10, śloka 6

Śloka 7 — Eclipse birth with Rāhu on the luminary; lagna aspected by Saturn and Mars

चन्द्र-सूर्यग्रहे राहुश्चन्द्र-सूर्ययुतो यदि । सौरिभौमेक्षितं लग्नं पक्षमेकं स जीवति ॥ ७ ॥

If at a lunar or solar eclipse Rāhu is joined with the Moon or the Sun, and the lagna is aspected by Saturn and Mars, he lives one fortnight only.

BPHS Adhyāya 10, śloka 7

Śloka 8 — Saturn 10th, Moon 6th, Mars 7th — child dies with the mother

कर्मस्थाने स्थितः सौरिः शत्रुस्थाने कलानिधिः । क्षितिजः सप्तमे मात्रा साधं तु म्रियते शिशुः ॥ ८ ॥

Saturn placed in the tenth (karma), the Moon (kalānidhi) in the sixth (śatru), and Mars (kṣitija) in the seventh — the child dies together with the mother.

BPHS Adhyāya 10, śloka 8

Śloka 9 — Saturn lagna, Moon 8th, Jupiter 3rd

लग्ने भास्करपुत्रश्च निधने चन्द्रमा यदि । तृतीयस्थो यदा जीवः स याति यममन्दिरम् ॥ ९ ॥

If Saturn (the son of the Sun) is in the lagna, the Moon in the eighth (nidhana), and Jupiter (Jīva) stands in the third, he goes to the mansion of Yama.

BPHS Adhyāya 10, śloka 9

Śloka 10 — Sun in lagna or 9th, Saturn 7th, Jupiter and Venus 11th — one month

होरायां नवमे सूर्यः सप्तमस्थः शनैश्चरः । एकादशे गुरुः शुक्रो मासमेकं स जीवति ॥ १० ॥

The Sun in the lagna (horā) or in the ninth, Saturn placed in the seventh, and Jupiter and Venus in the eleventh — he lives one month.

BPHS Adhyāya 10, śloka 10

Śloka 11 — Grahas in the 12th; the four especially destructive; aspect on the 12th cancels

व्यये सर्वे ग्रहा नेष्टाः सूर्य-शुक्रेन्दु-राहवः । विशेषान्नाशकत्वारो दृष्ट्या वा भङ्गकारिणः ॥ ११ ॥

In the twelfth (vyaya) all grahas are undesirable; the four — Sun, Venus, Moon and Rāhu — are destructive in particular; but by aspect [upon that house] they become breakers of the ariṣṭa.

BPHS Adhyāya 10, śloka 11

Śloka 12 — Afflicted Moon in 9th, 7th or lagna

पापान्वितः शशी धर्म-द्यून-लग्नगतो यदि । शुभैर्न चेदीक्षितयुतस्तदा मृत्युप्रदः शिशोः ॥ १२ ॥

If the Moon, joined with a malefic, occupies the ninth (dharma), the seventh (dyūna) or the lagna, and is neither aspected nor joined by benefics, it then gives death to the child.

BPHS Adhyāya 10, śloka 12

Śloka 13 — Birth at sandhyā, in the Moon's horā, or at gaṇḍānta

सन्ध्यायां चन्द्रहोरायां गण्डान्ते निधनाय वै । प्रत्येकं चन्द्रपापैश्च केन्द्रगैः स्याद् विनाशनम् ॥ १३ ॥

[Birth] at twilight, in the horā of the Moon, or at a gaṇḍānta tends to death; in each of these cases destruction results when the Moon and the malefics [together] occupy the kendras.

BPHS Adhyāya 10, śloka 13

Śloka 14 — Definition of the duration of morning and evening sandhyā

रवेस्तु मण्डलार्धास्तात् सायं सन्ध्या त्रिनाडिका । तथैवार्धोदयात्पूर्वं प्रातः सन्ध्या त्रिनाडिका ॥ १४ ॥

From the setting of half the Sun's disc, the evening twilight is three nāḍīs; and likewise, before the rising of half [the disc], the morning twilight is three nāḍīs.

BPHS Adhyāya 10, śloka 14

Śloka 15 — Malefics in the eastern half, benefics in the western half, with Scorpio rising

चक्र-पूर्वापरार्धेषु क्रूर-सौम्येषु कीटभे । लग्नगे निधनं याति नात्र कार्या विचारणा ॥ १५ ॥

When malefics occupy the eastern half of the chart and benefics the western half, and the sign Scorpio (kīṭabha) is in the lagna, he meets death — no further deliberation need be made here.

BPHS Adhyāya 10, śloka 15

Śloka 16 — Malefics in 12, 6, 8, 2 with the lagna hemmed between malefics

व्ययशत्रुगतैः क्रूरैर्मृत्यु-द्रव्यगतैरपि । पापमध्यगते लग्ने सत्यमेव मृतिं वदेत् ॥ १६ ॥

With cruel grahas gone to the twelfth (vyaya) and sixth (śatru), and also to the eighth (mṛtyu) and second (dravya), the lagna being hemmed between malefics — one should declare death as a certainty.

BPHS Adhyāya 10, śloka 16

Śloka 17 — Malefics in lagna and 7th with an afflicted Moon

लग्न-सप्तमगौ पापौ चन्द्रोऽपि क्रूरसंयुतः । यदा त्ववीक्षितः सौम्यैः शीघ्रान्मृत्युर्भवेत्तदा ॥ १७ ॥

When two malefics occupy the lagna and the seventh, and the Moon too is joined with a cruel graha and is unaspected by benefics, then death comes swiftly.

BPHS Adhyāya 10, śloka 17

Śloka 18 — Waned Moon in lagna with malefics in kendras and the 8th

क्षीणे शशिनि लग्नस्थे पापैः केन्द्राष्टसंस्थितैः । यो जातो मृत्युमाप्नोति स विप्रेश ! न संशयः ॥ १८ ॥

O lord among brāhmaṇas! when a waned Moon stands in the lagna and malefics are stationed in the kendras and in the eighth, the one who is born [then] meets death — there is no doubt of it.

BPHS Adhyāya 10, śloka 18

Śloka 19 — Moon hemmed between malefics in lagna, 8th, 12th or 7th

पापयोर्मध्यगश्चन्द्रो लग्नाष्टान्त्यकलत्रगः । अचिरान्मृत्युमाप्नोति यो जातः स शिशुस्तदा ॥ १९ ॥

The Moon standing between two malefics and placed in the lagna, the eighth, the twelfth (antya) or the seventh (kalatra) — the child born at that time meets death before long.

BPHS Adhyāya 10, śloka 19

Śloka 20 — Hemmed Moon in lagna with a malefic in 7th or 8th — child dies with mother

पापद्वय-मध्यगते चन्द्रे लग्नसमाश्रिते । सप्ताष्टगेन पापेन मात्रा सह मृतः शिशुः ॥ २० ॥

When the Moon, standing between two malefics, has taken its seat in the lagna, and a malefic is in the seventh or eighth, the child dies together with the mother.

BPHS Adhyāya 10, śloka 20

Śloka 21 — Saturn, Sun, Mars in 12th, 9th, 8th unaspected by benefics

शनैश्चरार्कभौमेषु रिष्फ-धर्माष्टगेषु च । शुभैरवीक्ष्यमाणेषु यो जातो निधनं गतः ॥ २१ ॥

When Saturn, the Sun and Mars have gone to the twelfth (riḥpha), the ninth (dharma) and the eighth, and are not being aspected by benefics, the one born [then] has gone to destruction.

BPHS Adhyāya 10, śloka 21

Śloka 22 — Malefic in the dreṣkāṇa or the 7th with a waned Moon in lagna

यद्द्रेष्काणे च यामित्रे यस्य स्यादारुणो ग्रहः । क्षीणचन्द्रो विलग्नस्थः सद्यो हरति जीवितम् ॥ २२ ॥

He in whose dreṣkāṇa, or in whose seventh (yāmitra), there is a fierce (āruṇa) graha, and [in whose chart] a waned Moon stands in the lagna — [this combination] carries off his life at once.

BPHS Adhyāya 10, śloka 22

Śloka 23 — All grahas weak and in āpoklima houses

आपोक्लिमस्थिताः सर्वे ग्रहा बलविवर्जिताः । षड्मासं वा द्विमासं वा तस्यायुः समुदाहृतम् ॥ २३ ॥

When all the grahas, devoid of strength, stand in the āpoklima houses, his life-span is declared to be six months, or [even only] two months.

BPHS Adhyāya 10, śloka 23

Śloka 24 — Mātṛkaṣṭa: Moon aspected by three malefics

पापैः खेटैस्त्रिभिश्चन्द्रो दृश्यते यदि जन्मनि । मातृनाशो भवेत्तस्य शुभैर्दृष्टे शुभं वदेत् ॥ २४ ॥

If at birth the Moon is looked upon by three malefic grahas (kheṭa), the destruction of his mother results; if it is aspected by benefics, one should predict what is auspicious.

BPHS Adhyāya 10, śloka 24

Śloka 25 — Five grahas in the 2nd — mother's death; posthumous birth

धने राहुर्बुधः शुक्रः सौरिः सूर्यो यदा स्थितः । तस्य मातुर्भवेन्मृत्यु मृते पितरि जायते ॥ २५ ॥

When Rāhu, Mercury, Venus, Saturn and the Sun stand in the second (dhana), his mother's death occurs; and he is born after his father has died.

BPHS Adhyāya 10, śloka 25

Śloka 26 — Moon in 7th/8th from a malefic, conjunct and aspected by strong malefics

पापात्सप्तम-रन्ध्रस्थे चन्द्रे पापसमन्विते । बलिभिः पापकैर्दृष्टे जातो भवति मातृहा ॥ २६ ॥

When the Moon stands in the seventh or the eighth (randhra) from a malefic, is itself joined with a malefic, and is aspected by strong malefics, the one born becomes a slayer of his mother.

BPHS Adhyāya 10, śloka 26

Śloka 27 — Sun in the 7th in ucca or nīca — child not nursed by the mother

उच्चस्थो वाऽथ नीचस्थः सप्तमस्थो यदा रविः । पानहीनो भवेद् बालस्त्वजा क्षीरेण जीवति ॥ २७ ॥

When the Sun, whether placed in ucca or in nīca, is placed in the seventh, the child is deprived of [the mother's] milk and lives on goat's milk.

BPHS Adhyāya 10, śloka 27

Śloka 28 — Malefic in the 4th from the Moon in an enemy's sign

चन्द्राच्चतुर्थगः पापो रिपुक्षेत्रे यदा भवेत् । तदा मातृवधं कुर्यात् केन्द्रे यदि शुभो न चेत् ॥ २८ ॥

When a malefic that has gone to the fourth from the Moon is in an enemy's sign, it then brings about the death of the mother — provided no benefic is in a kendra.

BPHS Adhyāya 10, śloka 28

Śloka 29 — Malefic in 12th/6th — danger to mother; in 4th/10th — to father

द्वादशे रिपुभावे च यदा पापग्रहो भवेत् । तदा मातुर्भयं विद्याच्चतुर्थे दशमे पितुः ॥ २९ ॥

When a malefic graha is in the twelfth or in the sixth (ripu) bhāva, one should know there is danger to the mother; when in the fourth or the tenth, [danger] to the father.

BPHS Adhyāya 10, śloka 29

Śloka 30 — Malefics in lagna, 12th, 2nd and 7th — destruction of the family

लग्ने क्रूरो व्यये क्रूरो धनेऽसौम्यस्तथैव च । सप्तमे भवने क्रूरः परिवारक्षयङ्करः ॥ ३० ॥

A cruel graha in the lagna, a cruel graha in the twelfth, a non-benefic likewise in the second, and a cruel graha in the seventh bhāva — [this] brings about the destruction of the family.

BPHS Adhyāya 10, śloka 30

Śloka 31 — Jupiter lagna, Saturn 2nd, Rāhu 3rd — mother does not live

लग्नस्थे च गुरौ सौरौ धने राहौ तृतीयगे । इति चेज्जन्मकाले स्याद् माता तस्य न जीवति ॥ ३१ ॥

If at the moment of birth Jupiter is placed in the lagna, Saturn in the second (dhana), and Rāhu gone to the third, his mother does not live.

BPHS Adhyāya 10, śloka 31

Śloka 32 — Malefics in trikoṇa from a waned Moon — mother forsakes the child

क्षीणचन्द्रात् त्रिकोणस्थैः पापैः सौम्यविवर्जितैः । माता परित्यजेद् बालं षड्मासाच्च न संशयः ॥ ३२ ॥

When malefics unaccompanied by benefics stand in the trikoṇas from a waned Moon, the mother forsakes the child within six months — of this there is no doubt.

BPHS Adhyāya 10, śloka 32

Śloka 33 — Saturn and Mars in the same aṃśa, or in kendras from the Moon

एकांशकस्थौ मन्दारौ यत्र कुत्र स्थितौ यदा । शशि-केन्द्रगतौ तौ वा द्विमातृभ्यां न जीवति ॥ ३३ ॥

When Saturn and Mars (Manda and Āra), placed in whatever sign, occupy one and the same aṃśa, or when the two have gone to kendras from the Moon, he does not survive even with two mothers.

BPHS Adhyāya 10, śloka 33

Śloka 34 — Pitṛkaṣṭa: Saturn lagna, Mars 7th, Moon 6th — father does not live

लग्ने मन्दो मदे भौमः षष्ठस्थाने च चन्द्रमाः । इति चेज्जन्मकाले स्यात् पिता तस्य न जीवति ॥ ३४ ॥

If at the moment of birth Saturn is in the lagna, Mars in the seventh (mada), and the Moon in the sixth, his father does not live.

BPHS Adhyāya 10, śloka 34

Śloka 35 — Jupiter lagna with four grahas in the 2nd — father dies at the native's marriage

लग्ने जीवो धने मन्दरविभौमबुधास्तथा । विवाहसमये तस्य बालस्य म्रियते पिता ॥ ३५ ॥

Jupiter in the lagna, and likewise Saturn, the Sun, Mars and Mercury in the second (dhana) — the father of that child dies at the time of his marriage.

BPHS Adhyāya 10, śloka 35

Śloka 36 — Sun afflicted, with a malefic in the 7th from the Sun

सूर्यः पापेन संयुक्तः पापमध्यगतोऽपि वा । सूर्यात् सप्तमगः पापस्तदा पितृवधो भवेत् ॥ ३६ ॥

The Sun joined with a malefic, or else standing between malefics, and a malefic gone to the seventh from the Sun — then the destruction of the father occurs.

BPHS Adhyāya 10, śloka 36

Śloka 37 — Sun 7th, Mars 10th, Rāhu 12th — father lives in hardship

सप्तमे भवने सूर्यः कर्मस्थो भूमिनन्दनः । राहुर्व्यये च यस्यैव पिता कष्टेन जीवति ॥ ३७ ॥

He alone who has the Sun in the seventh bhāva, Mars (the son of the Earth) placed in the tenth (karma), and Rāhu in the twelfth (vyaya) — his father lives in hardship.

BPHS Adhyāya 10, śloka 37

Śloka 38 — Mars in the 10th in an enemy's sign — father dies quickly

दशमस्थो यदा भौमः शत्रुक्षेत्र-समाश्रितः । म्रियते तस्य जातस्य पिता शीघ्रं न संशयः ॥ ३८ ॥

When Mars stands in the tenth and has taken its seat in an enemy's sign, the father of the one so born dies quickly — there is no doubt.

BPHS Adhyāya 10, śloka 38

Śloka 39 — Moon 6th, Saturn lagna, Mars 7th — father does not live

रिपुस्थाने यदा चन्द्रो लग्नस्थाने शनैश्वरः । कुजश्च सप्तमे स्थाने पिता तस्य न जीवति ॥ ३९ ॥

When the Moon is in the sixth (ripu), Saturn in the lagna, and Mars in the seventh, his father does not live.

BPHS Adhyāya 10, śloka 39

Śloka 40 — Sun in a Mars aṃśa aspected by Saturn — father renounces or dies before the birth

भौमांशकगते भानौ सौरिणा च निरीक्षिते । प्राग् जन्मनो निवृत्तिः स्वान्मृत्युर्वाऽपि शिशोः पितुः ॥ ४० ॥

When the Sun has gone to an aṃśa of Mars and is aspected by Saturn, the child's father withdraws from his own [household] before the birth, or else dies.

BPHS Adhyāya 10, śloka 40

Śloka 41 — Malefics in the 4th, 10th and 12th — loss of parents and wandering abroad

पाताले चाम्बरे पापौ द्वादशे च यदा स्थितौ । पितरं मातरं हत्वा देशाद्देशान्तरं व्रजेत् ॥ ४१ ॥

When two malefics are stationed in the fourth (pātāla), the tenth (ambara) and the twelfth, having destroyed father and mother he goes from one country to another.

BPHS Adhyāya 10, śloka 41

Śloka 42 — Rāhu and Jupiter in 6th, lagna or 4th — father lost in the 23rd year

राहुजीवौ रिपुक्षेत्रे लग्ने वाऽथ चतुर्थके । वत्सरे तु त्रयोविंशे पुत्रस्तातं न पश्यति ॥ ४२ ॥

When Rāhu and Jupiter are in the sixth (ripu), in the lagna, or in the fourth, then in the twenty-third year the son does not see his father [any more].

BPHS Adhyāya 10, śloka 42

Śloka 43 — Sun as kāraka for the father, Moon for the mother; afflicted Sun

भानुः पिता च जन्तूनां चन्द्रो माता तथैव च । पापदृष्टियुतो भानुः पापमध्यगतोऽपि वा ॥ ४३ ॥

The Sun is the father of living beings, and the Moon likewise the mother. [When] the Sun is joined with or aspected by malefics, or else stands hemmed between malefics —

BPHS Adhyāya 10, śloka 43

Śloka 44 — Pitrariṣṭa declared from the afflicted Sun and from the 6th/8th/4th

पित्ररिष्टं विजानीयाच्छिशोर्जातस्य निश्चितम् । भानोः षष्ठाष्टमर्क्षस्थैः पापैः सौम्यविवर्जितैः । चतुर्थस्थानगैर्वापि पित्ररिष्टं निनिर्दिशेत् ॥ ४४ ॥

— one should know for certain that there is ariṣṭa to the father of the child born. And when malefics devoid of benefics occupy the sixth or eighth signs from the Sun, or else have gone to the fourth place [from the Sun], one should declare ariṣṭa to the father.

BPHS Adhyāya 10, śloka 44

Śloka 45 — Same method applied to the Moon for the mother; grading affliction vs. death

एवमिन्दोः स्थितैः क्रूरैर्मातृकष्टं विचिन्तयेत् । कष्टं मृतिं वा जानीयाद् बलाबल-विवेकतः ॥ ४५ ॥

In the same way, from cruel grahas placed [thus] with respect to the Moon, one should reflect upon affliction to the mother; and whether it is [mere] affliction or death one should determine by discriminating strength and weakness.

BPHS Adhyāya 10, śloka 45