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.
7. When malefics occupy houses other than 1st, 4th, 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th; when assign of Jupiter is the lagna; when Venus or Jupiter is posited in a Kendra; and when the 9th and the 8th are aspected by benefics, the native will live for 100 years.
If the 8th house whether reckoned from the Ascendant or the Moon be unoccupied, and Venus and Jupiter be strong, the person concerned will live the full life (100) years).
If benefics occupy their own Rashis and the Moon be in in her own exaltation Rashi identical with the Ascendant, the native will live for 60 years.
8-9. If the latter half of Dhanus be rising, all the planets be in their exaltation and Mercury has attained 24 degrees in Taurus, the native will live the full period of life.
If Venus and Jupiter be in Kendra houses and the Moon in the 11th, then too, the period of life will be full.
If Venus occupy Pisces identical with Ascendant, the Moon be in 8th and aspected by a benefic and Jupiter be in a Kendra, the person concerned will live for 100 years.
If the lord of the Ascendant be in the 8th, the Moon in the 10th and Jupiter be strong and all the other planets occupy the 9th, the native will live 100 years. The same result will be the case when Kataka is rising; the Moon and Jupiter are posited in the 3rd, 6th or 11th and Venus and Mercury occupy Kendra positions.
If the Sun, Mars and Saturn occupy Kendra positions and are posited in Jupiter's Navamshas, Jupiter be in the Ascendant and the rest be in houses other than the 8th, the native will live for 85 years.
10-11. If malefics posited in benefic Navamshas occupy Upachaya houses but in a condition of fright (in depression), and benefics be in Kendra houses, the person concerned will live 120 years. If (in a Deerghayur yoga) the lord of the Ascendant and Mars have gone to the 8th house, the native will not have the full period life.
Should the lord of the Ascendant and Jupiter be posited in Kendras and malefics occupy places other than the 1st, 4th, 5th, 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th, the person concerned will live the full period.
Should the lord of the Ascendant and Jupiter be posited in Kendras and malefics occupy places other than the 1st, 4th, 5th, 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th, the person concerned will live the full period.
If malefics occupy the 9th and 4th houses and benefics be placed in Jupiter's Navamshas or even Rashis or even Navamshas, or are posited in the 12th and the 2nd houses and the Moon be full and occupy the Ascendant, the native will live for 100 years and be blessed with every kind of prosperity.
The lord of the lagna conjoined with a benefic and posited in the lagna and the lord of the 8th unaspected by any planet will cause the native live for 20 years.
If the lord of the 8th be posited in a Kendra and the lord of the Ascendnat is weak, the native will live for 30 years.
12-13. If the Moon and the lord of the Ascendant be without strength, occupy apoklima houses and be aspected by malefics, the person will live for 32 years.
If Sun be in the ascendant and betwixt two malefics, the native’s life will be 31 years.
If the Moon and Mars occupy Kataka identical with the Ascendnat and the ast and 10th houses be void of any planet, then too, the lease of life will be 3 years.
If the lord of the 8th be posited in the Ascendant and there be no benefic planet in the 8th, the person concerned will live 40 years.
If the lord of the Ascendant occupy the 8th and the lord of the latter house be in the Ascendant, the native will live for 5 years.
If the Sun or Saturn occupy Capricorn identical with the 3rd or 6th and the lord of the 8th be in a Kendra, the life of the person concerned will be 44 years.
If benefics occupy Rashi or Navamsha owned by benefics, the native will live for 30 years.
14. If the lord of the Ascendant be aspected by malefics, if the benefics be possessed of strength, and if the Moon occupy any benefic varga, the person concerned will live for 73 years.
If malefics occupy the 8th house reckoned from the Moon in a day-birth, the person will have medium life.
If Saturn be in a dual sign identical with the Ascendant and the lords of both the 12th and the 8th houses be devoid of strength, the native concerned will live for 25 years.
15-17. If the Ascendant be Kataka and the Sun occupy it, the Moon in conjunction with a malefic be in the 10th, and Jupiter be in a Kendra the lease of life will be 55 years.
If Mercury be posited in the 10th or the 4th and the Moon be in the 12th, the 8th or the 1st house and if Jupiter and Venus be conjoined (in any house), the person born will live for 50 years.
If the lord of the Ascendant be strong and Moon associated with him be posited in a Dusthana (6th, 8th or 12th), and the lord of the Ascendant be in a Navamsha owned by Saturn, the life of the native will be 58 years.
If benefics occupy houses other than the 8th and the lord of the Ascendant be in a Dusthana in conjunction with a malefic, the person will live for 60 years.
If all the planets be in the 5th house, the person concerned will live for 60 years.
If the Sun be in the Ascendant in conjunction with one of his enemies or with Mars, if Jupiter be devoid of strength and if the Moon be posited in the 12th or the 5th, the native will live for 70 years.
If all the planets b in the 9th, the person concerned will live his full life period that is 120 years and 5 days.
If all the planets be posited in Kendra and in Navamshas owned by malefics, the native will live for 80 years.
If malefic planets occupy malefic Rashis and benefics be in benefic ones and if the lord of the Ascendant be strong, the native will live the full period.
If all the planets be in the 5th house, the person concerned will live for 60 years.
18. When the last or the initial portion of Carpicorn (Leo?) is rising and all the benefics are posited in Kendras, the lease of life will be 100 years.
If all benefics occupy the 8th, 3rd and 4th houses, the person concerned will be long lived.
If lord of the 8th whether reckoned from the Ascendnat or from the Moon bein 12th or in a Kendra, the person will live for 28 years.
When Kendras are void of benefics and when the 8th house is occupied, the native will live for 30 years.
19-20. When the Moon is waning, when a malefic planet occupies the 8th house, when the lord of the 8th is in a Kendra and when the lord of the Ascendant is weak, the person concerned will live for 20 years.
If benefics occupy Apoklima (3rd, 6th, 9th and 12th houses) and Saturn and Moon are posited in the 6th and 8th, the life of the native will be 20 years.
If two malefics occupy the 2nd, 8th or 12th and not be conjoined with Rahu or the Moon, the person concerned will have 20 years’ lease of life.
If the Sun and Saturn occupy Kendra houses and Mars be in the Ascendant the native will live for 20 years.
If Venus and Jupiter be in the Ascendant, Mars occupy the 5th along with another malefic, the person concerned will be short lived.
If the lord of the Rashi occupied by the Moon be in the Ascendant along with the Sun and be also conjoined with or aspected by another planet whether malefic or benefic, the person concerned will be short lived.
21. The Ayus should be declared which ahs been declared previously by great astrologers as derivable from definite planetary combinations will apply fully only to people who rigidly adhere to the rules of good conduct.
22. This Ayus should be declared by intelligent astrologers for persons who are noted for their virtuous conduct, after weighing the relative strength of the several planets.
23. In this work named Jatakalankara, the chapter on Ayurdaya consisting of 22 charming verses has been beautifully composed by Ganesha, the learned astrologer, for the delectation of the wise.
