CHAPTER 6
1. If the Moon does not aspect the ascendant, he is not born in the presence of his father. One finds the direction toward which (his father has gone) from the nature of the signs and of the planets in order.
2. In the house (where the birth takes place) the direction of the door is to be described from the planets in the cardines according to their strength. The survival of his mother or her demise (is to be predicted) by means of the planets’ being in their exaltations or dejections.
3. If the Moon or the ascendant is in a portion (bhaga) not belonging to Jupiter or is not aspected by Jupiter, they say that the native is begotten by another (than his mother’s husband); or (he is begotten) by … if a strong planet aspects.
4. If there is a planet in a cardine which is in its own house or in its own varga, (the native) is born in his own house. Otherwise he is born in a house which (is to be described) from the position of the lords of the ascendant and of the sign in which the Moon is or from their qualities;
5. or one should describe the house from the nature of the planet which is in the fourth place (the place of the house). Certainty regarding houses is obtained by means of the planets which are in their exaltations or depressions or in the fourth or seventh places, and are in immovable signs.
6. If a sign which is strong in mid-heaven is in that place, they say (the native) is born in a hidden house; if (a sign) which is strong in the ascendant or descendent is in the same place, (he is born) in another (house); and if (a sign) which is strong in the fourth place is in that place, (he is born) in his own (house).
7. If (the ascendant) is aspected by Jupiter, (the house) is new; if by the waxing Moon, it is smeared (with cow-dung); if by the Sun, it is old; if by Mars, it is burnt; if by Venus, it is painted and new;
8. if by Mercury, they say it is a grass (hut) with many curves; and if by Saturn, it is old and dilapidated. The presence or absence of (their) qualities in the house is to be judged on the basis of the strengths of the successive signs.
9. If Jupiter is in its own portion (bhaga) in a cardine, (the native) is born in an apartment with a roof; if Mars (is thus), he is born on the ground in front of a (Vedic) fire-hut; if Mercury, he falls onto (sacred) darbha-grass or on the earth;
10. if Venus, in a lake-house or in the water; and if Saturn, in a grass hut which lets in many cold winds. If the Moon is in its own house or navamsha, (he is born) in cold water; if the Sun (is thus), in the granary of his father’s house.
11. If the Moon in an even sign is either in the navamsha of a water-sign or in the fourth place (the place of water), they say that (the place of birth) is full of cold water; the same is true if Jupiter is aspected by the Moon, but it is otherwise if Mars and the Sun aspect.
12. One knows the measurements of the things pertaining to the house by means of the amounts by which the ascendant or the Moon has advanced in its sign; one knows the furnishings, colour, and appearance (of these things) from the nature of these (i.e., the ascendant and the Moon), which depends on their positions among the signs.
13. If the Moon is aspected by or in conjunction with the malefic planets and is not waxing, it causes the loss of both mother and chid; the suffering is caused by diseases arising from the lord of the (Moon’s) sign.
14. If the Moon in a navamsha of Saturn is in the ascendant, or if it is in the fourth place in a navamsha of a water-sign, or if Saturn in a cardine is in its own navamsha, and if it is not aspected by the Sun, (the native) is born in darkness.
15. If the benefit planets are strong, (the natives) listen to the sacred tradition (sruti), rejoice in good conduct, and are grateful; devoted to serving gods and Brahmanas and to righteousness (dharma), they wear pure garlands and garments and precious ornaments, and they are brilliant.
16. If the malefic planets have positional strength, (the natives) are rogues and ingrates; treacherous, cruel, greedy, and ugly, they steal others’ goods; they hate good men (sadhu), and are struck by anger and ignorance.
17. If the lords of the ascendant and of the sign in which the Moon is are in their own navamsas, in their own exaltations, in their own houses, in the ascendent, in their own mulatrikonas, in upacaya signs, or in cardines, they cause the births of superior men.
18. If the lord of the ascendant is strong, it causes the birth of men having health, fame, and property; if the lord of the birth (is strong, it produces) men possessing great wealth and enjoyment, and having extensive fame and excellence.
In the Yavanajataka: the rules relating to birth.
