Chapter 23
Anishtadhyaya (misfortunes)

Sloka 1: If the 5th and 7th houses from lagna or Moon be occupied or aspected by benefics or their lords, then these bhavas will prosper; if not, they’ll suffer. If the birth is in Virgo with Sun in it, the wife will be lost. If in this conjunction Capricorn is occupied by Mars, he causes loss to children

 Sloka 2: If cruel planets are in the 4th and the 8th from Venus or if Venus is between malefics or if Venus isn’t combined or not aspected by benefics, the wife will be killed by fire, fall or ropes

Sloka 3: If the 6th and 12th houses from lagna are occupied by Sun and Moon, the husband and wife will have one eye each. If Venus and Sun occupy the 7th, 9th or 5th, the wife will be defective

Sloka 4: If Saturn occupies lagna, Venus in the 7th when it’s in gandantha and if the 5th is unoccupied by benefics, the person will become the husband of a barren woman. If malefics occupy the 12th, 7th and lagna with weak Moon in the 5th, the person will have no wife or son

Sloka 5: If Venus is in 7th, which happens to be the varga of Mars or Saturn and aspected by them, the person becomes fond of other women. If Saturn and Mars join Moon in the 7th and have the aspect of Venus, the person and his wife will both become adulterous. If Venus and Moon have Mars and Saturn in 7th, the person becomes wifeless or issueless. If female and male planets have Mars and Saturn in 7th aspected by benefics, the couple would be married when old

Sloka 6: If the 10th, 7th and 4th are occupied by Moon, Venus and malefics respectively, the person destroys his family. If Saturn in a quadrant aspects the house indicated by the Drekkana joined by Mercury, the person becomes a sculptor. If Venus occupies the 12th, joining the Navamsa of Saturn, the person becomes the son of a menial servant woman. If Sun and Moon occupy the 7th aspected by Saturn, the person does degrading acts

Sloka 7: If Venus and Mars join the 7th aspected by malefics, there’ll be serious danger from dysentery. If Moon is in either Cancer of Scorpio Navamsa and is in conjunction with malefics, the person will have diseases in secret places. If Moon joins lagna, Sun in the 7th and two malefics in the 12th and 2nd, the person will be attacked by a serious form of leprosy. If Moon is in the 10th, Mars in 7th and Saturn in 2nd from Sun, the person will be defective in limbs

 Sloka 8: When Sun is in Capricorn and Moon between two malefics, the person gets asthma, consumption, spleen enlargement, carbuncle or abdominal tumors. If Sun and Moon mutually exchange places in rasi or amsa, the person gets pthisis. If these two join together in any one of their houses, he may become emaciated

Sloka 9: If Moon occupies the 5th amsa of Sagittarius or the amsas of Pisces, Capricorn or Aries, and aspected by or is in conjunction with Saturn or Mars, the person will suffer from leprosy. If Scorpio, Cancer, Taurus or Capricorn becomes one of the trikonas aspected by or in conjunction with evil planets, the person suffers from leprosy

Sloka 10: If Sun, Moon, Mars and Saturn occupy the 8th, 6th, 2nd and 12th in any way, the person loses his sight by the elevation of that dhatu which is indicated by the most powerful of these planets

 Sloka 11: If malefics occupy the 9th, 11th, 3rd and 5th houses unaspected by benefics, the person suffers from deafness, If these planets are in the 7th house, there’ll be decomposition of the teeth

 Sloka 12: If Moon when occupying the lagna is eclipsed by Rahu, and evil planets are found in trines, the person suffers from devils. If Sun is eclipsed and occupies the lagna, the person becomes blind

Sloka 13: If Jupiter occupies lagna and Saturn is in the 7th, the person suffers from windy diseases. If Mars is in the 7th, the person suffers from insanity. If Saturn is in lagna and Mars is found in 9th, 7th or 5th, the person suffers from insanity. If a weak Moon with Saturn is in 12th, the insanity can be predicted

Sloka 14: If the dispositor of Moon’s Navamsa, Sun, Moon and Jupiter are in debilitation or in unfriendly amsas, they produce self slavery, slavery by purchase or hereditary slavery when one or two or more of the above planets occupy such positions

 Sloka 15: If the lagna is either Taurus, Aries or Sagittarius aspected by malefics, the person will have ugly teeth. If the lagna is in malevolent signs or Taurus or Sagittarius and is aspected by evil planets, the person becomes bald. If Sun is in the 5th or 9th aspected by malefics, the person will have weak eyesight. If Saturn is so situated, he suffers from many complaints. If Mars is so situated, there’ll be defective organs

 Sloka 16: If evil planets occupy 12th, 5th, 2nd or 9th, the person will be imprisoned according to the nature of that house. If lagna is in bhujaga (2nd and 3rd of Cancer, 1st and 2nd of Scorpio and last of Pisces) or nigada (1st of Capricorn) Drekkana, aspected by powerful malefics, the person will be similarly confined

Sloka 17: If Moon with the ring or halo around him joins Saturn and is aspected by Mars, the person will be harsh, suffer from hysteria and consumption. If Sun, Saturn and Mars are in the 10th unaspected by benefics, the person will become a servant. If three or two or one of them occupy the 10th, the man becomes inferior, ordinary and superior servant respectively

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