Chapter 25
Niryanadhyaya

Sloka 1: The native dies from such diseases as is indicated by the nature of the planet which aspects the 8th house and in that organ or part of the body that’s represented by the 8th house in the division under kalapurusha. If many planets aspect the 8th, there’ll be many diseases before birth. If Sun, etc. occupy the 8th, the person dies from fire, water, weapon, fever, disease, thirst and hunger respectively. If the 8th is movable, etc., death will happen in a foreign country, own land and during traveling respectively

Sloka 2: If Sun and Mars occupy the 4th or 10th, death will be caused by stones. If Saturn, Moon and Mars are in 4th, 7th and 10th respectively, death will be caused by falling into a well. If Sun and Moon are in Virgo aspected by malefics, he’ll be killed by his own people. If the lagna falls in a common sign with the Sun and Moon in it, the person will be drowned

Sloka 3: If Saturn is in Cancer and Moon in Capricorn, the person dies from jalodara. If Moon occupies the house of Mars and is hemmed by malefics, the person dies from weapons or fire. If Moon occupies Virgo between malefics, death comes by corrupt blood or consumption. If Moon occupies one of Saturn’s houses between malefics, the person dies by ropes, fire or fall

Sloka 4: If the 5th and 9th are occupied by malefics unaspected by benefics, death comes from bondage. If the Drekkana rising in the 8th falls in a sarpa or nigada, then similar death occurs. If Sun is in lagna, Virgo falls in the 7th with Moon in conjunction with a malefic and Venus in Aries, the person suffers death from a female in his own house

Sloka 5: If Mars is in the 4th and Sun and Saturn are in 10th, the man will be crucified. If malefics and a waning Moon occupy the lagna, 5th and 9th, the same results happen. If Sun occupies the 4th and Mars in the 10th aspected by a weak Moon, there’ll be crucifixion. If Saturn aspects the above conjunction, death results from beating

Sloka 6: If a powerless Moon, Mars, Saturn and Sun occupy the 8th, 10th, lagna and 4th respectively, death results from blows from rods or clods of earth. If the same planets occupy 10th, 9th, 1st and 5th respectively, death comes by smoke, fire, bandage or blows on the body

Sloka 7: If Mars, Sun and Saturn occupy 4th, 7th and 10th respectively, death results from weapons, fire or the anger of the rulers. If Saturn, Moon and Mars occupy the 2nd, 4th and 10th respectively, the person dies by worms generated in sore wounds

Sloka 8: If Sun is in the 10th and Mars in 4th, death comes by a fall from conveyances. If Saturn, Moon and Sun occupy the lagna with Mars in 7th, death comes by machinery or rocks. If Mars, Saturn and Moon are in Libra, Aries and a house of Saturn respectively, or if powerless Moon, Sun and Mars are in the 10th, 7th and 4th respectively, the person falls in feces and dies

 Sloka 9: If a powerful Mars aspects a powerless Mon with Saturn in the 8th, the person dies from worms or fire or instruments in treating of diseases in secret parts

 Sloka 10: If Sun occupies the 7th with Mars and Saturn joining the 8th and powerless Moon in 4th, death is caused by birds. If Sun, Mars, Saturn and Moon are in the 1st, 5th, 8th and 9th respectively, the person dies by falling from the top of a mountain or by lightning or wall

Sloka 11: The learned indicate that the 22nd Drekkana causes death to the person. The death will be caused by the manner attributed to the lord of this Drekkana or the lord of the rasi to which it belongs

 Sloka 12: Death will occur in places similar to the rasi occupied by the lord of the Navamsa, in which the birth falls. Further details or specialties must be described by conjunctions and planetary aspects. The time of death has to be identified by the unrisen number of navamsas in the birth. If the birth lord aspects it, the time must be doubled; aspected by benefics, the time will be trebled

Sloka 13: The dead body, as per the Drekkana in the 8th house, viz., dahana, jala and misra, will be reduced to ashes by fire or atoms by water respectively. If the 8th Drekkana is vyala, the body will be disgraced. The disposal of the dead body must be explained in this manner and as regards past and future births, the reader must consult elaborate works on the subject

Sloka 14: Jupiter, Moon and Venus, Sun and Mars, and Saturn and Mercury bring people from devaloka, pitruloka, tiryagloka and narakaloka respectively. According to the position of the lord of the Drekkana occupied by the more powerful between Sun and Moon, we’ve to predict the high, middle or low state of the man in his previous birth

Sloka 15: If the lord of the Drekkana of the 6th or 8th or the planet who occupies the 7th indicates the state of man’s future existence after death. If Jupiter is in exaltation and occupies 6th, 8th or any quadrant, if Pisces is lagna occupying a beneficial Navamsa and other planets than Jupiter are powerless, the person attains moksha

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