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Some Aspects of Indian Culture the native will not be so happy by bis first wife as he is destined to be by his second wife. Whether his first wife will make him happay or the second is principally dependant on what planets influencing the seventh are more powerful-malefics or benefics. The question of the wife of the wives is beyond my power to understand, though the verdict of the Manasagari, a respected book of the orthodox school, should not be ignored. One more point equally important and elusive is that of the native'sa becoming a Minster of Law and Order. The horoscope is, indeed, a first-rate horoscope.
The position of Jupiter and Venus in the ninth warrants, more than sufficiently, conclusion that the native will be a minister. But to say that he will be a miniseerā of Law and Order requires a more searching and accurate study. The reason, I think,
is that the martial planet, namely, Sun in the tenth in Sigittarius aspected by Mars outweighs Jupiter and Venus in the ninth. Had it not been so, the native would have been a minister of Eduction. Thus this last factor is somewhat more explicable than the preceding two mentioned just now.
(2) The next important fundamental is the ascertainment of the areas of the planets. It can bo estimated through a number of ways, namely, the rata, atcaife. 247491, 35afta, sena, 129, , fara, feras, T1, yrki, a etc. or all these, I have found the 1795 to be more weighty. The fact that a particular planet is powerful only in the Natal Chart does not enable us to predict correctly only on that consideration because I have seen a beggar's natal chart containing exalted Jupiter and an Emperor's having nothing extraordinrry in it.& in the horoscope under consideration, there is no exalted planet, no svagrahi planet. Still, however, the horoseope is superfine because the planets excepting Rahu and, to a certain extent, Saturn, are all powerful in most of the other nine charts. This is a consideration that should preclude a professional from risking prediction simply from the natal chart as it is uasafe and it is only by chance that it comes out true.
Conclusion Some predictions might not have come true and some may not come also, but we could see from the above discussion that a reconciliation between the reading of the orthodox school and that of the Samhita can be satisfactorily effected. The phrase 19194194877• used by Satyācārya is to be taken in a figurative sense, meaning thereby, that an asrtologer should attempt a forecast Only with the deepest knowledge and also keeping and 13 in view.
37:71 सुरासुरेज्यौ यदि कोणयाती दिनाधिपे सोमसुते धनुष्ये । वधूधराजे मिथुने शशाके मंदे कुलीरे झषलग्रजातः ॥ ग्रहरववसुशशांके याति शाके च वर्षे दिवकृतिगतचापे पूर्णिमायां तिथौ च ।
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