Bhavartha Ratnakara Part 2: Taurus Ascendant (Vrishabha Lagna) | VedAstro
A modern English guide to the classical Vedic astrology text by Sri Ramanujacharya, translated and annotated by B.V. Raman.
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Vrishabha Lagna
For a person born in Vrishabha lagna Saturn does not become Yogakaraka in
spite of his owning the 9th and 10th houses from lagna, nor do the Sun and Mercury become capable of producing Yoga even if they occupy the lagna.
A person born in Vrishabha lagna will have dips in Ganges if Rahu is in the 10th or Mars and Jupiter are in Capricorn.
For one born in Vrishabha lagna Chandra becomes capable of producing yoga if he occupies the 4th. Chandra also produces yoga if aspected by Jupiter or Mercury.
For a person born in Vrishabha lagna Mars becomes a benefic in the7th house. Long life is indicated if the Sun andlord of the 9thare in the 11th.
For one born in Vrishabha lagna if Jupiter and Mercury are in conjunction or in mutual aspect Dhanayoga is caused.
The Dhanayoga becomes defunct if Jupiter and Mercury are in conjunction with or aspected by Mars.
The great Parasara observes thus: 'RAJOGRAHARI SAMBANDHA EVA RAJESH SUTHA' meaning that Saturn is the only planet capable of producing Rajayoga for Vrishabha lagna. In the face of this assertion by no less a personage than Parasara, the author of the work observes that Saturn even though lord of the 9th and 10th does not produce yoga. When two great authors express two different views we have to stick to the opinion of the greater of the two, or rely upon our own experience.
Parasara is undoubtedly the greatest because he is not only a Maharshi but what he says is held to be beyond question. Our author in condemning Saturn as incapable of giving good results might have had in view reasons justifiable in their own way and he might not certainly have meant any disrespect for Parasara. When stanza 1 is clear no other meaning can be read into it than what it implies. Probably the author felt that Sani, though he may produce Rajayoga by owning the 9th and 10th houses, might render the native unable to achieve any real measure of the fruits of such yoga because Sani is by intrinsic nature a malefic. Prof. B. Suryanarayana Rao's words are still ringing fresh in my mind when he said to me that Sani would doubtless produce Rajayoga but he would not enable the person to consolidate his gains—political and mental. Again much depends upon how Saturn is situated in the horoscope. If he is in the 10th it is a good position. If he is in the 2nd it yields destructive influences. The native earns money, fame and reputation but an outlet for the evil of all these will be present in some form or other.
In stanza 3, Chandra is said to be capable of causing yoga if he occupies the fourth house but according to Parasara, the Moon is evil for Vrishabha lagna if the Moon is aspected by Jupiter a yoga is said to result.
Combinations enumerated in stanzas 5 and 6 seem to be sound and reasonable. Dhanayoga is caused by the conjunction of Jupiter and Mercury (lord of 2) and this Dhanayoga becomes defunct if Mars also joins the combination. Mars is lord of 12 (house of loss) and naturally wealth indicated will be removed by the 12th lord.
For one born in Vrishabha lagna Jupiter, Mercury and Mars become Yogakarakas if they are combined together or aspect one another.
For a person born in Vrishabha lagna, Mars dasa will give financial prosperity and Jupiter's dasa produces mixed results; pro-
provided Budha is in a Kendra, he produces yoga
in the course of his dasa.
For one born in Vrishabha lagna,
during Budha Dasa powerful yoga will be caused,
if Budha and Venus are in lagna and Jupiter is
in the seventh.
For a person born in Vrishabha,
if Mars and Venus are in lagna, and Jupiter is in
Makara, the Dasas of Budha and Guru will prove
fortunate.
A person born in Vrishabha will
have dips in Ganges during the dasas of Kuja and
Rahu if Saturn, Mercury and Mars are in the 9th
and Rahu is situated in Kumbha.
Guru dasa will cause Dhanayoga,
if the Moon and Venus are in the 6th and Mercury
and Jupiter are in the 11th.
A person born in Vrishabha
lagna will undoubtedly get plenty of wealth in
the course of Sukra dasa, and he will also enjoy
"Bhagyayoga".
One born in Vrishabha will not
have much Dhanayoga if the Moon is situated in
lagna.
If birth happens in other signs
(than Taurus) and the Moon is in lagna then the
native will certainly become fortunate.
In these nine stanzas, the formation of yogas by the differ-
ent kinds of combinations of planets is discussed. Stanzas
(1) Mars, Jupiter and Mercury can produce yogi (confer fame) by mutual combinations and aspect. Budha and Kuja may give rise to yogi as lords of 6th and 7th but how Jupiter being lord of 8th and 11th can form yogi is incomprehensible. Guru can produce fairly good results if he is in the 10th house and not otherwise.
(2) Access to wealth in Mars Dasa, mixed results in Guru Dasa, and power and fame in Budha Dasa (if Budha is in a Kendra) may be predicted.
(3) Good results will be produced in Budha Dasa if Budha and Venus are in lagna and Jupiter is in the 7th.
(4) Guru and Budha Dasas will be fortunate if Venus and Mars are in lagna and Jupiter is in Makara rasi.
It will be seen in this combination that Jupiter should be in Makara (9 houses) where he is Neecha. This neecha effect is said to be cancelled by the disposition of Mars, Mercury and Venus in lagna.
(5) There will be access to wealth in Guru Dasa if the Moon (lord of 3) and Venus (lord of 6) are in the 6th and Mercury and Jupiter are in the 11th.
(6) The presence of the Moon in lagna deprives wealth.
the period. At the end of this Dasa, however, he fell seriously
ill and in the bhukti of Rahu (note Rahu is in the 12th
tula rasi and aspected by Ketu) two fingers in the left
foot of the native were removed by a surgical operation.
From the Moon, Guru is lord of the 9th and is in the
11th, and the disposition of planets from the Moon should not
be ignored when making predictions.