Dr. Shanker Adawal
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(i)
Varaha Mihir’s Upachaya Yoga, as given in Sloka 9 of Chapter 13 of Brihat
Jataka, brings four benefics in Upachaya (from the Ascendant) or three benefics
in Upachaya (from the Moon) resulting in making the native wealthy and
landlord. Leaving aside, the calculation from the Ascendant or the Moon,
benefics in angles and triangles are producers of good results – Varaha Mihira
has given a narrow view in relation to effects; wealth and happiness coming out
of various sources should be the result (Venkatesh Sharma or Diavagya, in Jataka Yogavali, has given all
comprehensive good effects of the Upachaya Yoga). We cannot blame Varaha Mihira
because Brihat Jataka is the earliest
compilation of various astrological principles which he could gather at his
time. In the context of Upachaya in the real sense, we can readily understand
Varaha Mihira in Sloka 1 of Chapter 4 – the Moon in an Apachaya house brings
monthly menstruation of women. If the Moon is in an Upachaya house, aspected by
a benefic, the woman lovingly unites with a male.
(ii)
Gargi dictum repeated in Rudra’s commentary on orasastra and quoted by Pandit Ojha, to the effect that Upachaya
ceases to be Upachaya (house of prosperity) if Upachaya houses are aspected by
natural malefics or enemies of these house lords makes sense.
(iii)
Kalidasa in Uttarakalamrita, has
mentioned in Sloka 24 of Chapter 4 that benefics arer beneficial in occupation
of angles, the 2nd, the 3rd, the 5th, the 9th,
the 11th and even the 6th while malefic are benefic in
Upachaya. In other words, Kalidasa means to say that benefics as well as malefic
are good in Upachaya houses. Maharishi Parasara has mentioned thus:
Chatyora
rasayo vipra Kendra kona subhavya
Tesam
samyoga matrena asubhopi subha bhavet.
Two angles – the 4th
and the 10th houses – and triangles are benefic. Even malefics in
occupation of these signs become converted into benefics.
(v) In
Sloka 55 of Chapter 1 of Jataka Parijata,
Vaidyanatha Pandit has taken the usual 3rd, 6th, 10th
and 11th houses from the Ascendant as Upachaya houses and the
remaining eight houses aas Apachaya houses or houses of suffering. But he has
also mentioned that Apachayas cease to be Apachayas or houses of suffering if
these houses are occupied by their own lords or Mercury, Venus or Jupiter but
unoccupied and unaspected by other planets. House lords in their own houses are
good. Benefics in occupation of evil houses try to bring out their good significances.
Incidentally, it may be mentioned that Satyacharya has opined that benefics in
all houses except Dusthanas give good effects while malefic in such a situation
give bad effects – the position is reversed in the case of Dusthanas; malefic
give good effects while benefics give bad effects. In reality, benefics bring
out good significance of houses while malefic give out bad significances of
houses – The 6th house is an exception; it has no good effects. The
benefics lessen the bad significances of the 6th house while malefic
intensify the bad significances.
(vi)
Vaidyanatha Pandit, in Chapter 7 of Jataka
Parijata has given three principles about birth of kings. The first
principle is to the effect that if all benefics are in Upachayas and the malefic
are in the 1st or the 10th, the native will be a cruel king,
defeating numerous enemies. As the 10th house is one of the
Apachayas, the rule should apply to all benefics in Apachayas and malefic in
the 1st house.
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