FIXING THE PERSON'S AGE

Stanza 2. � The person will be under five, eight, sixteen, thirty or seventy or
over 70
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years of age according as the lord of Lagna happens to be the infant Moon or Mars,
Mercury,
Venus, Jupiter, Sun or aged Moon, and Saturn or Rahu respectively.
NOTES
The Moon is infant (Bala Chandra) till 5th lunar day of bright half. He is aged
(Vriddha
Chandra) from the 8th lunar day of the dark half till New Moon. Between 5th lunar
day (Sukla
Paksha) and the 23rd lunar day (Krishnashtami) the age can be calculated by the
rule of
proposition. The age of the person should be determined on the basis of the
principles given in
this stanza.
If Mars or the infant Moon owns Lagna (or occupies Lagna), then the age of the man
will
be below five years. If Mercury occupies or owns the Lagna, then the age is below
8. If Venus
occupies or owns Lagna, the person is not yet 16 years old. If Jupiter is lord of
Lagna or is
posited in it, then he is below 30 years. If the Sun or aged Moon occupies Lagna,
or if they are
owned by them then the native is 70 years. If Saturn or Rahu occupy Lagna or it is
owned by
Saturn, then he is past 70 years in age.
Some construe the stanza thus: "If aged Moon is in Lagna or if Lagna is owned by
aged
Moon, predict that the man is past 70 years". According to this explanation, the
correct age can
be told by noting the nature of the Moon. If Cancer is Lagna, examine carefully the
'Avastha'
(state) of the Moon and work out the age. Similarly, if the Moon occupies Lagna,
examine his
state and then predict. Readers should be able to decide for themselves the correct
method of
ascertaining the 'age' by experience. In our humble view, the age will be according
to the years
allotted to the different planets as in the stanza, when they own Lagna. So far as
Rahu is
concerned his occupying the Lagna is important and denotes a very aged man.