SIGNIFICATIONS OF BHAVAS

Stanza 3. � From Lagna should be read everything about one's body, shape, health,
strength, etc., welfare, fame, general happiness, and success in all undertakings.
Stanza 4. � From the 2nd house should be ascertained one's family, wealth, speech,
right
eye and all kinds of knowledge.
Stanza 5. � The 3rd house rules courage, vitality, evil inclinations, brothers,
right ear
and help.
Stanza 5. � The 4th house signifies mother, relatives, uncle, nephew, house and
property,
happiness, vehicles, things to set on, popularity, water, beds and cots, general
affluence, cattle
and the house where one is born.
Stanza 7. � From the 5th house should be ascertained one's intelligence, prudence,
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memory, power of discrimination, merit earned in previous births, capacity to
advise, ministers,
children and condition of mind.
Stanza 8. � The 6th house rules thieves, enemies, obstacles, mental worries,
diseases,
wounds and death due to enemies or weapons.
Stanza 9. � The 7th house deals with marriage, sexual instincts,wife or husband,
general
relations with others, beds and cots, wife's birth place, lost or hidden things and
sex relations.
Stanza 10. � The 8th house signifies ruin of everything, dangers, evil repute,
cause and
place of death, servants, out houses, chronic diseases and obstructions.
Stanza 77. � The 9th house indicates luck or fortune, righteousness, kindness,
merit,
spirituality, father, grand children, charities, spiritual quest, good conduct or
culture and
preceptors.
Stanza 12. � Places of worship, towns, council halls, wayside inns, servants, all
actions,
power to command and service under others come under the 10th house.
Stanza 13. � The gain of everything desired, elder brother, sons already born, left
ear
and monetery gains should be read from the llth house.
Stanza 14. � The 12th house signifies sinful actions, expenses, breaks and falls,
left eye,
loss of position or profession, and bodily injuries.
NOTES
These 12 stanzas (3 to 14) give the events or significations ruled by the twelve
different
Bhavas. There is not much difference between allocation of different events to
different Bhavas
given in this work and the details furnished in other classical works.
Stanza 15. � The Lagna, the 4th, the 7th and the 10th signify respectively various
postures as 'walking', 'lying or resting', 'sitting' and 'standing'.
Stanza 16. � The four cardinal houses beginning from the 4th, in regular order,
signify
water inside the earth, water in rivers, fall of rain and all these three together
respectively.
NOTES
These stanzas will be particularly useful in regard to predicting rainfall (Varsha
Prasna)
and digging of wells (Kupa Prasna). Water inside the earth indicates undercurrents,
wells and
springs while water in rivers means the rise or ilow of water. Fall of rain
includes the fall of
snow, hail, etc. Lagna rules over all the indications attributed to the 4th, 7th
and 10th houses.