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Ch. 20. Combinations For Renunciation

1. Various sages have explained widely the combinations of four, or more planets
producing an ascetic. I now explain below such of the Yogas.

2. One born with the conjunction of the Sun, the Moon, Venus, Jupiter and Mars; or
the Luminaries, Mercury and Mars; or the Sun, Mars, Saturn, Mercury and Venus
becomes an ascetic.

3. The native having the combination of Mars, the Luminaries (i.e. the Sun and the
Moon), Mercury and Jupiter; or the Luminaries, Saturn and Mercury; or the
Luminaries, Mars and Saturn takes to renunciation and become a mendicant.

4. The Sun, Jupiter, Saturn and Mercury-being together, or Mars, the Sun, Mercury
and Jupiter joining denotes a mendicant.

5. Should Venus, the Sun, Mars and Saturn; or Jupiter, Mars, the Sun and Saturn; or
Mars, the Moon, Jupiter and Saturn with strength be in conjunction at birth, native
takes to asceticism.

6. One will be initiated into a religious vow, if anyone of the following group of
planets be found together at birth: d) Mars. Saturn, Mercury and Jupiter; 2) Mars,
Saturn Mercury, the Sun and Venus; 3) the Luminaries, Mars Saturn and Venus.

7. One becomes a mendicant to live in forests and hilly areas, if the planets group
themselves in conjunction at birth, as under: 1) Venus, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter and the
Sun; 2) Mars, the Moon, Jupiter, Mercury and Saturn; 3) Venus, Mercury, Saturn,
the Moon and Mars.

8. The native will become a sage, giving up (even) his food and be honoured by the
people, if the heavenly bodies form conjunction, as under: 1) The Moon, Mercury,
Mars, Jupiter and the Sun; 2) The Luminaries, Mercury, Venus and Mars.

9. The native will be initiated into a religious vow, if 1) the Luminaries, Mars,
Mercury, Jupiter and Saturn, or 2) The Moon, Mars, Saturn, Mercury, Jupiter and
the Sun, or 3) Mars, the Luminaries, Saturn, Venus and Mercury, join together at
birth.

10. A famous sage is indicated by the combination of 1) the Luminaries, Jupiter,

Saturn and Venus, or 2) Venus, the Luminaries, Jupiter, Saturn and Mercury.

11. Note the conjunction of the following planets: 1) Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus,
Saturn and the Sun. 2) Venus, the Luminaries, Saturn, Jupiter and Mercury. It
indicates an ascetic.

12. If conjunction is found among the planetary group, viz. 1) the Luminaries,
Jupiter and Saturn; 2) Saturn, the Luminaries and Venus; 3) Sun, Mercury, Mars
and Jupiter, the native will become an ascetic living on roots and fruits.

13. The native will become an ascetic with bark garments, if Mars, the Sun,

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Mercury and Venus are found together at birth. The same effect follows the
conjunction of Mars, the Moon, Jupiter and Mercury.

14. A patient ascetic (awaiting the blessing of the Supreme) is indicated by either
the combination of the Moon, Mercury, Mars and Saturn, or of Mercury, Mars,
Jupiter and Saturn.

15. A sage living only by eating fruits is denoted by the combination of the
Luminaries, Venus and Mercury; or Mars, Mercury, Venus and Saturn; or Saturn,
the Moon, Jupiter and Venus.

16. An ascetic, who will be highly honourable, living in forests, is denoted by each
of the under mentioned planetary conjunctions: 1) The Sun, Mars, the Moon and
Venus, 2) the Luminaries, Mars and Mercury, 3) Jupiter, Venus, Saturn and the Sun,
4) Venus, Jupiter, the Moon and Mars.

17. Find the planets together in individual groups, as under 1) Venus, Moon, Mars,
Jupiter and Saturn, 2) the Moon, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter and Venus, 3) The
Luminaries, Mars, Mercury and Jupiter. The result is, that the ascetic will be
sorrowful (Unsuccessful mendicant).

18. Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Venus and Mercury with strength, or Saturn, the Sun,
Mercury, the Moon and Mars with strength in conjunction produce one with clotted
hair and bark-garments.

19. The Luminaries, Mercury, Mars and Venus, or the Luminaries, Mars, Jupiter,
Venus, if be together, the native certainly will become an ascetic.

20. If the Sun denotes asceticism (i.e. being the strongest in the Yoga), there will
only be faith in the religious order, while competence (to fulfill the order) will lack.
If the planet, contributing to such order is overpowered by another planet (i.e. in
eclipse, planetary war etc.) the native will give up the order after being initiated into
it. Should many planets denote such an order, there may be many kinds of religious
orders, but these will depend on the order of the planet.

21. If the planet indicating asceticism is combust in the Sun, or is aspected by

another heavenly body, the native will only have an earnest desire to be initiated
into the religious order, but will not attain fruition of his aim. So say Yavanas.

22. The native will attain religious order, if the Moon, posited in a decanate of
Saturn, is aspected by Mars and Saturn. The same effect is produced, if the Moon
occupies the Navansa of Aries/Scorpio in aspect to Saturn.

23. If the Lord of the Moon Sign receives the sole aspect of Saturn (i.e. unaspected
by others than Saturn), one will enter religious order. Even in this context, the
earlier Yogas, if present will only prevail.

24. If the Lord of the Moon Sign, bright with rays, lends his aspect to Saturn, while
Saturn is in an Angle, the native will lose his fortunes only to enter into a religious

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order.

25. If one among the Sun, the Moon and Jupiter be devoid of strength and occupy
the Ascendant, or the 10th, or the 12th in aspect to strong Saturn, the native will
become distressed ascetic.

26. Should the Moon with strength be in the 10th, falling in a benefic's Navansa,
while others occupy their exaltation marks and all being in aspect to strong Saturn,
the native will become the Lord of the earth to only become an ascetic.

27. If waxing Moon, with superior strength, aspects the Ascendant Lord, the latter
being bereft of strength and being alone (in that Rasi), the native will be devoid of
wealth and own men, be miserable, sorrowful, will take to asceticism and will
obtain his food with great inconvenience.

28. One will become a religious mendicant, if Saturn occupying a benefic's Navansa
aspects others including the Moon. The Moon in this case should only be in
Aquarius Navansa.

29. If the Lord of the Moon Sign aspects all the other planets, while these are all
together in one Rasi, the native will become an ascetic.

30. The Sun rules the ascetics of the following orders: Those, who worship the Fire
God in forests, or on river banks, those, who worship (the omnipotent) Sun-God,
Elephant-faced Ganesa and His benevolent mother Parvati, those, who recite the
hymns of Gayatri (which are very sacred), those, who are vowed to bathe in the
sacred Ganges everyday and those, who maintain (absolute) celibacy.

31. The religious order belonging to the Moon attracts the following various
persons: Those disciples, who smear their bodies with sacred ashes, those, who
worship the Feet of Lord Shiva, those, who are abandoned by the society, those,
who are devoted to Bhagavati, those, who give up company of others, those, who
take to Soma Siddhanta and those, who carry bowls in their hands (for begging
alms).

32. The Buddhist monks, the tonsured, those, who wear white apparels, those, who
beg wearing good robes, those, who wear blood-red clothes and those, that have
conquered their five senses-all these mendicants are ruled by Mars.

33. Mercury denotes an alm-seeker, a conjurer, a snake poison curer and one, who
eats the flesh of a peacock.

34. The ascetics ruled by Jupiter are: those, who hold a single scepter (or mace),
those, who hold three scepters, those, who wear red coloured apparels, those, who
are in the third stage of their religious life, those, who pull on their lives with fruits
and water (alone), those, who still are attached to family ties, those, who maintain
celibacy and those, who take to visiting shrines etc.

35. Venus rules the mendicants of Saivite and Vaish-navite sects.

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36. Religious hypocrites, bare mendicants and the ascetics, who sit under shadowy
trees in forests are ruled by Saturn.

37. Should Raja Yogas be simultaneously present along with the above ascetic
Yogas, all the evil results are nullified and the native will become very virtuous,
will be adorned by all the kings. himself becoming a king and will take to religious
order.

Thus ends the 20th Ch., entitled ‘Combinations for Renunciation' in Kalyana
Varma's Saravali.

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