Chapter 26.
On Death
All the creatures will face death for some reason, or other. To decide the reasons, the several indications are to be known thus: Note the Grah occupying Randhr Bhava. If it is Sūrya, the death is through fire; if it is Candr: fire; if it is Man̄gal: weapons; if it is Budh: fall; if it is Guru: fever; if it is Śukr: indigestion; and, if it is Śani: hunger. Depending in Randhr Bhava being a movable, fixed, or dual Rāśi, death will be in foreign, in one’s own house, or, while on the move.
The death of a native will be due to so many afflictions, as the Grahas are many in Randhr Bhava. The Grahas in Randhr Bhava from the stronger of Lagn, or Candr are to be considered (for purpose of death).
The death of a native may be expected through the humour (wind, phlegm, or bile) belonging to Randhr Bhava, or the Navamsh occupied by Randhr’s lord.
Should the Rāśi, or Navamsh referred to above be Mesh, death will be caused by fever, poison, defects of digestive fire and bile. The humour causing death will be according to the Grah joining, or giving a Drishti.
Should such a Rāśi/Navamsh be, the Vrishabh death will be die to the three humours, weapons, thirst etc. This is so, when the Rāśi/Navamsh above is not occupied by any Grah. If occupied, the humour of the Grah concerned will prevail.
Should it be Mithun Rāśi, or Navamsh, death will be due to cough, breathing troubles, diseases generated by heat, colic etc. The Rāśi, or Navamsh of Candr indicates death due to rheumatic pains, mental affliction, diarrhoea etc.
Should the Rāśi, or Navamsh be Simh, death will be through tumor, poison, weapon etc., or fever. Kanya in such case will cause death through defects in digestive fire, or private parts, disputes, or fall.
Should it be Tula, death will be through the blunders committed by his thoughts, fever, delirium, or the effects of the Dasha ruling at that time.
Should it be Vrischik, death will be due to jaundice and defective spleen etc. Should it be Dhanu having a malefic there in, death will be through a tree, water, weapon, wood etc.
If it is Makar Rāśi, or Navamsh, death is due to hit by spear or, while tilling lands, or by mental aberration. Should it be yuti with a malefic, death is through wild animals, like tiger, fever, cough, consumption (pulmonary disease) and in unnatural circumstances i.e. man-made.
Should it be Kumbh Rāśi, or Navamsh and be with malefic, death will be through tigers, weapons, snakes etc. and cough, fever, consumption etc.
Should it be Meen Rāśi, or Navamsh, death will be due to snakes, journey, wind machinery, collision of a steamer in the mid-waters, or through the roaring thunders.
Death should normally happen due to dysentery, fever, thirst, diseases of the stomach, poison, lack of continued food, breakage and diseases in the body.
Should Candr be in her fateful degrees, as mentioned before identical with Lagn, Vyaya Bhava, or Randhr Bhava, death should be expected through water, machinery etc.
If Candr and Sūrya are posited in Lagn in a dual (common) Rāśi (i.e. Mithun, Kanya, Dhanu, or Meen) and be yuti with, or receives a Drishti from a malefic Grah, the native’s life ends surely in the midst of water.
If Śani is in Bandhu Bhava, while Candr is in Yuvati Bhava and Maìgal is in Karm Bhava, death will take place by falling down from a tree, or in a well.
If Candr is in Mesh, Vrischik, Makar, or Kumbh, between two malefics and without any Drishti from benefics, death will be by ropes, thunderbolt, weapons etc. The same result follows, if Candr is in Kanya.
Should malefics be in Bandhu and Karm Bhava and benefics in Randhr Bhava, or Lagn, death will be by implement through a spear, or trident, or by rheumatic heart, cardiac arrest etc. (Hridayashula).
Should Śani be in Vyaya, Ari, Randhr, or Bandhu Bhava along with Candr, the native’s end occurs in the sea. Two malefics surrounding Randhr Bhava may also bring about such a death.
If there are malefics in the Konas from Lagn, or from Candr, or, if Rahu is in Randhr Bhava, death will be caused by hanging.
If Sūrya and Rahu are in Lagn, while Candr is in Ari/Randhr Bhava and malefics are posited in Vyaya Bhava, death will take place through poison, or weapon.
If Rahu is placed in Bandhu, or Randhr Bhava and receives a Drishti from the lord of Randhr Bhava, or, if Randhr Bhava is occupied by malefic, or receives a Drishti from such a Grah, death is indicated by poison, weapon, or fire.
Death by hanging is indicated, if Sūrya is in Yuvati Bhava along with Rahu, or Ketu, while Śukr is in Randhr Bhava.
Should Lagn’s lord be in a Kendr and surrounded by two malefics, while Randhr Bhava is tenanted by a Grah, death is caused by one’s own anger.
If Sūrya is in Lagn, while Śani is in Putr Bhava and Maìgal is in Dhan, or Dharm Bhava the native’s death is caused by a tree, thunderbolt, or a wall.
Death by fall of a log is indicated, if decreasing Candr is in Randhr Bhava, Sūrya is in Bandhu Bhava, Śani in Yuvati Bhava and Maìgal in Dhan Bhava.
If decreasing Candr is in Karm Bhava, while Maìgal is in Dharm Bhava, Śani is ascending and Sūrya is in Putr Bhava, death will be by fire, or remaining in bondage.
Should Maìgal be in Tula, while Sūrya is in Mesh/Vrischik and Candr is in one of the Rāśis of Maìgal, or Śani, death will take place amidst filth.
The death of a native will be through royal displeasure, or one’s own weapons, if Maìgal is in Bandhu Bhava, Sūrya is in Yuvati Bhava, Śani is in Karm Bhava, while Randhr Bhava has some Grah in it.
If Śani is in Dhan, or in Bandhu Bhava, while Candr is in Karm Bhava and Maìgal is in Yuvati Bhava, death of the native will be caused by worms.
Should Bandhu and Karm Bhava contain malefics, while the decreasing Candr is in Randhr, Vyaya, or Ari Bhava, the native’s end will occur, while he is on journey, or through a thunderbolt.
Should Sūrya and Maìgal be in Vyaya Bhava, Candr and Rahu in Yuvati and Guru in a Kendr, the native will die in a distant place, or in a temple, or garden.
Should the lord of Randhr be in Randhr Bhava, identical with a watery Rāśi, or in Ari, or in Vyaya Bhava, the native’s death will be through cruel animals, snakes, or through falling in a well or, while in his own abode.
If Ketu is in Randhr Bhava, while Randhr’s lord is in a Kendr, malefics in Vyaya Bhava and Lagn’s lord is devoid of strength, the native’s death will be due to his resorting to bad ways.
Should Lagn be in Visha Ghatika Muhurta, while Randhr Bhava has a malefic in it, the death will be through poison, fire, or weapon. The same results can be expected, if Randhr’s lord is fateful in degree yuti with a malefic.
Should Maìgal and Śani exchange their Rāśis, or Navamshas, be in fateful degrees (of those Rāśis occupied by them) and are placed In Kendras (from Lagn), the native’s death will be through sovereign wrath, or by being impaled by a spear, or some such killing weapons.
Should Candr be in Lagn, Sūrya in Randhr without strength, Guru in Vyaya Bhava, while a malefic is in Bandhu Bhava, the native’s death will take place following the removal of his hands and eyes, or through weapons by mean elements at night.
If Man̄gal and Budh are posited in Randhr Bhava, while Lagn’s lord is in the Rāśi, or Amsh of a benefic Grah, the native’s death takes place through flies, venomous reptiles etc.
Should there be many Grahas in Bandhu Bhava, while Randhr’s lord and Lagn’s lord are together, the death of the native will come to pass along with many persons.
Should Lagn’s lord be yuti with Putr’s lord and Randhr’s lord in any Rāśi, the native will die along with his son. If it is a combination of Lagn’s lord, Yuvati’s lord and Randhr’s lord, the native dies along with his wife.
Naturally, if a Dasha is at its end, the death will occur in a simple way (i.e. not by cruel, or painful means and in the mid of an untoward Grah’s Dasha death will be cruel corresponding to Randhr Bhava.
The place of death will correspond to the Rāśi, or Navamsh, or Randhr’s lord. According to the Rāśi and Amsh, the place, whether on land, or in water and the direction of death should be guessed.
If Lagn is a Rāśi, which is strong in nights, death will come to pass in a night. And day Rāśis at birth will bring about the end in day time. If Lagn is vacant, these results will come to pass. If, however, there be a Grah, the effects relating to that Grah shall also be weighed.
The state of unconsciousness preceding one’s death will correspond to the Navamshas elapsed (i.e. the period in terms of Navamshas passed in the particular natal Lagn), this is, when a benefic is in Lagn. If Randhr’s lord is in his own, or exaltation Rāśi, or Navamsh, it has to be trebled.
When Lagn’s lord is in a watery Navamsh, or a watery Rāśi, Candr, or Śukr give a Drishti to Bandhu Bhava and Randhr and Vyaya Bhava are occupied by malefics, the native will be killed in the middle of water, i.e. mid-river etc.
Should Lagn’s lord be in Randhr Bhava in Navamsh, or be combust, or even in an enemy’s Rāśi, one will die in a country, where one has no relatives and in a natural course.
Note Navamsh’s lord occupied by Lagn’s lord. If the said Navamsh’s lord is posited in Lagn in Janm Kundali along with Lagn’s lord, or receiving a Drishti from Lagn’s lord, death will occur in a place other than the one of birth. Lagn and its lord can also be replaced with Candr Rāśi lord in the said combination.
Should the natal Lagn be in a Bhava of Guru, or in such Vargas, the soul attains heavens. If a Rāśi of Śukr, or the Rāśi of Candr be Lagn, the departed soul reached the Mane’s world. If a Rāśi of Man̄gal, or Simh be the natal Lagn, mortal’s world will receive the soul. Should Ketu ascend, the person goes to Mrityu’s Loka, i.e. hell. Should Budh and his Rāśi ascend, one will assume the kind of a brutal animal. Should Śani, or Rahu ascend, or, if Śani’s Rāśi is Lagn, the person is destined to take rebirth, as a devil etc.
Should a Rāśi be without any Grah in it, or does not receive a Drishti from a Grah, the effects arising out of the ownership of the Bhava of the Grah (and the effects due to that Grah’s nature) will prevail.
Should Guru be at the end of Lagn or, if Sūrya is in Lagn owned by Guru, the native will attain final emancipation i.e. the Lord’s Lotus Feet.
Whenever (something) has been stated in works about Jyotish relating to auspicious effects, that has been stated here (in this work).
Thus ends the 26th Ch. entitled "On Death" in Horashara of Prithuyasas, son of Varah Mihira.
