Conception - 1

On Nisheka Kala or The Time of Conception

1. The menses that appear monthly, because of Mars and the Moon

(a) bring about conception when the Moon is in one of the Amipachaya signs

(b) If the Moon be otherwise

(c) and be aspected by a benefic male planet

(d) there will be sexual union between a woman and her husband.

NOTES :

(a) Menses appear in women whenever the Moon is aspected by Mars, that is especially when the Moon occupies the 4th, 7th or the 8th house from Mars. 

In connection with this subject the author ofSaravali says : 11 The Moon is water; Mars is fire; a mixture of water and fire is bile; when the bile mixes with the blood, menstrual discharge occurs."

(b) If, when aspected by Mars, the Moon happens to occupy one of the Amipachaya signs in the horoscope or nativity of the woman, at the time of the appearance of the menses, conception will follow. The Upachaya signs are the 3rd, 6th, 10th, and the llth houses from the ascendant ; and the other signs are known as Anupachaya signs.

(c) That is from the time the woman bathes on the 4th day, when the Moon reaches one of the Upachaya houses in the horoscope or nativity of the husband. (d) There will be sexual union between the husband and wife if the Moon is aspected by Jupiter when powerful.

The Commentator adds that if the Moon is aspected by the Sun, the woman will have sexual union with an officer of the king ; if aspected by Mars, then with a voluptuary ; if aspected by Mercury, then with a person of fickle mind; if aspected by Venus, then with a beautiful person ; if aspected by Saturn, then with a servant ; and if aspected by several malefic planets, the woman will become a harlot."

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2) The sexual union will be of the nature of the union of creatures represented by the setting sign. Again,if at the time of sexual union, the setting sign be either occupied or aspected by malefic planets, such union will' be attended with anger, and if by beuefic planets, it will be attended with play and laughter.

NOTES : The Commentator adds that if! the setting sign be occupied or aspected by both malefic and beuefic planets the union will be attended with both joy and displeasure.

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3. If, at the time of sexual union, the Sun, the Moon Venus and Mars be in their Navamsas 

(a), or if Jupiter occupy the rising sign or the 5th or the 9th sign from it, such union will produce a child. To persons devoid of virility, the above Yoga (planetary positions) will be as useless as the rays of the Moon to the blind.

NOTES- (a) The Commentator adds that there would also be conception when these four planets are not in their Navamsas, if the Sun and Venus should occupy the Upachaya signs in the horoscope of the man and at the same time be in their Navamsas, or if Mars and the Moon should occupy the Upachaya signs in the horoscope of the woman and at the same time be in their Navamsas.

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4. If at the time of conception, either Mars or Saturn should occupy the seventh house from the Sun or the Moon, the man and his wife would respectively fall ill

(a) but if one of the two planets, Mars and Jupiter, should occupy the twelfth and the other the second house from the Sun and the Moon, or if one of the planets should be in conjunction with the Sun or the Moon and the other should aspect either the Sun or the Moon, the man and his wife will respectively meet with death.

(a) In the month of Mars or Saturn as the case may be

(b) In the month of either Saturn or Mars whoever is powerful.

The Commentator adds that the two effects described in the Stanza will occur before and not after the birth of the child.

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[BRIHAT JATAGA : CHAPTER-II]