EIGHT BHAVA

85. In regard to a question bearing on war, if the planet in the ascendant or the planet occupying the sign held by the ascendant lord is in Musaripha with the Moon the querent ruler will win. If the Moon has Muthasila with the planet in the 7th or the planet who is in the sign occupied by the lord of the

7th, the enemy will win.

86. If the superior planets are strongly placed ahead of the inferior planets or if the inferior planets being weak are behind the major planets, victory goes to the querent.

87. If the lord of the Lagna forms Muthasila with the lord of the 7th in the 6th, 3rd,10th or 11th, warring rulers will cease fighting by mutual agreement. If the ascendant lord is in between the ascendant and the 7th, the querent ruler will get killed in the battle-field.

88. If the lords of Lagna and the 7th are in Musaripha and one of the lords is combust, the war will drag on for a long time. If the lord of the ascendant being a slow-moving planet (Saturn) is in Kambo ola yoga (with the Moon) and is ahead of a fast-moving planet, the querent will win.

89. If the lord of Lagna (as in stanza 88) is combust, or occupies the debilitation sign of the 7th lord or is in a quadrant from the 7th lord, or is in the 7th, the querent faces danger of defeat.

90. If benefics are behind the ascendant and slow-moving planets are forwards of the ascendant, the querent gets the help of a noble person. If the lord of the ascendant is in the 8th and in Muthasila with the lord of the 8th, the querent dies in battle.

91. The enemy will be routed when the lord of the 7th is in the 2nd and is in Muthasila with the lord of the 2nd. The lord of the ascendant in Muthasila with the lord of the 10th indicates success to the querent.

92. Lords of the 4th and 7th in conjunction denotes victory to the enemy. If the lords of the ascendant and the 7th are in Kendras and in mutual Ithasala, predict success to the party signified by the stronger of the two lords.

93. If the stronger lord, suggested in stanza 92, is in a movable sign, the party it indicates will has initial success followed by utter defeat. If the lord of the ascendant is in the 12th, the querent's army suffers losses. If the lord of the 7th is in 6th, the enemy's army will suffer losses.

94. According as the lord of the 10th is in the ascendant or the lord of the 4th is in the 7th, the querist's or the enemy's armies will get help. The nature of help will be in accordance with the planet involved in Muthasila with the Sun or the Moon. If there is Musaripha, harm alone can befall. 95. If the query put is : "Will I undertake a journey", say the querent will go on a journey if the lord of the ascendant is posited in a quadrant and has Muthasila with the lord of the 9th and vice versa.

96. If the lord of the 9th is in the ascendant and has Muthasila with the ascendant lord, there will be no journey. In the absence of a trinal aspect in the above combinations, there will be no journey.

97. If the lord of the ascendant occupying a quadrant is in Muthasila with a planet in the 3rd house and devoid of malefic aspects, there will be journey. If malefics are in Kendras, the journey will not take place.

98. Malefics in the 7th indicate failure in the object of the journey. Malefics in the 10th indicate that the object of the journey will fail due to the government or elders in the family.

99. If there is Muthasila between the lords of the Lagna and the 9th and malefics aspect them, the quarent will meet with physical danger and loss of money in the journey.

100. If the Muthasila between the lords of the ascendant and the 9th has reference to the 8th and 7th houses, there will be affliction during the journey. If the Yoga is in the ascendant, the querent will have a comfortable journey.

101. From the ascendant should be divined the nature (comfortable or otherwise) of the journey; from the 10th, the object; from the 7th the nature of the place to be visited; and from the 4th the result (or outcome) of the journey. From the Lagna should also be ascertained the bodily or physical comforts.

102. Benefics in the 10th confer success; in the 7th good in the place of visit; and in the 4th-complete satisfaction of fulfillment.

103-104. According as the lagna lord or the Moon is afflicted in human, quadruped or aquatic signs, the trouble during journey will come human beings, fourlegged animals or water resorting creatures respectively. If the affliction is in Sagittarius or Aquarius, the trouble will be from trees and plants. If the affliction is in Leo, the trouble will be from leonine species.

105. If the query "will my visit to the city or place prove beneficial" is put, it must  be answered thus : If the lord of the 2nd is in the ascendant, retrograde, the querent's planned visit to the place will not be useful.

106. If the second lord is in accelerated motion, the stay will not be long and the visit not much fruitful. If the second lord occupies the 9th or 3rd, the querent finishes his job quickly and returns back to his native place.

107. The lord of 2nd joining the ascendant, the 10th or 11th, indicates smooth fulfillment of the object of the visit. According as the 2nd lord is in the 7th or 4th, afflicted, the failure will be due to many troubles or quarrels on the way.