BPHS Ch.20 — Father's Death Timing (Verses 13–24): Specific Ages (1, 7, 19, 28, 33, 50) & Arudha Analysis (A8/A12 from 9th)

Completing BPHS Chapter 20 — Father's Death Timing Verses

The class had done eleven ślokas of the 9th house chapter and resumes at the 12th.

Verse 12: Living by Begging

Combination:

• 10th lord and 3rd lord together, both weak ("karmādhipena sahito vikrameśo'pi nirbalaḥ")
• 9th lord debilitated or combust

Result: bhikṣāśana — the person goes begging for his food.

• The verse says the 3rd lord is "also" weak, which implies the 10th lord is weak too.
• Which kind of strength Parāśara means is not stated.

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Verse 13: Father Dies Before Birth

Combination:

• Sun in the 6th, 8th or 12th house
• 8th lord in the 9th house
• 12th lord in lagna
• 6th lord in the 5th house

Result: The father expires before the birth of the native.

What is plainly bad: the kāraka of father is in a dusthāna, and the 9th house is afflicted by the 8th lord. Those two alone are not good for father.

Why the 12th lord in lagna and the 6th lord in the 5th — read through the ārūḍhas:

1. 12th lord in lagna → A12 (UL) in the 2nd house. UL is the wife, but it is also tangible loss. The ārūḍha of a dusthāna sits in kuṭumba sthāna, so a loss in the family is shown — "could be father, could be some uncle, aunt, somebody". The planet causing it is in lagna, so it can happen at birth or before birth.
2. 8th lord in the 9th → A8 (Mṛtyupada) in the 10th house. A8 shows a big setback, a death-like suffering of the native.
3. 6th lord in the 5th → A6 in the 4th house. A6 shows a big obstacle or struggle of the native.
4. From the 9th house, the 10th is the 2nd and the 4th is the 8th. A6 and A8 are in samasaptaka, on the 2nd–8th axis from the 9th. This works like the 6th and 8th lords joining or aspecting each other, and it happens in the māraka sthānas from father.

The limit of this reading:

"It could be death, but the thing is we do not have a clear logic to say that it will be death. Parashara gave that combination, but based on our intellectual level, all we can say is there will be some struggle and some setback relating to father for the person."

How rare it is: Sun in one of three houses is 1/4; each of the three lords in one given house is 1/12. Together 1/(4 × 12³) = 1 in 6,912. A very rare combination. If it is found only partly satisfied, there can still be some problem relating to father.

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Verse 14: Father Dies in the 1st Year

Combination: Sun in the 8th house (randhra sthāna) + 8th lord in the 9th house

Result: The father dies in the first year of the native — he does not live long after the birth.

Why:

• Sun is the kāraka. In the 8th he shows a setback relating to father.
• The 8th lord in the 9th afflicts the 9th house.
• Father is seen from two references: the 9th from lagna and the 9th from Sun. With Sun in the 8th, the 9th from Sun is the 4th house.
• The 8th lord in the 9th puts A8 in the 10th house. That is the 2nd from the 9th house and the 7th from the 4th house.
• So the Mṛtyupada of the native is in a māraka sthāna from father from both references. The father can pass away quickly and give the native that suffering.

Why one year: "We don't know."

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Verse 15: Father Dies in the 3rd or 16th Year

Combination: 12th lord in the 9th house + 9th lord in a debilitated aṁśa

Result: The father expires in the 3rd or the 16th year of the native.

• The verse only says "aṁśa" — navāṁśa or dvādaśāṁśa.
• The combination is bad; why these two numbers is not known. "There may be some special daśā, rāśi daśā."

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Verse 16: Father Dies in the 2nd or 12th Year

Combination: Lagna lord in the 12th house (nāśa rāśi — house of destruction or loss) + 8th lord conjoining Sun

Result: Predict the father's death in the 2nd or the 12th year.

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Verse 17: Father Dies in the 16th or 18th Year

Combination: Rahu in the 4th house (8th from the 9th) + Sun in the 5th house (9th from the 9th)

Result: The father expires in the 16th or the 18th year.

Why:

• Rahu sits in the 8th from the 9th house.
• Sun in the 5th is not bad for father by itself. He is in the 9th from the 9th. The teacher sets kāraka bhāva nāśa aside here: "all those don't apply. Anyway, those are controversial."
• What spoils it is Rahu's graha dṛṣṭi on Sun: Rahu aspects the 2nd house from himself, and Sun is there.
• The pattern in all these verses: a bad ārūḍha, bad lord or bad planet such as Rahu in a māraka sthāna from father, and Sun afflicted.
• 16 and 18 may be important years of Rahu by Naisargika daśā or something like it.

A student's question — Sun and Rahu together in the 9th? That is also bad. Parāśara has not listed it, but it is logical. If Sun is himself the 9th lord there, in Leo, he is strong and gives protection, though Rahu's affliction is still not good.

"In general, for the 9th house, for the 9th lord, for Sun, affliction from Rahu or other malefics or the dusthana lords is not good. That is the bottom line we see from all these combinations."

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Verse 18: Father Dies in the 7th or 19th Year

Combination: Sun with Rahu (in any house, not only the 9th) + Saturn in the 9th house from Moon

Result: The father's death is "dhruvam" — definite — in the 7th or the 19th year.

The reading of the numbers: everywhere else Parāśara puts both numbers in the locative ("ṣoḍaśe, aṣṭādaśe"). Here the two are joined in one compound, "saptamaikonaviṁśābde", which is odd. "7th or 19th" is still the only logical reading, and it is how Santhanam took it.

Why:

• Sun with Rahu: the kāraka is eclipsed.
• 9th from Moon: Moon is the kāraka of mind, so all houses can be taken from Moon. That Parāśara names the 9th from Moon, not from lagna or Sun, means it also has a say in matters of father.

"9th house from Moon is the thought of the person relating to father, relating to fortune, relating to guru."

• Saturn afflicting that house: when Saturn's daśā, antardaśā, Naisargika daśā or natural years come, the native becomes sad with respect to father. Losing the father is what makes him sad.
• 7 and 19 are somehow tied to Saturn. Saturn is planet number 7. The remark on 19 is garbled on the recording. The numbers may belong to Saturn or to Rahu for a reason not known.

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Verse 19: Father Dies Around the 28th Year

Combination: 9th lord in the 12th house and 12th lord in the 9th house — parivartana

Result: The father dies when the native's age is "vādābdhi" years.

Decoding the number:

• Santhanam gives 44. The teacher cannot see how: the plain word for 44 would be "catuścatvāriṁśat".
• Numbers are often given through such code words (the directions for 8 or 10, and so on).
• "Vāda" = speech. There are four kinds of speech: parā, paśyantī, madhyamā, vaikharī. So 4.
• "Abdhi" = ocean. The scriptures count seven oceans. So 7.
• 4 and 7 can be 47, or reversed as usual 74 — "74th year father passed away is too much" — or 4 × 7.

"My interpretation is 28 years."

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Verse 20: Father Dies at 5, 31 or 40

Combination: Moon in the aṁśa of Sun ("ravyaṁśe sthite candre" — Leo aṁśa; navāṁśa or dvādaśāṁśa, the teacher leans to dvādaśāṁśa since the matter is father) + lagna lord in the 8th house

Result: The father passes away at the native's age of 5, 31 or 40 ("pañca, triṁśaika, catvāriṁśat").

• This is not a short-life or long-life combination, so no consistent logic can be drawn from it.
• The numbers belong to certain planets or houses in a daśā scheme that is not known. "I do not really have any insight."

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Verse 21: Sun as 9th Lord — Father Lives to the 50th Year

Combination: Sun is the 9th lord ("pitṛsthānādhipa" — so Sagittarius lagna) + Sun is with Saturn and Mars ("manda-bhauma-samanvite")

Result: The father dies in the native's 50th year.

How to read it: The verse does not ask for the 9th lord to be in the 9th. It only says Sun is the 9th lord and is with Mars and Saturn. And it is meant as "despite":

"Despite Mars and Saturn afflicting Sun, the father lives till 50 years of age."

• It does not mean the father lives to 50 only if those two afflict. Sun being the 9th lord is very auspicious for the father's longevity, even under a Saturnine or Martian affliction. Rahu can be counted too, because he is like Saturn.
• Bottom line: long life of father. Why exactly 50 is not known.

A student's own chart: his 9th lord Sun is with Rahu, not Saturn, but in own house, so the case is even stronger than the verse. He is 42 and his father has passed away. The years 42, 43, 44 are ruled by Rahu and Ketu in the natural-year scheme; the early 40s are Rahu's, when yogas such as Kālabhairava yoga start working. So the father went in the natural years of the planet afflicting Sun.

• The rule drawn: watch the natural year of the afflicting planet, and of course his daśā and antardaśā.

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Verse 22: Father Dies in the 6th or 25th Year

Combination: Sun in the 7th from the 9th, that is the 3rd house + Rahu ("tamaḥ" — the dark one) in the 3rd or the 7th house

Result: The father passes away in the 6th or the 25th year. Not a long life.

The teacher differs from Santhanam: Santhanam reads "the 7th from the 3rd", which puts Rahu in the 9th. The teacher finds that too indirect and reads "the 3rd or the 7th".

Why:

• Sun, the kāraka, is in a māraka sthāna from the 9th house (the 3rd is the 7th from the 9th).
• Rahu aspects both Sun and the 9th from Sun (the 11th house). From the 7th, Rahu's graha dṛṣṭi falls on the 3rd and the 11th; from the 3rd he joins Sun and aspects the 11th.

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Verse 23: Father Dies at 21, 26 or 30

Combination: Saturn in the 7th or the 8th house + Sun in the 7th from Saturn (Sun and Saturn in samasaptaka)

Result: The father passes away in the 21st, 26th or 30th year.

The reading: "randhra-jāmitra" can be taken two ways. Santhanam takes Saturn in the 7th from the 8th, the 2nd house. The teacher takes Saturn in either the 7th or the 8th.

Why:

• Saturn aspects Sun by graha dṛṣṭi (7th aspect).
• Take the 9th house as the father's lagna. Saturn in the 7th aspects the 9th house (3rd aspect); Saturn in the 8th aspects the 10th house, the 2nd from the 9th (3rd aspect). So Saturn aspects the father's 1st or 2nd house.

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Verse 24: Father Dies at 26 or 33 — a Medium Combination

Combination: 9th lord debilitated + the lord of his debilitation sign in the 9th house — a parivartana

Result: The father passes away at 26 or 33. ("Trayastriṁśe" is 33; Santhanam printed 30.)

Assessment:

• The 9th lord in debility is not good for a long life.
• But a debilitated planet gets nīcabhaṅga rāja yoga from the lord of the sign he is in, or from the planet exalted there, when that planet is in a kendra. Take the 9th house as lagna: the lagna lord is debilitated, and the lord of that sign is in lagna.
• "It is not great, but it is not terrible also." Neither long life nor short life. 26 and 33 are both reasonably long.

Closing verse: "evaṁ jātasya daivajño phalaṁ jñātvā vinirdiśet" — the astrologer should know these results and indicate them properly for the native.

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