Jaimini Upadesha Sutras — Kathapayadi Encryption & Swamsa (Navamsa Lagna)

Jaimini — Who He Was

Relationship to Parashara

• Everything Jaimini teaches was already taught by Parashara. Jaimini is taken to be one of Parashara's students — he came after him, but was a contemporary.
• He went deeper into some parts of Parashara's teaching: Arudhas, Navamsa, and some 20 to 30 kinds of dasas, mostly sign-based.
• Parashara's teaching in BPHS is not codified. Jaimini codified his.
• Why codify, if the aim is to spread knowledge? The answer given in class: to keep it safe from people who would abuse it, and to make sure only the hard-working and intelligent got to it. It needs the guidance of a guru.

"Maybe what Parashara taught is very general, but what Jaimini taught is so specific and so powerful that he did not want it to fall in bad hands."

The Upadesha Sutras

• Called sutras because they are codified: terse, cryptic. The Sanskrit stanzas are not to be read as they stand — "encryption and compression together".
• Translators and commentators named in class: Neelakantha (the original commentator), Iranganti Rangacharya, P.S. Sastri.
• The class notes add that Rangacharya wrote his commentary in both Sanskrit and English.
• Narayana follows Pt. Sanjay Rath's translation throughout, because Sanjay Rath is his teacher. He recommends the book and says any other may be consulted.
• The book opens with the Kathapayadi Varga, then the sign aspects. The planets in Swamsa begin in chapter 1, quarter 2.

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Kathapayadi Varga — The Encryption System

The System

• Kathapayadi Varga = the Ka, Ta, Pa, Ya and "Adi" (vowel) vargas of the Sanskrit alphabet. Each letter is given a number.
• The class notes spell out the numbering: the letters of a varga are taken in order — ka, kha, ga, gha, ṅa and so on — and given 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 … 9, then 0.
• A key word is broken into syllables, the numbers are joined, the result is divided by 12, and the remainder is what Jaimini is pointing at.
• The digits are read in reverse. PVNR's explanation: in old India the ones place was written first, then the tens, then the hundreds. So "3, 4" means 3 ones and 4 tens = 43.
• It is done word by word, not for a whole sentence.
• Not every word is coded. Jaimini codes the word that names a house, a sign or an important attribute. The ordinary words that make up the sentence are plain. Telling the two apart is for the expert.

How to Decode

1. Take the Sanskrit word.
2. Break it into syllables.
3. Give each its Kathapayadi number.
4. Reverse the digits.
5. Divide by 12. The remainder is the house or sign.

Example: "Labha"

• La = 3, bha = 4 → 34 → reversed 43
• 43 ÷ 12 leaves 7
• "Labha" therefore means the 7th house, not the 11th house a plain reading suggests.

Example: "Dharme"

• The stanza "taṭākādayo dharme" is translated: Aquarius Navamsa indicates construction of lakes, tanks, gardens, roads and temples.
• Dha and ma give 59. 59 ÷ 12 leaves 11. The 11th sign is Aquarius.
• PVNR's caveat on this very verse: all the words say is "in dharma — ponds, etc." Temples and roads are the translators' addition. "In dharma" could be the 9th house read plainly, or, decoded, the 11th house or the 11th sign. The verse does not say Navamsa either; it could be another varga.

"So that is why relying on Jaimini for making predictions is very risky. With Parashara it is much clearer."

A stanza with no coding

• The first stanza on planets, "tatra ravau rājakāryaparaḥ" — the Sun there makes one engaged in the king's work — is plain Sanskrit. Nothing in it is decoded.

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Navamsa — The Dharmamsa

Why Navamsa Is Called Dharmamsa

• Navamsa is also called Dharmamsa. Apart from marriage, it shows the potential and characteristics of a person — what stands out.
• Narayana's illustration, from the Svargarohana Parva: the Pandavas gave up the kingdom and walked into the Himalayas. One by one the brothers fell — Nakula for pride in his looks, Sahadeva for pride in his knowledge. Only Yudhishthira reached the end, with a dog. Asked to enter heaven, he refused to go without the dog, which had not fallen and so had kept dharma as he had. The dog then showed itself as Yama Dharmaraja, who had been testing him.
• The point: it is dharma that is carried from the past life to the present life. Navamsa carries the punya of the past life forward, and that includes the abilities one had then.
• Mozart composing as a small child: impossible unless he had done it before. It comes easily to him.
• PVNR: abilities are only one of the blessings Navamsa shows. Whatever dharma one followed, in a past life or this one, is what protects one.
• The class notes put it as dharmo rakshati rakshitah: the blessings of the past life, shown by Navamsa, protect one in the present.
• The 9th house is the dharma carried from the past life — the punya, the potential one had then. In the Navamsa this is read from the Navamsa Lagna and its trines.

The dog and Saturn

• Yama is associated with Saturn: he is Saturn's elder brother, and Yama and Prajapati are the adhi-devata and pratyadhi-devata of Saturn in worship.
• Among animals, the dog is Saturn's. It shows discipline and sincerity — the qualities of Saturn and of Yama Dharmaraja.

Swamsa — Two Meanings

• Swa = self. Swamsa = the Navamsa of the self.
• Jaimini uses the word for both:
  1. Lagnamsa — the Navamsa Lagna. Used for what manifests physically.
  2. Karakamsa — the Navamsa sign of the Atmakaraka. Shows what the soul yearns for.
• It can be either, but mostly it is Lagnamsa.

Which influences count

A planet influences Swamsa when it is:

1. In the Navamsa Lagna
2. In a trine to it (5th or 9th)
3. Aspecting it by rasi drishti

• Only rasi drishti counts here. Rasi drishti shows what will manifest. Graha drishti only shows a desire — it gives no permanent effect.
• Rasi drishti is permanent. Argala comes into play only in the dasa of the planet giving it.
• The class notes say the same of graha drishti: what it shows comes out only in the mahadasa or antardasa of that planet.
• A student asked whether planets in quadrants work the opposite way. No. Quadrants are not taken as such. But if the Navamsa Lagna is a dual sign, the dual signs aspect each other, so planets in its quadrants do aspect it.
• Planets on both sides of the Navamsa Lagna (kartari) count almost as if they were in it — see Part 5.
• The focus is always the lagna. How a planet in the trine is itself aspected by others modifies it, but that is secondary.
• When about 7 of the 9 planets influence the Navamsa Lagna, the person is gifted. Things come to him almost without effort.

Ability, not career

• The Navamsa shows what one is capable of. It comes with no training. It does not fix the career.
• This also makes it a useful tool for rectifying the Navamsa Lagna: a known talent should show there.
• A student asked whether Arudhas come into this. Not here — this is the inner capability. But Jaimini later says that what is described from the Navamsa Lagna can also be seen from the Arudha Lagna.

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Kartari Yoga on Navamsa Lagna

• Planets on both sides of the lagna form a kartari on it. PVNR: it is almost as if those planets were in the lagna. Narayana puts it more strongly still.
• It must be both sides. A planet on one side only is not a kartari — "you need two blades for this".
• Satyacharya, in Satya Jataka, gives great importance to shubha kartari — two benefics enclosing the ascendant.
• If one side is benefic and the other malefic, it is weaker; the two cancel.
• The planets forming the kartari show their characteristics in the person.

Kartari from other pairs of houses

Raised while reading Bill Gates' Navamsa, where there is nothing in the 12th:

• The class notes name them the quadrant kartari (4th–10th) and the trinal kartari (5th–9th), and say a kartari shows balance. On the recording: "like you are balancing on both sides".
• A student added that the 6th and 8th also enclose the 7th.
• Narayana's caution: count every such pair and you will find all sorts of combinations in every chart. The 2nd–12th kartari is the primary one.

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Parivartana in Navamsa — Needs a Trigger

• The second example chart has Jupiter in Scorpio and Mars in Sagittarius in Navamsa. Jupiter acts like Mars and Mars like Jupiter.
• A student asked: is that general — in any parivartana each planet acts like the other? Yes, generally. It is like exchanging roles: you are in my house, I am in yours; you carry out my responsibilities there and I carry out yours here.
• PVNR's qualification: in practice a trigger is needed. Until then Mars acts as Mars. When the exchange starts is seen from the dasa and antardasa.
• His example: Jupiter and Mars have exchanged houses and Jupiter dasa is running. The exchange typically does not take effect until Jupiter–Mars antardasa. From then on the parivartana works.
• The Tithi Pravesha chart is for fine-tuning within a running dasa or antardasa.

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Saturn in 9th House

A student's question, after the dog was linked with Saturn and dharma: if Saturn is so tied to dharma, why does Saturn in the 9th cause suspicion about religion and dharma?

"Saturn is not dharma. I never said Saturn shows dharma. Saturn shows discipline — passionately following what you think is your dharma."

• With Saturn in the 9th the person is suspicious, and that is no cause for alarm. He wants to be absolutely sure what his dharma is.
• It is a diligent, disciplined, slow and steady path. If you do not understand what your dharma is, you must ask questions and find out. That is the basic dharma.
• Once he understands, he pursues it, even if it is a long pursuit. Saturn shows tenacity. That is what the dog stands for.

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Sri Lagna vs. Navamsa Lagna Blessings

A student asked: Sri Lagna shows the blessings of Lakshmi, which also come from past punya. How is that different from the Navamsa?

The two are entirely different things. Do not mix them.

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General Notes on Using These Combinations

PVNR's two cautions

1. This knowledge is partly speculative. Jaimini is a great Maharshi, but he coded his knowledge on purpose, and the decoding done by even great scholars may still be imperfect. Be far more careful with Jaimini than with Parashara.
2. Navamsa is the chart of abilities. Sun, Mars and Rahu on the Navamsa Lagna do not make a man an arsonist. At most there is such an ability. Do not jump to conclusions.

• He also said: see whether a stanza has other applications — prasna and medical astrology. In a prasna the same combinations can be read straight from the planets influencing the lagna of the rasi chart.

Where the knowledge comes from

• A student supposed Jaimini must have built these rules from a collection of charts. Narayana: no. These are Maharshis. Their sign is Pisces, the 12th, the sign of samadhi, and it is in samadhi that they receive this knowledge. It is not research.

How to work with the stanzas

• Do not take every stanza literally. Take those that make sense, test them in charts, and then use them consistently.
• Many sutras still need detailed interpretation. PVNR doubted that all the commentators have explored them fully: "Keep that in mind. Be open-minded."
• Narayana: the first chapters are best understood in discussion, where several meanings can be weighed.
• How to remember some twenty combinations? Only by practice on charts — and by seeing why: Saturn is hard work, Venus is passion, and the rest follows.

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