Bhava 10
Mana
मान · Avocation
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In an older source
The 10th house is known as Meskoorana and Karma.
The Brihat Jataka of Varaha Mihira, tr. N. Chidambaram Iyer (1885)
About this entry
The tenth house is the fourth angle, the one opposite the fourth house. Iyer's list for it in the Brihat Jataka is avocation, knowledge and clothes, and the book names its sign Mana, which is respectability. Karma, the second name in the quoted line, means action or deed.
Varahamihira makes the Sun and Mars strong in the south, which is the tenth sign, and says a four-footed sign gains strength when it holds the tenth. The house also belongs to the improving upachaya group. A planet looks at the tenth with a quarter sight from where it stands, and Saturn has a full sight on it. Chapter X of the book, titled On Avocation, treats livelihood at length and is not summarized here.
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- The Brihat Jataka of Varaha Mihira, tr. N. Chidambaram Iyer (1885)
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- The Brihat Jataka of Varaha Mihira, tr. N. Chidambaram Iyer, 2nd ed. (1905)
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