Bhava 12
Vyaya
व्यय · Loss
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The twelfth house, the sign just before the Lagna, is named Vyaya in the Brihat Jataka, which is the word for loss. Iyer's list gives loss, bad deeds and travels. It is an apoklima house, one of the book's weakest group.
A planet standing in the twelfth house from another is that planet's friend for the moment, one of the places in the book's five-grade friendship rules. Here, as in the sixth and eighth houses, a rule from Satyacharya and the Swalpa Jataka reverses the usual benefic and malefic effects. In the calculator the twelfth house is the sign just before the Lagna sign.
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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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