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Bhava 2

Sva

स्व · Family

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In an older source

18. The houses next to the angles are known as Panaphara houses and those next to them are known as Apoklima houses.

The Brihat Jataka of Varaha Mihira, tr. N. Chidambaram Iyer (1885)

About this entry

The second house is the sign after the Lagna. In Iyer's list for the Brihat Jataka it covers family, wealth, eyes, speech and truthfulness, and the book gives the sign of this place the name Sva, which means wealth.

The quoted stanza places this house in the group called panaphara, the houses beside the angles, which are the second, fifth, eighth and eleventh. Iyer notes that panaphara and apoklima are Greek terms, and he draws from the book that these houses are weaker than the angles. The Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra in its Wikisource typing, which names no edition, gathers wealth, grain, family, metals and gems under the second house.

The number two turns up in the friendship rules as well. Counted from a given planet, the second house is one of the places where another planet acts as a temporary friend, and the book then combines that with the natural table to give five grades.

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