Vikrama

The third house lies two signs beyond the Lagna. Iyer's list for the Brihat Jataka gives it brothers, bravery and meals, and the book names it Vikrama (prowess) and also Duschikya. The Sanskrit Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra, typed on Wikisource and of unidentified edition, speaks of valor, servants, brothers and travel here.

This is one of the upachaya houses, the improving ones, together with the sixth, tenth and eleventh. It is also an apoklima house, which puts it in the group the book rates weakest. Garga and his school held that the upachaya houses lose that quality if harmful planets occupy or look at them, and Iyer's note says Varahamihira disagrees, with Satyacharya and Yavaneswara on his side.

In the book's rules of sight, every planet looks at the third house from where it stands with a quarter sight. Saturn alone looks at it with a full sight, and the same holds for the tenth.