Bhava 5
Pratibha
प्रतिभा · Sons
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In an older source
यन्त्रमन्त्रौ तथा विद्यां बुद्धेश्चैव प्रबन्धकम्। पुत्रराज्यापभ्रांशादीन् पश्येत् पुत्रालयाद् बुधः॥ ६॥
Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra, typed Sanskrit text on Wikisource
About this entry
The fifth house is called Pratibha in the Brihat Jataka, which means intelligence, and Iyer's list for it reads sons, intelligence and previous karma. The book also calls it Trikona, the triangle, because it forms a triangle of signs with the Lagna and the ninth house.
In the quoted verse, from the Wikisource typing of the Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra, edition unidentified, the fifth house, as we read it, takes in devices and spells, learning, the intellect, sons and the fall from rule. Varahamihira's rules of sight single the house out: every planet looks at it from the fifth place with a half sight, and Jupiter alone has a full sight on it. As a panaphara house, one of the group beside the angles, the book counts it as moderate in strength.
Where this text comes from
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- Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra, typed Sanskrit text on Wikisource
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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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