Bhava 6
Kshata
क्षत · Enemies
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The sixth house is named Kshata in the Brihat Jataka, a word meaning a wound, and Iyer's list gives enemies and kinsmen, together with one more item that this page leaves out. It is an upachaya house, one of the improving group of the third, sixth, tenth and eleventh, and also an apoklima house of the weakest kind.
Chapter XX of the book records a rule it credits to Satyacharya, which Iyer's note ties to the Swalpa Jataka: benefic planets promote the houses they occupy and malefic planets reduce them, except in the sixth, eighth and twelfth houses, where the effect is reversed. On that view a benefic planet in the sixth brings the enemies to ruin and a malefic one lets them grow.
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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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