Bhava 8
Randhra
रन्ध्र · The opening
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About this entry
The eighth house is named Randhra in the Brihat Jataka, which means a hole or opening. It follows the western angle, so it belongs to the panaphara group, and Iyer notes that the group's name is Greek. The leading items in the old lists for this house are left out on this site.
The Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra as typed on Wikisource, whose edition is unknown, also gathers battle, a rival and a fortress under this house. Counted from where a planet stands, the eighth place gets a three-quarter sight from every planet and a full one from Mars alone. Chapter XX of the book puts the eighth, together with the sixth and the twelfth, under a reversal rule that Iyer's notes credit to Satyacharya and the Swalpa Jataka.
Where this text comes from
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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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- Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra, typed Sanskrit text on Wikisource
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