Bhava 9
Guru
गुरु · Deeds of virtue
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The ninth house is called Guru in the Brihat Jataka, a word for father or teacher, and also Tapas and Tritrikona. Iyer's list for it reads deeds of virtue, father and medicine. It forms a triangle with the Lagna and the fifth house.
The same book places the ninth among the apoklima houses, normally the weakest group, so it carries two labels that point in different directions. Counted from a planet's own place, the ninth gets a half sight from every planet and a full one only from Jupiter. As we read chapter 11 of the typed Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra, edition unidentified, this house gathers fortune, right conduct and pilgrimage among other things.
Where this text comes from
Statements credited to an older text follow the scanned or typed text named here. Statements about the calculator describe its own rules, and modern practice is labeled as modern.
- 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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