Sanskrit verses with English translation from Maharishi Parasara. Read the full classical treatise on AstroFusion Learning.
आयुर्णक्षत्रराशीन्दुलग्नानां त्रिविधं स्मृतम्। उत्तमाधममध्यानि त्रीण्यायुःपरिमाणकम्॥
āyurnakṣatrarāśīndulagnānāṃ trividhaṃ smṛtam | uttamādhamamadhyāni trīṇyāyuḥparimāṇakam ||
Longevity is reckoned in three ways—from the nakshatra, the rashi and the lagna—yielding superior, middling and inferior measures of life.
आयुर्भावफलं चाऽथ कथयामि द्विजोत्तम । आयुःस्थानाधिपः केन्द्रे दीर्घमायुः प्रयच्छति ॥ १॥
āyurbhāvaphalaṃ cā'tha kathayāmi dvijottama | āyuḥsthānādhipaḥ kendre dīrghamāyuḥ prayacchati || 1||
O best of the twice-born, I shall now narrate the results of the house of longevity: when the lord of the house of longevity occupies a kendra, he bestows long life upon the native.
आयुस्थानाधिपः पापैः सह तत्रैव संस्थितः । करोत्यल्पायुषं जातं लग्नेशोऽप्यत्र संस्थितः ॥ २॥
āyusthānādhipaḥ pāpaiḥ saha tatraiva saṃsthitaḥ | karotyalpāyuṣaṃ jātaṃ lagneśo'pyatra saṃsthitaḥ || 2||
If the lord of the house of longevity stands there itself in the company of malefics, the native is made short-lived; the same result follows when the ascendant lord is similarly placed.
एवं हि शनिना चिन्ता कार्या तर्कैर्विचक्षणैः । कर्माधिपेन च तथा चिन्तनं कार्यमायुषः ॥ ३॥
evaṃ hi śaninā cintā kāryā tarkairvicakṣaṇaiḥ | karmādhipena ca tathā cintanaṃ kāryamāyuṣaḥ || 3||
In this manner, Saturn should indeed be examined by astute reasoners through sound logic, and deliberation on longevity must likewise be carried out through the lord of karma (the tenth lord).
षष्ठे व्ययेऽपि षष्ठेशो व्ययाधीशो रिपौ व्यये । लग्नेऽष्टमे स्थितो वाऽपि दीर्घमायुः प्रयच्छति ॥ ४॥
ṣaṣṭhe vyaye'pi ṣaṣṭheśo vyayādhīśo ripau vyaye | lagne'ṣṭame sthito vā'pi dīrghamāyuḥ prayacchati || 4||
When the sixth lord occupies the sixth or the twelfth, or the twelfth lord stands in the sixth or the twelfth—or either of them is placed in the ascendant or the eighth—he bestows long life.
स्वस्थाने स्वांशके वाऽपि मित्रेशे मित्रमन्दिरे । दीर्घायुषं करोत्येव लग्नेशोऽष्टमपः पुनः ॥ ५॥
svasthāne svāṃsake vā'pi mitreśe mitramandire | dīrghāyuṣaṃ karotyeva lagneśo'ṣṭamapaḥ punaḥ || 5||
The ascendant lord—and again the eighth lord—placed in its own sign, its own amsa, a friendly sign or a sign of exaltation, certainly produces long life.
लग्नाष्टमपकर्म्मेशमन्दाः केन्द्रत्रिकोणयोः । लाभे वा संस्थितास्तद्वद् दिशेयुर्दीर्घमायुषम् ॥ ६॥
lagnāṣṭamapakarmeśamandāḥ kendratrikoṇayoḥ | lābhe vā saṃsthitāstadvat diśeyurdīrghamāyuṣam || 6||
Likewise, the lords of the ascendant, the eighth and the tenth, when situated in the kendra or trikona houses, or in the eleventh, indicate long life in the same way.