Sanskrit verses with English translation from Kalyana Varma. Read the full classical treatise on AstroFusion Learning.
[Sanskrit source not available — IAST only: yogān yatnād vadanty ūrdhvaṃ yogināṃ dharmacakṣuṣā]
yogān yatnād vadanty ūrdhvaṃ yogināṃ dharmacakṣuṣā
Various sages have explained widely the combinations of four, or more planets producing an ascetic. I now explain below such of the Yogas.
[Sanskrit source not available — IAST only: sūrya-candra-śukra-guru-bhaumāḥ yutāḥ sannyāsinaḥ]
sūrya-candra-śukra-guru-bhaumāḥ yutāḥ sannyāsinaḥ
One born with the conjunction of the Sun, the Moon, Venus, Jupiter and Mars; or the Luminaries, Mercury and Mars; or the Sun, Mars, Saturn, Mercury and Venus becomes an ascetic.
[Sanskrit source not available — IAST only: bhauma-luminārī-budha-guravo yutāḥ parivrājakaḥ]
bhauma-luminārī-budha-guravo yutāḥ parivrājakaḥ
The native having the combination of Mars, the Luminaries (i.e. the Sun and the Moon), Mercury and Jupiter; or the Luminaries, Saturn and Mercury; or the Luminaries, Mars and Saturn takes to renunciation and become a mendicant.
[Sanskrit source not available — IAST only: śani-dreṣkāṇa-sthaḥ candraḥ bhauma-śanibhir drṣṭaḥ]
śani-dreṣkāṇa-sthaḥ candraḥ bhauma-śanibhir drṣṭaḥ
The native will attain religious order, if the Moon, posited in a decanate of Saturn, is aspected by Mars and Saturn. The same effect is produced, if the Moon occupies the Navāṁśa of Aries/Scorpio in aspect to Saturn.
[Sanskrit source not available — IAST only: candra-rāśi-nāthaḥ śanibhir ekasphūrjitaḥ]
candra-rāśi-nāthaḥ śanibhir ekasphūrjitaḥ
If the Lord of the Moon Sign receives the sole aspect of Saturn (i.e. unaspected by others than Saturn), one will enter religious order. Even in this context, the earlier Yogas, if present will only prevail.
[Sanskrit source not available — IAST only: śanibhir balina drṣṭaḥ sūrya-candra-guravo lagna-daśama-dvādaśa-sthāḥ]
śanibhir balina drṣṭaḥ sūrya-candra-guravo lagna-daśama-dvādaśa-sthāḥ
If one among the Sun, the Moon and Jupiter be devoid of strength and occupy the Ascendant, or the 10th, or the 12th in aspect to strong Saturn, the native will become distressed ascetic.
[Sanskrit source not available — IAST only: candra-rāśi-nāthaḥ sarvān grahān drṣṭavān]
candra-rāśi-nāthaḥ sarvān grahān drṣṭavān
If the Lord of the Moon Sign aspects all the other planets, while these are all together in one Rasi, the native will become an ascetic.
[Sanskrit source not available — IAST only: sūryaḥ yati-jātiḥ pravartakaḥ]
sūryaḥ yati-jātiḥ pravartakaḥ
The Sun rules the ascetics of the following orders: those, who worship the Fire God in forests, or on river banks, those, who worship the omnipotent Sun-God, Elephant-faced Ganesa and His benevolent mother Parvati, those, who recite the hymns of Gayatri (which are very sacred), those, who are vowed to bathe in the sacred Ganges everyday and those, who maintain absolute celibacy.
[Sanskrit source not available — IAST only: candraḥ śaiva-bhaktānāṃ prabhuḥ]
candraḥ śaiva-bhaktānāṃ prabhuḥ
The religious order belonging to the Moon attracts the following various persons: those disciples, who smear their bodies with sacred ashes, those, who worship the Feet of Lord Shiva, those, who are abandoned by the society, those, who are devoted to Bhagavati, those, who give up company of others, those, who take to Soma Siddhanta and those, who carry bowls in their hands for begging alms.
[Sanskrit source not available — IAST only: budha-guru-śanayo yati-jātiḥ pravartakāḥ]
budha-guru-śanayo yati-jātiḥ pravartakāḥ
Mercury denotes an alm-seeker, a conjurer, a snake-poison curer and one, who eats the flesh of a peacock. The ascetics ruled by Jupiter are: those, who hold a single scepter, three scepters, those, who wear red coloured apparels, those, who are in the third stage of religious life, those, who pull on their lives with fruits and water alone, those, who are still attached to family ties, those, who maintain celibacy and those, who take to visiting shrines etc. Saturn rules religious hypocrites, bare mendicants and ascetics, who sit under shadowy trees in forests.