Mahabharata – 197
by
Sankar Mukherjee
&
Dr Ramesh Chandra Mukhopadhyaya

Aadivamsavatarana

Horoscope of Yudhishitira

Let us now look at the natal charts of the five sons of Pandu.

Yudhishitira  was the eldest son of Pandu.His ascendant is Leo.The lord of the ascendant is in the tenth house which is Taurus.So Yudhishitira has a royalty about him.He should always act like a king and he is destined to be the king of a vast empire.The Sun is accompanied with Mercury the lord of the second house and the eleventh house. So he is not short of wealth.And victory should be always with him.The third house stands for brothers and prowess.Saturn is exalted in the third house.So he is peerless in prowess. But it is due to his brothers.The third house is aspected by Mars and Venus.Mars is in his own house.Quite naturally his brothers should very great in prowess.They are good looking as well because of the aspect of Venus in the third house.But the exchange of the aspects of Mars and Saturn the native must go through lot of trouble.May be his mother suffered during his birth.The fourth house is that of Mars.Mars is well placed in his own house in Aries.So he should have a palacial old fashioned built space for his living.But the lord of the twelveth house is debilitated in the fourth house so he will not enjoy a peaceful life at home.The world away from the home would be home for him. Moon stands for mind and we can guess that his mind shall be often restless.This is further underlined because the Moon is in the constellation of Mercury.The Moon is aspected by Mercury.The aspect of Mercury on Moon is not however beneficial.So his mother shall have to face many distresses.The twelveth lord in fourth tells us that much of his time he has to live away from home.Rahu is placed in fifth house and it is debilitated so there will be mishap as regards to his children.Rahu in the fifth might mislead his intelligence.And may be he might be given to gambling for a time.The sixth lord is Saturn placed in the third where it is exalted.No wonder that he will over come his enemies.The seventh lord also is Saturn which is exalted.Besides the Jupiter is in the seventh house,so his wife should be a great virtuous woman and intelligent.Jupiter is the fifth lord in the seventh house aspecting the ascendant so his wife will be largely responsible for his prowess.He will be very virtuous. And his intelligence might some times go astray because of Rahu and Moon.But he has an innate love for virtue.The eighth lord Jupiter is in seventh so it seems that he will not be able to make his wife happy.The ninth is occupied by Venus and Mars.A strong Mars in the ninth will make him firm in pursuing the virtuous way of life.The tenth is occupied by the Sun and Mercury so his actions will bring about wealth.But the eleventh house occupied by Ketu sometimes might stand in the way of his income will suffer.The lord of the twelfth house is debilitated so he may be addicted to gambling and he might lose wealth there by.