The Five Sounds

...divide by eight and find the remainder. In the third position, multiply by three and find the remainder of the row. One should place these numerical remainders in a vertical sequence, one below the other.

Thus concludes the Final Vowel Ritual original: anta-svara-karma; the concluding stage of the vowel-based calculation sequence started on the previous page.

Among these remainders, if the number is one, it represents the Sun [Ravi]; if two, the Moon [Chandra]; if three, Mars [Bhauma]; if four, Mercury [Budha]; if five, Jupiter [Guru]; if six, Venus [Shukra]; and if seven, Saturn [Shani]. If the number is eight—which is represented by zero—it is Rahu The North Node of the Moon, considered a "shadow planet" or "demon" in Vedic astrology that causes eclipses. These are known as the Planetary Divisions Amsha-grahas.

When this calculation is performed also in a given year, if if it results in a progression toward death coming, then death occurs in that specific year. Planet/Death Death is to be predicted. And that if if by the planets the celestial bodies sky-movers are seen by malefics original: pāpa-dṛṣṭi; an astrological "aspect" where an inauspicious planet like Saturn or Mars influences another point in the chart, then indeed death occurs and not otherwise—this is the absolute truth.

Now, beginning with the count of the letters in the person's name, through the repetition of one, two, three, four, five, and so on, in whichever vowel the year becomes zero—in that vowel, after twenty-seven represented by the digits 7 and 2 in the manuscript, likely signifying the 27 Nakshatras or lunar mansions days have passed, of those two...