The Five Sounds

Death should be predicted within a period of seventy days. Those seventy-two days, when divided by three, result in twenty-four days [24].

If Rahu—who embodies death original: mṛtyātmaka rāhu; here Rahu is identified as the primary indicator of the timing of demise—is the result, and if among those [calculated days] the Sun, Mars, or Saturn are present in a non-zero state, then death should be predicted within the twenty-four days associated with them.

Now, if two or three of the Sun, Mars, or Saturn are present, then death should be predicted within the twenty-four days related to whichever planet was strongest who at the time of birth.

Alternatively, if no [malefic] planet is present and all are benefics Saumya-grahas Literally "gentle" planets, referring to Jupiter, Venus, Mercury, and the Moon, which are generally considered auspicious, then death should be predicted within the twenty-four days associated with the planet situated in a house other than the Angular Kendra The 1st, 4th, 7th, and 10th houses of a horoscope, considered the powerful "pillars" of a chart or Trine Trikona The 1st, 5th, and 9th houses, representing luck and auspiciousness houses at the time of birth.

Even in that case, according to the method of "eight for the Moon, mountains, and elephants" original: candrāṣṭau naga-nāgā; a common Sanskrit mnemonic where "mountains" (naga) stands for the number 7 and "elephants" (nāga) stands for 8, our...