Parajata yoga

Parajāta yogas (Sanskrit: परजात – meaning stranger or servant or born of another)[1] are special planetary combinations or yogas that indicate birth of children who are not genetically related to their father or non-marital children or born out of illicit connections of their married mothers.

Illegitimate children are stigmatized for no fault of theirs; some, like T. E. Lawrence, are made to seek redemption of their mother’s status but most accept their fate like Satyakama Jabala did.

All such yogas require careful application supported by mathematical accuracy, interpretation and reasoning, and should not be mishandled.

[7] Bhogiraj Dwivedi cites an old maxim to the effect that an illegitimate child is born if on 4th (Chaturthi), 9th (Navami) or 14th (Chaturdashi) tithi which coincides with Sunday, Saturday or Tuesday and when the Moon is also in the 3rd pada of Uttaraphalguni, Uttarashada or Uttarabhadrapada nakshatra.

[9] In his notes to Sloka V.6 of Brihat Jataka, the commentator, N. Chidambaram Iyer, has also cited Yavaneswara who states that if the lagna-navamsa or the navamsa occupied by the Moon is owned by Jupiter the child will not be illegitimate.