1. The extent of one's life is the basis on which depend all predications about (one's) his career in this world, just as nectar is to the Gods. Thus declare the ancients. I am therefore dealing with the subject of one's longevity.

2. If the lord of the Ascendant be possessed of superior strength and be aspected by benefics occupying Kendra position, the person born will be endowed with all good qualities, prosperity, wealth and a long lease of life.

Benefics posited in Kendras, the Moon in her own or exaltation Rashi and the lord of the Ascendant strong, will confer a lease of sixty years of life on the native concerned.