Preshya yoga
Preṣya yoga is a planetary combination in Hindu astrology. A person born with preshya yoga is poor, unhappy and uneducated. He hears harsh words from others and works in slavery throughout his life.
The term comes from the Sanskrit word preṣya which means "servant."
Vedic usage
In Aitareya Brahmana, the term preṣya occurs in the sense of a menial servant, Śudra or a slave employed for being sent on an errand. In Pali texts of Buddhists, preṣya is referred to in its prakritic forms – pessa or pesiya - meaning a messenger or a servant in general. However, in early literature there is hardly any elucidation regarding the nature of job, their person, or mode of dressing etc., that is available. Bharuchi in his commentary on Manu states that preṣya were a servile class different from the four types of slaves.Bhattoji Dikshita states :
that "the object of the verb preṣya and bruhi denoting sacrifial food, takes the sixth case-affix, when making offerings to deity is meant or when the deity is the recipient ". Valmiki states :
that honourable people are never asked to work as preṣyas.
Usage in Hindu astrology
Mahadeva tells us that a) if the lord of the 10th house is weak and associated with papagrahas if Mercury combining with either Jupiter or Venus is in a trika-bhava if the 10th house receives the aspects of many papagrahas, or d) if the lord of the 10th house is relegated to an evil bhava, then the person is inept and inefficient. He also states that if the 12th house from the lagna is heavily afflicted by papagrahas the person will suffer loss of wealth repeatedly, and that in case the lagna or the 2nd house or the 11th house and their respective lords are afflicted while placed in cruel shashtiamsas in evil bhavas then one suffers want of wealth throughout life and contracts debts. These yogas indicate penury but are not preṣya yogas.In Chapter VI of his Jataka Parijata, Vaidyanatha Dikshita provides the following preṣya yogas leading to servitude:-
He states: