prārabdhā himagau daśā sva gṛhage māna artha saukhya āvahā kauje dūṣayati striyaṃ budha gṛhe vidyā suhṛd vittadā | durga araṇya patha ālaye kṛṣi karī siṃhe sita ṛkṣe annadā kustrīdā mṛga kumbhayor guru gṛhe māna artha saukhya āvahā

A daśā beginning when the Moon is in its own sign brings honor, wealth, and happiness. In Mars's sign it harms the woman (wife). In Mercury's sign it gives learning, friends, and wealth. In a sign of forts, forests, and pathways it brings agriculture; in Leo, the sign of Venus, it gives food; in Capricorn and Aquarius it gives a bad wife; in Jupiter's sign it brings honor, wealth, and happiness.

duṣṭiphala(BJ_19) candre bhūpa budhau nṛpa upama guṇī steno adhanaś ca ajage niḥsvaḥ stena nṛ mānya bhūpa dhaninaḥ preṣyaḥ kuja ādyair gavi | nṛsthe ayo vyavahāri pārthiva budhābhis tantu vāyo adhano sva ṛkṣe yoddhṛ kavi jña bhūmi patayo ayo jīvi dṛg rogiṇau

(Phalas arising from aspects.) When the Moon is in Aries and aspected (by Mars and the other planets in order): a king (by Mars), one resembling a king (by Mercury), endowed with good qualities (by Jupiter), a thief and poor (by Venus and Saturn), destitute (by the Sun). When in Taurus, the man is: a thief, respected, a king, wealthy, a servant (by Mars and the rest in order). When the Moon is in Gemini and aspected by Mars and others: a dealer in iron, a man of the realm (king), learned, by Mercury and the rest, a weaver, and poor. When in its own sign (Cancer): a warrior, a poet, learned, a lord of the earth (king), a dealer in iron, and one diseased in the eye (by the planets in order).

pāpa ālokitayoḥ sita avanijayor astasthayor vā adhyaruk candre karkaṭa vṛścika aṃśaka gate pāpair yute guhya ruk | śvi trī riḥpha dhanasthayor aśubhayoś candra udaye aste ravau candre khe avanije astage ca vikalo yady arkajo veśigaḥ

When Venus and Mars are aspected by malefics, or are in the 7th house, there is disease in the privities. When the Moon, gone to Cancer or Scorpio or their navamsas, is joined by malefics, there is disease of the secret (genital) parts. When the Moon is rising (in the Lagna) and the Sun is in the 7th, with malefics in the 12th and 2nd, the man is a white leper (śvitra). When the Moon is in the 10th (kha), Mars in the 7th, and Saturn in the 12th and 2nd—if Saturn be a Veśi (placed in the 2nd from the Sun)—the man is crippled (paralytic).

cendre aśvi madhya jhaṣa karki mṛga aja bhāge kuṣṭhī sa manda rudhire tad avekṣite vā | yātais tri koṇam ali karki vṛṣair mṛge ca kuṣṭhī ca pāpa sahitair avalokitair vā

If the Moon is in the middle of Aśvinī, in Pisces, in Cancer, in Capricorn, or in the portion of Aries, one becomes a leper; (likewise) if Saturn is in the blood (Mars) sign or aspected by it. By Mars and Saturn occupying the trine—Scorpio, Cancer, Taurus, and Capricorn—and joined with or aspected by malefics, one becomes a leper.

paṃcame tu śaśikṣetre tasmin|h śaśiyute sati | śanau lābhasthite jāto bahudravyasya nāyakaḥ

When the fifth (house) is the sign of the Moon (Cancer) and is conjoined with the Moon, and Saturn is situated in the gain (eleventh) house, the one born becomes a lord of much wealth.

meṣe tu raktapīḍā ca vṛṣabhe dhānyavarddhanam|h | mithune jñānasampānnaścāndre dhanapatirbhavet|h

When the Moon is in Aries, there is bleeding affliction; in Taurus, increase of grain; in Gemini, one becomes endowed with knowledge; and (in this way) the lord of wealth comes to be.

karka svāṃśagate candre putradārasukhaṃ mahat|h | aiśvaryaṃ labhate loke mānaṃ prītiṃ tathaiva ca

When the Moon is in Cancer and in its own navāṃśa, there is great happiness from sons, wife, and pleasures. One obtains lordship in the world, honor, and likewise affection.

But enough of digression: let us now pursue our main topic. And first, the natures of the zodiacal signs. On this matter, it is said in the Vāmanatājika: As the results [accruing] to all creatures depend on the zodiacal signs and planets, the natures of the signs beginning with Aries are described first. The twelve signs are said by the wise to be Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Aries, Gemini, Leo, Libra, Sagittarius and Aquarius are known by the learned as the six fierce signs, and Taurus, Cancer, Virgo, Scorpio, Capricorn and Pisces are known as the six gentle signs. The fierce signs are known as male; the gentle signs are known as female. Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn are movable signs; Taurus, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius are fixed signs; Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces are of a dual nature. Aries, Taurus, Leo, the latter half of Sagittarius, and Capricorn: these signs are known by the learned as having four feet. Cancer and Scorpio are both said to have many feet. Both the signs Aquarius and Pisces are known as having no feet. The signs Gemini, Libra, Virgo and the former half of Sagittarius are said by the sage Yavanācārya18 to have two Aries, Leo and Sagittarius are known as fiery signs; Taurus, Virgo and Capricorn are earthy signs; Gemini, Libra and Aquarius are airy signs; Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces are known as watery signs. Capricorn, Aquarius and Virgo have half a voice; Libra, Scorpio, Cancer and Pisces are known to have no voice; Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Leo and Sagittarius have a voice. Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces have much progeny; Gemini, Taurus and Aquarius are said to be middling; and Leo, Capricorn, Virgo, Aries, Libra and Sagittarius, to have few. As this name or epithet is in the plural, an alternative translation would be ‘by the which to base an emendation. the classical Āyurvedic terminology comprising three humours (doṣa): the fiery signs are dry, very hot, and correspond to bile; the earthy signs are dry, somewhat cooler, and correspond to wind (replacing the Graeco-Arabic humour of black bile); the airy signs are moist, hot, and correspond to a mixture of humours (to make up for the missing humour of blood); while the watery signs are moist, cool, and correspond to That is, east, south, west, north. Although several of the colour terms used in this stanza have more than one meaning, comparison with the parallel passage in Samarasiṃha’s Karmaprakāśa 1.7 makes the Leo, Sagittarius and Aries are dry, yellow-hot, of bilious temperament; Taurus, Virgo and Capricorn are dry, hot and cool, of windy temperament; Gemini, Aquarius and Libra are hot, moist of body, of equally mixed temperament; Cancer, Pisces and Scorpio are moist, [The four signs reckoned] by repetition thrice over from Aries are ever known to the learned as princes, commoners, menials and Brahmans, [respectively], and as the directions beginning with the east.20 Cancer, Capricorn, Sagittarius, Aries, Taurus: these rise with their hinder parts. The rest are known to rise with their heads. Pisces is said to do both. Those rising with their heads are strong in the daytime; the others are said to be strong at night. The own ninth-part of a sign is called the best of its class. Next, Samarasiṃha states the colours of the signs [in the Tājikaśāstra]: yellow, variegated, and brown are the colours of [the twelve signs] Then, Samarasiṃha himself describes [in the Tājikaśāstra] which among the The six [signs] beginning with Capricorn rise crookedly because [their] measure of time is short; the six beginning with Cancer rise evenly because [theirs] is long; [the six signs beginning with] Aries and Libra, Although no zodiacal sign rises completely perpendicular to the horizon even at the terrestrial equator, as the ecliptic (and therefore the band of the zodiac) is inclined to the celestial equator, for places of observation further north or south, the signs with longer ascensional times rise in a more upright fashion than those with shorter ascenthe translation given is the most likely meaning. The verse as a whole, as well as Balabhadra’s explication of it, can only refer to the tropical zodiac, although this is not explicitly stated. In that zodiac, the six signs from Capricorn to Gemini rise in a shorter time than the average two hours per sign, while the remaining six signs take more than two hours each to rise. Aries and Libra themselves do not share the same rising time, as Aries shares the shortest rising time of all with Pisces, whereas Libra shares the longest with Virgo. However, the two halves of the zodiac beginning with Aries and Libra, respectively, do correspond exactly in terms of rising times. meṣādirāśīnāṃ saṃjñāntaram uktaṃ varāheṇa | B G a.c.; śede N; dādaśa K T than āryā, is taken from BJ 1.17 by the same author; LJ 1.18a should properly read kendracatuṣṭayakaṇṭaka-. Either Balabhadra or an early copyist appears to have conflated the two stanzas, which are similar in both subject and composition. Balabhadra is referring to the sun’s equinoctial shadow (akṣabhā), measured at noon on the equinox using a standardized gnomon (śaṅku) 12 digits (aṅgula) high. A midday shadow of the same length thus implies a solar elevation angle of exactly 45°, the gnomon and its shadow forming two equal sides of a right triangle. This angle subtracted from 90° gives 45° as the terrestrial latitude of the place of observation. (Where the two sides are of unequal length, the terrestrial latitude may be found by the formula 90 - tan-1 (12∕s), where s is the length of the shadow.) I am indebted to S.R. Sarma for explaining the details of this Sanskrit convention. Assuming a tropical zodiac, the figures given by Balabhadra do match a terrestrial latitude of 45° north (about as far distant from the equator as Turin in Italy). It seems safe to assume that Balabhadra calculated this example theoretically, without reference to any place known to him personally. A pala is approximately 24 seconds of clock time. The first eleven of these are Sanskritized Greek names: Kriya from Κριός; Tāvuri from Ταῦρος; Jituma from Δίδυμοι; Leya from Λέων; Pāthona from Παρθένος; Jūka from Ζυγός; Kaurpya from Σκoρπιός; Taukṣika from Τοξότης; Ākokera from Αἰγόκερως; and Hṛdroga Although the time cannot become [very] short or long when the degree of latitude is small, it does become so when the degree of latitude is great. For example, where the shadow of latitude is twelve digits,24 the rising [times in] palas of the [six signs] beginning with Capricorn are: And the rising [times in] palas of the [six signs] beginning with Cancer are: From this it can be understood that the rising times of [the signs] beginning with Cancer are much greater than [those] of [the signs] beginning with Capricorn. [In the Tājikaśāstra], Samarasiṃha himself states the purpose of If the moon is increasing within the expansive signs that rise evenly, then there is increase in that year; if the reverse, decrease. Varāha[mihira] gives synonyms of the signs starting with Aries [in BṛhajHe himself states the designations of the angles and other [places, in LaghuFor [the places] following the ascendant, descendant, tenth and fourth [places, which are called] angles, quadrants or cardines, the designation is ‘succedent’, and [the places] following those are designated from Ὑδροχόος. Antyabha means simply ‘the last sign’; however, antya could possibly be a pseudo-etymologized form of Ἰχθύες. Kendra, paṇaphara and āpoklima are all Sanskritized Greek technical terms: κέντρον, ἐπαναφορά and ἀπόκλιμα, respectively. The basic meaning of κέντρον, as of Sanskrit kaṇṭaka, is ‘sharp point, goad’. The translation follows the received text of Laghujātaka 1.18a rather than the confused version of the text witnesses. siṃho vṛṣaḥ prathamaṣaṣṭhahayāṅgatauli| pittoṣṇaśītādiprayojanaṃ rogakartā yatra rāśau ityādi ṣaṣṭhabhāve rogaHe also states the mūlatrikoṇa27 houses of the planets [in Bṛhajjātaka 1.14]: Leo, Taurus, the first [or Aries], the sixth [or Virgo], Sagittarius, Libra and Aquarius are the trikoṇa houses [of the planets reckoned] from the This concludes the natures of the zodiacal signs. Next, the purpose of [knowing] the natures of those signs. Concerning this, the purpose of the signs designated as having two feet or four feet, [belonging to] day or night, should be understood to relate to the results of the places, which will be described below. The purpose of [designating] the signs male or female should be understood to relate to strength by position, as in [the statement by Samarasiṃha in the Tājikaśāstra]: ‘Male planets in male signs, and female planets in female signs, are strong’. The purpose of [designations] such as bilious, hot and cold is to discover the location of an illness from the sixth house, as in [the statement in Varṣatantra 10.15]: ‘In the sign where the [planet] causing the illness is [located]’, and so on. The purpose of the directions of the signs is to discover the direction of a journey. The purpose of [designations] such as movable signs should be understood to relate to the consideration of meals, as in [the statement] ‘When a movable [sign] rises, one eats once’.29 The purpose of [designations of] the signs as living in water and so forth should be understood to relate to hunting, as in [the statement of Varṣatantra 18.34] ‘From the planets and signs called watery being strong, they declare a water hunt’. The purpose of [designations of] the signs such as fiery should be understood to relate to such cases as there being danger from fire when a fiery sign is in the eighth house. The purpose of [designations] such as Brahman and other castes, or as fierce and gentle and so forth, should be understood [as in] the statement by Samarasiṃha [in the Tājikaśāstra]: ‘Age, dimension and castes30 should be known by means of conjecture from the ascendant’. For example, in judging [the question] ‘How will I gain this year?’, gain of substance of the same colours Literally, ‘root-triangle’. This specifically Indian dignity system is similar to but not identical with the Hellenistic signs of planetary ‘joys’; see Gansten 2018. Namely, in the order of the days of the week, as usual in Indian sources: the sun, the Source unknown. Other Tājika works differ, stating that a movable sign rising indicates three or ‘many’ meals. and so on should be predicted through [a person] of the same estate as [the sign in] the eleventh house [or] the ascendant, one endowed with the same fierce or gentle nature and so on, with the same [number of] offspring, who talks correspondingly much or little. This concludes the purpose of [knowing] natures of the zodiacal signs.

candrastu daśārambhe kulīrabhavanasthito yadā bhavati | strīdoṣakṛtpaśughnaḥ kujabhavane hanti vāstupatim || 13 ||

When at the commencement of the daśā the Moon happens to be situated in the sign of the Crab [Cancer], [the native] becomes one harmed through a woman and a slayer of cattle; in the house of Mars [the Moon] destroys the master of the dwelling.

candradaśāyāṃ kṣetre jalakṛṣipaśudhānyavittavān bhavati | jyotirjñānakalājño guhyarugārto vanādridurgācaraḥ || 17 ||

In the Moon's daśā in (the Cancer) sign, one becomes possessed of water, agriculture, cattle, grain and wealth; learned in the science of the stars and in the arts, afflicted by diseases of the private parts, and roaming forests, hills and fortresses.

karkaṭavṛścikabhāgī candre pāpānvite sa guhyagadaḥ | kroḍodarakarṇagadī candre sukhapāṃśake sapaṇe syāt ||

When the Moon shares the sign of Cancer or Scorpio and is joined with a malefic, the native has disease of the private parts; and the Moon, in a navāṃśa of the 4th together with a malefic, makes (him) afflicted with disease of the chest, belly and ears.

vācālo dṛḍhavigraho'tibalavānalpātmajo naikagaḥ | daivajñastvaritaḥ sukhī kṣayadhano gūḍhātmajo jñānavā- naikākī bahuvāk kulīrabhavane jāto'rthavān bhūpateḥ || 4 ||

With the Moon in Cancer, the native is talkative, of firm body, very strong, with few sons, much-travelling, an astrologer, quick, happy, of declining wealth, with hidden offspring, learned, solitary, very talkative, and becomes wealthy through the king.

ekasminparamoccage'tisuhṛdā dṛṣṭe yadi kṣmāpati- stattulyo bhṛgunandane balayute lābhe'thavā riḥphage | dvitrivyomacareṣu tuṅgagṛhageṣvindau kulīre sthite lagne pūrṇabalānvite narapatiḥ sarvatra pūjyo bhavet

If in one [horoscope] the lord of the earth (Sun) is in its place of exaltation and aspected by a very close friend, then equal to it [is the result] when Venus is exalted and joined with strength in the eleventh or twelfth house; when two or three planets are in their exaltation signs, the Moon is placed in Cancer, and the ascendant is endowed with full strength, the man becomes a king honored everywhere.

karkasthe śaśini kṣamāsutamusvairālokite śauryavā- nāryaśreṣṭhalavirmahīpatiryojīvī sanetrāmayaḥ | bhupaḥ paṇḍitavāg dhanī narapatiḥ pāpī vibhuḥ siṃhage kanyāyāṃ dhaniko vibhuḥ prabhusamo vidvān viśīlaḥ sukhī

When the Moon is in Cancer aspected by Mars, one becomes valiant, noble, excellent, and a king. (When aspected) by Jupiter, one is long-lived but has an eye-ailment, a king, eloquent and learned, and wealthy. (When the Moon is) in Leo, one is a king, sinful, and a lord. (When the Moon is) in Virgo, one is wealthy, a lord, equal to a master, learned, of bad character, and happy.

meṣasthe yadi śītagau ca laghubhuk kāmī mahotthāghnajo dātā kāntayaśodhanorucaraṇaḥ kanyāprajo gogate | dirghayuḥ suratopacārakuśalo hāsyapriyo yugmake kāmāsaktamano'ṭanaḥ suvacanaścandre kulīrasthite

If the Moon is situated in Aries, (the native) eats little, is amorous, suffers from afflictions arising from the great (parts), is a giver, and possesses charm, fame, wealth, and brilliance. When the Moon is in Taurus (the bull), he is a father of daughters; he is long-lived, skilled in the arts of love-making, and fond of laughter. When the Moon is in Gemini, his mind is attached to desire, he is a wanderer, and is sweet of speech. When the Moon is situated in Cancer (the crab)...

sūrye nānyute sutarkṣasahite candrasya gehe sthite bhaume vā bhṛguje'pi vā sati sutaprāpti dvitīyastriyām | mande vā bahuputravāñchaśini vā saumye'pi vālpātmajo deveḍye bahudārikā śaśigṛhe tadvatsutādhipeṣṭhite

When the Sun is conjoined with its own nakṣatra (and) situated in the Moon's house, or when Mars or Venus is so placed, there is obtaining of sons by the second wife; when Saturn (is so placed) there are many sons, when the Moon (is so placed) likewise; when Mercury (is so placed) there are few sons; when Jupiter (the one worshipped by the gods is so placed) in the Moon's house there are many daughters, and likewise when the lord of sons is established (there).

vāmanako makare 'nye dṛṣṭe ravicandrasūribhiḥ dṛṣṭe | śaśini varge karkiṇi kujamkadṛṣṭe 'thavā kuñjaḥ

One becomes a dwarf when in Capricorn, or when [the sign] is aspected by the Sun, Moon and Jupiter; or when the Moon is in Cancer and aspected by Mars, or when Mars itself [is so placed].

krodhaparo'sadṛtto lobhiṣṭhaḥ kalahavallabho'nṛtavāk | śaṅkāmivipragrasaḥ pitṛjenanyāśca durbhagaḥ kīṭe

When the Moon is in Karkaṭa (Cancer), one is prone to anger, of bad conduct, very greedy, fond of quarrels, a speaker of untruth, swallowed up by doubt, and unfortunate with respect to father and mother.

nṛpatiṃ nṛpaguṇayuktaṃ janayati candraḥ sauryasaṃsthitaḥ | svagṛhe sukhitasubhagaṃ nayavinayaparākramākrāntam || dhanakanakavastrayoṣidratanānāṃ bhājanaṃ śrīṃ kurute | karkaṭake pitṛto vedyājananāyakaṃ kāntam ||

The Moon, when situated in the sign of the Sun (Leo), produces a king endowed with royal qualities; when in his own house (Cancer) he makes one happy, fortunate, and possessed of statesmanship, modesty, and prowess. In Cancer (from the father's side) he makes one a receptacle of wealth, gold, garments, women, and jewels, prosperous, a leader of men, and handsome.

śasyānnādhikrāye hitajayanipuṇaḥ svalpavicāruḍeho geyajño dharmaniṣṭho bahuyuvatirataḥ saumyabhāk bhūṣasevī | īṣatkopo mahakaḥ sukhanidhidhanabhāk strījitaḥ satsvabhāvo vanāsaktaḥ samudre timithugaragate śītago dānaśīlaḥ

When the cold Moon occupies the watery sign (Cancer) in the constellation: he is endowed with abundance of grain and food, skilled in beneficial victory, of slight but handsome body, knowing music, devoted to dharma, attached to many women, partaking of gentleness, fond of ornaments, of slight anger, great, possessing the treasure of happiness and wealth, dominated by women, of good nature, fond of forests, and charitable.

prabādhako viśiṣṭo bandhuviruddho vilomaśīlaśca | madhye bhūpatitulyaḥ paribhogavivardhitaḥ śaśibhe || kipipākhyaparo'bhijño vigarhito vigataśīlaśca | jīvayuto bhṛtijīvī svapakṣarahito mudā dīnaḥ

(One born when the Moon is in its sign) is an oppressor, distinguished, opposed to relatives, and of perverse character; in the middle (portion) he is equal to a king, and increased in enjoyments. (Further) he is devoted to base actions, knowing, censured, and devoid of good conduct; endowed with vitality, living on wages, bereft of his own party, and joylessly wretched.

anye vayasi ca lakṣmīṃ bhunakti paramāṃ prakṛṣyamānastu | alpavacā bahusaṃjño mṛduryeṣ me kāke syāt

In the other (later) part of life he enjoys supreme prosperity, though being drawn (about); when the Moon is in Cancer he becomes a person of few words, of many names (much renown), and gentle.

|| iti raviḥ || dākṣiṇyarūpadhanabhogayuteḥ pradhānaḥ candre karkaṭavṛṣabhājagate vihaṅge | unmattanīcabadhiro vikaṭaśca mūkaḥ śeṣe naro bhavati kṛṣṇatanuविṃśeṣāt

Thus the Sun. When the Moon is placed in the houses of Karka or Vṛṣabha, the man is foremost in courtesy, beauty, wealth and enjoyment; but in the remaining (signs) of the dark-bodied (Moon), the man becomes mad, base, deaf, deformed and dumb.

svāṃ divākaro yasya svakṣetre ca kṣapākaraḥ | sa rājā gajadānodbhasīkarokṣitamūrdhajaḥ || 58 || he raviputrasaṃyute devejye'stargate navodite | dṛṣṭe surarājamantriṇā prāmāṇyo nṛpatirbhavedidam

He in whose nativity the Sun is in his own sign and the Moon is in her own sign, that man becomes a king, his head sprinkled with the ichor-water flowing from rutting elephants. When Jupiter joined with Saturn's son (Mercury), being set or newly risen, is aspected by the minister of the gods (Jupiter), the man becomes an authoritative ruler — this is so.

lagne ripubhavanage ṣaṣṭhadhikyagayau saumyaḥ khoccaṃ paramupagate rātrimadhye kendrage ca | ājñāṃ yāte śiśirakiraṇe karkaṭe niśāyā- mekacchatraṃ tribhuvanamidaṃ yasya sa kṣatriyeśaḥ

When the cool-rayed Moon, being in the sixth house from the ascendant (or in an exalted position), having attained the highest point in the middle of the night, and placed in a kendra (angle), reaches Cancer at night and holds sway, that one becomes a king of the warriors (kṣatriyas), under whose single umbrella these three worlds rest.

karkaṭake śaśijīvau pañcasu bhageṣu saṃsthitau kurutaḥ | bhūmipatimagradhṛṣyaṃ raviśca grahagaṇasakham

The Moon and Jupiter situated in Cancer in the five constellations make one a king who is hard to overpower in the forefront; and the Sun makes one a companion of the host of planets (a leader among hosts).

paranīcaṃ gate candre kṣīṇo yogo mahīpateḥ | nāśamāyāti rājeva daivajñapratilomagaḥ

When the Moon, being weak, has gone to the depression-sign of another, the yoga of the king meets destruction, like a king who goes against the astrologer.

īrṣyānvitā sukhaparā ramyāḥ sitacandrayor diśendoś ca | sukhitāḥ kalāsu kuśalā guṇaśatasahitā vinītāḥ syuḥ

Those (born when) the (Moon is in such positions) of Venus and the Moon are filled with jealousy, devoted to pleasure, and charming; (under the influence) of the Moon they are happy, skilled in the arts, endowed with hundreds of virtues, and well-mannered.

dākṣiṇyarūpadhanabhogaguṇaiḥ pradhānaḥ candre kulīravṛṣabhāgate vilagne | unmattanīcabadhiro vikalaśca mūkaḥ śeṣe naro bhavati kṛṣṇatanurviṃśeṣāt || 14 ||

When the Moon is in the ascendant in Cancer (Kulīra) or Taurus, (the man) is eminent through courtesy, beauty, wealth, enjoyments and (good) qualities; in the remaining (signs) the man becomes mad, base, deaf, deformed and dumb, and of a dark body in great part.

cāpi bhavet suragṛhe 'dhihitaśuddho lagne suradviṣitaḥ śaśini svarāgau | vāpītamasugaveśmakaro nageśca jāyate mānavapatir dyudevabhaktaḥ || 140 ||

And if there be the pure one set in the house of the gods, in the ascendant the enemy of the gods, the Moon in its own sign — a builder of well-watered abodes and a lord of mountains, there is born a ruler of men devoted to the heaven-gods.

bhānuḥ prāṇī śaśigṛhayutaḥ śītaraśmiśca tasmin ekaḥ khauce yadi gaganago nirmalaḥ pūrṇaraśmiḥ | lagnaṃ prāptaḥ surapatiguruḥ paṣcagaḥ svātikṣitīśaḥ channo yasya pracalitacamū reṇubhirvyommamārgaḥ ||

The Sun the life-giver conjoined with the Moon's house, and the cool-rayed (Moon) therein; if alone in the height, sky-going, spotless, full-rayed; the Sun and the preceptor of the gods (Jupiter) reaching the ascendant, the fifth-placed (planet) in Svātī — he is lord of the earth whose path of sky is veiled by the dust of his moving army.

karkaṭake śaśijīvī pañcasu bhāgeṣu saṃsthito kurutaḥ | bhūmipatimṛddhayuvaṃ raviravi sarvaisagaṇagaṇaḥ ||

The Moon-lifed one in Cancer situated in the five parts makes a lord of the earth endowed with prosperity, (when) the Sun (is) with the whole host of all (planets).

saumya-strī-dhana-lābhaḥ kulīra-gendau bhaved daśārambhe | kanyāṃ dūṣayati naraḥ kuja-bhavane hanti vā yuvatim ॥ 11 ॥

There would be gain of a gentle wife and wealth when [the Moon] is in Cancer at the start of the daśā; in the house of Mars a man dishonors a maiden or kills a young woman.

anuṣṭup—meṣe ravau kuje vāpi vṛṣe karkasthavārśarī ॥ tantraśālāsātitvavinthaśālādīnamparemjayu ॥ 32 ॥

Anuṣṭubh: When the Sun or Mars is in Aries, or [a planet] is in Taurus while the Moon stands in Cancer, [these signs of exaltation] produce by their tantraśālā nature the ithaśāla and the rest [of the yogas]. (32)

candre sarvakhagekṣite tu sumahābhāṇḍaṃ labhec chrīkaraṃ sūryarkṣe yadi hemajaṃ rajatajaṃ sthūlendurāśau sthite | bhaumarkṣe yadi tāmrajaṃ budhagrahe ratnāḍhyakaṃ jīvabhe śailaṃ śukragṛhe tu mṛṇmayam idaṃ tallauhajaṃ mandabhe || 47 ||

If the Moon is aspected by all the planets, one obtains a very great vessel (bhāṇḍa) that brings prosperity. If [the Moon stands] in the Sun’s asterism the vessel is made of gold; when it is placed in the Moon’s own sign it is a large one of silver; if in Mars’ asterism, of copper; in Mercury’s, one richly set with jewels; in Jupiter’s asterism, of stone (śaila); in Venus’ house, of clay; and in Saturn’s asterism, of iron.