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.

capalaś caturo bhīruḥ paṭur utsāhī dhanī mṛge bhogī | śaṭha garvitaḥ kṛtaghno hiṃsraḥ pāpaś ca raudra ṛkṣe

In Capricorn (Mṛga), one is fickle, clever, timid, skillful, energetic, wealthy, and enjoying of pleasures. In Mūla (Raudra), one is deceitful, proud, ungrateful, violent, and sinful.

nityaṃ lālayati sva dāra tanayān dharma dhvajo adhaḥ kṛśaḥ | svakṣaḥ kṣāma kaṭir gṛhīta vacanaḥ saubhāgya yukto alasaḥ | śītālur manujo aṭanaś ca makare satva adhikaḥ kāvya kṛl lubdho agamya jara aṅganāsu nirataḥ santyakta lajjo aghṛṇaḥ

When the Moon is in Makara (Capricorn): He constantly pets his wife and children; he carries the banner of dharma (outwardly pious); his lower part is lean; he has fine eyes; he has a thin waist; he heeds advice; he is endowed with good fortune; he is lazy; he suffers from cold; he is a wanderer; he has abundant strength; he is a poet (composer); he is greedy; he is devoted to forbidden old women; he has abandoned shame; and he is pitiless.

jātas taulini sauṇḍiko adhvani rato hairaṇyako nīca kṛt krūraḥ sāhasiko viśa arjita dhanaḥ śastra antago ali sthite | sat pūjyo dhanavān dhanur dhara gate tīkṣṇo bhiṣak kāruko nīco ajñaḥ kuvaṇiṅ mṛge alpa dhanavāṃl labdho anya bhāgyair rataḥ

One born when the Moon is in Libra is a tippler, devoted to traveling, a goldsmith, performs base deeds, and is cruel. When the Moon is in Scorpio, he is rash (reckless), gains wealth by people (the Vaiśya class), and meets his end by weapons. When the Moon is in Sagittarius, he is honored by the good, wealthy, sharp (fierce), a physician, an artisan. When the Moon is in Capricorn, he is low, ignorant, a bad trader, of little wealth, and lives devoted to the fortunes obtained from others.

jñāty urvī īśa jana āśrayaś ca turage pāpaiḥ sad ambhaḥ śaṭhaś ca atyurvī īśa nara indra paṇḍita dhanī dravya ūna bhūpo mṛge | bhūpo bhūpa samo anya dāra nirataḥ śeṣaiś ca kumbha sthite hāsyajño nṛpatir budhaś ca jhaṣage pāpaś ca pāpa īkṣite

If (the Moon in Sagittarius is aspected) by Mercury, he protects his kinsmen; by Jupiter, he is a ruler of the earth; by Venus, he is a support to many people; if aspected by malefics, he is exceedingly arrogant and a rogue. If the Moon in Capricorn is aspected by Mercury, he is a king (and learned); by Jupiter, a ruler; by Venus, learned; by Saturn, wealthy; by the Sun, deficient in wealth (poor); by Mars, a king. If the Moon is in Aquarius, (aspected by Mercury) he is a king; by Jupiter, equal to a king; by the rest (Venus and the malefics), he is devoted to other men's wives. If the Moon is in Pisces, (aspected by Mercury) he knows how to make mirth (is a jester); by Jupiter, a king; by Mercury, learned; and if aspected by a malefic, he is sinful.

antaḥ śaśiny aśubhayor mṛgage pataṅge śvāsa kṣaya plihaka vidradhi gulma bhājaḥ | śoṣī paraspara gṛha aṃśa gayor ravi indvoḥ kṣetre atha vā yugapad ekagayoḥ kṛśo vā

When the Moon stands between two malefics and is in Capricorn, the native suffers from asthma, consumption, an enlarged spleen, abscesses, and tumors. When the Sun and Moon occupy each other's signs and navāṃśas, the native becomes emaciated; or if both are together in one sign, he is lean.

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.

khasthe arke avanije rasātala gate yāna prapātad vadho | yantra utpīḍanajaḥ kuje astamayage saura indunā abhyudgame | viṇ madhye rudhira arki śīta kiraṇair jūka aja saura ṛkṣagair yāte vā galita indu sūrya rudhirair vyoma asta bandhv āhvayān

When the Sun is in the zenith (10th house) and the lord of the watery sign has gone to the nadir (the lowest point, 4th), death comes from a fall from a vehicle; when Mars is in such position, death arises from being crushed by a machine; when Mars is at the setting point (7th) together with Saturn and the Moon at the rising point (ascendant), death occurs through (matters of) excrement and blood. When Saturn and the Moon (cold-rayed one) occupy Libra, Aries, or the Saturn-signs, or when the Moon and Sun have waned and passed through bloody (signs), death (is to be predicted) in connection with the sky, the setting, and relatives.

vṛścike kalaḥ pīḍā taulike hyadhikaṃ phalam|h | kanyāyāmatilābhaśca śaśāṃke mṛgabādhikā

When (the Moon is) in Scorpio there is distress; in Libra indeed (there is) abundant result; in Virgo there is great gain; in Capricorn (there is) trouble from deer (animals).

makare putralābhaḥ syātkumbhe dhānyavivarddhanam|h | mīne kalyāṇamāpnoti vṛścike viṣabādhitā

In Capricorn there will be the gain of a son; in Aquarius, increase of grain; in Pisces one obtains welfare; in Scorpio, affliction by poison.

kumbhabhe dhanalābhaḥ syānmakare'pi dhanāgamaḥ | cāpe bhrātṛjanāt|h saukhyaṃ meṣe mātṛsukhaṃ vadet|h

When (the Moon is) in Aquarius, there will be gain of wealth; in Capricorn too, there will be acquisition of wealth; in Sagittarius, happiness from brothers; in Aries, one should declare happiness from the mother.

siṃharāśisthite'rka gaunakrasthe mahiṣī tathā | prasūtā svāminaṃ hanti svayaṃ cāpi vinaśyati

When the Sun is situated in the sign Leo and (the Moon) is in Capricorn, the queen who gives birth kills her husband and herself also perishes.

makarastho yadā candro nīce śatrugṛhe sthitaḥ | bhrātṛvargatathā kaṣṭaṃ yadi svāmī na paśyati ||

When the Moon stands in Capricorn, in its fall, situated in an enemy's house, there is affliction to the group of brothers, if the lord does not aspect (it).

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.

śaukre'nnapānamatulaṃ saukhyaṃ candro vināśaṃ ca | pariṇatavanitāprītiṃ sauragṛhe preṣyakarmaratim || 15 ||

In Venus's [sign] the Moon [gives] incomparable food and drink, comfort, and also destruction; in Saturn's house [it gives] the affection of a mature woman and a fondness for servile work.

makare candradaśāyāṃ spardhāvān dīnanṛtyagṛhavāsī | strīmedinīprajīrṇo loke śrutavān na cātidhanaputraḥ || 24 ||

In the Moon's daśā in Capricorn (the native is) jealous, poor, dwelling in a dancer's house; worn out of wife and land, learned in scripture in the world, but not having much wealth or many sons.

hrasvāṅgo nipuṇaḥ pratāpabahulo madhye'thahānāṣṭanī dīrghādhvā capalo durāśayagatiḥ kleśaiśca saṃpīḍitaḥ | sattvāḍhyo janavallabho vicalita jñānendriyaḥ strīmatiḥ putrārto'nalavāṃśca vṛddhavanitāpremānvito nakrajaḥ || 10 ||

With the Moon in Capricorn, the native is short-bodied, skilful, of much valour, with loss in middle life, travelling far, fickle, of evil-minded course, oppressed by troubles, rich in goodness, dear to people, of wavering knowledge and senses, ruled by women's counsel, distressed about sons, possessed of fire (digestive power), and attached to elderly women.

mande kulīrabhavanopagate mṛgasthe candre jalodararujaṃ samupaiti jātaḥ | sāre śanau ripugate ravirāhudṛṣṭe lagnādhipe ca vibale sati dīrgharogī

When Saturn is situated in the sign of Cancer (the crab) and the Moon is in Capricorn (the deer), the one born contracts a disease of dropsy (water in the belly). When powerful Saturn is in the sixth house (the house of enemies), aspected by the Sun and Rāhu, and the lord of the ascendant is weak, the native becomes chronically ill.

rājā mahīpatirvidvān dhanī nirdhaniko vibhuḥ | kujādigrahasandṛṣṭe makarasthe niśākare

When the Moon is situated in Capricorn and aspected by Mars and the other planets, (the native becomes) a king, a lord of the earth, learned, wealthy, poor, (or) a mighty ruler.

saumyāṅgo rucirekṣaṇaḥ kulavaraḥ śilpī dhanuḥsthe vidhau gītajñaḥ pṛthumastako mṛgagate śāstrī parastrīrataḥ | kumbhasthe gataśīlavān budhajanadveṣī ca vidyādhiko mīnasthe mṛgalāñchane varatanurvidvān bahustrīpatiḥ

When the Moon is in Sagittarius, one has a pleasant body, charming eyes, is foremost in his family, and skilled in the arts and knowledgeable in song. When the Moon is in Capricorn, one has a broad head, is learned in the scriptures, and is attached to other men's wives. When in Aquarius, one is lacking in good conduct, is hostile to wise people, yet excels in learning. When the Moon (bearer of the deer-mark) is in Pisces, one has an excellent body, is learned, and is the husband of many women.

krūre'ṣṭame vidhavatā nidhaneśvarāṃśe yasya sthite vayasi tasya same pradiṣṭā | satsvarthageṣu maraṇaṃ svayameva tasyāḥ kanyāligohariṣu cālpasutatvamindau

When a malefic is in the eighth house, widowhood is declared for her at the age equal to the navāṃśa of the lord of the eighth house when it is so situated. When benefics occupy the wealth (second) house, her death occurs by her own self. And when the Moon is in Virgo, Scorpio, Taurus, or Capricorn, there is scarcity of progeny.

dhūrto hayāṅge svajanaṃ janeśaṃ naraughamāśritya śaṭhaḥ sadambhaḥ | bhūpo nareśaḥ kṣitipo vipaści- ddhanī daridro makare himāṃśau

If the Moon is in the limb of the horse (part of Capricorn), one becomes a rogue; relying on one's own kin and the lord of the people, a deceitful crook full of hypocrisy. (Variously,) a king, a ruler of men, a lord of the earth, learned, wealthy, or pooreing—.

kuṃbhe'nyadāranirataḥ kṣitipo narendro veśyāpatirnṛvaparo himagau nṛmānyaḥ | antye'ghakṛtpaṭumatirnṛpatiśca vidvān doṣaikadṛgduratikṛcca kujādidṛṣte

If (the Moon is) in Aquarius, the king is devoted to other men's wives; (in Capricorn) the lord of men becomes a master of courtesans, devoted to men. In the last sign (Pisces) one becomes a doer of sins, of keen intellect, a king and learned; but when aspected by Mars and the others, he becomes one whose vision is faulty (defective in one eye) and a doer of evil deeds.

candrādyo tṛtīyastho mīnakṣetraṃ sa yasya tu | vyādhiṃ tatra vijānīyāt trirātraṃ tasya jīvitam

If the Moon and the others (planets) be situated in the third house, and it be the sign of Pisces, one should know there is disease there; his life will last (only) three nights.

kurute śaśī dhanāḍhyaṃ priyavākyaṃ vāhanairyutaṃ śukre | viṣayaratiṃ sukharatahitaṃ bhāskarirāśau hitaṃ mātuḥ

The Moon (placed in the sign) of Venus makes one wealthy, of pleasant speech, and endowed with vehicles; (in the sign) of Saturn it makes one attached to sensual objects, joined with the pleasures of enjoyment, and beneficial for the mother.

gītajñaḥ śītabhīruḥ pṛthuruturariḥ saladharmopasevī prakhyāto'lparoṣo manasi bhayayuto niṣṇātaḥ taṭañjaḥ | cārvakṣaḥ kṣāmadeho guruyuvatirataḥ sakaviḥ vṛttajño mandotpādo'tibandhaḥ sarini makarage dīrghakaṇṭho'tikarṇaḥ || adhanaṃ duḥkhitamaṭanaṃ parakarmairataṃ malīmasaṃ kurute | makare kavibhyanāthaḥ śilpamatiṃ vīkṣito raviṇā ||

One born when the Moon is in Capricorn (taṭañja) is skilled in singing, afraid of cold, of broad and prominent form, devoted to good religious duties, famous, of little anger, fearful in mind, accomplished; he has handsome eyes, a lean body, is fond of elder women, is a poet, knows conduct, is slow in action, has many attachments, a long neck and large ears. When the lord of the sign in Capricorn is aspected by the Sun, it makes one poor, sorrowful, a wanderer, devoted to others' work, and dirty; in Capricorn one gains a skilled (artistic) mind.

mūḍhaṃ pravāsaśīlaṃ gatayuvatiṃ cañcalaṃ mṛge tīkṣṇam | janayati budhena dṛṣṭaḥ sukharahitaṃ nidhane puruṣam

In the eighth house, in (the sign of) Capricorn, when aspected by Mercury, (the Moon) makes the person deluded, fond of travel abroad, deprived of (his) wife, fickle, sharp, and devoid of happiness.

bhūpatimalpamavīryaṃ nṛpatiguṇaiḥ saṃyutaṃ mṛge jātam | bahudāraputramitraṃ janayati gurūvīkṣitaścandraḥ

The Moon, aspected by Jupiter, placed in Capricorn, produces one born a king of little might, endowed with kingly qualities, and having many wives, sons and friends.

pravarayuvatidhanavibhūṣaṇavāhanamānānvitaṃ naraṃ makare | sopakrośamaputraṃ janayati bhṛguvīkṣitaścandraḥ

The Moon in Capricorn, aspected by Venus, produces a man endowed with excellent young women, wealth, ornaments, vehicles and honour, yet subject to censure and without sons.

atha malinaṃ sadhanaṃ madanārtaṃ pāradārakam asakalam | divasakaraputradṛṣṭaḥ karoti candro naraṃ makare

Now, the Moon in Capricorn, aspected by the son of the Sun (Saturn), makes a man impure, possessed of wealth, tormented by passion, given to others' wives, and incomplete (defective).

āyaḥ kuruते dveṣī vadhanipuṇo bahuṇo daridraḥ | aṅgini site bhavati pumān garhitaśīlaḥ sughṛdyagadaḥ

If the Moon is in the sign Capricorn, the person becomes hostile, skilled in killing, talkative, poor, of condemnable conduct, and afflicted with disease of the hidden (private) parts.

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.

saure prapannaḥ prāpnoti pumān kharoṣṭramahiṣān | kuṭṭāṃ jaradgavīṃ vā kuṭutusthitikhalakodravādīṃś

When (the Moon) has arrived at Saturn's (sign/portion), a man obtains donkeys, camels, and buffaloes, a hut or an old cow, and things lying about in disorder, husks, kodrava grain and the like.

karkaṭini mande makare candre madyudrodarakṛtaḥ syāt | pāpāṃśasthe candre kujabhavane śakhavahnibhavaḥ

When Saturn is in Cancer and the Moon in Capricorn, one becomes afflicted with dropsy (water-belly); when the Moon is in a portion (degree) occupied by malefics in a sign of Mars, the disease arises from fire of a wound.

sukha-dhana-mānāny āśaṃsi jīva-gṛhe diśati śītāṃśuḥ | pariṇata-vayaḥ-sama-rūpā saura-gṛhe vardhakī vāpi ॥ 13 ॥

The cool-rayed [Moon] grants hopes of comfort, wealth, and honor in Jupiter's house; in Saturn's house, a [daśā] resembling advanced age, or else carpentry/old age.

saurārgṛhe tadrtaṃ śaśini saṃyukte vilasinīṃ jātā | mātrā sākaṃ kulaṭā krūragrahaṃ vīkṣite bhavati ||19||

In the house of Saturn, that being true when the Moon is joined, she is born a courtesan; aspected by a cruel planet, she becomes wanton together with her mother.

karkiṇi mande makare candre mṛtyudarodararkṛtaḥ syāt | pāpāṃśasthe candre kujabhavane śastravahnibhavaḥ ||

When Saturn is in Cancer and the Moon in Capricorn, death is caused by dropsy of the belly; when the Moon is in a malefic's degree-portion in a sign of Mars, death arises from weapons and fire.

dahanāhṛtasattvaivya jvaradanāmānusyavibhedanānmadhye | anye makarāṃyebhye kṣīṇo mṛtyuḥ sadā vadhyaḥ ||

By fire-borne fever and pains that pierce the body in the middle; for others, in the (other) parts of Capricorn, the death of the weakened one is ever as that of one condemned to be slain.

śanaireṇaitena yutesthitāvā śaśīhitarujā viṣṇvalakṣaṇaḥ ||29||

Joined with or standing upon Saturn, the Moon afflicted brings disease, marked by misfortune. ||29||

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.