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.

jala para dhana bhoktā dāra vāso anuraktaḥ sama rucira śarīras tuṅga nāso bṛhatkaḥ | abhibhavati sa patnān strī jitaś cāru dṛṣṭir dyuti nidhi dhana bhogī paṇḍitaś ca antya rāśau

When the Moon is in the last sign (Pisces), the person enjoys wealth from water, lives on others' wealth, is attached to his wife and home, has a symmetrical and handsome body, a high nose, and a large head. He overcomes his enemies, is subdued by women, has charming eyes, and enjoys splendor, treasure, wealth, and pleasures, and is learned.

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.

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.

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.

mīne śukro yadā jīvaś candramā ca yadā bhavet | jātasya rājya-saubhāgyaṃ bahuputrakuṭumbavān

When Venus, Jupiter, and the Moon are in Pisces, the native enjoys royal fortune and is endowed with many sons and a large family.

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.

Next, the judgement of the fifth house. Concerning that, Caṇḍeśvara describes what is to be judged from the fifth house: Different practices, compositions on conduct, bringing knowledge to pupils, understanding, incantations, [sexual] union, the forming of the limbs of a foetus and other such [meanings], wisdom and children are said [to be judged] from the fifth house.53 Here, too, judgement is [to be made] as before. [And] Samarasiṃha [says in If Jupiter as ruler of the year is in the fifth or eleventh house, there is happiness from children. If it is afflicted by malefics, there is unhappiness, and if Mars is such, the result is similar.54 Of the sun and Mercury placed thus, if [the one ruling the year] is joined to benefics, the [good] result is full. If the ruler of the year is on the sahama of children, aspected by benefics, there is satisfaction with children. If Venus rules the fifth or seventh house and occupies it in the year, forming a mutthaśila with the ruler of the ascendant, [the native] obtains children or a woman, in accordance with its strength. This means that if Venus, ruling the fifth or seventh house in the nativity, occupies the fifth or seventh in the year, forming an itthaśāla with the ruler of the ascendant, [the native] obtains children or a woman, respectively. [And] If [the fifth house] is the place of Jupiter in the nativity and [Jupiter] is there in this year too, there is happiness from children; unhappiness, if Saurn is so [placed]. If Mercury is such, there is happiness from children, but not if it is joined by Mars, nor if the fifth house is the place of Saturn [in the nativity] and its ruler is weak. Concerning this, Samarasiṃha states a special rule [in the Tājikaśāstra]: But if the fifth house is the place of Saturn and its ruler Mercury has authority [in the year, the native] gets children. Although text witnesses largely agree, the grammar of this verse is eccentric, and sevThat is, if Mars as ruler of the year occupies the fifth or eleventh house. If Mars and Mercury are in the domicile of a benefic, aspected by benefics, in the eleventh or fifth house, then there is happiness from good children. And if Venus as ruler of the fifth house occupies the seventh house, forming an itthaśāla with the ruler of the ascendant, there is happiness from wife and children. [And] in Tājikasāra [203–204, 178 it is said]: If the sign where Jupiter was in the nativity occupies the fifth [house] in the year, and Mercury or Mars occupies it as ruler of the year, the birth of a child will take place. And if the sign where Saturn was in the nativity occupies the ascendant in the year, there is evil to one’s progeny. Mars retrograde, occupying the fifth house, is declared a destroyer of When the ruler of the fifth house occupies the fifth house in strength, then it bestows abundant happiness from children. And Yādava says [in Tājikayogasudhānidhi 12.47, 49–50]: If the fifth house is strong, joined or aspected by benefics; if the ruler of the fifth house, endowed with strength, occupies an angle; and if the lot likewise [is strong and benefic], happiness from children is declared [as the result]. Likewise, if [all are] conversely situated, the death of a Should Mercury and Mars occupy the ninth, tenth, eleventh or fifth house, joined to the aspects of benefics, there is happiness. If Venus, ruling the fifth house of the nativity, occupies the seventh house in the year, in the configuration called the foremost with the ruler of the ascendant, there will be happiness.55 If the ruler of the fifth house of the nativity, full of strength, occupies the ascendant of the year, in an itthaśāla with the ruler of the ascendant, there is happiness from children, or else if the ruler of the fifth house of the nativity is ruler of the lot [of children] in the year. Or if a separate benefic occupies the fifth house, there is good [fortune relating to children]; but if the ruler of the fifth house in the nativity is weak and afflicted by malefics, there is unequalled suffering, or if the ruler of the lot [of children or] the lot [itself is so afflicted]. ‘The configuration called the foremost’ is the application or itthaśāla-yoga. ṣaḥ | jīrṇatājike | If the lot of fortune occupies the fifth house aspected by benefics, [the native] has a child. The rulers of the ascendant and the fifth house in the fifth house, or else Venus, the moon, or Jupiter, give children. If the planet whose exaltation the fifth house is enters its exaltation, then [the native] will soon get children. If the ruler of the lot of children is corrupt, one should predict the death of children; [but] if it is [heliacally] risen, occupying the fifth house, one should predict having children. [And] in Varṣatantra [9.5, 8, it is said]: The ascendant being the domicile where Jupiter was in the nativity makes for having children [in that year]; the same is to be judged for Mercury and Venus. [But] the sign where Saturn and Mars were in the nativity occupying the ascendant or fifth house in the year certainly The sign that a planet occupied in the nativity is called its place. Strong in the year, it makes for happiness produced [by the house occupied] in the nativity; otherwise, it gives suffering from that [house]. It is to be understood that if the sign called the place [of a planet] is strong in the year, then it produces good results arising from the house [falling] there at the time of the nativity; if weak, then it produces evil results arising from that house. [And] Hillāja [says]: If the ruler of the ascendant and the ruler of the fifth house occupy the sign of a friend, their exaltation or a place of increase, aspected by or joined to Jupiter and Mercury, they are said to make happiness from children. Both these [planets] occupying angles or trines from the ascendant and uneven divisions bring about the birth of sons; in even divisions, they bring about a female birth. If these two [planets] occupy their fall, [heliacal] setting or [the sign of] an enemy, joined to retrograde planets, whether in an even sign or an odd one, then they destroy the configuration [for children]. Here, the planets forming the configuration for progeny occupying an uneven sign or uneven ninth-part cause male births; in an even sign and even ninth-part, they cause the birth of a girl. This is a special rule. [And] in the Jīrṇatājika [it is said]: vidyāgṛhaṃ krūrakhagena yuktaṃ na svāminā naṣṭaśarīrakeṇa | For the ruler of any house in a horoscope to occupy the same house and its exaltation simultaneously, its domicile and exaltation would need to be identical. This is true only of Mercury, whose gender is typically considered ambiguous. Possibly the author is thinking of the ruler of the fifth house of the nativity occupying the fifth house of If the ruler of the fifth house occupies the ascendant, [and] the ruler of the ascendant, the fifth house, it should be predicted with certainty that a child will be born in that year. [If] Venus and the moon occupy the eleventh [or] fifth house, or aspect the eleventh house from the fifth [and] the fifth house from the eleventh, respectively, there is progeny in that year. If the male ruler of the fifth house is in its exaltation in the fifth house, aspected by all [other] planets, then the son [born] will become a king; [if the ruler of the fifth house is] a female planet, [the child born will become] the wife of one.56 [If] a malefic planet occupies the fifth house, which is not aspected by the ruler of the fifth house, then a miscarriage should be predicted; if the opposite, [a completed] pregnancy. If the ruler of the fifth house occupies the eleventh house joined to or aspected by benefics, or the ruler of the fifth occupies a trine from the ruler of the ascendant, aspected by benefics, and the sahama of pregnancy57 is likewise joined to or aspected by its ruler and benefics, there will be pregnancy in that year: so says the lord of the Yavanas. If the moon occupies a domicile of Jupiter, Mars occupies a domicile of Venus, and Venus occupies its own domicile, then no doubt there is pregnancy. [If] the ruler of the ascendant is in the fifth house or else occupies the seventh house, [and] the rulers of the fifth and seventh houses are in the ascendant, then [the native’s] wife [becomes] pregnant. If Saturn occupies a trine from the ascendant of the nativity, [casting] its rays on the ruler of the fifth house,58 there will be pregnancy in that year: [this is] the opinion of the sage Devaśāla. [If] the fifth house is joined or aspected by the moon, Mercury, Jupiter and Venus, or [its] own ninth-part [is so],59 or aspected or joined by its ruler, in that year flashes of insight, relish for learning, and intelligence come to be. [But if] the fifth house is joined by a malefic planet [and] not aspected by or joined to its ruler, the body of which is lost,60 [or] the moon, in that year the results stated above will be That is, of children. That is, aspecting it. Although all text witnesses agree on this phrase, its meaning is unclear. That is, in the rays of the sun; in other words, heliacally set. vato T M 7 yutīkṣaṇa] yutīkṣā K T M 9 tat] om. K T M ‖ vācyā] vācyaṃ K T M 10 G ‖ bhūpād] bhūyād B N G 20 suta] sukha G 22 dṛṣṭe] dṛṣṭaḥ B N; dṛṣṭas K T M 23 [And] Samarasiṃha [says in the Tājikaśāstra]: ‘Will I have progeny in this year?’ If [a client asks thus and] the rulers of the ascendant and the fifth [house] partake of an itthaśāla, it will certainly happen in that very year. Or if they should both occupy each other’s domicile, then too progeny should be predicted in that year – from a benefic configuration, however, not otherwise. If the ruler of the ascendant and the ruler of the fifth house do not aspect each other’s house [or] body, [but] they are joined to, aspected by, or in mutthaśila with malefics,61 then there will be no progeny. If the ruler of the fifth house should be in the ascendant, or the ruler of the ascendant and the moon in the fifth house, then [progeny] should be predicted soon; with delay [if they are connected] by a nakta configuration. If the ascendant is a double-bodied [sign] and the fifth house is joined by benefics, there is a twin pregnancy. If the ruler of the ascendant and the ruler of the fifth house are male planets, then a son is in the womb. Or if the moon is in a male sign and makes a mutthaśila with a male planet, then too there is a son. If the ruler of the hour62 is male, in a male sign, then too there is pregnancy with a son. If the above [criteria] are mixed, [but] the sun is joined to a male planet, there is a son. Next, the results of the sun and other [planets] occupying the fifth house [are described] in [Tājika]padmakośa [1.5, 2.5, 3.5, 4.5, 5.5, 6.5, 7.5, 8.5]: If the sun occupies the fifth house, [the native’s] children will suffer in their bodies; there will be loss of one’s reason, quarrels with people [in general], grief, confusion and so on, illness in the body, loss of wealth, and danger from the king in its period. Occupying the fifth house, the moon makes triumph through [the native’s] own intelligence and gain on account of his friends; if it is aspected by malefics, [the native’s] children will suffer in their bodies, [but] when it is aspected by benefics, [it makes] gain of a child.63 Or: ‘in mutthaśila with malefics by conjunction or aspect’. Or, possibly, of the ascendant, as the Greek loanword horā may mean either. M ‖ cāpi] cāti G K T M 25 sveṣṭa] kleśa B N 26 strīsukhaṃ] strīsutaṃ sukhaṃ N 27 If Mars occupies the fifth, there will be suffering to children, conflict with enemies, agitation, loss of one’s reason, injury from fire,64 and secret suffering from a stomach tumour in that year. If Mercury occupies the fifth house, it will make great happiness from children and give gain of wealth. It makes happiness from servants, happiness from gold, grains and clothes,65 and triumph on account of the king and of friends.66 Occupying the fifth house, Jupiter makes increase of children and triumph through one’s intelligence in that year; destruction of enemies, enjoyment of pleasures, and gain of cattle, gold and clothes. If Venus occupies the fifth, there is increase of children; it banishes fear, suffering, anxiety and misfortune, causes the destruction of enemies and makes [the native] rich in wealth and possessed of great pleasures in [that] year. Occupying the fifth house, Saturn makes loss of children and gives the evil of stomach pains; it will make futility67 and much suffering, and brings about danger from the king in [that] year. If occupying the fifth house, Rāhu causes the loss of one’s understanding, suffering to children, affliction to [the native’s] own stomach from [the humour of] wind, harm with regard to wealth, and likewise all manner of anguish and anxiety. There is illness to children, evils to wife, injury, bewilderment, destruction of property, suffering to loved ones68 in a year when the sun occuWhen the moon occupies the fifth house [it makes] happiness from women, triumph, honour, reverence from the king, acquisition of wealth, a good mind, and happiness from progeny. Text witnesses G K T M read ‘from the body, beds and clothes’. Text witness G reads ‘on account of the father and of the mother’. atha ṣaṣṭhabhāvavicāraḥ | tatra ṣaṣṭhabhāve kiṃ cintanīyam ity uktaṃ caṇThere is suffering to children, evils to wife, ailments of the stomach, foolishness and quarrels with one’s own people for men if Mars is in There is happiness from wife, children and friends, honour deriving from the king, and goods obtained by understanding,69 if Mercury is in profit, and happiness from knowledge of incantations and so on,70 if There is happiness [from] wife, children and so on, good understanding, acquisition of fortune, and skill in instruction in incantations,71 if Venus is in the fifth. There is conflict with wife and children,72 discord with other people,73 and affliction of the stomach produced by [the humour of] wind, if Saturn is in the fifth. There is unhappiness from children,74 suffering of anguish,75 foolishness, oppression from enemies, separation and suffering to one’s own people,76 if Rāhu is in the fifth. This concludes the judgement of the fifth house.

vidyāśāstrajñānaṃ mitraprāptiṃ karoti budharāśiḥ | sukhagṛhamānāyāptiṃ jīvagṛhe diśati śītakaraḥ || 14 ||

Mercury's sign produces knowledge of learning and the sciences and the gaining of friends; in the house of Jupiter the cool-rayed one [the Moon] grants comfort, residence, honor, and attainment.

mīne candradaśāyāṃ jalārthabhoga sadātano dhīmān | gomahiṣadāraputraiḥ samanvito vigataśatrugaṇaḥ || 27 ||

In the Moon's daśā in Pisces (the native) ever enjoys the wealth of waters, is intelligent; provided with cattle, buffaloes, wife and sons, and free of the host of his enemies.

mīnasavargottamaśaśidaye nidhisaṃgrahaṃ sukhaṃ labhate | kanyāptāṅghrihīno mātāpitṛvarjito bhavedbālye || 28 ||

When the Moon is in vargottama in Pisces, one obtains the accumulation of treasure and happiness; (but) he is one who has gained daughters and lost a limb, and is bereft of mother and father in childhood.

mīnasthe śubhavīkṣite himakare hāsyapriyo bhūpati- rvidvān pāpanirīkṣite paruṣavāk pāpātmako jāyate | pāpāṃśe khalavīkṣite śaṭhamatirjāto'nyajāyārataḥ saumyāmśe śubhavīkṣite himakare jāto yaśasvī bhavet

When the Moon is situated in Pisces and aspected by benefics, one is born fond of laughter, a lord of men, and learned; but when aspected by malefics, one becomes harsh of speech and evil-natured. In a malefic navāṃśa and aspected by the wicked, one is born of crooked mind and attached to others' wives; in a benefic navāṃśa and aspected by benefics, when the Moon is so placed, one becomes famous.

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.

mīne pūrṇajyotiṣi mitragrahadṛṣṭe candre lokānandakaraḥ syānnṛpamukhyaḥ | pūrṇajyotiḥ svoccagataścettuhināṃśu- styāgādhikyaṃ sañjanaśastaṃ jagadīśam

When the Moon is in Pisces with full luster, aspected by friendly planets, one becomes a delighter of the world and chief among kings. If the full-bright Moon is in its own exalted sign, abundance of generosity is produced, praised by people, a lord of the world.

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.

karakaṭadhāmni saumyaḥ pañcamasaṃsthito vināśakṛt | candreṇa dṛṣṭamūrtir varṣacatuṣkeṇa mārayati

A benefic situated in the fifth from the moon-sign in the sign of Cancer (Karka) is destructive; when its form is aspected by the Moon, it causes death within a period of four years.

vicarati narendrabhavane nṛpativā vāraṇāśvadhanayuktaḥ | suragurugrahe vivasati guruṇā dṛṣṭe sadā vidvān

He moves about in the palace of the king, or being a king himself, endowed with elephants, horses and wealth. When [the Moon is] in the sign of Jupiter (the preceptor of the gods) and aspected by Jupiter, he ever dwells as a learned man.

tīvramadanaṃ prakāraṃ sukhinaṃ senāpatiṃ dhanasamṛddham | janayati dinakaradṛṣṭaḥ sumuditam āryaṃ śaśī mīne

The Moon in Pisces, aspected by the Sun, produces a man of intense passion, of fair complexion, happy, a commander of armies, rich in wealth, very cheerful and noble.

janayati budhena dyo mīnakhaścandramāḥ puruṣam | bhūpatimatīva sukhinaṃ varayuvatisamāvṛtaṃ vayam

The Moon in Pisces together with Mercury produces a man who is a king, exceedingly happy, and surrounded by lovely young women.

iti siṃhe rāśiḥ | lokanamasyaṃ subhagaṃ vanagiridurgeṣu randhragṛhavāsam | suragurubhavane karoti raviṇekṣitaḥ karam

Thus (the Moon) in the sign Leo. (The Moon) makes one honoured by the world and fortunate; (placed) in forests, mountains and fortresses, dwelling in secret places; in the house of the preceptor of the gods (Jupiter) being aspected by the Sun, it makes one a tax-collector.

smṛtimatikuśasampannaṃ gurubhe pratirūpamāptavijñānam | nṛpamantrakośapālaṃ lipikaramiha vīkṣito guruṇā

When the Moon is in a sign of Jupiter and aspected by Jupiter, one is endowed with memory, intelligence and skill, of handsome form and possessed of knowledge; he becomes a scribe who guards the king's counsel and treasury.

|| iti siṃhe dṛṣṭiḥ || atiraudramatiṃ ca śūraṃ gurubhe prājñaṃ ca dhaninamatidayitam | raviṇā do janayati videśagamanaṃ naraṃ śukraḥ

Thus the aspects in Leo. (Saturn) makes (the native) of very fierce mind and valiant; in the sign of Jupiter (he makes him) wise, wealthy, and much beloved; (joined) with the Sun. Venus produces a man who travels to foreign lands.

udayati mīne śaśini narendraḥ sakarikahādyaḥ kṣitisuta ucce | mṛgapatisaṃsthe daśaśataradano ghaṭadharaṇe syādinakaraputre

When the Moon rises in Pisces, (one becomes) a king; when Mars is exalted, one possessed of elephants and the like; and when Saturn is situated in Leo or Aquarius, one becomes lord of a thousand (and) ten villages.

mīne niśākaraḥ pūrṇaḥ śubhagrahanirīkṣitaḥ | sasaubhāgyaṃ naraṃ kuryāt iti rājñā na saṃśayaḥ

The full Moon in Pisces, aspected by benefic planets, makes a man endowed with good fortune; in this, said the king, there is no doubt.

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.

sūryāṅgārakayoḥ khabandhugatayoḥ śailāgrapātoddhavo mṛtyurbhūtanayendubhānutanayaiḥ kūpe khasapāmbugaiḥ | pāpārkkaritayorhimoṣṇakarayoḥ kanyāsthayorbandhato 'gnau sūryaśaśāṅkayostimiyuge toye sadā bhajataḥ

When the Sun and Mars are in the tenth and fourth houses, death comes from a fall from a mountain peak; with Saturn, the Moon and the Sun in the sky or in a serpent-watery sign, death occurs in a well. When the malefic Saturn and the Sun are in Virgo, death is by bondage and fire; when the Sun and the Moon are in a watery sign (Pisces), one always meets death in water.

udayati mīne śaśini narendraḥ sakalakalāḍhyaḥ kṣitisuta ucce mṛgapātasyasya daśaśataramī ghaṭavarge svāhnikareśutṛ

When the Moon rises in Pisces, (one becomes) a sovereign rich in all the arts; (when) Mars (son of the earth) is in its exaltation in Capricorn... the thousand-rayed (Sun) in the sign of the water-jar (Aquarius)... (the lord of his day-strength).

mīne niśākaraḥ pūrṇaḥ śuddhadṛḍdṛnirīkṣitaḥ | sārvabhaumaṃ naraṃ kuryādasiddhādvajñānātra saṃśayaḥ ||

The full Moon in Pisces, aspected by a pure firm aspect, would make a man an emperor; there is no doubt here arising from imperfect knowledge.

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.

ādau daśāsu phaladaḥ śīrṣodayarāśisaṃsthito vihagaḥ / ubhayodaye ca madhye svānte pṛṣṭhodaye ca nīcarkṣe //75//

In the daśās, a planet situated in a sign that rises head-first gives its result at the beginning; in a sign of both [modes of] rising in the middle; and at the end in its own [period], in a sign that rises back-first, and in a sign of debilitation.

When Uttami asks, the answer comes from sage Parasara: the wise maternal-line wealth, by what rule did it come on this side? Told to the protected one — hear, O child, in the south. The Moon stands in Pisces; thus our citadel [is fixed]. Thus the work is told; sage Parasara, fully, [tells] the divisions. In this matter the lord of knowledge, the lineage-lord — hear and ask. So, examining thus, the matter that came is told plainly; in that, of the citadel and crossing, the fear too is told.

Mind, Mercury, and Venus brightly through the sacred wand of the sages, when it dawns — in Aries, in the manas, the bright; and in Pisces becoming wealth, abiding, that very thing — this is the great auspicious teaching to be told.

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.