Śrīpati Paddhati

नत्वा तां गुरुदेवतां त्रिसमयज्ञानोद्गतेः कारणं तत्पादाम्बुरुहप्रसादविकसद्बोधो बुधः श्रीपतिः । शिष्यप्रार्थनया विचार्य सकलान् होरागमार्थान्मुहुर्वक्ष्ये जातककर्मपद्धतिमहं होराविदां प्रीतये

natvā tāṃ gurudevatāṃ trisamayajñānodgateḥ kāraṇaṃ tatpādāmburuhaprasādavikasadbodho budhaḥ śrīpatiḥ | śiṣyaprārthanayā vicārya sakalān horāgamārthānmuhurvakṣye jātakakarmapaddhatimahaṃ horāvidāṃ prītaye

Having bowed to that divinity ⟨worshipped in the form of my teacher⟩, who is the cause of the dawning of the knowledge of the three times ⟨past, present and future⟩, I, Śrīpati the learned, whose understanding has unfolded through the grace of his lotus-feet, having pondered again and again the whole purport of the horā treatises ⟨the authoritative books on genethlialogy⟩, shall set forth — at the asking of my pupils, and for the pleasure of those who know horā — this Jātakakarma-paddhati, the step-by-step manual of the work of casting a nativity.

ज्ञेयोऽत्र प्रथमं हि जन्मसमयश्छायादियन्त्रैः स्फुटस्तत्कालप्रभवा विलग्नसहिताः कार्यास्ततश्च ग्रहाः । सिद्धान्तोक्तपरिस्फुटोपकरणैस्ते चासकृत्कर्मणा भावाः खेटदृशो बलानि च ततस्तेषां विचार्याणि षट्

jñeyo'tra prathamaṃ hi janmasamayaśchāyādiyantraiḥ sphuṭastatkālaprabhavā vilagnasahitāḥ kāryāstataśca grahāḥ | siddhāntoktaparisphuṭopakaraṇaiste cāsakṛtkarmaṇā bhāvāḥ kheṭadṛśo balāni ca tatasteṣāṃ vicāryāṇi ṣaṭ

Here, first of all, the exact moment of birth is to be ascertained by the chāyā-yantra ⟨the gnomon whose shadow is measured⟩ and the other instruments. Then the grahas ⟨planets⟩ belonging to that moment are to be worked out, together with the vilagna ⟨the rising sign, the ascendant⟩. Using the refining procedures laid down in the siddhāntas ⟨the astronomical treatises⟩, they are to be made sphuṭa ⟨true — corrected to their actual place⟩ by the operation performed not once but repeatedly. After that, the bhāvas ⟨the twelve houses⟩, the dṛṣṭis ⟨aspects⟩ of the grahas, and their six strengths ⟨ṣaḍbala⟩ are to be examined.

मध्याह्नांशुमतोर्य एव विवरः कालः स उक्तो नतः सोऽप्यभ्राग्निपरिच्युतो रविनिशामध्यान्तरे चोन्नतम् । मध्याह्नात्पतिते तु वासरगते खात्प्राक्कपाले नतं जातेऽह्नि द्युदलोनिते पुनरिदं प्रत्यक्कपाले भवेत्

madhyāhnāṃśumatorya eva vivaraḥ kālaḥ sa ukto nataḥ so'pyabhrāgniparicyuto raviniśāmadhyāntare connatam | madhyāhnātpatite tu vāsaragate khātprākkapāle nataṃ jāte'hni dyudalonite punaridaṃ pratyakkapāle bhavet

The interval of time between midday and the Sun ⟨that is, between noon and the chosen moment, which the Sun's place marks⟩ is called the nata, the meridian distance. That same nata, taken away from 30 ⟨abhra-agni: abhra = 0, agni = 3, written 0,3 and read right to left = 30⟩ ghaṭikās, gives the unnata, which is the interval between the Sun ⟨the chosen moment⟩ and midnight. When the elapsed part of the day falls short of midday and is subtracted from it, the nata ⟨reckoned⟩ from the meridian (kha) belongs to the eastern hemisphere, the prāk-kapāla. But when the day has run on past midday, then the elapsed day diminished by the dyudala ⟨the half-day⟩ gives this same nata again, and it belongs to the western hemisphere, the pratyak-kapāla.

रात्रेः शेषे गते वा भवति हि समये जन्म चेत्तद्धटीभिः संयुक्ते वासरार्धे खलु नतघटिकाः प्राक्प्रतीच्यो भवेयुः । संस्थाप्ये ते त्वनष्टे स्फुटसवितुरतः खोदयैरिष्टकालात् लग्नं कुर्यात्सषड्भं तदपि सुगणकैरस्तलग्नं निरुक्तम्

rātreḥ śeṣe gate vā bhavati hi samaye janma cettaddhaṭībhiḥ saṃyukte vāsarārdhe khalu nataghaṭikāḥ prākpratīcyo bhaveyuḥ | saṃsthāpye te tvanaṣṭe sphuṭasaviturataḥ khodayairiṣṭakālāt lagnaṃ kuryātsaṣaḍbhaṃ tadapi sugaṇakairastalagnaṃ niruktam

If the birth falls at a moment in the part of the night still to run or in the part already gone, then those ghaṭīs added to the half-day ⟨the night's remainder to the half-day that is coming, and the night's elapsed part to the half-day that is past⟩ give the nata-ghaṭikās, eastern and western respectively. These two are to be set down and preserved, not lost ⟨they are wanted again later⟩. Then, from the true Sun, by the rising-times ⟨of the signs at one's own place⟩, the lagna is to be computed for the iṣṭa-kāla ⟨the given moment⟩; and that same lagna increased by six rāśis is declared by good computers to be the asta-lagna, the setting point.

लङ्कोदयैः पूर्वनतादृणाख्यं प्रत्यग्नतात्तच्च भवेद्धनाख्यम् । लग्नं तदूचुः खलु मध्यलग्नं षड्भाधिकं तच्च रसातलाख्यम्

laṅkodayaiḥ pūrvanatādṛṇākhyaṃ pratyagnatāttacca bhaveddhanākhyam | lagnaṃ tadūcuḥ khalu madhyalagnaṃ ṣaḍbhādhikaṃ tacca rasātalākhyam

From the eastern nata, by the laṅkodayas ⟨the rising-times of the signs at the equator, at Laṅkā⟩, the point obtained is called ṛṇa, negative — the signs are counted backwards; and from the western nata the same is called dhana, positive — counted forwards. That point they call the madhya-lagna, the mid-heaven ⟨the tenth cusp, where the ecliptic meets the meridian⟩. And that increased by six rāśis is called rasātala, the nadir ⟨the fourth cusp⟩.

लग्नं चतुर्थाद्धिबुकं कलत्राद्यामित्रभं मध्यविलग्नतश्च । खभं विलग्नाच्च विशोध्य शेषं तत्त्र्यंशमेकं द्विगुणं निधध्यात्

lagnaṃ caturthāddhibukaṃ kalatrādyāmitrabhaṃ madhyavilagnataśca | khabhaṃ vilagnācca viśodhya śeṣaṃ tattryaṃśamekaṃ dviguṇaṃ nidhadhyāt

Subtract the lagna ⟨1st cusp⟩ from the fourth; the hibuka ⟨4th⟩ from the kalatra ⟨7th⟩; the yāmitra ⟨7th⟩ from the madhya-vilagna ⟨10th⟩; and the kha-bha ⟨10th⟩ from the vilagna ⟨the lagna, adding twelve rāśis where the subtraction needs it⟩. Of each remainder take its third part (tryaṃśa) once and twice over, and set those two down ⟨to be added to the cusp you started from; our mūla now reads tryaṃśa, 'a third part' — see the note⟩.

लग्नाम्बुजामित्रनभोगृहेषु तदन्तरालोद्भवभावसिद्ध्यै । सिद्ध्यन्ति भावा द्विगुणाः षडेवं शुभाशुभं चिन्त्यमशेषमेभिः

lagnāmbujāmitranabhogṛheṣu tadantarālodbhavabhāvasiddhyai | siddhyanti bhāvā dviguṇāḥ ṣaḍevaṃ śubhāśubhaṃ cintyamaśeṣamebhiḥ

In the lagna, the ambu ⟨4th, the water-house⟩, the jāmitra ⟨7th⟩ and the nabhas ⟨10th, the sky-house⟩ — by that ⟨adding of the thirds⟩, for the establishing of the bhāvas that arise in the intervals between them — the bhāvas come out six taken twice, that is twelve in all. By these ⟨twelve⟩ the whole of the auspicious and the inauspicious is to be considered.

वदन्ति भावैक्यदलं हि सन्धिं तत्र स्थितः स्यादफलो ग्रहेन्द्रः । ऊनस्तु सन्धेर्गतभावजातमागामिजं चाभ्यधिकः करोति

vadanti bhāvaikyadalaṃ hi sandhiṃ tatra sthitaḥ syādaphalo grahendraḥ | ūnastu sandhergatabhāvajātamāgāmijaṃ cābhyadhikaḥ karoti

Half the sum of two ⟨adjacent⟩ bhāvas they call the sandhi, the junction. A graha standing exactly there is aphala — it yields no fruit. But a graha short of the sandhi produces what is born of the bhāva that is past, and one beyond it produces what is born of the bhāva that is to come.

भावांशतुल्यः खलु वर्तमानभावोद्भवं पूर्णफलं विधत्ते । भावोनके चाभ्यधिके च खेटे त्रैराशिकेनात्र फलं प्रकल्प्यम्

bhāvāṃśatulyaḥ khalu vartamānabhāvodbhavaṃ pūrṇaphalaṃ vidhatte | bhāvonake cābhyadhike ca kheṭe trairāśikenātra phalaṃ prakalpyam

A graha whose ⟨distance from the sandhi⟩ is equal to one bhāvāṃśa ⟨half a bhāva — the span from the junction to the bhāva-madhya, the cusp⟩ yields in full the fruit born of the bhāva it stands in. When the graha falls short of that ⟨half-bhāva⟩ or goes beyond it, its fruit here is to be settled by the trairāśika, the rule of three ⟨simple proportion⟩.

भावप्रवृत्तौ हि फलप्रवृत्तिः पूर्णं फलं भावसमांशकेषु । ह्रासक्रमाद्भावविरामकाले फलस्य नाशः कथितो मुनीन्द्रैः

bhāvapravṛttau hi phalapravṛttiḥ pūrṇaṃ phalaṃ bhāvasamāṃśakeṣu | hrāsakramādbhāvavirāmakāle phalasya nāśaḥ kathito munīndraiḥ

As the bhāva begins, so the fruit begins. The fruit is full at the equal portion of the bhāva ⟨the point that halves it — the bhāva-madhya, the cusp⟩. Thereafter it falls away step by step, and at the time of the bhāva's end the fruit is destroyed: so the great sages have declared.

जन्मप्रयाणव्रतबन्धचौलनृपाभिषेकादिकरग्रहेषु । एवं हि भावाः परिकल्पनीयास्तैरेव योगोत्थफलानि यस्मात्

janmaprayāṇavratabandhacaulanṛpābhiṣekādikaragraheṣu | evaṃ hi bhāvāḥ parikalpanīyāstaireva yogotthaphalāni yasmāt

At a birth, a journey (prayāṇa), an investiture with the sacred thread (vrata-bandha), a tonsure (caula), the consecration of a king (abhiṣeka) and the like, and at a marriage (kara-graha, the taking of the hand) — in just this way are the bhāvas to be constructed; for it is by them alone that the fruits arising from the yogas ⟨the planetary combinations⟩ are known.

उक्तानि यस्माद्बहुधा फलानि व्योमौकसां दृष्टिसमुद्भवानि । तस्मात्प्रवच्म्यानयनं हि दृष्टेर्होराविदां दृक्फलनिर्णयाय

uktāni yasmādbahudhā phalāni vyomaukasāṃ dṛṣṭisamudbhavāni | tasmātpravacmyānayanaṃ hi dṛṣṭerhorāvidāṃ dṛkphalanirṇayāya

Since the effects that arise from the dṛṣṭi — the aspecting glance of the vyomaukas, the dwellers in the sky, that is, the grahas — have already been told in many ways ⟨by earlier authorities⟩, I therefore now declare the ānayana of the dṛṣṭi, the working that brings out ⟨in figures how much⟩ aspect ⟨one graha casts upon another⟩, so that those who know horā may rule correctly upon the dṛk-phala, the result that follows from that aspect.

दृश्यो द्रष्ट्रा विरहिततनुः षड्गृहेभ्योऽधिकश्चेत् दिग्भ्यः शोध्यो विहितकलिकः खाभ्रपक्षाद्रिभक्तः । दृष्टिः सा स्याद्यदि शरगृहेभ्योऽधिकः पञ्चहीनो लिप्तीभूतो धृतिशतहृतः स्याच्चतुर्भाधिकश्चेत्

dṛśyo draṣṭrā virahitatanuḥ ṣaḍgṛhebhyo'dhikaścet digbhyaḥ śodhyo vihitakalikaḥ khābhrapakṣādribhaktaḥ | dṛṣṭiḥ sā syādyadi śaragṛhebhyo'dhikaḥ pañcahīno liptībhūto dhṛtiśatahṛtaḥ syāccaturbhādhikaścet

⟨Set down the exact longitudes of both grahas, and⟩ take the dṛśya — the aspected graha ⟨or bhāva⟩ — with the body ⟨that is, the longitude⟩ of the draṣṭṛ, the aspecting graha, removed from it: dṛśya minus draṣṭā. ⟨Then:⟩ If ⟨that difference⟩ is greater than six rāśis, it is to be subtracted from the diś ⟨10⟩ rāśis; ⟨the remainder⟩ is made into kalās ⟨minutes of arc, 1800 to a rāśi⟩ and divided by 7200 ⟨kha-abhra-pakṣa-adri = 0, 0, 2, 7, read from the right⟩ — that is the dṛṣṭi, ⟨reckoned⟩ in rūpas, the unit of aspect-strength, a whole aspect being one rūpa. If instead it is greater than the śara ⟨5⟩ rāśis, let it be lessened by five, turned into liptās ⟨minutes⟩, and divided by 1800 ⟨dhṛti-śata = 18 × 100⟩. And if it should be greater than four rāśis ⟨catur-bha⟩ — ⟨the rule for that case runs on into the next verse⟩ …

त्यक्त्वेषुभ्यः खखरसगुणैर्वह्निभेभ्योऽधिकश्चेत् शोध्योऽब्धिभ्यो विरचितकलः षष्टिकृत्या समेतः । भक्तो द्व्यश्वैः शतविनिहतै राशियुग्माधिकोऽपि द्वाभ्यामूनो नवशतयुतो व्योमखाङ्गाग्निभक्तः

tyaktveṣubhyaḥ khakharasaguṇairvahnibhebhyo'dhikaścet śodhyo'bdhibhyo viracitakalaḥ ṣaṣṭikṛtyā sametaḥ | bhakto dvyaśvaiḥ śatavinihatai rāśiyugmādhiko'pi dvābhyāmūno navaśatayuto vyomakhāṅgāgnibhaktaḥ

… ⟨then⟩ having subtracted ⟨it⟩ from the iṣus ⟨5 rāśis⟩, ⟨divide the remainder, made into kalās,⟩ by 3600 ⟨kha-kha-rasa-guṇa = 0, 0, 6, 3, read from the right⟩. If it is greater than the vahni ⟨3⟩ rāśis, it is to be subtracted from the abdhis ⟨4 rāśis⟩; ⟨the remainder⟩ is made into kalās, is joined with the square of sixty ⟨ṣaṣṭi-kṛti = 3600⟩, and is divided by 72 ⟨dvi-aśva = 2, 7, read from the right⟩ multiplied by a hundred — that is, by 7200. And if it is greater than a pair of rāśis ⟨2⟩, then ⟨let it be⟩ lessened by two, ⟨made into kalās,⟩ increased by nine hundred, and divided by 3600 ⟨vyoman-kha-aṅga-agni = 0, 0, 6, 3, read from the right⟩.

एकोनितश्चैकगृहाधिकश्चेत्कलीकृतो द्व्यश्वशतैर्विभक्तः । एवं स्फुटाः खेचरदृष्टयः स्युर्दिग्भ्योऽधिकं पश्यति नो ग्रहेन्द्रः

ekonitaścaikagṛhādhikaścetkalīkṛto dvyaśvaśatairvibhaktaḥ | evaṃ sphuṭāḥ khecaradṛṣṭayaḥ syurdigbhyo'dhikaṃ paśyati no grahendraḥ

⟨And⟩ if it is greater than one rāśi, let it be lessened by one, made into kalās, and divided by 72 hundred ⟨dvi-aśva-śata = 2, 7 read from the right, times a hundred⟩ — that is, by 7200. In this way the dṛṣṭis of the sky-goers come out exact. ⟨But⟩ the lord of grahas sees nothing that stands beyond the diś ⟨10⟩ rāśis ⟨from itself⟩.

त्रिद्व्येकपादाः क्रमशो निधेयाः शनैश्चराचार्यमहीसुतानाम् त्रिकर्मणोर्धीशुभयोश्च रन्ध्रबन्ध्वोः स्थितानामिह पूर्वदृक्षु

tridvyekapādāḥ kramaśo nidheyāḥ śanaiścarācāryamahīsutānām trikarmaṇordhīśubhayośca randhrabandhvoḥ sthitānāmiha pūrvadṛkṣu

Three pādas ⟨quarters — ¾ of a rūpa⟩, two pādas ⟨½⟩ and one pāda ⟨¼⟩ are to be laid down, in that order, for Śanaiścara ⟨Saturn⟩, the Ācārya ⟨Bṛhaspati, Jupiter⟩ and the Mahīsuta ⟨the Earth's son, Maṅgala, Mars⟩ — ⟨added⟩ here to the aspects stated above, ⟨and only⟩ for those ⟨grahas or bhāvas⟩ that stand, ⟨counted from each of these three planets,⟩ in the tri and the karman ⟨the 3rd and the 10th, for Saturn⟩, in the dhī and the śubha ⟨the 5th and the 9th, for Jupiter⟩, and in the randhra and the bandhu ⟨the 8th and the 4th, for Mars⟩.

स्वस्वक्षेपाः पृथक् स्थाप्याः प्रोक्तादूनाधिकैर्लवैः । गुणिताः खगुणैर्भक्ता लब्धोनास्ते परिस्फुटाः

svasvakṣepāḥ pṛthak sthāpyāḥ proktādūnādhikairlavaiḥ | guṇitāḥ khaguṇairbhaktā labdhonāste parisphuṭāḥ

The kṣepas — the quantities each ⟨of those three⟩ adds on its own account — are to be set down separately. They are to be multiplied by the lavas ⟨degrees, with the minutes and seconds that go with them⟩ by which ⟨the difference between dṛśya and draṣṭṛ⟩ falls short of, or runs past, the amount stated ⟨that is, the exact whole-rāśi distance named in the preceding verse⟩; ⟨the products are⟩ divided by 30 ⟨kha-guṇa = 0, 3 read from the right — the degrees of one rāśi⟩; and the kṣepas, lessened by the quotient ⟨labdha⟩ so obtained, are the exact ones ⟨fit to be added to the dṛgbala⟩.

बलावबोधेन विना दशादिक्रमावबोधो न भवेद्यतोऽतः । तत्स्थानदिक्कालनिसर्गचेष्टादृग्भेदभिन्नं कथयाम्यशेषम्

balāvabodhena vinā daśādikramāvabodho na bhavedyato'taḥ | tatsthānadikkālanisargaceṣṭādṛgbhedabhinnaṃ kathayāmyaśeṣam

Since without an understanding of strength (bala) there can be no understanding of the order of the daśās ⟨the planetary periods⟩ and the rest, I shall therefore declare that strength here in full, as it stands divided by its several distinctions — sthāna ⟨position⟩, dik ⟨direction⟩, kāla ⟨time⟩, nisarga ⟨inborn nature⟩, ceṣṭā ⟨motion⟩ and dṛk ⟨aspect⟩.

नीचोनो द्युचरोधिको यदि भवेत् षड्भात्तदा प्रच्युतश्चक्रात् क्लृप्तकलः खखाष्टखकुभिर्भक्तो बलं तुङ्गजम् । पादोनं तु बलं त्रिकोणगृहगं स्वर्क्षे दलं च त्रयो वस्वंशा ह्यधिमित्रभेऽथ चरणो मित्रे समर्क्षेऽष्टमः

nīcono dyucarodhiko yadi bhavet ṣaḍbhāttadā pracyutaścakrāt klṛptakalaḥ khakhāṣṭakhakubhirbhakto balaṃ tuṅgajam | pādonaṃ tu balaṃ trikoṇagṛhagaṃ svarkṣe dalaṃ ca trayo vasvaṃśā hyadhimitrabhe'tha caraṇo mitre samarkṣe'ṣṭamaḥ

Take the planet (dyucara) diminished by its point of debilitation (nīca); if that ⟨remainder⟩ is greater than six rāśis, it is then to be cast out of the circle ⟨that is, subtracted from the full twelve rāśis⟩. Reduce what stands to kalās ⟨minutes of arc⟩ and divide by 10800 ⟨kha-kha-aṣṭa-kha-ku: kha(0) kha(0) aṣṭa(8) kha(0) ku(1), set down 0,0,8,0,1 and read from the right = 10800⟩: the quotient ⟨in rūpas⟩ is the strength born of exaltation (tuṅgaja bala, the uccabala). But ⟨for the strength a planet draws from the lord of the varga it stands in⟩: a planet in its mūlatrikoṇa ⟨trikoṇa-gṛha⟩ has a rūpa less a quarter, that is ¾; in its own rāśi, a half (½); in the sign of a great friend (adhimitra), three eighth-parts — vasu ⟨8⟩ being the denominator — that is ⅜; in a friend's sign, a quarter (¼); in a neutral's sign (sama-ṛkṣa), an eighth (⅛).

शत्रुभे भवति षोडशांशकश्चाधिशत्रुभवने रदांशकः । एवमेव खलु सप्तवर्गजं स्याद्बलं निजपतेर्वशादिह

śatrubhe bhavati ṣoḍaśāṃśakaścādhiśatrubhavane radāṃśakaḥ | evameva khalu saptavargajaṃ syādbalaṃ nijapatervaśādiha

In an enemy's sign it comes to a sixteenth part (1/16), and in a great enemy's (adhiśatru) house to a rada-part — rada, 'tooth', standing for 32, so a thirty-second (1/32). Just in this way, indeed, the strength born of the seven vargas (saptavarga) arises here, according to the relation the planet bears to the lord ⟨of each of those vargas⟩.

युग्मभांशकगतौ शशिशुक्रौ यच्छतो हि बलपादमयुग्मे । भांशके रविकुजेज्यशनिज्ञास्तावदेव वितरन्ति हि सत्त्वम्

yugmabhāṃśakagatau śaśiśukrau yacchato hi balapādamayugme | bhāṃśake ravikujejyaśanijñāstāvadeva vitaranti hi sattvam

The Moon and Venus, standing in an even (yugma) rāśi or in an even navāṃśa — bha-aṃśaka covering both the sign and its ninth-part — yield a quarter of a rūpa (¼) as strength; and the Sun, Mars, Jupiter (ijya), Saturn and Mercury (jña) bestow exactly that much strength (sattva) when they stand in an odd (ayugma) rāśi or an odd navāṃśa.

कण्टकाद्युपगतेषु नियोज्या रूपकार्द्धचरणा निजवीर्ये । भान्त्यमध्यमुखगेषु च पादः स्त्रीनपुंसकनरेषु निधेयः

kaṇṭakādyupagateṣu niyojyā rūpakārddhacaraṇā nijavīrye | bhāntyamadhyamukhageṣu ca pādaḥ strīnapuṃsakanareṣu nidheyaḥ

For planets that have come to a kaṇṭaka ⟨kendra — the 1st, 4th, 7th, 10th bhāvas⟩ and so on ⟨paṇaphara — the 2nd, 5th, 8th, 11th; āpoklima — the 3rd, 6th, 9th, 12th⟩, a whole rūpaka (1), a half (½) and a quarter (¼) respectively are to be set down as their own strength. And a quarter (¼) is to be assigned to the feminine, the neuter and the masculine planets when they stand respectively in the last, the middle and the first part of a sign ⟨bha-antya, madhya and mukha: the third, second and first drekkāṇa of ten degrees each⟩.

स्थानवीर्यमिदमेवमिहोक्तं दिग्बलं शृणुत पूर्वदिशातः । विदुरू रविकुजौ रविसूनुः शुक्रशीतकिरणौ बलिनौ स्तः

sthānavīryamidamevamihoktaṃ digbalaṃ śṛṇuta pūrvadiśātaḥ | vidurū ravikujau ravisūnuḥ śukraśītakiraṇau balinau staḥ

This positional strength (sthāna-vīrya) has been stated here in this manner. Now hear the directional strength (digbala), reckoned from the east onwards: Mercury (vid, 'the knower') and Jupiter (uru, 'the great one') ⟨are strong in the east, the lagna-bhāva⟩; the Sun and Mars ⟨in the south, the tenth bhāva⟩; Saturn (ravisūnu, the Sun's son) ⟨in the west, the seventh bhāva⟩; and Venus and the cool-rayed Moon ⟨in the north, the fourth bhāva⟩ — these are the ones that stand strong.

अर्कात्कुजाच्चाम्बुगृहं विशोध्यं जीवाद्बुधाच्चापि कलत्रभावम् । मेषूरणं भार्गवचन्द्रमोभ्यां प्राग्लग्नमुष्णांशुसुताच्च शेषम्

arkātkujāccāmbugṛhaṃ viśodhyaṃ jīvādbudhāccāpi kalatrabhāvam | meṣūraṇaṃ bhārgavacandramobhyāṃ prāglagnamuṣṇāṃśusutācca śeṣam

From the Sun and from Mars the ambu-gṛha ⟨the 'water house', the cusp of the fourth bhāva⟩ is to be subtracted; from Jupiter and from Mercury the kalatra-bhāva ⟨the seventh, the house of the spouse⟩; the meṣūraṇa ⟨the tenth, the midheaven⟩ from Venus and the Moon; and the prāk-lagna ⟨the ascendant⟩ from Saturn, the son of the hot-rayed one (uṣṇāṃśu-suta). ⟨Hold⟩ the remainder ⟨in each case; the next verse finishes the working⟩.

षड्भाधिकं चेद्भगणाद्विशोध्यं कलीकृतं खाभ्रगजाभ्रभूभिः । भजेदवाप्तं तु ककुब्बलं स्यादतः परं कालबलं प्रवच्मि

ṣaḍbhādhikaṃ cedbhagaṇādviśodhyaṃ kalīkṛtaṃ khābhragajābhrabhūbhiḥ | bhajedavāptaṃ tu kakubbalaṃ syādataḥ paraṃ kālabalaṃ pravacmi

If ⟨that remainder⟩ is greater than six rāśis, it is to be subtracted from the whole bhagaṇa ⟨the circle of twelve rāśis⟩. Reduce it to kalās ⟨minutes of arc⟩, and divide them by 10800 ⟨kha-abhra-gaja-abhra-bhū: kha(0) abhra(0) gaja(8) abhra(0) bhū(1), set down 0,0,8,0,1 and read from the right = 10800⟩; what is obtained (avāpta) is the kakub-bala, the strength of the quarter ⟨the digbala, in rūpas⟩. Next after this I declare the kāla-bala ⟨the strength born of time⟩.

नक्तंबला भौमशशाङ्कमन्दा गुर्वर्कशुक्रा दिनशक्तयः स्युः सदेन्दुपुत्रो दिनशक्तिभाजां ग्राह्यो बुधैरुन्नतसंज्ञकालः

naktaṃbalā bhaumaśaśāṅkamandā gurvarkaśukrā dinaśaktayaḥ syuḥ sadenduputro dinaśaktibhājāṃ grāhyo budhairunnatasaṃjñakālaḥ

Mars (bhauma), the Moon (śaśāṅka) and Saturn (manda) are strong by night (naktaṃ-bala); Jupiter, the Sun and Venus are those whose power is by day (dina-śakti); and the Moon's son Mercury (indu-putra) is ⟨strong⟩ always. For those that hold their power by day, the wise should take the time called unnata ⟨the 'risen' time — how far the moment of birth stands from midnight⟩.

नतस्तमोवीर्यवतां पलीकृतः खखाष्टचन्द्रैर्विहृतो बलं भवेत् । बुधस्य रात्रौ च दिवा च रूपकं विधेयमेतत्समयोद्भवं बलम्

natastamovīryavatāṃ palīkṛtaḥ khakhāṣṭacandrairvihṛto balaṃ bhavet | budhasya rātrau ca divā ca rūpakaṃ vidheyametatsamayodbhavaṃ balam

For those whose strength lies in darkness ⟨the night party of the previous verse⟩, the nata ⟨the time by which the moment stands away from midday⟩, reduced to palas ⟨vighaṭikās⟩ and divided by 1800 ⟨kha-kha-aṣṭa-candra: kha(0) kha(0) aṣṭa(8) candra(1), set down 0,0,8,1 and read from the right = 1800⟩, becomes the strength. For Mercury, by night and by day alike, a whole rūpaka (1) is to be set down. This is the strength that arises from the time of birth ⟨the natonnata-bala, the first limb of the kālabala⟩.

व्यर्कः शशी षड्भवनाधिकश्चेच्चक्राद्विशुद्धोऽथ कलीकृतोऽसौ । चक्रार्द्धलिप्ताविहृतो वलक्षपक्षे वलं स्यादथ कृष्णपक्षे

vyarkaḥ śaśī ṣaḍbhavanādhikaśceccakrādviśuddho'tha kalīkṛto'sau | cakrārddhaliptāvihṛto valakṣapakṣe valaṃ syādatha kṛṣṇapakṣe

The Moon less the Sun (vyarka, 'with the Sun taken away'); if ⟨the difference⟩ is greater than six bhavanas ⟨rāśis⟩, it is to be cleared out of the circle ⟨subtracted from twelve rāśis⟩; then that is reduced to kalās and divided by the liptās of half the circle ⟨10800 minutes, half of the 21600 in a full round⟩. That is the strength in the bright (valakṣa) fortnight; and in the dark fortnight ⟨the next verse says what is to be done⟩.

तदेव रूपाच्च्युतमेव कृत्वा जगुर्बुधाः पक्षबलं ग्रहाणाम् । वलक्षपक्षे शुभखेचराणां पापग्रहाणामसिते च पक्षे

tadeva rūpāccyutameva kṛtvā jagurbudhāḥ pakṣabalaṃ grahāṇām | valakṣapakṣe śubhakhecarāṇāṃ pāpagrahāṇāmasite ca pakṣe

That same ⟨quotient⟩, made to fall away from one rūpa — that is, one rūpa minus it — the wise have declared to be the pakṣa-bala of the planets: ⟨the quotient itself stands as the strength⟩ of the benefic grahas, whose fortnight is the bright (valakṣa) one, and ⟨the remainder from a rūpa as the strength⟩ of the malefic grahas, whose fortnight is the dark (asita) one.

अह्नस्त्रिभागेषु बलं सरूपं सौम्यार्कतिग्मांशुभुवां क्रमेण । कार्यं तुषारांशुसितासृजां च रात्रौ सदैवामरपूजितस्य

ahnastribhāgeṣu balaṃ sarūpaṃ saumyārkatigmāṃśubhuvāṃ krameṇa | kāryaṃ tuṣārāṃśusitāsṛjāṃ ca rātrau sadaivāmarapūjitasya

In the three parts of the day a full rūpa (1) of strength is to be assigned, in order, to Mercury (saumya), the Sun (arka) and Saturn (tigmāṃśu-bhū, born of the hot-rayed one); and at night, in order, to the Moon (tuṣārāṃśu, the frost-rayed), Venus (sita) and Mars (asṛj); and always to Jupiter (amara-pūjita, worshipped by the immortals).

पादं स्ववर्षेऽथ दलं स्वमासे दिने स्वकीये चरणोनरूपम् । रूपं स्वहोरास्विति कालवीर्यमुक्तं हि होरानिपुणैः पुराणैः

pādaṃ svavarṣe'tha dalaṃ svamāse dine svakīye caraṇonarūpam | rūpaṃ svahorāsviti kālavīryamuktaṃ hi horānipuṇaiḥ purāṇaiḥ

A quarter (¼) in its own year, a half (½) in its own month, in its own day a rūpa less a quarter — that is ¾ — and a whole rūpa (1) in its own horā: thus was the temporal strength (kāla-vīrya) declared by the ancients skilled in horā ⟨the science of the nativity⟩.

क्रान्तिः सौम्या स्वमिह परमापक्रमे दाक्षिणर्णं शुक्रादित्यक्षितिसुतमरुत्पूजितानां विधेया । व्यस्ता शीतद्युतिरविजयोर्ज्ञश्च नित्यं विधेया रामाभ्यस्ता तदनु परमापक्रमेणोद्धरेत्ताम्

krāntiḥ saumyā svamiha paramāpakrame dākṣiṇarṇaṃ śukrādityakṣitisutamarutpūjitānāṃ vidheyā | vyastā śītadyutiravijayorjñaśca nityaṃ vidheyā rāmābhyastā tadanu paramāpakrameṇoddharettām

Here, ⟨in reckoning against⟩ the maximum declination (paramāpakrama, 24°), the northern declination (krānti) is to be applied as sva ⟨positive, additive⟩ and the southern as ṛṇa ⟨negative, subtractive⟩ in the case of Venus, the Sun, Mars (kṣiti-suta, the Earth's son) and Jupiter (marut-pūjita, worshipped by the Maruts). For the cool-rayed Moon (śīta-dyuti) and Saturn (ravija, the Sun's offspring) it is to be applied reversed; and for Mercury (jña) it is always to be applied ⟨as additive⟩. Then that ⟨sum or difference⟩, multiplied by 3 (rāma, the three Rāmas), is to be divided by the maximum declination ⟨24°⟩.

ग्राह्यं राशिप्रभृति च फलं लिप्तिकीभूतमेतद्व्योमाकाशद्विरदखकुभिर्भाजयेदायनं स्यात् । द्विघ्नं भानोरयनजबलं पक्षवीर्यं तथेन्दोः वीर्यैकत्वं सदृशकलयोः खेटयोः प्राग्विधाय

grāhyaṃ rāśiprabhṛti ca phalaṃ liptikībhūtametadvyomākāśadviradakhakubhirbhājayedāyanaṃ syāt | dvighnaṃ bhānorayanajabalaṃ pakṣavīryaṃ tathendoḥ vīryaikatvaṃ sadṛśakalayoḥ kheṭayoḥ prāgvidhāya

⟨The quotient won in the last verse⟩ is to be taken as rāśis and the rest ⟨signs, then degrees and minutes⟩; and this same, turned into liptās (minutes of arc), one should divide by 10800 — vyoman 0, ākāśa 0, dvirada 8 ⟨'the two-tusked one', the elephant⟩, kha 0, ku 1, the word-numerals read from the right — and what comes out is the ayana ⟨the ayana-bala, the strength born of the declination⟩. For the Sun that ayana-born strength is doubled, and the Moon's pakṣa-strength (pakṣa-bala, the fortnightly strength) is doubled in the same way. ⟨Now the planetary war:⟩ having first brought to a single total the strength of each of two planets whose kalās (minutes of longitude) are alike ⟨for that agreement to the very minute is the war⟩ —

याम्योदक्स्थद्युचरबलयोर्हानिवृद्धी विधेये युद्धे चेष्वोर्विवरविहृता खेटवीर्यान्तरेण । मध्यस्पष्टद्युचरविवरार्द्धेन युक्ताच्छीघ्रोच्चान्मध्ये स्पष्टादधिकवपुषि न्यूनके वर्जिताच्च

yāmyodaksthadyucarabalayorhānivṛddhī vidheye yuddhe ceṣvorvivaravihṛtā kheṭavīryāntareṇa | madhyaspaṣṭadyucaravivarārddhena yuktācchīghroccānmadhye spaṣṭādadhikavapuṣi nyūnake varjitācca

— and in that war the loss and the gain are to be applied to the strengths of the two planets standing to the south and to the north respectively; ⟨the amount applied is⟩ the difference between the two planets' strengths, divided by the interval between their two iṣus (śaras, the celestial latitudes). ⟨Now the ceṣṭā-kendra:⟩ take the śīghrocca increased by half the interval between the madhya (mean) planet and the spaṣṭa (true) planet, when the mean is the greater in magnitude; and, when the mean is the smaller, take the śīghrocca diminished by that same half —

जह्यान्मध्यग्रहमिति भवेत्तच्च चेष्टाख्यकेन्द्रं षड्राशिभ्योऽधिकमपनयेन्मण्डलाच्छेषकस्य । कृत्वा लिप्ताः शतहतगजाशाभिराप्तं फलं यच्चेष्टावीर्यं तदिह कथितं होरिकैर्बुद्धिवृद्धैः

jahyānmadhyagrahamiti bhavettacca ceṣṭākhyakendraṃ ṣaḍrāśibhyo'dhikamapanayenmaṇḍalāccheṣakasya | kṛtvā liptāḥ śatahatagajāśābhirāptaṃ phalaṃ yacceṣṭāvīryaṃ tadiha kathitaṃ horikairbuddhivṛddhaiḥ

— from that ⟨corrected śīghrocca⟩ subtract the madhya (mean) planet; what remains is the kendra called ceṣṭā ⟨the ceṣṭā-kendra⟩. If it is greater than six rāśis, take it away from the maṇḍala ⟨the whole circle of twelve rāśis⟩. Make the remainder into liptās (minutes) and divide them by 10800 ⟨gaja 8 and āśā 10 — read from the right, 108 — and śata-hata, multiplied by a hundred⟩: the quotient so obtained is what the horā-men, ripe in understanding, have here declared to be the ceṣṭā-vīrya (ceṣṭā-bala).

षष्टिर्वक्रगते वीर्यमनुवक्रगते दलम् । पादं विकलभुक्तेः स्यादलमेव समागमे ॥ पादं मंदगतेस्तस्य दलं मंदतरस्य च । शीघ्रमुक्तेस्तु पादोनं दलं शीघ्रतरस्य च ॥

ṣaṣṭirvakragate vīryamanuvakragate dalam | pādaṃ vikalabhukteḥ syādalameva samāgame || pādaṃ maṃdagatestasya dalaṃ maṃdatarasya ca | śīghramuktestu pādonaṃ dalaṃ śīghratarasya ca ||

For a graha in vakra (retrograde) motion the strength is sixty ⟨virūpas, a whole rūpa⟩; for one in anuvakra ⟨retrograde motion carrying it back into the previous sign⟩, half of that ⟨30⟩. For vikala motion ⟨stationary, its light overpowered by the Sun⟩ it is a quarter ⟨15⟩, and in samāgama ⟨meeting — Sastri: conjunction with the Moon⟩ just so much ⟨see the note: his figure requires dalam, a half, 30⟩. For manda (slow) motion a quarter ⟨15⟩, and half of that ⟨7½⟩ for mandatara (slower still). For śīghra (fast) motion, ⟨sixty⟩ less a quarter ⟨45⟩; and half ⟨30⟩ for śīghratara (faster still).

मन्दावनीसूनुशशाङ्कपुत्रवागीशशुक्रेन्दुदिवाकराणाम् । एकोत्तरं रूपमगैर्विभक्तं नैसर्गिकं वीर्यमुदाहरन्ति

mandāvanīsūnuśaśāṅkaputravāgīśaśukrendudivākarāṇām | ekottaraṃ rūpamagairvibhaktaṃ naisargikaṃ vīryamudāharanti

For Manda ⟨Saturn⟩, the son of the Earth ⟨Mars⟩, the son of the Moon ⟨Mercury⟩, Vāgīśa ⟨Jupiter⟩, Śukra ⟨Venus⟩, Indu ⟨the Moon⟩ and Divākara ⟨the Sun⟩, in that order, one takes rūpas rising by one at a time ⟨1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7⟩, divided by the agas ⟨mountains, 7⟩: this they declare to be the naisargika (natural) strength — that is, 1/7 of a rūpa for Saturn, 2/7 for Mars, 3/7 for Mercury, 4/7 for Jupiter, 5/7 for Venus, 6/7 for the Moon and a whole rūpa for the Sun.

सौम्यैर्दृष्टे दृष्टितुर्यांशयुक्तं वीर्यं पापालोकिते तद्विहीनम् । लग्नस्यापि स्वामिवीर्यं हि वीर्यं युक्तं कार्यं तच्च जीवज्ञदृष्ट्या

saumyairdṛṣṭe dṛṣṭituryāṃśayuktaṃ vīryaṃ pāpālokite tadvihīnam | lagnasyāpi svāmivīryaṃ hi vīryaṃ yuktaṃ kāryaṃ tacca jīvajñadṛṣṭyā

When a ⟨graha⟩ is aspected by benefics, its strength is ⟨the sum of the five balas already taught — sthāna, dik, kāla, ceṣṭā and naisargika —⟩ increased by a fourth part of that aspect (dṛṣṭi-turyāṃśa); when it is looked at by a malefic, it is that same sum less ⟨a fourth of the aspect⟩. ⟨What results is the graha's ṣaḍbala.⟩ The strength of the lagna, too, is simply the strength of its lord; and to that must be joined the aspect of Jīva ⟨Jupiter⟩ and Jña ⟨Mercury⟩.

शुभावलोकिते पुनस्तदीयदृष्टिपादयुक् असाधुना निरीक्षिते तदंघ्रिणा विवर्जितम् । नृभे क्षिपेच्च रूपकं चतुष्पदाप्ययोर्दलं न कीटभे च किंचन स्फुटं भवेत्तनोर्बलम्

śubhāvalokite punastadīyadṛṣṭipādayuk asādhunā nirīkṣite tadaṃghriṇā vivarjitam | nṛbhe kṣipecca rūpakaṃ catuṣpadāpyayordalaṃ na kīṭabhe ca kiṃcana sphuṭaṃ bhavettanorbalam

Again, when a ⟨bhāva⟩ is looked upon by a benefic it is joined with a fourth part (pāda) of that planet's aspect, and when it is regarded by an unfriendly ⟨malefic⟩ planet it is deprived of a fourth part (aṅghri) of the same. And ⟨for the first bhāva⟩: if it falls in a human sign (nṛ-bha) throw in one rūpaka ⟨a whole rūpa, 60 virūpas⟩; if in a quadruped or a watery sign, half ⟨a rūpa, 30 virūpas⟩; and in a reptile sign (kīṭa) nothing at all. ⟨With this addition⟩ the exact strength of the tanu ⟨the first bhāva, the lagna⟩ is obtained.

जलजचतुष्पदकीटभसंज्ञाः सुखदशमास्तगता बलवन्तः । निजनिजसप्तमगा विबलास्ते तदितरगैरनुपातविधिः स्यात्

jalajacatuṣpadakīṭabhasaṃjñāḥ sukhadaśamāstagatā balavantaḥ | nijanijasaptamagā vibalāste taditaragairanupātavidhiḥ syāt

The rāśis named watery (jalaja), quadruped (catuṣpada) and reptile (kīṭa) are strong when they fall in the sukha ⟨4th⟩, the tenth and the asta ⟨7th⟩ bhāva respectively ⟨one whole rūpa there⟩; they are without strength when they fall in the seventh place from each one's own ⟨strong place — the watery in the 10th, the quadruped in the 4th, the reptile in the lagna⟩; and for the places lying between those two, the strength is to be found by anupāta ⟨the rule of three, proportion⟩.

दारान्मनुष्याद्धिबुकं चतुष्पदात्तनुं च कीटाञ्जलजात्खभं च । विशोध्य शेषं त्वधिकं रसाच्चेत् विशोध्य चक्रात्फलमादिवद्दिशेत् ॥ चक्राद्विशोध्य रामैश्च भजेद्भागीकृतं बलात् । भावानां च ग्रहाणां च बलान्येवं विदुर्बुधाः ॥

dārānmanuṣyāddhibukaṃ catuṣpadāttanuṃ ca kīṭāñjalajātkhabhaṃ ca | viśodhya śeṣaṃ tvadhikaṃ rasāccet viśodhya cakrātphalamādivaddiśet || cakrādviśodhya rāmaiśca bhajedbhāgīkṛtaṃ balāt | bhāvānāṃ ca grahāṇāṃ ca balānyevaṃ vidurbudhāḥ ||

Subtract the dāra ⟨the 7th bhāva⟩ from a ⟨bhāva standing in a⟩ human sign, the hibuka ⟨the 4th⟩ from a quadruped sign, the tanu ⟨the 1st⟩ from a reptile sign, and the khabha ⟨the 10th⟩ from a watery sign. If the remainder is greater than rasa ⟨six⟩ rāśis, subtract it from the cakra ⟨the whole circle of twelve rāśis⟩ and declare the result as before ⟨reduce it to minutes and divide by 10800, exactly as the digbala of the grahas was found⟩. ⟨Second couplet, on the plate a quotation and not Śrīpati's — see the note:⟩ Subtract ⟨it⟩ from the cakra ⟨twelve rāśis⟩, reduce ⟨what is left⟩ to bhāgas (degrees), and divide by the Rāmas ⟨three⟩; from that comes the strength ⟨the bhāva's digbala in virūpas⟩. In this way the wise know the strengths both of the bhāvas and of the grahas.

इष्टकष्टबलनिर्णयाद्यतो जातकोदितफलस्य निर्णयः । शिष्यमोहविनिवृत्तये ततस्तत्प्रसाधनमथाभिधास्यते

iṣṭakaṣṭabalanirṇayādyato jātakoditaphalasya nirṇayaḥ | śiṣyamohavinivṛttaye tatastatprasādhanamathābhidhāsyate

Because (yataḥ) the settling of the fruit declared in a nativity rests on first settling the iṣṭa and kaṣṭa strengths — iṣṭa being a planet's measured power to do good and kaṣṭa its power to do harm — the working out of those two is now to be told here, so that the confusion of students may be put to rest.

नीचोनिताः स्पष्टतरा ग्रहेन्द्राः षड्भाधिका मण्डलतो विशोध्याः । कलीकृता राशिकलाभिरन्विता भलिप्तिकाप्ताः खलु तुङ्गरश्मयः ॥

nīconitāḥ spaṣṭatarā grahendrāḥ ṣaḍbhādhikā maṇḍalato viśodhyāḥ | kalīkṛtā rāśikalābhiranvitā bhaliptikāptāḥ khalu tuṅgaraśmayaḥ ||

Take the grahas made fully exact ⟨in longitude⟩ and diminish each by its own nīca ⟨the debilitation point of that planet⟩. If the remainder exceeds six rāśis, subtract it from the circle (maṇḍala, the full 12 rāśis). Reduce what is left to kalās (minutes of arc); add to it the kalās of one rāśi — that is 1800; and divide the sum by the liptikās of a bha, again 1800, the minutes contained in one sign. The quotients are indeed the tuṅga-raśmis, the 'rays of exaltation' of the planets.

चेष्टाख्यकेन्द्राणि कुजादिकानामुक्तानि भास्वानयनांशयुक्तः । त्रिभाधिकोऽथेन्दुरिनेन हीनश्चेष्टाख्यकेन्द्रे हि तयोर्भवेताम्

ceṣṭākhyakendrāṇi kujādikānāmuktāni bhāsvānayanāṃśayuktaḥ | tribhādhiko'thendurinena hīnaśceṣṭākhyakendre hi tayorbhavetām

The kendras called cheṣṭā (cheṣṭā-kendra, the arc from which a planet's motional strength is measured) have already been stated for Mars and the rest ⟨the five star-planets, in the earlier adhyāya⟩. The Sun joined with the ayanāṃśa and then increased by three rāśis ⟨is the Sun's cheṣṭā-kendra⟩; and the Moon diminished by the Sun ⟨is the Moon's⟩. These two are the cheṣṭā-kendras of those two lights.

चेष्टाख्यकेन्द्राण्यधिकानि षड्भाच्चक्राद्विशुद्धानि कलीकृतानि । सराशिलिप्तानि खखाष्टचन्द्रैर्हृतानि चेष्टाख्यमरीचयः स्युः

ceṣṭākhyakendrāṇyadhikāni ṣaḍbhāccakrādviśuddhāni kalīkṛtāni | sarāśiliptāni khakhāṣṭacandrairhṛtāni ceṣṭākhyamarīcayaḥ syuḥ

The cheṣṭā-kendras, if they exceed six rāśis, are to be subtracted from the cakra ⟨the 12 rāśis⟩; reduce them to kalās; add the liptās of one rāśi ⟨1800⟩; and divide by kha-kha-aṣṭa-candra — kha (0), kha (0), aṣṭa (8), candra (1), which written down as 0, 0, 8, 1 and read from the right is 1800. The results are the cheṣṭā rays.

रूपोनितानां ग्रहदीधितीनां रूपादिना रूपचयेन यत्स्यात् । श्रेढीफलं तत्त्रिगुणांशुभक्तमित्युच्चचेष्टाख्यफले प्रसाध्ये

rūponitānāṃ grahadīdhitīnāṃ rūpādinā rūpacayena yatsyāt | śreḍhīphalaṃ tattriguṇāṃśubhaktamityuccaceṣṭākhyaphale prasādhye

Of the planets' rays (dīdhiti) each diminished by one (rūpa), take the series-sum (śreḍhī-phala) whose first term is one, whose common difference is one, and whose number of terms is that reduced ray-figure; and divide that sum by three times the rays (aṃśu). It is in this way that the two phalas called ucca and cheṣṭā are to be worked out.

तद्घातमूलं फलमिष्टसंज्ञं ते तुङ्गचेष्टाप्रभवे फले तु । विशोध्य रूपादवशेषघातमूलं हि कष्टाभिधमामनन्ति

tadghātamūlaṃ phalamiṣṭasaṃjñaṃ te tuṅgaceṣṭāprabhave phale tu | viśodhya rūpādavaśeṣaghātamūlaṃ hi kaṣṭābhidhamāmananti

The square root of the product of those two ⟨the ucca-phala and the cheṣṭā-phala⟩ is the phala named iṣṭa, the good. But as for those same two phalas born of tuṅga (exaltation) and of cheṣṭā — subtract each of them from unity (rūpa), multiply the two remainders together, and the square root of that product is what they hand down under the name kaṣṭa, the evil. That is: iṣṭa = √(ucca-phala × cheṣṭā-phala), and kaṣṭa = √((1 − ucca-phala) × (1 − cheṣṭā-phala)).

पृथक् पृथक् खेटबलानि ताभ्यां हन्याद्भवेतां हि बले स्फुटे ते । सर्वग्रहाणां च दृशः फलाभ्यां शुभाशुभाभ्यां निहताः स्फुटाः स्युः ॥

pṛthak pṛthak kheṭabalāni tābhyāṃ hanyādbhavetāṃ hi bale sphuṭe te | sarvagrahāṇāṃ ca dṛśaḥ phalābhyāṃ śubhāśubhābhyāṃ nihatāḥ sphuṭāḥ syuḥ ||

Multiply each planet's own strength (kheṭa-bala, its aggregate ṣaḍbala) separately by those two ⟨iṣṭa and kaṣṭa⟩; the two products are that planet's exact (sphuṭa) strengths, one for good and one for harm. And the aspects (dṛś) of all the planets likewise, struck by those two phalas, the auspicious and the inauspicious, become exact ⟨aspects, again one for good and one for harm⟩.

स्वोच्चे रूपं चरणरहितं स्वत्रिकोणे स्वभेऽर्द्धं नागांशानां त्रयमधिसुहृद्देहगे मित्रभेंऽङ्घ्रिः । अंशोऽष्टानां समगृहगते भूपभागोऽरिगेहे दन्तांशः स्यादधिरिपुगृहे नीचभे शून्यमेव

svocce rūpaṃ caraṇarahitaṃ svatrikoṇe svabhe'rddhaṃ nāgāṃśānāṃ trayamadhisuhṛddehage mitrabheṃ'ṅghriḥ | aṃśo'ṣṭānāṃ samagṛhagate bhūpabhāgo'rigehe dantāṃśaḥ syādadhiripugṛhe nīcabhe śūnyameva

⟨The good — śubha — that a planet yields, graded by the dignity of the sign it holds:⟩ in its own exaltation, a whole rūpa, 1; in its own trikoṇa ⟨mūlatrikoṇa⟩, that less a quarter, ¾; in its own sign, a half, ½; when placed in the house of an adhi-suhṛd, a great friend, three of the nāga-parts — nāga is 8, so ⅜; in a friend's sign, a foot, ¼; when gone to a neutral's house, one part of eight, ⅛; in an enemy's house, a bhūpa-part — bhūpa ('king') is 16, so 1/16; in the house of a great enemy, a danta-part — danta ('tooth') is 32, so 1/32; and in its debilitation sign, nothing whatever, 0.

एतच्छुभाख्यमशुभं च पुनर्ग्रहेषु स्वोच्चादिवार्तिषु वदन्ति तदूनमेकम् । एवं गृहेषु शुभपापफलार्द्धमन्यवर्गेषु षड्सु नियतं मुनयः पुराणाः

etacchubhākhyamaśubhaṃ ca punargraheṣu svoccādivārtiṣu vadanti tadūnamekam | evaṃ gṛheṣu śubhapāpaphalārddhamanyavargeṣu ṣaḍsu niyataṃ munayaḥ purāṇāḥ

This ⟨scale of nine values⟩ is what is called the śubha, the good. And again, for planets standing in the states that begin with their own exaltation, ⟨the sages⟩ declare the aśubha, the evil, to be one less that — unity minus the good figure. So it stands in the gṛhas ⟨the rāśis, at full value⟩; but in the six other vargas the ancient sages have fixed only half of the good and of the evil phala.

ये खेटभोच्चादिफले शुभाशुभे सरूपवर्गार्द्धविभाजिते तथा । विधाय सत्कोष्ठकसप्तकावलीं विधारणीये मुखकोष्ठके ततः

ye kheṭabhoccādiphale śubhāśubhe sarūpavargārddhavibhājite tathā | vidhāya satkoṣṭhakasaptakāvalīṃ vidhāraṇīye mukhakoṣṭhake tataḥ

The two phalas, good and evil, that a planet earns from its signs being its exaltation and the rest ⟨graded by verses 8–9: the rāśi at full value and each of the six vargas at half⟩ are ⟨totalled and⟩ divided by 'unity together with the halves of the vargas' — that is, by 1 + 6 × ½ = 4, which is also the largest that total can reach. Then rule a row of seven well-made cells (koṣṭhaka) and set the two figures down in the first, the mukha-koṣṭhaka ⟨one figure in each of the two rows, the row of good and the row of evil⟩.

तद्राशिसंज्ञं भदलादिकेषु वर्गेषु तस्यार्द्धमतो विधेयम् । शेषेषु कोष्ठेषु च षट्सु तज्ज्ञैः पंक्तिद्वयेऽपि द्युचरस्य तस्य

tadrāśisaṃjñaṃ bhadalādikeṣu vargeṣu tasyārddhamato vidheyam | śeṣeṣu koṣṭheṣu ca ṣaṭsu tajjñaiḥ paṃktidvaye'pi dyucarasya tasya

That ⟨first cell⟩ carries the name rāśi. For the vargas that begin with bha-dala — 'half a sign', which is the horā — half of that same figure is thereafter to be entered by those who know the work in the remaining six cells, and in both rows alike, for that same planet.

राशीश्वरस्यापि फले तथैव स्वोच्चादिके सप्तगणप्रसूते । शुभाशुभाख्ये च तदीययुत्या सन्ताडयेदादिम कोष्ठकस्थे

rāśīśvarasyāpi phale tathaiva svoccādike saptagaṇaprasūte | śubhāśubhākhye ca tadīyayutyā santāḍayedādima koṣṭhakasthe

Of the lord of that rāśi as well, the two phalas — the ones called good and evil, arising from its own exaltation and the rest, and produced over the group of seven ⟨vargas⟩ (sapta-gaṇa) — are to be found in exactly the same way; and by their sum (tadīya-yuti) one should multiply the two figures standing in the first cell.

उभे फले पूर्वनिवेशिते ये कर्मक्रमः शेषगणेऽपि चैवम् । होरादिके खेश्वरजैः फलैस्तु पुनश्च हन्यात्सकलानि तानि

ubhe phale pūrvaniveśite ye karmakramaḥ śeṣagaṇe'pi caivam | horādike kheśvarajaiḥ phalaistu punaśca hanyātsakalāni tāni

It is the two phalas already entered ⟨in that first cell⟩ that are so multiplied; and the same order of work holds for the remaining group as well. For the horā and the rest, again multiply all those figures by the phalas produced by the lords of those ⟨varga signs⟩ (kha-īśvara).

वर्गेशतत्स्थग्रहवीर्यघातमूलेन राश्यादिकवर्गजानाम् । इत्थं बलानां भवति स्फुटत्वं शुभाशुभानां मुनिसम्मतं हि

vargeśatatsthagrahavīryaghātamūlena rāśyādikavargajānām | itthaṃ balānāṃ bhavati sphuṭatvaṃ śubhāśubhānāṃ munisammataṃ hi

⟨And multiply⟩ the figures born of the rāśi and the other vargas, each by the square root of the product of the vīrya — the strength ⟨made exact in verse 7⟩ — of the lord of that varga and of the planet standing in it ⟨taking the iṣṭa-weighted strengths for the row of good and the kaṣṭa-weighted ones for the row of evil⟩. In this way the good and the evil strengths reach their exactness, and this is what the sages approve.

आयुर्ज्ञानादेव होराफलानां कर्तुं यस्मान्निर्णयः शक्यतेऽत्र । आयुर्दायः सम्प्रदायागतोयं सच्छिष्याणां प्रीतये कथ्यतेऽतः

āyurjñānādeva horāphalānāṃ kartuṃ yasmānnirṇayaḥ śakyate'tra | āyurdāyaḥ sampradāyāgatoyaṃ sacchiṣyāṇāṃ prītaye kathyate'taḥ

Since here the determination (nirṇaya) of the results a horoscope shows — the horā-phalas — can be made only out of a knowledge of the length of life (āyus), therefore this āyurdāya, the allotted life-span reckoned as it has come down through the teachers' tradition (sampradāya), is now set out for the delight ⟨and profit⟩ of good pupils.

एकोनदीधितिसमादिह गच्छतो यद्रूपादिरूपचयसङ्कलितद्वयं स्यात् । चेष्टोच्चरश्मिजमथ स्वमरीचिभक्तं तज्ज्ञायतेत्र गुणकाद्वितयं तदाख्यम्

ekonadīdhitisamādiha gacchato yadrūpādirūpacayasaṅkalitadvayaṃ syāt | ceṣṭoccaraśmijamatha svamarīcibhaktaṃ tajjñāyatetra guṇakādvitayaṃ tadākhyam

Take, for a planet, the number of its ceṣṭā rays (ceṣṭā-raśmi) and the number of its ucca rays (ucca-raśmi) ⟨both found by adhyāya 4⟩. For each of the two separately, form the sum of a series (saṅkalita) whose first term is 1 and whose common increase is also 1 (rūpādi rūpa-caya), run out to a number of terms one less than that ray-number (eka-ūna-dīdhiti-sama) — that is, the sum 1 + 2 + … + (rays − 1), which is (rays − 1) × rays ÷ 2. Then divide each of the two sums by its own ray-number (sva-marīci-bhakta). The two quantities thus known here are the pair of multipliers (guṇaka-dvitaya), and each carries the name of the ray it came from ⟨the ceṣṭā-guṇaka and the ucca-guṇaka⟩.

ऊने भवेतां निजदीधितिभ्यः श्रेढीफले ते यदि रश्मियुक्ते । तदर्द्धिते स्वांशुभिरुद्धृते ते तद्घातमूलं गुणकः स्फुटः स्यात्

ūne bhavetāṃ nijadīdhitibhyaḥ śreḍhīphale te yadi raśmiyukte | tadarddhite svāṃśubhiruddhṛte te tadghātamūlaṃ guṇakaḥ sphuṭaḥ syāt

But if those two series-results (śreḍhī-phala) should come out less than their own ray-numbers, then find the two multipliers this way instead: add the rays back to each sum (raśmi-yukta), halve what results (tad-ardhita), and divide that by its own rays (sva-aṃśubhir uddhṛta). ⟨And in either case, by verse 2's rule or by this one⟩, the square root of the product of the two (tad-ghāta-mūla) is the exact multiplier, the sphuṭa-guṇaka.

वर्गोत्तमे स्वभवने स्वनवांशके च स्वत्र्यंशके च गुणको द्वितयं निरुक्तम् । अध्यर्द्धरूपमधिमित्रगृहे सुहृद्गे सत्र्यंशकं समगृहे खलु रूपमेकम्

vargottame svabhavane svanavāṃśake ca svatryaṃśake ca guṇako dvitayaṃ niruktam | adhyarddharūpamadhimitragṛhe suhṛdge satryaṃśakaṃ samagṛhe khalu rūpamekam

When a planet stands in a vargottama, in its own house (its own rāśi), in its own navāṃśa, or in its own tryaṃśa — the drekkāṇa, the third part of a sign — the multiplier (guṇaka) is declared to be 2. In the house of an adhimitra (a great friend) it is one and a half, 1½ (adhyardha-rūpa); in a friend's (suhṛd) house one together with a third, 1⅓ (sa-tryaṃśaka); and in a neutral's (sama) house just 1 (rūpam ekam).

त्र्यंशोनितं रिपुगृहेऽध्यरिभे दलं स्यादेभ्यो गुणो भवति यः खलु कश्चिदेकः । वेदोद्धृतः स भगुणो गणकैः प्रदिष्टः होरादिवर्गगुणकस्तु भवेत्तदर्द्धम्

tryaṃśonitaṃ ripugṛhe'dhyaribhe dalaṃ syādebhyo guṇo bhavati yaḥ khalu kaścidekaḥ | vedoddhṛtaḥ sa bhaguṇo gaṇakaiḥ pradiṣṭaḥ horādivargaguṇakastu bhavettadarddham

In an enemy's (ripu) house ⟨the multiplier is⟩ one diminished by its third, that is ⅔ (tryaṃśonita); in the sign of a bitter enemy (adhyari) a half, ½ (dala). Whichever single one of these multipliers falls to a planet, divided by 4 (veda, the four Vedas), is what the computers have declared to be the bhaguṇa — the multiplier belonging to the rāśi; and the multiplier for the horā and the remaining vargas is half of that ⟨that is, the same quantity divided by 8⟩.

एतेऽपि गुण्या गदिता महाद्भिरपेक्षयानन्तरताडकानाम् । नगांशका रुद्रमिता ह्यधीष्ठराशौ सुहृद्वेश्मनि मूर्छनांशाः

ete'pi guṇyā gaditā mahādbhirapekṣayānantaratāḍakānām | nagāṃśakā rudramitā hyadhīṣṭharāśau suhṛdveśmani mūrchanāṃśāḥ

These ⟨multipliers⟩ too the great ones have declared to be multiplicands (guṇya) with respect to the anantara-tāḍakas, the multipliers stated immediately after ⟨in verses 9 and 10⟩. In the sign of an adhimitra ⟨the rāśi-multiplier is⟩ eleven seventh-parts — naga (7) naming the part and rudra (11) their number, so 11/7; in a friend's (suhṛd) house, so many mūrchanā-parts, that is twenty-first parts, the mūrchanās being 21 ⟨their number, twenty-nine, is given by the first word of the next verse, so that the statement runs across the verse-break⟩.

नवाश्विनो रूपमुदासराशौ रुद्रत्र्यंशका विश्वमिता द्विषद्भे । त्रयो नगांशा अधिशत्रुराशावेते भसंज्ञा निजराशिवर्जम्

navāśvino rūpamudāsarāśau rudratryaṃśakā viśvamitā dviṣadbhe | trayo nagāṃśā adhiśatrurāśāvete bhasaṃjñā nijarāśivarjam

⟨Twenty-nine of those twenty-first parts, in a friend's house⟩ — nava (9) and aśvin (2), the digits read from the right, 9-2 reversed, 29. In a neutral's (udāsa, that is sama) sign, 1. In an enemy's (dviṣat) sign, thirteen — viśva, the thirteen Viśve-devāḥ — ⟨of those same twenty-first parts, so 13/21⟩. In the sign of a bitter enemy (adhiśatru), three seventh-parts, 3/7. These are the ones called bha ⟨-guṇas⟩, the multipliers belonging to the rāśi — but they do not apply when the planet is in its own sign (nija-rāśi-varjam).

वर्गोत्तमात्मीयनवांशदृक्कस्थिते ग्रहे तु द्वितयं गुणश्चेत् । एतैरधीष्ठादिगुणैर्निहन्यादुद्दीरितं राशिगुणं पुनस्तम्

vargottamātmīyanavāṃśadṛkkasthite grahe tu dvitayaṃ guṇaścet | etairadhīṣṭhādiguṇairnihanyāduddīritaṃ rāśiguṇaṃ punastam

But when a planet stands in a vargottama, in its own navāṃśa or in its own drekkāṇa, so that the multiplier ⟨of verse 4⟩ is 2, then one should multiply once again, by these factors — the ones for the adhimitra and the rest just given — that rāśi-multiplier (rāśi-guṇa) which was already stated ⟨in verse 5, namely the 2 divided by 4⟩.

गृहादिके वर्गगणे स्वकीये द्विको गुणस्त्र्यंशविवर्जितः सः । अधीष्टभे मित्रगृहे नवांशा विश्वे च रूपं च समस्य गेहे

gṛhādike vargagaṇe svakīye dviko guṇastryaṃśavivarjitaḥ saḥ | adhīṣṭabhe mitragṛhe navāṃśā viśve ca rūpaṃ ca samasya gehe

When the varga-group a planet occupies — the house (rāśi) and the rest — is its own, the multiplier ⟨now being stated, the anantara-tāḍaka⟩ is 2 (dvika). That same 2, less a third, is 5/3 in the sign of an adhimitra (adhīṣṭa). In a friend's house it is thirteen ninth-parts — navāṃśāḥ, ninths, viśve, thirteen — that is 13/9. And in a neutral's (sama) house it is 1 (rūpa).

नवांशकाः पञ्च विरोधिराशौ गुणांशकः स्यादधिवैरिणो भे । पूर्वं भपूर्वा गुणका य उक्ता वर्गेषु सप्तस्विह गुण्यसंज्ञाः

navāṃśakāḥ pañca virodhirāśau guṇāṃśakaḥ syādadhivairiṇo bhe | pūrvaṃ bhapūrvā guṇakā ya uktā vargeṣu saptasviha guṇyasaṃjñāḥ

Five ninth-parts, 5/9, in an adversary's (virodhin, that is śatru) sign; and a guṇa-part — guṇa being 3, so one third, 1/3 — in the sign of a bitter enemy (adhivairin). And those multipliers stated earlier, the ones beginning with the bha, the rāśi ⟨verses 4 to 8⟩, throughout the seven vargas, are here called the multiplicands (guṇya).

गुण्या गुणैः स्वैरधिकारलब्धैरुक्तैर्गुणः स्यादधिमिश्रितैस्तैः । स्मृतो बुधैराश्रयसंज्ञितो यस्तस्य स्फुटस्यापि वधो भवेद्यः

guṇyā guṇaiḥ svairadhikāralabdhairuktairguṇaḥ syādadhimiśritaistaiḥ | smṛto budhairāśrayasaṃjñito yastasya sphuṭasyāpi vadho bhavedyaḥ

The multiplicands (guṇya), each multiplied by its own multiplier as it falls out for that case (adhikāra-labdha) — the multipliers just stated ⟨in verses 9 and 10⟩ — and then all of them thrown together and added up (adhimiśrita), yield the multiplier which the wise have named the āśraya-guṇaka. And whatever product (vadha) arises of that ⟨āśraya-guṇaka⟩ and of the sphuṭa ⟨-guṇaka of verse 3⟩ —

तद्वर्गमूलं खलु कर्मयोग्य आयुर्विधाने गुणकार उक्तः । ग्रहस्य लिप्ताः खखसिद्धभक्ताः प्रोक्ताः कलाः शेषमिहायुषोऽत्र १२

tadvargamūlaṃ khalu karmayogya āyurvidhāne guṇakāra uktaḥ | grahasya liptāḥ khakhasiddhabhaktāḥ proktāḥ kalāḥ śeṣamihāyuṣo'tra 12

— the square root of that product (tad-varga-mūla) is declared to be the guṇakāra fit for the work (karma-yogya), the one used in the computation of the length of life. ⟨Then the next step:⟩ the minutes of a planet — its whole longitude reduced to minutes of arc — are to be divided by 2400 (kha-kha-siddha: kha 0, kha 0, siddha 24; the digits read from the right, 0-0-24, give 2400). The remainder of that division is what is declared here to be the kalās of life, the āyuṣ-kalās.

लग्नं ग्रहोनं यदि षड्गृहेभ्यो हीनं तदानीं हरसंभवः स्यात् । नैवाधिके तत्र खगोनलग्ने लिप्तीकृते राशिकलाविभक्ते

lagnaṃ grahonaṃ yadi ṣaḍgṛhebhyo hīnaṃ tadānīṃ harasaṃbhavaḥ syāt | naivādhike tatra khagonalagne liptīkṛte rāśikalāvibhakte

Subtract the planet from the lagna. If ⟨what remains⟩ is less than six signs (ṣaḍ-gṛha), then and only then is a divisor (hara) possible; if it is more, there is no divisor at all. Where one is possible, reduce that lagna-minus-planet to minutes and divide it by the minutes contained in a rāśi ⟨1800⟩ —

आयुः कलानां स हरः स्फुटः स्याद्रूपाघदोनः सहरस्तदानीम् । रूपाद्विशुद्धो गुणकस्तु तासामेवं हि पापद्युचरोनलग्ने

āyuḥ kalānāṃ sa haraḥ sphuṭaḥ syādrūpāghadonaḥ saharastadānīm | rūpādviśuddho guṇakastu tāsāmevaṃ hi pāpadyucaronalagne

— and that quotient is the exact divisor (sphuṭa hara) of the āyuṣ-kalās. And if that divisor (sa haraḥ) should come out less (ūna) than a rūpa, that is less than unity ⟨one akṣara here, between पा and दो, is still unsettled; verse 15 confirms the sense 'less than a rūpa'⟩, then (tadānīm), taken away from a rūpa, it becomes not a divisor of those kalās but their multiplier (guṇaka). So the work goes when it is a malefic planet (pāpa-dyucara) that has been subtracted from the lagna.

शुभोनलग्ने तु हरो द्विनिघ्न आयुः कलाभ्यो हरलब्धलिप्ताः । विशोधनीया यदि रूपकोनो हरस्तदर्द्धोनितरूपगुण्याः

śubhonalagne tu haro dvinighna āyuḥ kalābhyo haralabdhaliptāḥ | viśodhanīyā yadi rūpakono harastadarddhonitarūpaguṇyāḥ

But when it is a benefic (śubha) that has been subtracted from the lagna, the divisor is doubled (dvi-nighna); then the minutes got by dividing the āyuṣ-kalās with that doubled divisor are to be subtracted from those same āyuṣ-kalās. And if the divisor is less than a rūpa (rūpaka-ūna), then instead the kalās are to be multiplied by a rūpa diminished by half of that divisor (tad-ardha-ūnita-rūpa).

एवं कार्या चक्रपातार्द्धहानिश्चायुर्दाये ह्यंशजे पिण्डजेऽपि । नैसर्गाख्यो जीवशर्मोदिते च हारं कृत्वा त्वेककोनं गुणं च

evaṃ kāryā cakrapātārddhahāniścāyurdāye hyaṃśaje piṇḍaje'pi | naisargākhyo jīvaśarmodite ca hāraṃ kṛtvā tvekakonaṃ guṇaṃ ca

In this way the cakrapātārdhahāni ⟨the 'half-circle' deduction set out in the preceding verses⟩ is to be carried out in the āyurdāya called aṃśaja ⟨the life-span reckoned from the degrees⟩, and in the piṇḍaja one as well, and in the one named naisarga ⟨the natural allotment⟩, and in the one stated by Jīvaśarman — having formed the hāra ⟨the fractional divisor⟩, ⟨form⟩ also the guṇa ⟨the multiplier⟩, which falls short of a single unit ⟨by that hāra: guṇa = 1 − hāra⟩.

आयुर्लिप्ताः स्वगुणगुणिता व्योमशून्याश्विभक्ताः ह्यब्दा मासा दिवसघटिकाः स्युर्विनाड्यः क्रमेण । एवं सर्वद्युचरजनितं ह्यायुरानीय लग्नादायुः साध्यं कथितविधिना किन्तु लग्ने विशेषः

āyurliptāḥ svaguṇaguṇitā vyomaśūnyāśvibhaktāḥ hyabdā māsā divasaghaṭikāḥ syurvināḍyaḥ krameṇa | evaṃ sarvadyucarajanitaṃ hyāyurānīya lagnādāyuḥ sādhyaṃ kathitavidhinā kintu lagne viśeṣaḥ

The āyurliptās ⟨the life-minutes, each planet's āyuṣkalās after the above reduction⟩, multiplied by their own guṇa ⟨the karmayogya-guṇaka assigned to that planet⟩ and divided by 200 ⟨vyoma-śūnya-aśvi: vyoma 0, śūnya 0, aśvin 2, the digits read right to left⟩, become years, months, days, ghaṭikās and vināḍīs in that order. Having in this way brought out the āyus produced by every planet, the āyus is to be worked out from the lagna also by the rule already stated — but in the case of the lagna there is a special point ⟨stated in the next verse⟩.

लग्ने तु वीर्याभ्यधिके भतुल्यैर्वर्षैर्युतं तस्य विधेयमायुः । भागादिकादप्यनुपातलब्धमासादिना संयुतमत्र कार्यम्

lagne tu vīryābhyadhike bhatulyairvarṣairyutaṃ tasya vidheyamāyuḥ | bhāgādikādapyanupātalabdhamāsādinā saṃyutamatra kāryam

But when the lagna is abundant in strength, the āyus derived from it is to be made complete by adding years equal to the bhas ⟨one year for each whole rāśi elapsed in the lagna's longitude⟩; and from the degrees and the rest as well, the months and so on obtained by anupāta ⟨simple proportion, thirty degrees to the year⟩ are to be joined on here.

नवेन्दवो बाणयमाः शरक्ष्मा दिवाकराः पञ्चभुवः कुपक्षाः । नखाश्च भास्वत्प्रमुखग्रहाणां पिण्डाश्रयाब्दा निजतुङ्गगानाम्

navendavo bāṇayamāḥ śarakṣmā divākarāḥ pañcabhuvaḥ kupakṣāḥ | nakhāśca bhāsvatpramukhagrahāṇāṃ piṇḍāśrayābdā nijatuṅgagānām

Nineteen ⟨nava-indu: nava 9, indu 1, read right to left⟩, twenty-five ⟨bāṇa 5, yama 2⟩, fifteen ⟨śara 5, kṣmā 1⟩, twelve ⟨divākara, the twelve suns⟩, fifteen ⟨pañca 5, bhū 1⟩, twenty-one ⟨ku 1, pakṣa 2⟩ and twenty ⟨nakha, the twenty nails⟩ — these are the years resting on the piṇḍa ⟨the piṇḍāyurdāya allotment⟩ for the planets beginning with the Sun, each standing in its own exaltation: Sun 19, Moon 25, Mars 15, Mercury 12, Jupiter 15, Venus 21, Saturn 20.

निजोच्चशुद्धः खचरो विशोध्यो भमण्डलात्षड्भवनोनकश्चेत् । यथास्थितः षड्भवनाधिकश्चेत् कलीकृतः संगुणितो निजाब्दैः

nijoccaśuddhaḥ khacaro viśodhyo bhamaṇḍalātṣaḍbhavanonakaścet | yathāsthitaḥ ṣaḍbhavanādhikaścet kalīkṛtaḥ saṃguṇito nijābdaiḥ

The planet diminished by its own exaltation ⟨the planet's longitude minus the longitude of its exaltation point⟩ — if the remainder falls short of six bhavanas ⟨six rāśis⟩, it is to be subtracted from the bhamaṇḍala ⟨the whole circle of twelve signs⟩; if it exceeds six bhavanas, it is kept as it stands. That arc is then turned into kalās ⟨minutes of arc⟩ and multiplied by the planet's own years ⟨the figures of verse 19⟩.

तत्र खाभ्ररसचन्द्रलोचनैरुद्धृते सति यदाप्यते फलम् । वर्षमासदिननाडिकादिकं तद्धि पिण्डभवमायुरुच्यते

tatra khābhrarasacandralocanairuddhṛte sati yadāpyate phalam | varṣamāsadinanāḍikādikaṃ taddhi piṇḍabhavamāyurucyate

When that ⟨product⟩ is divided by 21600 ⟨kha-abhra-rasa-candra-locana: kha 0, abhra 0, rasa 6, candra 1, locana 2, read right to left — the number of minutes in the whole circle⟩, the result obtained, in years, months, days, nāḍikās and the rest, is called the āyus born of the piṇḍa ⟨that planet's piṇḍāyurdāya⟩.

त्र्यंशकं हरति शत्रुभे ग्रहः स्वायुषोऽत्र न तु वक्रचारगः । सूर्यलुप्तकिरणोर्द्धहारकः प्रोज्झ्य भार्गवदिनेशनन्दनौ

tryaṃśakaṃ harati śatrubhe grahaḥ svāyuṣo'tra na tu vakracāragaḥ | sūryaluptakiraṇorddhahārakaḥ projjhya bhārgavadineśanandanau

A planet standing in the sign of an enemy forfeits a third part of its own āyus here — but not one that is moving in retrogression ⟨vakra⟩. A planet whose rays the Sun has swallowed ⟨astaṅgata, combust⟩ forfeits half, excepting Bhārgava ⟨Venus⟩ and the son of the lord of day ⟨Saturn⟩.

खेचरो जायते योऽर्द्धत्र्यंशयोरपहारकः । आयुषः स हरेदर्द्धं त्र्यंशं शुक्रशनैश्चरौ

khecaro jāyate yo'rddhatryaṃśayorapahārakaḥ | āyuṣaḥ sa haredarddhaṃ tryaṃśaṃ śukraśanaiścarau

A planet that becomes the forfeiter of both the half and the third ⟨that is, combust and at the same time in an enemy's sign⟩ forfeits half of its āyus ⟨only the larger of the two deductions⟩; but Śukra and Śanaiścara ⟨Venus and Saturn⟩ forfeit the third.

चक्रार्द्धहानौ बहुषु द्वयोर्वा खेचारिणोरेकगृहस्थयोस्तु । सत्याभिधानस्य मतेन सत्यं स्वांशं हरत्येव वलोत्कटो यः

cakrārddhahānau bahuṣu dvayorvā khecāriṇorekagṛhasthayostu | satyābhidhānasya matena satyaṃ svāṃśaṃ haratyeva valotkaṭo yaḥ

In the cakrārdhahāni, when many planets, or two, stand in one and the same house — then, by the opinion of the teacher named Satya ⟨Satyācārya⟩, it is truly the one that is overwhelming in strength ⟨balotkaṭa⟩ that forfeits its own portion, ⟨and that one deduction serves for all of them⟩.

हरयुतिर्विहृता ग्रहसंख्यया स हि हरोऽपचयश्च ततः फलम् । अधिकवीर्यवतोऽम्बरचारिणो निगदतीति मुनिः किल देवलः

harayutirvihṛtā grahasaṃkhyayā sa hi haro'pacayaśca tataḥ phalam | adhikavīryavato'mbaracāriṇo nigadatīti muniḥ kila devalaḥ

The sum of the hāras ⟨the divisors of the planets that stand together in one rāśi⟩, divided by the number of those planets — that indeed is the ⟨true⟩ hāra; and from it comes the apacaya ⟨the deduction⟩, and from that the result, for the sky-goer that has the greater strength. So, it is said, the sage Devala declares.

लिप्तीभूतैर्लग्नभागैर्निहन्यादायुर्दायं खेचराणां पृथक्स्थम् । व्योमाकाशर्त्विन्दुपक्षैर्भजेत् तत् स्वायुर्दायाच्छोध्यमब्दादिलब्धम् ॥

liptībhūtairlagnabhāgairnihanyādāyurdāyaṃ khecarāṇāṃ pṛthakstham | vyomākāśartvindupakṣairbhajet tat svāyurdāyācchodhyamabdādilabdham ||

With the lagna's bhāgas turned into liptās ⟨its degrees and their parts reduced to minutes, the whole signs being left aside⟩ one should multiply the āyurdāya of the planets, each taken separately. That is to be divided by 21600 ⟨vyoma-ākāśa-ṛtu-indu-pakṣa: vyoma 0, ākāśa 0, ṛtu 6, indu 1, pakṣa 2, read right to left⟩, and the years and the rest so obtained are to be subtracted from each planet's own āyurdāya.

एतत्क्रूरे लग्नगे सौम्यदृष्टे तस्माद्दायात्तत्फलार्द्धं विशोध्यम् । एतद्दायेनांशसंज्ञे विधेयं पिण्डायुर्वत्कर्म नैसर्गिकेऽपि

etatkrūre lagnage saumyadṛṣṭe tasmāddāyāttatphalārddhaṃ viśodhyam | etaddāyenāṃśasaṃjñe vidheyaṃ piṇḍāyurvatkarma naisargike'pi

This ⟨deduction⟩ holds when a krūra ⟨a malefic⟩ occupies the lagna; and if that malefic is aspected by a benefic, half of that result is to be subtracted from the dāya. It is not to be done in the dāya named aṃśa ⟨the aṃśāyurdāya⟩; and in the naisargika too the operation is as it is for the piṇḍāyus.

नखाः शशी द्वौ नवकं धृतिश्च कृतिः खबाणा रविपूर्वकाणाम् । इत्थं निरुक्ता क्रमशो ग्रहाणां नैसर्गिके ह्यायुषि वर्षसंख्या

nakhāḥ śaśī dvau navakaṃ dhṛtiśca kṛtiḥ khabāṇā ravipūrvakāṇām | itthaṃ niruktā kramaśo grahāṇāṃ naisargike hyāyuṣi varṣasaṃkhyā

Twenty ⟨nakha, the nails⟩, one ⟨śaśin, the moon⟩, two, nine, eighteen ⟨dhṛti⟩, twenty ⟨kṛti⟩ and fifty ⟨kha 0, bāṇa 5, read right to left⟩ — thus, in order, is stated the number of years of the planets beginning with the Sun in the naisargika āyus ⟨the natural allotment: Sun 20, Moon 1, Mars 2, Mercury 9, Jupiter 18, Venus 20, Saturn 50⟩.

अंशोद्भवं लग्नबलात्प्रसाध्यमायुश्च पिण्डोद्भवमर्कवीर्यात् । नैसर्गिकं चन्द्रबलाधिकत्वे ब्रूमस्त्रयाणामथ वीर्यसाम्ये

aṃśodbhavaṃ lagnabalātprasādhyamāyuśca piṇḍodbhavamarkavīryāt | naisargikaṃ candrabalādhikatve brūmastrayāṇāmatha vīryasāmye

The āyus arising from the aṃśa ⟨the aṃśāyurdāya⟩ is to be established from the lagna's strength ⟨when the lagna is the strongest of the three⟩, the āyus arising from the piṇḍa from the Sun's strength, and the naisargika when the Moon's strength is the greater. Now we shall state ⟨what is to be done⟩ when the strength of the three is equal.

अंशोद्भवं लग्नबलेन हन्यात् पिण्डाख्यमायुश्च बलेन भानोः । नैसर्गिकं चन्द्रमसो बलेन सर्वाण्यथैकत्र निधापयेत

aṃśodbhavaṃ lagnabalena hanyāt piṇḍākhyamāyuśca balena bhānoḥ | naisargikaṃ candramaso balena sarvāṇyathaikatra nidhāpayeta

Multiply the aṃśa-born ⟨āyus⟩ by the strength of the lagna, the āyus named piṇḍa by the strength of the Sun, and the naisargika by the strength of the Moon; then let them all be set down in one place ⟨added into a single sum⟩.

विलग्नतिग्मांशुहिमद्युतीनां हरेद्बलैक्येन ततो यदाप्तम् । वर्षाद्यमायुस्तदिदं स्फुटं स्याच्छ्रीनीलकण्ठादय एवमूचुः

vilagnatigmāṃśuhimadyutīnāṃ haredbalaikyena tato yadāptam | varṣādyamāyustadidaṃ sphuṭaṃ syācchrīnīlakaṇṭhādaya evamūcuḥ

⟨When the lagna, the Sun and the Moon are of equal strength — the case raised in verse 29 and begun in verse 30, where the aṃśāyurdāya is multiplied by the strength of the lagna, the piṇḍāyurdāya by the strength of the Sun, the naisargika āyurdāya by the strength of the Moon, and the three products are set down together in one place — then⟩ divide ⟨that total⟩ by the combined strength of the lagna, of the hot-rayed one ⟨tigmāṃśu, the Sun⟩ and of the cool-rayed one ⟨himadyuti, the Moon⟩. What is obtained from that, in years, months and so on, is the sphuṭa ⟨exact, rectified⟩ āyus. The illustrious Nīlakaṇṭha and the rest have spoken so.

लग्नसूर्यशशिनो बलशून्याः स्युर्यदाऽत्र परमायुरगांशम् । सर्व एव खचरा ददतीदं जीवशर्मगदितं हि तदायुः

lagnasūryaśaśino balaśūnyāḥ syuryadā'tra paramāyuragāṃśam | sarva eva khacarā dadatīdaṃ jīvaśarmagaditaṃ hi tadāyuḥ

When here the lagna, the Sun and the Moon are all alike śūnya in bala ⟨void of strength⟩, then every one of the khacaras ⟨sky-goers, the seven planets⟩ gives an agāṃśa ⟨aga = 7, the seven mountains, so a seventh part⟩ of the paramāyus ⟨the full human term, 120 years and 5 days⟩. That indeed is the āyus which Jīvaśarman declared.

ग्रहः स्वोच्चहीनः स चेत् षड्भहीनोभचक्राद्विशोध्योऽथ भागीकृतोऽसौ । कुवेदर्तुनागैर्हतो वेदखाक्षैर्विभक्तो दिनाद्यं भवत्येवमायुः

grahaḥ svoccahīnaḥ sa cet ṣaḍbhahīnobhacakrādviśodhyo'tha bhāgīkṛto'sau | kuvedartunāgairhato vedakhākṣairvibhakto dinādyaṃ bhavatyevamāyuḥ

Take the planet diminished by its own exaltation ⟨point — the arc counted from the planet's ucca to the planet⟩. If that arc is less than six rāśis, it is to be subtracted from the bhacakra ⟨the whole circle of twelve rāśis⟩. Then make it into bhāgas ⟨degrees⟩, multiply it by 8641 ⟨ku-veda-ṛtu-nāga = 1, 4, 6, 8, read from the right⟩ and divide by 504 ⟨veda-kha-akṣa = 4, 0, 5, read from the right⟩. What results, in days ⟨ghaṭikās and the rest⟩, is that planet's āyus in this ⟨Jīvaśarman's⟩ reckoning.

अहोभ्यः खरामैर्हृतेभ्योऽथ मासाः पतङ्गैश्च तेभ्यो भवेयुस्तदाब्दाः । भचक्रार्द्धहान्यादिकोन्यो विधिर्यः स पिण्डोद्भवे यद्वदुक्तस्तथैव

ahobhyaḥ kharāmairhṛtebhyo'tha māsāḥ pataṅgaiśca tebhyo bhaveyustadābdāḥ | bhacakrārddhahānyādikonyo vidhiryaḥ sa piṇḍodbhave yadvaduktastathaiva

From those days, divided by 30 ⟨kha-rāma = 0, 3, read from the right⟩, come the months; and from those months, ⟨divided⟩ by 12 ⟨pataṅga, the sun, for the twelve Ādityas⟩, come the years. And the remaining procedure — the halving for the ⟨invisible⟩ half of the bhacakra and the other reductions that go with it — is exactly as was stated in the raising of the piṇḍa⟨-āyurdāya⟩.

आयुस्तथैतेषु बलाढ्यलग्ने त्यक्त्वा तु राशीन् कृतलिप्तिकेऽत्र । भक्ते द्विशत्या फलमब्दपूर्वं यत् स्याद्विलग्नायुषि तच्च योज्यम्

āyustathaiteṣu balāḍhyalagne tyaktvā tu rāśīn kṛtaliptike'tra | bhakte dviśatyā phalamabdapūrvaṃ yat syādvilagnāyuṣi tacca yojyam

The āyus ⟨of the lagna⟩ in these ⟨three reckonings — piṇḍa, naisargika and Jīvaśarman's⟩ is ⟨found⟩ in the same way ⟨as in the aṃśāyurdāya⟩. But when the lagna is balāḍhya ⟨rich in strength⟩, leave out the ⟨completed⟩ rāśis here and turn ⟨what remains, the degrees elapsed within the sign⟩ into liptās ⟨minutes of arc⟩; that being divided by two hundred, whatever result comes, in years and so on, is to be added to the lagna's āyus.

लग्नार्कयोरर्कशशाङ्कयोश्च लग्नोडुपत्योर्यदि वीर्यसाम्यम् । तदायुषोरैक्यदलं भवेद्यत् तच्छ्रीधराद्यैः स्फुटमायुरुक्तम्

lagnārkayorarkaśaśāṅkayośca lagnoḍupatyoryadi vīryasāmyam | tadāyuṣoraikyadalaṃ bhavedyat tacchrīdharādyaiḥ sphuṭamāyuruktam

If there is equality of vīrya ⟨strength⟩ between the lagna and the Sun, or between the Sun and the Moon, or between the lagna and the uḍupati ⟨lord of the stars, the Moon⟩, then half the sum of the two āyus ⟨-reckonings belonging to that matched pair⟩ — that is what Śrīdhara and the rest have called the sphuṭa ⟨exact⟩ āyus.

ये धर्मकर्मनिरता विजितेन्द्रिया ये ये पथ्यभोजनजुषो द्विजदेवभक्ताः । लोके नरा दधति ये कुलशीललीलां तेषामिदं कथितमायुरुदारधीभिः

ye dharmakarmaniratā vijitendriyā ye ye pathyabhojanajuṣo dvijadevabhaktāḥ | loke narā dadhati ye kulaśīlalīlāṃ teṣāmidaṃ kathitamāyurudāradhībhiḥ

Those men who are steady in dharma and in ⟨right⟩ works, who have conquered their senses, who keep to pathya food ⟨a wholesome diet that agrees with them⟩, who are devoted to the twice-born and to the gods, and who bear in this world the grace of good family and good conduct ⟨kula-śīla-līlā⟩ — it is for such men that the large-minded ⟨sages⟩ have declared this āyus.

ये पापलुब्धाश्चौरा ये देवब्राह्मणनिन्दकाः । बह्वाशिनश्च ये तेषामकालमरणं ध्रुवम्

ye pāpalubdhāścaurā ye devabrāhmaṇanindakāḥ | bahvāśinaśca ye teṣāmakālamaraṇaṃ dhruvam

Those who are greedy for sin, who are thieves, who revile the gods and the brāhmaṇas, and who are bahvāśin ⟨eaters of too much⟩ — for them death out of season is certain.

पञ्चाहं नखभूसमा नृकरिणां व्याघ्राद्यजादेर्नृपा गोकाल्योश्च जिनास्तथोष्ट्रखरयोस्तत्वानि सूर्याः शुनाम् । अश्वायुः परमं रदा नृवदिहानीयायुरेषां परायुर्निघ्नं नृपरायुषा च विहृतं तेषां स्फुटायुर्भवेत्

pañcāhaṃ nakhabhūsamā nṛkariṇāṃ vyāghrādyajādernṛpā gokālyośca jināstathoṣṭrakharayostatvāni sūryāḥ śunām | aśvāyuḥ paramaṃ radā nṛvadihānīyāyureṣāṃ parāyurnighnaṃ nṛparāyuṣā ca vihṛtaṃ teṣāṃ sphuṭāyurbhavet

⟨The full term of life is⟩ 120 ⟨nakha-bhū = 20, 1, read from the right⟩ years and five days for men and elephants; 16 ⟨nṛpa, the sixteen kings⟩ for tigers and their like and goats and their like; 24 ⟨jina, the twenty-four Jinas⟩ for the ox and the buffalo ⟨go-kālī⟩; 25 ⟨tattva, the twenty-five tattvas⟩ likewise for the camel and the ass; 12 ⟨sūrya, the twelve Ādityas⟩ for dogs; and the horse's highest āyus is 32 ⟨rada, the thirty-two teeth⟩. Work out the āyus of these ⟨creatures⟩ here exactly as for a man; then that āyus, multiplied by the full term ⟨of the creature in question⟩ and divided by the full term of a man ⟨120 years and 5 days⟩, becomes their exact āyus.

भवन्ति चेज्जन्मनि रिष्टयोगा न स्यात्तदायुर्गणितागतं हि । स्याद्रिष्टभंगादथ रिष्टभङ्गे विधीयते सम्प्रति निर्णयोऽयम्

bhavanti cejjanmani riṣṭayogā na syāttadāyurgaṇitāgataṃ hi | syādriṣṭabhaṃgādatha riṣṭabhaṅge vidhīyate samprati nirṇayo'yam

If riṣṭa-yogas — the combinations at birth that cut the life short — are present in the nativity, then the āyus that came out of the computation ⟨of the preceding adhyāya⟩ does not hold. It holds only through a riṣṭabhaṅga, the breaking of that riṣṭa. Accordingly this determination concerning riṣṭabhaṅga is now set down.

यच्छुभाशुभबलान्तराद्बलं रिष्टभंगकरखेटयोः पुनः । सैकवर्गदलहृद्धसंज्ञकं तद्दलं भवति शेषवर्गजम्

yacchubhāśubhabalāntarādbalaṃ riṣṭabhaṃgakarakheṭayoḥ punaḥ | saikavargadalahṛddhasaṃjñakaṃ taddalaṃ bhavati śeṣavargajam

Take the two planets — the one that causes the riṣṭa (riṣṭakara) and the one that breaks it (bhaṅgakara) — and for each separately take the strength left over by the difference between its benefic and its malefic strength ⟨its iṣṭa-ṣaḍbala less its kaṣṭa-ṣaḍbala, found in adhyāya 4⟩. Divide that by half of the number of the vargas increased by one: the vargas are seven (the saptavarga), seven and one is 8, and half of 8 is 4. The quotient is the figure designated dha ⟨our mūla reads dha here, which gives no clear sense; the figure is that of the first varga, the rāśi, the first row of the saptavarga table⟩; and half of that figure ⟨the same remainder divided by 8⟩ is the strength arising in each of the remaining six vargas.

भादिवर्गपतिवीर्यसङ्गुणं जायते बलमरिष्टकारिणः । रिष्टभङ्गुरपि सप्तवर्गजं तद्धि सर्वबलसंयुतिस्तयोः

bhādivargapativīryasaṅguṇaṃ jāyate balamariṣṭakāriṇaḥ | riṣṭabhaṅgurapi saptavargajaṃ taddhi sarvabalasaṃyutistayoḥ

Multiply the figure standing in each varga — bha, the rāśi, and the rest — by the vīrya (the total ṣaḍbala) of the lord of that varga; the sum of the seven products so got is the strength of the planet that causes the ariṣṭa. The breaker of the riṣṭa too has its saptavarga-born strength, reckoned in the same way; and that total of all the ⟨seven varga⟩ strengths is what stands for each of the two.

शुभाशुभत्वं च हिताहितत्वं तुङ्गादिनीचास्तसमाश्रयत्वम् । रिष्टेशभङ्गेश्वरयोर्विचिन्त्यं समानवर्गेषु समानवर्गान्

śubhāśubhatvaṃ ca hitāhitatvaṃ tuṅgādinīcāstasamāśrayatvam | riṣṭeśabhaṅgeśvarayorvicintyaṃ samānavargeṣu samānavargān

In respect of the riṣṭeśa (the planet that authors the riṣṭa) and the bhaṅgeśvara (the planet that breaks it), weigh these things: whether each is benefic or malefic; whether it is hita or ahita, favourable or hostile ⟨standing in a friend's sign or an enemy's⟩; and what it rests upon — exaltation (tuṅga), mūlatrikoṇa and its own sign and the like (ādi), debilitation (nīca), combustion (asta), or a neutral (sama) sign. Then take the like varga figures against the like vargas — rāśi against rāśi, horā against horā, and so on through the seven —

विश्लेष्य शेषस्य बलोत्कटत्वं स्याद्रिष्टकर्तुश्च तदा हि रिष्टम् । भङ्गप्रभोश्चेदथ रिष्टभङ्गः समानतायामपि रिष्टमेव

viśleṣya śeṣasya balotkaṭatvaṃ syādriṣṭakartuśca tadā hi riṣṭam | bhaṅgaprabhoścedatha riṣṭabhaṅgaḥ samānatāyāmapi riṣṭameva

— and having subtracted ⟨the one from the other, varga by varga⟩, see on whose side the preponderance of strength in the remainder falls. If it falls to the maker of the riṣṭa, then riṣṭa there is. If it is the bhaṅga-lord's, then the riṣṭa is broken. And when the two come out equal, it is riṣṭa all the same.

अन्तर्दशाप्रभृतिभेदवतीषु यस्मात् नूनं दशासु निखिलासु शरीरभाजाम् । व्यक्तिः शुभाशुभविमिश्रफलस्य सम्यगस्माद्दशाक्रमविधानमथाभिदध्मः

antardaśāprabhṛtibhedavatīṣu yasmāt nūnaṃ daśāsu nikhilāsu śarīrabhājām | vyaktiḥ śubhāśubhavimiśraphalasya samyagasmāddaśākramavidhānamathābhidadhmaḥ

Since the showing-forth of the fruit of ⟨past⟩ karma — good, bad and mixed together — assuredly comes upon embodied beings in full through all the daśās, which are themselves divided into antardaśā ⟨the sub-period inside a daśā⟩ and the rest ⟨vidaśā, upadaśā⟩, therefore we now declare the rule of the daśākrama — the order in which the daśās fall.

पाकं द्वादशधा वदन्ति यवना दिग्भेदभिन्नं तथा माणित्थाः खलु बादरायणमुनिस्तं चाष्टधा प्रोक्तवान् । षड्भेदं खलु सिद्धसेनविबुधस्तं देवलाद्याः पुनः भेदैरब्धिमितैरुदारधिषणः श्रीविष्णुगुप्तस्त्रिभिः

pākaṃ dvādaśadhā vadanti yavanā digbhedabhinnaṃ tathā māṇitthāḥ khalu bādarāyaṇamunistaṃ cāṣṭadhā proktavān | ṣaḍbhedaṃ khalu siddhasenavibudhastaṃ devalādyāḥ punaḥ bhedairabdhimitairudāradhiṣaṇaḥ śrīviṣṇuguptastribhiḥ

The Yavanas declare the pāka ⟨the ripening of past karma, which is read through the daśās⟩ to be of twelve kinds. The followers of Māṇittha likewise ⟨make it⟩ divided by the divisions of the directions — that is, into 10, the diś or quarters being ten. The sage Bādarāyaṇa has declared it eightfold. The learned Siddhasena ⟨makes⟩ it of six divisions. Devala and the rest again ⟨give⟩ it divisions numbering abdhi — 4, the oceans being four. And Śrī Viṣṇugupta of broad understanding ⟨gives⟩ it by three.

पाकं द्विभेदं मुनिराह सत्यस्तच्छास्त्रदृष्ट्या कथयाम्यशेषम् । नैसर्गिकः स्यात्प्रथमोऽत्र भेदो दशाक्रमाख्यश्च भवेद्द्वितीयः

pākaṃ dvibhedaṃ munirāha satyastacchāstradṛṣṭyā kathayāmyaśeṣam | naisargikaḥ syātprathamo'tra bhedo daśākramākhyaśca bhaveddvitīyaḥ

Sage Satya has called the pāka twofold. I shall set out the whole subject with the eye of those śāstras. Here the first division is the naisargika ⟨the natural daśā, whose run of years is fixed for each graha by its own nature⟩, and the second is the one called daśākrama ⟨the order of the daśās⟩.

अन्तर्दशाख्यः कथितस्तृतीयः प्रोक्तश्चतुर्थो विदशाभिधानः । यो राशिसंज्ञः खलु पञ्चमोऽत्र षष्ठस्तथा भावफलाख्यभेदः

antardaśākhyaḥ kathitastṛtīyaḥ proktaścaturtho vidaśābhidhānaḥ | yo rāśisaṃjñaḥ khalu pañcamo'tra ṣaṣṭhastathā bhāvaphalākhyabhedaḥ

The third is called the antardaśā ⟨the sub-period inside a daśā⟩; the fourth is declared to be the one named vidaśā ⟨the sub-period inside an antardaśā⟩; the fifth here is the one named rāśi ⟨the fruit of the rāśi that the lagna or the Moon occupies⟩; and the sixth is the division called bhāvaphala ⟨the fruit of the grahas as they stand in the several bhāvas⟩.

योगाभिधः स्यादिह सप्तमोऽपि स्यादष्टमो दृष्टिफलाभिधानः । प्रोक्तोऽष्टवर्गो नवमो मुनीन्द्रैर्होरादिवर्गो दशमो ग्रहाणाम्

yogābhidhaḥ syādiha saptamo'pi syādaṣṭamo dṛṣṭiphalābhidhānaḥ | prokto'ṣṭavargo navamo munīndrairhorādivargo daśamo grahāṇām

The seventh here is the one called yoga ⟨the named combinations the grahas make by place and conjunction⟩; the eighth is the one named dṛṣṭiphala ⟨the fruit of the aspect that falls on the lord of the daśā⟩; the ninth the chief sages have declared to be the aṣṭavarga ⟨the aṣṭakavarga⟩; and the tenth is the horā and the other vargas of the grahas ⟨horā, drekkāṇa, saptāṃśa, navāṃśa and the rest⟩.

प्रत्यब्दमासद्युनिशाफलैः स्यादेकादशो भोजनमैथुनाद्यैः । सद्वादशः सत्वशरीरधातुस्वरूपभेदैः कथितोऽत्र तज्ज्ञैः

pratyabdamāsadyuniśāphalaiḥ syādekādaśo bhojanamaithunādyaiḥ | sadvādaśaḥ satvaśarīradhātusvarūpabhedaiḥ kathito'tra tajjñaiḥ

The eleventh comes about through the results of each year, each month, each day and each night ⟨as they set in upon the native⟩; and the twelfth, those who know the subject have declared here through food, sexual enjoyment and the rest, ⟨read off⟩ the differing make-up of a man's sattva ⟨his mental disposition⟩, his body and his dhātus ⟨the bodily constituents⟩.

प्रायस्तदन्तः पतितास्तु सर्वे दशादिकानां तु दशाः प्रभेदाः । तेनोदिता नैव पृथक् पृथक्त्वे दशाक्रमं संप्रति कीर्तयामः

prāyastadantaḥ patitāstu sarve daśādikānāṃ tu daśāḥ prabhedāḥ | tenoditā naiva pṛthak pṛthaktve daśākramaṃ saṃprati kīrtayāmaḥ

Since nearly all the daśās and their sub-divisions belonging to the tenfold scheme and the rest ⟨10, 8, 6, 4, 3 and 2⟩ fall inside that ⟨twelvefold one⟩, they have not been set out here one by one. We now proceed to declare the daśākrama — the order in which the daśās fall.

लग्नादित्योडुपानामधिकबलवतः स्याद्दशाद्या ततोऽन्या तत्केन्द्रादिस्थितानामिह बहुषु पुनर्वीर्यतो वीर्यसाम्ये । बह्वायुर्वर्षदातुः प्रथममिनवशेनोदितस्याब्दसाम्ये ब्रूमश्चातो दशादिक्रमविधिमधुना शिष्यबोधप्रसिद्ध्यै

lagnādityoḍupānāmadhikabalavataḥ syāddaśādyā tato'nyā tatkendrādisthitānāmiha bahuṣu punarvīryato vīryasāmye | bahvāyurvarṣadātuḥ prathamaminavaśenoditasyābdasāmye brūmaścāto daśādikramavidhimadhunā śiṣyabodhaprasiddhyai

Of the lagna, the Sun and the Moon, whichever carries the greater bala ⟨strength⟩ has the first daśā. After that comes the daśā of the grahas standing in a kendra and the further positions ⟨paṇaphara, then āpoklima⟩ reckoned from that first lord; and where many stand together ⟨in one such position⟩, precedence again goes by strength. Where their strength is equal, it goes to the one that gives the larger number of years of āyurdāya ⟨the allotted span of life⟩; and where the years too are equal, to the one that rose first by the Sun's agency ⟨out of combustion — the first to become visible again after being burnt up by the Sun⟩. And so, that pupils may grasp it surely, we now state the rule for the order of the daśās and their sub-periods.

पूर्वं विलग्नस्य दशा यदा स्यात् भावं तदा खेचरतो विशोध्य । शेषं तु भावान्तरभागखण्डात् संशोध्य वीर्येण ततो निहन्यात्

pūrvaṃ vilagnasya daśā yadā syāt bhāvaṃ tadā khecarato viśodhya | śeṣaṃ tu bhāvāntarabhāgakhaṇḍāt saṃśodhya vīryeṇa tato nihanyāt

When the daśā of the lagna falls first ⟨as it does in an aṃśāyurdāya⟩, then subtract the bhāva ⟨that bhāva's cusp⟩ from the graha ⟨its longitude⟩. Subtract the remainder in its turn from the half-piece of the bhāvāntara ⟨half the distance between that bhāva and the next one, taking whichever neighbouring cusp lies on the graha's side⟩. Then multiply ⟨what is left⟩ by the ⟨graha's⟩ vīrya, that is by its ṣaḍbala.

भावान्तरांशार्द्धविभाजितं तत् पाकक्रमे वीर्यमुदाहरन्ति । भावाद्विशुद्धेऽपि हि खेचरेन्द्रे प्राग्वद्बलं पाकविधौ प्रसाध्यम्

bhāvāntarāṃśārddhavibhājitaṃ tat pākakrame vīryamudāharanti | bhāvādviśuddhe'pi hi khecarendre prāgvadbalaṃ pākavidhau prasādhyam

That ⟨product⟩ divided by half the degrees of the bhāvāntara ⟨the same half-interval used in the subtraction⟩ is what they call the vīrya for the order of the daśās. And even when the graha has to be subtracted from the bhāva instead ⟨that is, when it stands short of the cusp so that the difference runs the other way about⟩, the bala for the daśā is to be worked out exactly as before.

केन्द्रादिगानां द्युसदां बलानि तद्वत्प्रसाध्यान्यधिकं हि यस्य । खचारिणस्तस्य दशाग्रतः स्यादन्तर्दशा वा विदशाह्वया वा

kendrādigānāṃ dyusadāṃ balāni tadvatprasādhyānyadhikaṃ hi yasya | khacāriṇastasya daśāgrataḥ syādantardaśā vā vidaśāhvayā vā

The balas of the grahas ⟨dyusad, the sky-dwellers⟩ standing in a kendra and the further positions are to be worked out in the same way. Whichever graha's comes out the greater — that graha's daśā stands ahead, and so too its antardaśā, or the one called vidaśā.

आद्या दशा चेत्सवितुर्विधोर्वा तदा बलं संस्कृतमेव तस्य । वेदोद्धृतं राशिबलं तदर्द्धमन्येषु वर्गेषु पुनर्विधेयम्

ādyā daśā cetsaviturvidhorvā tadā balaṃ saṃskṛtameva tasya | vedoddhṛtaṃ rāśibalaṃ tadarddhamanyeṣu vargeṣu punarvidheyam

But if the first daśā belongs to the Sun ⟨as it does in a piṇḍāyurdāya⟩ or to the Moon ⟨as in a naisargika āyurdāya⟩, then take each ⟨competing graha's, and the lagna's⟩ own saṃskṛta ⟨rectified⟩ bala. That divided by 4 ⟨veda — the Vedas being four⟩ is its rāśibala; and half of that figure is to be set down again in each of the other vargas ⟨horā, drekkāṇa, saptāṃśa, navāṃśa, dvādaśāṃśa and triṃśāṃśa — seven vargas in all, counting the rāśi⟩.

स्ववर्गपानां गुणयेद्बलैस्तु यथाक्रमं वर्गबलं तदाहुः । प्राक् पाकनाथग्रहयोर्ग्रहाणां स्याद्यावतां साम्यमथेह तेभ्यः

svavargapānāṃ guṇayedbalaistu yathākramaṃ vargabalaṃ tadāhuḥ | prāk pākanāthagrahayorgrahāṇāṃ syādyāvatāṃ sāmyamatheha tebhyaḥ

Multiply those ⟨seven entries⟩ in their order by the balas of the lords of their own vargas ⟨that is, by the ṣaḍbala of the graha that owns the sign the planet holds in that varga⟩; that, they say, is the vargabala. ⟨Compare⟩ first the lord of the daśā and the graha ⟨whose turn is in question⟩; and of however many grahas there is an equality ⟨of vargabala⟩, then from among those —

परस्परं वर्गबलं विशोध्यं दशाक्रमे तद्बलमाहुरार्याः । यस्याधिकं वीर्यमिहावशिष्टं वाच्या दशा वाऽन्तरजा च यस्य ॥

parasparaṃ vargabalaṃ viśodhyaṃ daśākrame tadbalamāhurāryāḥ | yasyādhikaṃ vīryamihāvaśiṣṭaṃ vācyā daśā vā'ntarajā ca yasya ||

— their vargabalas are to be subtracted one from the other ⟨the equal amounts struck off on both sides⟩; what is left the noble ones call the bala in the order of the daśās. Whose vīrya remains the greater here, his is the daśā to be declared, and his too the antardaśā born of it.

अर्द्धमेकगृहगस्त्रिकोणगस्त्र्यंशमस्तगृहगः स्वरांशकम् । पादमत्र चतुरस्रसंस्थितः पाचयन्त्यथ निजैः फलैर्ग्रहाः

arddhamekagṛhagastrikoṇagastryaṃśamastagṛhagaḥ svarāṃśakam | pādamatra caturasrasaṃsthitaḥ pācayantyatha nijaiḥ phalairgrahāḥ

A graha standing in the same house ⟨as the lord of the daśā⟩ ripens a half ⟨of that daśā⟩; one standing in a trikoṇa ⟨the 5th and the 9th from him⟩ a third; one in the asta-gṛha ⟨the 7th, the house of setting⟩ a svarāṃśaka — a seventh part, svara, the musical notes, being 7; and one standing in a caturasra ⟨the 4th and the 8th⟩ a quarter. In these shares the grahas ripen ⟨the daśā⟩ by the results that are their own.

कृत्वांशकानामिह रूपमादौ छिदां समत्वं च तथा विनाशम् । निजैक्यभक्ताः पृथगंशकाः स्युरन्तर्दशाः स्वस्वसमाविनिघ्नाः

kṛtvāṃśakānāmiha rūpamādau chidāṃ samatvaṃ ca tathā vināśam | nijaikyabhaktāḥ pṛthagaṃśakāḥ syurantardaśāḥ svasvasamāvinighnāḥ

Here, first set rūpa ⟨unity, 1 — the share of the daśā lord himself⟩ at the head of the aṃśakas ⟨the fractional shares laid down in the previous verse: ½ for a graha in the same house as the daśā lord, ⅓ for one in a trikoṇa, 1/7 for one in the seventh, ¼ for one in the fourth or the eighth⟩; then make their chids ⟨denominators⟩ equal ⟨reduce them all to one common denominator⟩, and then destroy those denominators ⟨drop them and keep only the numerators, which are now whole numbers⟩. The several numerators, taken separately, each multiplied by the years of its own ⟨main⟩ daśā and divided by their own sum ⟨nija-aikya, the total of those numerators⟩, are the antardaśās ⟨the sub-periods within that daśā, one for each such graha⟩.

अन्तर्दशाभ्यो विदशाः स्युरेवं ताभ्यस्तथैवोपदशाः प्रदिष्टाः । प्रत्यब्दमासद्युनिशाघटीषु फलं निगद्यं सदसच्च ताभ्यः

antardaśābhyo vidaśāḥ syurevaṃ tābhyastathaivopadaśāḥ pradiṣṭāḥ | pratyabdamāsadyuniśāghaṭīṣu phalaṃ nigadyaṃ sadasacca tābhyaḥ

From the antardaśās the vidaśās ⟨the third-level sub-periods⟩ arise in just this same way ⟨the shares are reckoned afresh from the lord of the antardaśā, reduced to a common denominator, and divided by their sum⟩; and from those vidaśās, again in the same way, the upadaśās ⟨the fourth-level sub-periods⟩ are taught. And from these ⟨the finest of the divisions⟩ the result, good and bad alike, is to be pronounced for each year, month, day, night and ghaṭī ⟨one ghaṭī = 24 minutes⟩.

जन्मकालकलियातवत्सरोत्पन्नमध्यमरवौ समण्डले । निक्षिपेदथ दशादिजाः समामासवासरघटीविनाडिकाः

janmakālakaliyātavatsarotpannamadhyamaravau samaṇḍale | nikṣipedatha daśādijāḥ samāmāsavāsaraghaṭīvināḍikāḥ

⟨Take⟩ the mean Sun produced from the Kali years elapsed up to the moment of birth, together with its maṇḍalas ⟨the complete revolutions it has made, and the part of the current one⟩; into that one should then cast ⟨add⟩ the years, months, days, ghaṭīs and vināḍīs that arise from the daśā and the rest ⟨the daśā, the antardaśā, the vidaśā and the upadaśā, each expressed in those units⟩.

तादृशो भवति भास्करो यदा मध्यमो परदशा तदा भवेत् । साध्यते दिनगणोनुपाततः खेचराः सविकलादहर्गणात्

tādṛśo bhavati bhāskaro yadā madhyamo paradaśā tadā bhavet | sādhyate dinagaṇonupātataḥ khecarāḥ savikalādahargaṇāt

When the mean Sun becomes such ⟨that is, when it reaches the value got by that addition⟩, then the next daśā ⟨para-daśā, the one following in order⟩ begins. The dina-gaṇa ⟨the heap of days, the ahargaṇa, standing at that moment⟩ is established by anupāta ⟨the rule of three, shown in the next verse⟩; and the khecaras ⟨sky-goers, the planets⟩ are worked out from that ahargaṇa taken with its vikalās ⟨its fractional part, not the whole days alone⟩.

युगार्कचक्रैर्युगसूर्यसावनो यदि द्युपिण्डः समवाप्यते तदा । दशाप्रवेशोद्भवसूर्यमण्डलैः सभांशलिप्तादिभिराप्यतेऽत्र कः २०

yugārkacakrairyugasūryasāvano yadi dyupiṇḍaḥ samavāpyate tadā | daśāpraveśodbhavasūryamaṇḍalaiḥ sabhāṃśaliptādibhirāpyate'tra kaḥ 20

If by the yuga's arka-cakras ⟨the number of complete revolutions the Sun makes in a yuga⟩ the yuga's solar sāvana dyupiṇḍa ⟨the heap of civil days contained in that same yuga⟩ is obtained, then by the Sun's maṇḍalas ⟨the revolutions standing completed⟩ that arise at the entry of the daśā — taken with their bha ⟨signs⟩, aṃśa ⟨degrees⟩, liptā ⟨minutes⟩ and the rest — what is obtained here? ⟨This is the rule of three: multiply the civil days of the yuga by the revolutions-and-fraction standing at the daśā's entry, and divide by the Sun's revolutions in a yuga. The quotient is the ahargaṇa, the count of days elapsed up to the beginning of that daśā. The two yuga figures are taken from whichever siddhānta one follows; the verse does not state them.⟩

सविकलादितिसिद्धदिनव्रजात् कथिततन्त्रविधेः कुरु खेचरान् । स्फुटतरानुदयं च निजोदयैरितिविधाय ततोऽत्र विचिन्तयेत्

savikalāditisiddhadinavrajāt kathitatantravidheḥ kuru khecarān | sphuṭatarānudayaṃ ca nijodayairitividhāya tato'tra vicintayet

From the day-heap thus established, together with its vikalās ⟨the fractional part of the ahargaṇa got by the proportion of the previous verse⟩, and by the procedure of the tantra ⟨the siddhānta treatise⟩ that has been named ⟨the one you compute by⟩, work out the khecaras ⟨the planets⟩ very exactly, and the udaya ⟨the lagna, the sign rising at that moment⟩ by the rising-times of one's own place ⟨nija-udaya, the local ascensional periods of the signs⟩. Having done this, one should then consider ⟨the good and the bad of that daśā⟩ here.

दशापतिर्लग्नगतो यदि स्यात् त्रिषड्दशैकादशगश्च लग्नात् । तत्सप्तवर्गोऽप्यथ तत्सुहृद्वा लग्ने शुभो वा शुभदा दशा सा

daśāpatirlagnagato yadi syāt triṣaḍdaśaikādaśagaśca lagnāt | tatsaptavargo'pyatha tatsuhṛdvā lagne śubho vā śubhadā daśā sā

If the daśāpati ⟨the lord of the daśā⟩ stands in the lagna ⟨the sign rising at the moment the daśā begins⟩, or, counted from that lagna, in the 3rd, the 6th, the 10th or the 11th; or if that lagna falls within his saptavarga ⟨the seven divisional charts of the daśā lord, so that the rising sign is a varga of his own⟩; or if a friend of his, or a benefic, stands in the lagna — then that daśā is one that gives good.

यावन्ति वर्षाणि दशा च सा स्वाचाराक्रमात्त्र दशापतिः सः । यत्र स्थितस्तद्भवनाद्विधोश्च स्थितेः प्रकल्प्यं सदसत्फलं हि

yāvanti varṣāṇi daśā ca sā svācārākramāttra daśāpatiḥ saḥ | yatra sthitastadbhavanādvidhośca sthiteḥ prakalpyaṃ sadasatphalaṃ hi

Through however many years that daśā runs, the daśāpati ⟨its lord⟩ stands here in one house and another by the order of his own cāra ⟨his actual transit, the motion he makes through the signs during those years⟩; and from that house in which he stands, and from the standing of the Moon as well, the good and the bad result is to be worked out.

दशाधिनाथस्य सुहृद्गृहस्थस्तदुच्चगो वाऽथ दशाधिनाथात् । स्वरात्रिकोणोपचयस्थितश्च ददाति चन्द्रः खलु सत्फलानि

daśādhināthasya suhṛdgṛhasthastaduccago vā'tha daśādhināthāt | svarātrikoṇopacayasthitaśca dadāti candraḥ khalu satphalāni

The Moon gives good results indeed when he stands in the house of a friend of the daśādhinātha ⟨the lord of the daśā⟩, or in that lord's own exaltation sign, or — counted from the daśādhinātha — in the 7th ⟨svara = 7, the seven notes⟩, in a trikoṇa ⟨the 5th or the 9th⟩, or in an upacaya ⟨the 3rd, 6th, 10th or 11th⟩.

उक्तेषु राशिषु गतस्य विधोः स राशिः स्याज्जन्मकालभवमूर्तिधनादिभावः । तच्चद्विवृद्धिकृदसौ कथितो नराणां तद्भावहानिकृदथेतरराशिसंस्थः

ukteṣu rāśiṣu gatasya vidhoḥ sa rāśiḥ syājjanmakālabhavamūrtidhanādibhāvaḥ | taccadvivṛddhikṛdasau kathito narāṇāṃ tadbhāvahānikṛdathetararāśisaṃsthaḥ

When the Moon has gone into the said ⟨favourable⟩ rāśis, that rāśi of his is to be taken as whichever bhāva it was at the time of birth — the mūrti ⟨tanu, the 1st, the body⟩, the dhana ⟨the 2nd, wealth⟩ and the rest. Standing so, he is declared to bring growth to that very bhāva for men; standing in the other ⟨the unfavourable⟩ rāśis, he brings that same bhāva to loss.

दशाप्रवेशे स्वगृहादिसंस्थे हिमद्युतौ यत्फलमुक्तमाद्यैः । तद्वाच्यमिन्दुर्हि शुभाशुभाख्यं फलं मनोरूपतया ददाति

daśāpraveśe svagṛhādisaṃsthe himadyutau yatphalamuktamādyaiḥ | tadvācyamindurhi śubhāśubhākhyaṃ phalaṃ manorūpatayā dadāti

At the entry of a daśā, when the hima-dyuti ⟨the cold-rayed one, the Moon⟩ stands in his own house and so on ⟨sva-gṛha-ādi — his own sign, and in turn the sign of each other graha⟩, whatever result the ādyas ⟨the earlier authorities, Varāhamihira and the rest⟩ have stated ⟨for that position⟩ is the result to be pronounced; for the Moon gives the result called good and bad in the form of the mind ⟨mano-rūpatayā — as states of mind, as pleasure and pain⟩.

उत्पादितं हि द्युचरस्य पूर्वं शुभाशुभाख्यं तु फलं यदत्र । तेनानुसारेण दशासु कल्प्यं शरीरभाजामशुभं शुभं च

utpāditaṃ hi dyucarasya pūrvaṃ śubhāśubhākhyaṃ tu phalaṃ yadatra | tenānusāreṇa daśāsu kalpyaṃ śarīrabhājāmaśubhaṃ śubhaṃ ca

Whatever result called good or bad has already been produced here for a dyucara ⟨sky-goer, a planet⟩ ⟨that is, its iṣṭa and kaṣṭa values, worked out in the fourth adhyāya⟩ — following that, the bad and the good for embodied beings is to be reckoned in the daśās.

इष्टोत्कटत्वे हि शुभानि पुंसां फलान्यनिष्टान्यशुभोत्कटत्वे । साम्ये तु मिश्राणि फलानि नूनं फलं त्रिधैवं परिकल्पनीयम् ॥

iṣṭotkaṭatve hi śubhāni puṃsāṃ phalānyaniṣṭānyaśubhotkaṭatve | sāmye tu miśrāṇi phalāni nūnaṃ phalaṃ tridhaivaṃ parikalpanīyam ||

When the iṣṭa ⟨the auspicious portion of a graha's value, the iṣṭa rays⟩ is utkaṭa ⟨in excess, predominant⟩, the results for men are good; when the inauspicious portion ⟨kaṣṭa⟩ is in excess, the results are unwanted. But when the two are equal, the results are assuredly mixed. In these three ways, and no other, the result is to be reckoned.

सप्तवर्गजफलस्य सूरिभिस्तत्प्रभोरिह फलस्य निश्चयात् । एवमेव परिकल्पना स्फुटा शोभनाशुभफलस्य कीर्तिता

saptavargajaphalasya sūribhistatprabhoriha phalasya niścayāt | evameva parikalpanā sphuṭā śobhanāśubhaphalasya kīrtitā

The clear reckoning of the good and bad result that arises from the saptavarga ⟨the seven divisional charts a graha owns⟩ has been declared by the sūris ⟨the learned⟩ to be made in just this same ⟨threefold⟩ way — that is, from the determination here of the result ⟨the iṣṭa and kaṣṭa⟩ of the lord of each such varga.

यद्यद्द्रव्यं कथितमृषिभिर्यस्य यस्य ग्रहस्य कर्माजीवोऽपि च तनुभृतां यश्च यश्चोदितोऽत्र । यद्भावोत्थं यदपि गृहजं योगजं दृष्टिजं यत् तत्तत्सर्वं ग्रहबलवशाद्योजनीयं दशासु

yadyaddravyaṃ kathitamṛṣibhiryasya yasya grahasya karmājīvo'pi ca tanubhṛtāṃ yaśca yaścodito'tra | yadbhāvotthaṃ yadapi gṛhajaṃ yogajaṃ dṛṣṭijaṃ yat tattatsarvaṃ grahabalavaśādyojanīyaṃ daśāsu

Whatever dravya ⟨substance, commodity⟩ the ṛṣis have declared to belong to each several graha; and whatever karma ⟨work⟩ and ājīva ⟨livelihood⟩ of embodied beings has been stated here for each; and whatever result arises from a bhāva, whatever from a gṛha ⟨the sign a graha occupies⟩, whatever from a yoga ⟨a combination⟩, whatever from a dṛṣṭi ⟨an aspect⟩ — all of that, every one of them, is to be applied to the daśās according to the strength ⟨bala⟩ of the grahas ⟨that govern them⟩.

बहुप्रकारं बहुधाऽत्र भुज्यते यतः फलं प्राणिगणैः प्रतिक्षणम् । प्रकीर्णरूपस्य फलस्य निर्णयस्ततो मयाऽसावधुनाऽभिधास्यते

bahuprakāraṃ bahudhā'tra bhujyate yataḥ phalaṃ prāṇigaṇaiḥ pratikṣaṇam | prakīrṇarūpasya phalasya nirṇayastato mayā'sāvadhunā'bhidhāsyate

Since the phala (the ripened fruit of past karma), which is of many kinds, is enjoyed here in many ways and at every moment by the hosts of living beings, the settling of phala in its prakīrṇa form — the miscellany, the matters left over that no single earlier adhyāya gathered up — will now be stated by me.

अष्टवर्गजफलं ग्रहस्य यत् साध्वसाध्वपि च तस्य लग्नतः । चन्द्रतोप्युपचयस्थितोच्चभस्वत्रिकोणसुहृदालयेषु तत्

aṣṭavargajaphalaṃ grahasya yat sādhvasādhvapi ca tasya lagnataḥ | candratopyupacayasthitoccabhasvatrikoṇasuhṛdālayeṣu tat

Whatever phala of a graha arises out of the aṣṭakavarga (the eight-fold reckoning of benefic points), be it good or not good — that fruit ⟨is measured by where the graha's own dignities fall⟩: when its ucca-bha (the sign of its exaltation), its sva ⟨-kṣetra, its own sign⟩, its trikoṇa ⟨mūlatrikoṇa⟩ and the house of a friend stand in the upacaya places — the 3rd, 6th, 10th and 11th — counted from the lagna, and counted from the Moon as well, then —

पूर्णं शुभं स्यादशुभं च हीनं विपर्यये कष्टफलं हि पुष्टम् । अपुष्टमिष्टं पुनरत्र वाच्यं बलाबलं तस्य विचार्य सम्यक्

pūrṇaṃ śubhaṃ syādaśubhaṃ ca hīnaṃ viparyaye kaṣṭaphalaṃ hi puṣṭam | apuṣṭamiṣṭaṃ punaratra vācyaṃ balābalaṃ tasya vicārya samyak

— then the good is pūrṇa, realised to its full measure, and the bad falls short. In the reverse case ⟨when those dignities do not fall in the upacayas⟩ the kaṣṭa-phala, the painful fruit, is the well-fed one and the iṣṭa, the desired fruit, is the stunted one. And even here the declaration is to be made only after weighing properly the strength and the weakness of that ⟨graha⟩.

ये राजयोगाः कथिता हि तेषां भङ्गो न चेत्स्यात्सफलास्तदा ते । ज्ञेया बुधैर्योगदवीर्ययोगाद्द्युगामिनां रश्मिफलानि तद्वत्

ye rājayogāḥ kathitā hi teṣāṃ bhaṅgo na cetsyātsaphalāstadā te | jñeyā budhairyogadavīryayogāddyugāmināṃ raśmiphalāni tadvat

The rājayogas that have been declared ⟨earlier in this work⟩ — if no bhaṅga (cancellation) of them occurs, then they bear fruit, and the wise are to know them so from the yoga (the summing) of the strength of the yoga-giving grahas, that is, from the combined strength of the planets that make the yoga. In the same way are to be known the raśmi-phalas, the fruits of the rays of the sky-goers ⟨the iṣṭa and kaṣṭa rays computed in adhyāya 4⟩.

दशानामरिष्टे तथा चास्य भङ्गे दशारिष्टभङ्गेशवीर्योत्कटत्वात् । दशारिष्टभङ्गौ बुधैः कल्पनीयौ विधाय ग्रहान्किन्तु तत्कालजातान् ॥

daśānāmariṣṭe tathā cāsya bhaṅge daśāriṣṭabhaṅgeśavīryotkaṭatvāt | daśāriṣṭabhaṅgau budhaiḥ kalpanīyau vidhāya grahānkintu tatkālajātān ||

When ariṣṭa (a threatened calamity) stands in the course of the daśās, and likewise when a bhaṅga (a cancelling) of that ariṣṭa also stands, then, by which of them carries the fiercer strength — the lord of the daśā, the lord of the ariṣṭa, or the lord of the bhaṅga — the wise are to settle both the daśā-ariṣṭa and its bhaṅga; but only after casting the grahas as they are born at that very moment ⟨the planets computed afresh for the time the daśā runs, not the positions of birth⟩.

क्रूरखेचरदशासमये चेद् दारुणान्तरदशाविनिपातः । तत्करोति बहुधा विपदं स प्राणिनामतितरामरियोगे

krūrakhecaradaśāsamaye ced dāruṇāntaradaśāvinipātaḥ | tatkaroti bahudhā vipadaṃ sa prāṇināmatitarāmariyoge

If, while the daśā of a cruel sky-goer (a malefic graha) is running, the fall of a harsh antardaśā comes down upon it, then that brings calamity upon living beings in many forms — and most of all in an ari-yoga, when the two lords stand to one another as enemies.

दशाप्रवेशे बलवान् ग्रहश्चेच्छुभाधिमित्रग्रहवर्गसंस्थः । निरीक्षितः सौम्यसुहृद्ग्रहैश्च दशास्वरिष्टस्य तदा हि भङ्गः

daśāpraveśe balavān grahaścecchubhādhimitragrahavargasaṃsthaḥ | nirīkṣitaḥ saumyasuhṛdgrahaiśca daśāsvariṣṭasya tadā hi bhaṅgaḥ

If at the entry of a daśā the graha ⟨whose period begins⟩ is strong, stands in the varga (the divisional holding) of a benefic or of an adhimitra graha — an adhimitra being the highest grade of friend — and is looked upon by benefic and friendly grahas, then in those daśās the ariṣṭa is broken.

स्त्रीणामुक्तं जातके यच्च पुंवत् तल्लग्नेन्द्वोर्वीर्यतोऽत्र प्रकल्प्यम् । योगात्तासां यच्छुभं वाऽशुभं वा तन्निःशेषं कल्पयेत् खेटवीर्यात्

strīṇāmuktaṃ jātake yacca puṃvat tallagnendvorvīryato'tra prakalpyam | yogāttāsāṃ yacchubhaṃ vā'śubhaṃ vā tanniḥśeṣaṃ kalpayet kheṭavīryāt

Whatever is declared in the jātaka ⟨-śāstra⟩ concerning women just as it is concerning men is to be settled here from the strength of the lagna and of the Moon. And whatever good or evil is said to come to them out of a yoga, the whole of it, leaving no remainder, one should work out from the strength of the kheṭas (the grahas).

नैर्याणिका ये कथिताश्च योगाः स्थितिं च तेषामिह भावकॢप्त्या । विज्ञाय धीमान् ग्रहयोगजातं निर्याणमस्मिन् परिकल्पयेच्च

nairyāṇikā ye kathitāśca yogāḥ sthitiṃ ca teṣāmiha bhāvakḷptyā | vijñāya dhīmān grahayogajātaṃ niryāṇamasmin parikalpayecca

The nairyāṇika yogas that have been declared ⟨in the śāstra⟩ — the combinations bearing on niryāṇa, a man's going forth from the body — and how they stand here ⟨in the chart before him⟩, the wise man should ascertain by bhāva-kḷpti, the working out of the bhāvas ⟨the cusp computation of adhyāya 1⟩; and he should then settle the niryāṇa in this ⟨nativity⟩ from what the conjunction of the grahas yields.

कार्या प्रश्ननिमित्तपूर्वंशकुनैरक्षन्स्वमानं धिया होराज्ञेन सुबुद्धिनात्र बहुशोऽर्कस्य कालो बली

kāryā praśnanimittapūrvaṃśakunairakṣansvamānaṃ dhiyā horājñena subuddhinātra bahuśo'rkasya kālo balī

⟨The reading⟩ is to be made by means of the praśna (the query as it is actually put), the nimitta (the attendant portent) and the other śakunas (omens): let the knower of horā, being of sound understanding, guard his own māna ⟨his standing, the credit he carries as an astrologer⟩ by his judgement; for here, many times over, it is the kāla, the time, of the Sun ⟨arka⟩ that is the strong one.

कण्टकादिपरिभाषयानया प्रोक्तया सकलभावजातया । जातकोदितफलस्य निश्चितं प्रत्ययो भवति धीमतामिह

kaṇṭakādiparibhāṣayānayā proktayā sakalabhāvajātayā | jātakoditaphalasya niścitaṃ pratyayo bhavati dhīmatāmiha

By this paribhāṣā, the settled terminology beginning with kaṇṭaka — kaṇṭaka or kendra ⟨the 1st, 4th, 7th and 10th⟩, paṇaphara ⟨the 2nd, 5th, 8th and 11th⟩, āpoklima ⟨the 3rd, 6th, 9th and 12th⟩ — which has been declared ⟨in this work⟩ and which is framed over the whole body of the bhāvas, the wise here reach a settled pratyaya, a firm conviction, about the fruit declared in jātaka.

इति जातककर्मपद्धतिं गुरुपादाब्जयुगप्रसादतः । वरशिष्यजनप्रबोधिनीं कृतवान् श्रीपतिरग्रजाग्रणीः

iti jātakakarmapaddhatiṃ gurupādābjayugaprasādataḥ | varaśiṣyajanaprabodhinīṃ kṛtavān śrīpatiragrajāgraṇīḥ

Thus has Śrīpati, foremost among the agrajas (the first-born, the brāhmaṇas), by the grace of the pair of lotus-feet of his guru, made the Jātaka-karma-paddhati, which awakens ⟨the understanding of⟩ the company of worthy pupils.

अध्यायानामष्टके वृत्तसंख्या संजातासां षट्त्रिचन्द्रप्रमाणा । प्रोक्तानुष्टुप्छन्दसा ग्रन्थसंख्या श्लोकेनैकेनाढ्यया हि द्विशत्या

adhyāyānāmaṣṭake vṛttasaṃkhyā saṃjātāsāṃ ṣaṭtricandrapramāṇā | proktānuṣṭupchandasā granthasaṃkhyā ślokenaikenāḍhyayā hi dviśatyā

In the set of eight adhyāyas the number of vṛttas (verses) that have come together amounts to ṣaṭ-tri-candra — ṣaṭ (6), tri (3), candra (1), which set down in that order gives 6,3,1 and is read from the right, by the rule that digits move leftward, as 136. And the grantha-count, reckoned by the anuṣṭubh metre ⟨one grantha being 32 syllables⟩, is declared to be two hundred enriched by a single śloka, that is 201.