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

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

pṛthula nayana vakṣā vṛtta jaṅgha ūru jānur janaka guru viyuktaḥ śaiśave vyādhitaś ca | nara pati kula pūjyaḥ piṅgalaḥ krūra ceṣṭo jhaṣa kuliśa khaga aṅkaś channa pāpo alijātaḥ

One born when the Moon is in Scorpio will have broad eyes and a broad chest, round shanks, thighs and knees. He will be separated from his father and preceptor and afflicted with disease in childhood. He will be honored by the family of the king. He will be of a tawny (brownish-red) complexion, cruel in his actions, and bear on his body marks of a fish, a thunderbolt, and a bird; he is one who conceals his sins (does evil secretly).

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

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

dyūta ṛṇa pāna rata nāstika caura niḥsvāḥ kustrīka kūṭakṛd asatya ratāḥ kuja ṛkṣe | ācārya bhūri suta dāra dhana arjana iṣṭāḥ śaukre vadāny aguru bhakti ratāś ca saumye

When the Moon is in the sign of Mars (Aries or Scorpio), one is addicted to gambling, given to debt and drinking, an atheist, a thief, destitute, attached to bad women, a forger, and devoted to falsehood. In the sign of Venus (Taurus or Libra), one is a teacher, blessed with many sons, a wife, and the acquisition of wealth, and is well-liked. In the sign of Mercury (Gemini or Virgo), one is generous, not heavy (i.e. agreeable), and devoted to religious worship.

jyotir jña āḍhya nara indra nāpita nṛ pakṣma īśā budha ādyair harau tad vad bhūpa camūpa naipuṇa yutāḥ ṣaṣṭhe aśubhaiḥ stry āśrayaḥ | jūke bhūpa suvarṇa kāra vaṇijaḥ śeṣa īkṣite naikṛtī kīṭe yugma pitā nataś ca rajako vyaṅgo adhano bhūpatiḥ

When the Moon is in Leo and aspected by the planets beginning with Mercury, the person born will be respectively: (by Mercury) an astrologer, (by Jupiter) wealthy, (by Venus) a king, (by Saturn) a barber, (by the Sun) a king, and (by Mars) a king. If in the sixth (Virgo) aspected by malefics, he depends on women for support. In Libra, when aspected (by Mercury) a king, (by Jupiter) a goldsmith, (by Venus) a merchant, and by the remaining planets a wicked and cruel man. In Scorpio: a father of twins, bowed down, a washerman, deformed, poor, and a king (respectively).

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

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

krūre aṣṭame vidhavatā nidhana īśvaro aṃśe yasya sthito vayasi tasya same pradiṣṭā | sat svarthageṣu maraṇaṃ svayam eva tasyāḥ kanyā aligo hariṣu ca alpa sutatvam indau

If a malefic is in the eighth house, widowhood (results). The age at which death (occurs is indicated) by the navāṃśa in which the lord of the eighth (house) is placed. When the benefics are in their own signs, her own death (is indicated). When the Moon is in Virgo, Scorpio, or Leo, few children (result).

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

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

kanyāyāṃ bhrātṛpūjā va taulike priyakṛnnaraḥ | vṛścike pitṛbādhā syāt|h cāpe jñānadhanodayaḥ

When (the Moon or relevant planet) is in Virgo, there is worship of brothers; in Libra, the person becomes one who does pleasing deeds; in Scorpio, there would be affliction to the father; in Sagittarius, there is a rise of knowledge and wealth.

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

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

makare putralābhaḥ syātkumbhe dhānyavivarddhanam|h | mīne kalyāṇamāpnoti vṛścike viṣabādhitā

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

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

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

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

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

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

madhvākṣo vigururvivādakuśalo dīrghānano dāruṇo- nasvanto manujeśvarasya dayito rogī ca bālye sadā | kṣīṇāyuḥ parabandhumān kavanadhīrdharmadhvajo vīryavā- nālasyaśramapīḍito'lpibhavane jāto'lpajātipriyaḥ || 8 ||

With the Moon in Scorpio, the native is honey-coloured of eye, without preceptors, skilled in argument, long-faced, cruel, perishing, dear to the king of men, sickly always in childhood, short-lived, attached to others' kinsmen, of poetic mind, a parader of dharma, valiant, oppressed by laziness and fatigue, born in a humble house, and fond of mean people.

taulisthe himagau budhādiśubhadairālokite syāt kramād bhūpaḥ svarṇakaro vaṇikkujaravicchāyāsunairvañcakaḥ | kīṭasthe śaśini dvimātṛpitṛko rājapriyo nīcakṛ- drogī nirvaniko nṛpālasaciyo dṛṣṭe budhādigrahaiḥ

When the Moon is in Libra and aspected by Mercury and other benefics that confer auspiciousness, the person becomes, in order, a king, a goldsmith, a merchant, and a deceiver of the shadow-life by Mars and the Sun (i.e., cruel ones). When the Moon is in Scorpio and aspected by Mercury and the other planets, the person has two mothers and fathers, is dear to the king, base in conduct, diseased, without wealth, and a minister of the king.

siṃhasthe pṛthulocanaḥ suvadano gambhīradṛṣṭiḥ sukhī kanyāsthe viṣayāturo lalitavāgvidyādhiko bhogavān | taulisthe'mraviprabhaktinirato bandhupriyo vittavān kīṭasthe śaśini pramattahvadayo rogī ca lubdho'ṭanaḥ

When the Moon is in Leo, one is broad-eyed, fair-faced, deep of gaze, and happy. When it is in Virgo, one is afflicted by sensual desire, of charming speech, rich in learning, and given to enjoyments. When in Libra, one is devoted to the worship of gods and brahmins, fond of relatives, and wealthy. When the Moon is in Scorpio, one is distracted in heart, sickly, greedy, and a wanderer.

śītāṃśurāśīśaminātmajo vā lagneśvaraḥ paśyati dīkṣitaḥ syāt | bhaumarkṣage mandadṛgāṇabhāge mandekṣite śītakare yadiḥ syāt

If the Moon, the lord of the sign, or the son of the Moon (Mercury), or the lord of the ascendant looks on, one becomes initiated (consecrated). If the Moon is situated in the sign of Mars, in a decanate aspected by Saturn, and is aspected by Saturn, it should be so.

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

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

sutasthe'listrīgohariṣu himagau cālpatanayā yamārārkāṃśarkṣe madanasadane sāmayabhagā | sukhe pāpairyukte bhavati kulaṭa mandakujayo- rgṛhe'śe lagnendū bhṛgurapi ca puṃścalyabhihitā

When the Moon is in the fifth house in the signs of Scorpio, Virgo, or Aries, a woman has few children. When the Moon is in a navāṃśa of Saturn, Mars, or the Sun, or in the seventh house, a woman commits adultery in due course. When the fourth house is joined with malefics, she becomes unchaste. When the Lagna and the Moon are in the house or navāṃśa of Saturn and Mars, and Venus too is so placed, she is declared to be a wanton woman.

candre bhaumagṛhe kujādikathitatriṃśāśakeṣu kramāt duṣṭā dāsyasatī suśīlavibhavā māyāvinī dūṣaṇī | śukrarkṣe bahudūṣaṇānyapatiga pūjyā sudhīviścutā jñarkṣe cchasavatī napuṃsakasamā sādhvī guṇāḍhyotsukā

When the Moon is in a sign of Mars (Aries or Scorpio), in the trimsamsa divisions reckoned in order beginning with Mars and the others: (the woman is) wicked, a servile yet chaste woman, well-conducted and prosperous, deceitful, and one given to fault-finding. When (the Moon is) in a sign of Venus (Taurus or Libra): one with many faults, devoted to a husband other than her own, honored, of good intellect though fallen. When (the Moon is) in a sign of Mercury (Gemini or Virgo): one full of cunning, like a eunuch (sexless), virtuous, and rich in qualities and eager.

vividhadhanasutāptiviprayogo'rivargai- rvasanaśayanabhūṣāratnasampatprasūtiḥ | bhavati gurujanātirgulmapittaprapīḍā dharaṇitanayavarṣaṃ śītagau samprayāte

When the moon enters [the sign of] the son of the Earth (Mars), there occurs the gaining of various wealth and sons, separation through groups of enemies, and the production of clothing, beds, ornaments, gems, and prosperity; there is distress to elders and affliction by tumors and bile.

anupameyaṃ kurute nṛpatisamaṃ vṛścike vibhūtiyutam | śūramajayyaṃ samare prabhakṣaṇaṃ bhūmijena saṃyuktam

(The Moon) joined with Mars in Scorpio makes (one) incomparable, equal to a king, endowed with prosperity, valiant, unconquerable in battle, and a devourer of power (or destroyer of enemies).

nīcāpatyaṃ kṛpaṇaṃ vyādhitamadhanaṃ ca śīladahīnaṃ ca | janayatyantakadṛṣṭo naramadhanaṃ candramāḥ kīṭe

The Moon in the sign of an insect (Scorpio), aspected by Saturn, produces a man of low offspring, miserly, diseased, poor, devoid of good conduct, and without wealth.

anṛtapriyaṃ suvākyaṃ kalahasametaṃ ca paṇḍitaṃ kujame | janayati kujena dṛṣṭaḥ pracuradhanaṃ kṣitipavallabhaṃ śūram

In the sign of Mars (Aries or Scorpio), (the Moon) produces one fond of falsehood, of pleasant speech, given to quarrels, and learned. When aspected by Mars, (it produces) one with abundant wealth, a favorite of the king, and valiant.

itihāsakāvyakaraṇaṃ bahudhanaṃ śilpeṣu bhājanaṃ kurute | kujagehe śaśilagnaḥ pārthivaṃ prājñam

When the Moon is in the ascendant in the sign of Mars, it makes one skilled in history and poetry, possessing much wealth, a repository in the arts, kingly, and wise.

saumyastrīdhanalābhaḥ kuṭīragendau bhavedasārambhe | kanyāṃ dūṣayati naraḥ kujabhavane hanti vā yuvatim

When the Moon is in a house of Mercury, there will be gain of wealth from women, but no undertaking succeeds; when in a house of Mars, the man defiles a maiden or kills a young woman.

karkaṭini mande makare candre madyudrodarakṛtaḥ syāt | pāpāṃśasthe candre kujabhavane śakhavahnibhavaḥ

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

vṛścike bhavane tannavabhāge'thavā dvisaptamadṛśye | vilavāsināṃ prasūtirghorāṇāṃ nirdiśettatra

When the Moon is in the sign Scorpio or in its navāṃśa, or aspected by the lords of the second and seventh, one should declare there the birth of fierce beings dwelling in holes.

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

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

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

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

anuṣṭup—vṛṣcikasthaḥ śaśī maumaḥ karke tantretyaśālataḥ ॥ adhamadhamakambulē kāryanthaivamsadvasvadam ॥ 33 ॥

Anuṣṭubh: When the Moon is in Scorpio while Mars is in Cancer, by the ithaśāla [relation arising from mutual exchange] the lowest-lowest (adhama-adhama) kambūla is to be effected; thus it is so determined. (33)

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

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