Brihajjataka 28
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Summary
28.1
The divisions of the zodiacal signs, the distinct natures of the planets, non-human births, then the time of conception, / birth, then immediate death, likewise longevity, the ripening of planetary periods, and that known as aṣṭakavarga;
28.2
Means of livelihood through work, royal combinations, celestial combinations, lunar combinations, and combinations beginning with the planets; / then renunciation, the temperaments of the zodiacal signs, planetary aspects, the houses, thereafter the dependency of houses, and miscellaneous matters;
28.3
Unfavorable combinations, the nativities of women, death, lost horoscopy, and the decans: / this constitutes twenty-five chapters on nativities; and I shall now expound upon military expeditions:
28.4
Queries, the lunar day, the lunar mansion, the weekday, the moment, the Moon, the rising ascendant, and the divisions of the ascendant; / the purification of planets, then the bow-shaped appearance, that called the mixed, and the quivering of the body.
28.5
Beyond this, there is the worship of the Guhyakas, then dreams, the rule for bathing is taught,
the sacrifice to the planets, and then setting out, and in due order the teaching on omens is declared.
28.6
The time of marriage, and the computation of the planets, are declared separately; then there is that extensive branch.
In three branches this compendium of astronomy has been made by me for the benefit of astrologers.
28.7
This entire science was composed extensively by others; thereafter, this concise [work] was made by me merely for [reaching] its regions.
Indeed, it is capable here [of instructing]; if anything has been stated here through the dullness of my intellect, may good people forgive that.
28.8
Whatever [portion] of this work being circulated is lost from being transcribed, or through the succession of oral transmission from many scholars,
or whatever has been poorly done by me here, or omitted, let the wise person emend that without bias.
28.9
The son of Ādityadāsa, having acquired knowledge from him, who obtained the grace of boons from the Sun at Kāpitthaka,
Varāhamihira of Avantī, having thoroughly examined the opinions of the sages, composed this splendid horā.
28.10
By one whose mind received grace through prostrating at the feet of the Sun, the sages, and his teacher, this
science has been compiled; homage be to the ancient authors!
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- Bṛhajjātaka (another edition) — Sanskrit
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