Narapatijayacarya 1.53

[On the words] 'When the enemy is equal or superior': very clear. [On the word] 'Unbreakable': I will explain the powers of mantras, diagrammatic devices, and medicinal herbs so that victory over the enemy becomes easy. The rest is easy to understand.

Now, the branch of astrology:

Calculation, practical affairs, and clear knowledge of genethliacal astrology— / I shall declare three-branched astrology in the Victorious Conduct of Kings based on Svarodaya:

the computation of planets, lunar days, and so forth; the rising and setting of fast-moving [planets]; / the inimical, friendly, and neutral planets; the strength and weakness of the sign lords;

exaltations, debilitations, neutrals, and whatever are the aspect places; / transit, and likewise astrological piercing, and again sub-periods within major periods;

the day-lord, and likewise cusps, kick piercing, secondary planets, / auspicious and inauspicious fruits, and the virtues and defects of lunar days and lunar mansions, I will declare.

The strength of the Moon and asterisms is to be known, as well as Bhadrā and Tripuṣkara, / Yamaghaṇṭa, Yamadaṃṣṭra, and likewise the argala diagrammatic wheel;

the asterisms of gods, rākṣasas, and humans, facing sideways, upward, and downward, / as well as the infant, youth, adult, old, and dead sounds;

likewise the Kālavelā, the horā, the price of the watch, and Kulika; / and I shall describe the astrological piercing, both accomplished and swiftly taking life away;

Parigha, Śūladhiṣṇya, the weekday yoga, and the Yoginī, / Digbhadrā, Kālapāśa, the setting of Rāhu, and Bhārgava;

I shall describe the threefold origin of shadow, proceeding through the eight [divisions] of the day among the three; / the length of the day, the daily planetary motion, and the measure of shadow-rising;

the sixty-three [types of] accomplished shadow, and the twenty-seven afflicted asterisms; / the rising of the ascendant for one's own country, and the determination of the ascendant by means of an instrument;

likewise the measure of the ascendant, the horā, the dṛkkāṇa of the zodiacal sign, the navāṃśa, / the dvādaśāṃśa, the triṃśāṃśa, and the computation of the rising and setting aṃśas.

From the ascendant I shall explain auspicious and inauspicious results, the determination of military march, marriage, and so forth, / the consecration of deities, initiation, and the departure on a military march and entry [into a city];

the arrangement of house-lamps and commodity prices, likewise the kālaviṃśopaka, / the conjunction for rainfall, the chapter on commodity prices, and the determination of years, months, and days;

the lunar day and so forth, the planets, the Moon, clearly originating from the rising of that time; / its state, desired creation, and the division of owls I declare;

all the twitchings of bodily limbs, and whichever signs of death there are, / the afflicted signs of death, and their pacification I shall explain.

Whatever wise men know this entire ancillary branch of astrology, / one should recognise that like a lamp it destroys the darkness of delusion.

The potakī bird, the piṅgalā owl, the crow, the yakṣa, and the jackal in succession— / I shall describe this fivefold jewel in the doctrine of omens, which is the sixth limb.

Regarding "Gaṇitam" [in 1.1.53]: starting from "gaṇitam" up to this point, "pañcaratnamidam", the meanings are clear.