Narapatijayacarya 4.15

4.15

ūrdhveti | spaṣṭam | nīcasthito iti | sugamam | śanyarketi | atra grahāṇāṃ krūrasaumyavibhāgamāha | tatra candrasya kṣīṇatvaṃ kṛṣṇaikādaśītaḥ śuklapakṣīya pañcamyantaṃ yāvajjñeyamanyat sugamam | yasmimnṛkṣe iti | yasmin ṛkṣe nakṣatre kheṭo grahaḥ, sthitaḥ tataḥ grahaṭṭaṣṭivaśena agre vakṣyamāṇena vāmasammukhadikṣaṇe vedhatrayaṃ bhavet | bhuktaṃ bhogyam iti | yannakṣatraṃ krūragraheṇa bhuktaṃ bhujyamānaṃ, bhogyaṃ, ākrāntaṃ yacaca viddhaṃ etacacatuṣayaṃ śubhāśubhakāryeṣu prayatnataḥ varjanīyaḥ | vakrage iti | bhaumādipañcake vakrage vakragāmini dakṣiṇā ṭṭaṣṭirbhavati |
śīghrage śīghragatau vāmaṭṭaṣṭirvāmabhāge ṭaṭaṣṭirbhavati | madhyacāre prakṛtagatau madhyāsambhukhe ṭṭaṣṭirjñeyā ||

"ūrdhva..." [The meaning is] clear. "nīcasthito..." [This is] easily understood. "śanyarka..." Here he states the division into malefic and benefic planets. In that regard, the waning state of the Moon is to be known from the eleventh tithi of the dark fortnight up to the end of the fifth [tithi] of the bright fortnight; the rest is easily understood. "yasminnṛkṣe..." In whichever asterism, [that is,] lunar mansion, a heavenly body, [that is,] a planet, is situated, from that [point], by virtue of the planet's gaze to be described ahead, there will be threefold piercing in the left, direct, and [right] directions. "bhuktaṃ bhogyam..." The lunar mansion that has been traversed, is being traversed, is to be traversed, or has been occupied and pierced by a malefic planet—this set of four must be avoided with great care in auspicious and inauspicious undertakings. "vakrage..." When the five [planets] beginning with Mars are retrograde, [that is,] moving retrogradely, the gaze is to the right; / when moving swiftly, in swift motion, there is a gaze to the left, [that is,] a gaze directed to the left side; in mean motion, in their normal motion, the gaze is to be known as central, [that is,] direct.