Narapatijayacarya 5.11

5.11

dhiṣṇyāni iti | evaṃ caturakṣaraiścaturbhiścaturbhirakṣaraiḥ sābhijiti abhijitsahināni kṛkṣikādīnyāṣṭāviṃśati nakṣatrāṇi bhavanti | tatra pratinakṣatraṃ catvāraścatvāro'śakāḥ | evaṃ dvādaśādhikaśanaikamaṃśakā bhavanti | yathā aiue kṛttikā ovavivu rohiṇītyādi bharaṇyaṃtabhaṣṭāviṃśati nakṣatrāṇīti | yadṛkṣāṃśakakoṣṭhasya iti | krūraḥ rmāmyo vā grahaḥ yadṛkṣāṃśakakoṣṭhasthaḥ yasminnṛkṣāṃśakakoṣṭhe mthinastasmātpunastiryak krameṇa puṃsaḥ purupasya nāmādyamakṣaraṃ vedhayet | puṃso nāmādyamakṣaraṃ tiryagvedhayet | atra manuṣyādisarvasattvadeśādīnāmādyamakṣaraṃ thedhayet | maumye vedhe iti | spaṣṭam | yudaktamiti sugamam ||

[On the verse] 'dhiṣṇyāni…': Thus, with four phonemes each—by four phonemes each—including Abhijit, there are twenty-eight lunar mansions beginning with Kṛttikā. There, for each lunar mansion, there are four fractional divisions. In this way, there are one hundred and twelve fractional divisions, such as 'a, i, u, e' for Kṛttikā, 'o, va, vi, vu' for Rohiṇī, and so on up to Bharaṇī, making twenty-eight lunar mansions. [On the verse] 'yadṛkṣāṃśakakoṣṭhasthaḥ…': A malefic or benefic planet residing in a cell of a fractional division of a lunar mansion—from that cell of the fractional division of the lunar mansion in which it is positioned, it should pierce obliquely the first letter of the name of the man, the person. It should pierce the first phoneme of the name obliquely. Here, it should pierce the initial phoneme of the names of all living beings, regions, and so forth, beginning with humans. [On] 'saumyavedhe…': [it is] clear. [On] 'yaduktam…': [it is] easy to understand.