Narapatijayacarya 6: aśaṃcakraprakaraṇam

Om.

Now, the section on the fractional-division diagrammatic wheel.

Twenty-eight lines going upwards and twenty-eight going transversely: / thus the fractional-division diagrammatic wheel is formed, as stated in the Ādiyāmala.

Here, one should place all the twenty-eight lunar mansions in order of their quarter-letters, / beginning with Kṛttikā, along with Abhijit, numbering twenty-eight.

Whichever planet is in whichever fraction of a lunar mansion, the wise should place it right there; / whether malefic or benefic, it pierces the phoneme situated opposite.

With the first fraction [it pierces] the fourth fraction, and with the fourth fraction the first; / with the second, the third; and with the third, the second.

Whose name-letter is pierced by a planet in the fractional-division diagrammatic wheel, / by malefics [there is] misfortune, by benefics loss, and by two or more [malefics] death, without doubt.

[On the verse] 'aṣṭāviṃśordhvagā rekhā…': Twenty-eight lines running vertically and running transversely are to be drawn. Thus comes about the fractional-division diagrammatic wheel declared in the Ādiyāmala. [On] 'kṛttikādīni…': In this diagrammatic wheel, beginning with the north-eastern corner line, one should write in order the lunar mansions numbering twenty-eight, beginning with Kṛttikā and including Abhijit, with the quarter-phonemes 'a, i, u, e' and so forth. [On] 'yo grahaḥ…': Whichever planet, malefic or benefic, is situated in whichever fraction of a lunar mansion—in that fourfold division of the lunar mansion—the wise, the learned person should place that planet right there in that fraction of the lunar mansion. It pierces the phoneme facing it, which is upon that line. [On] 'ādyāṃśena…': By the first fraction, the planet situated in [that] planet's place pierces the fourth fraction of the facing lunar mansion. In this way, by the fourth fraction [it pierces] the initial, the first [fraction]; by the second, the third; by the third, the second. [On] 'yasya nāmākṣaram…': In the fractional-division diagrammatic wheel, whose name-phoneme is pierced by a planet, benefic or malefic—there, in a piercing by a malefic, misfortune occurs; in a piercing by benefics, loss; in a piercing by two or more malefics, death occurs: of this there is no doubt.

When a piercing occurs flanked on both sides by malefics, death [ensues]; by benefics and malefics, an obstacle; / when a piercing falls flanked on both sides by benefics, sickness, affliction, and imprisonment.

Widowhood in marriage, and in a military march one does not return; / in illness, death; in battle, defeat: in a malefic piercing, there is no doubt.

Mountains, oceans, rivers, temples, villages, and cities / perish under a malefic piercing; no deliberation is needed here.

If a piercing occurs in the fractional division of the Moon's lunar mansion by other planets, / that measure on that day must always be avoided in auspicious work.

Thus the sequence of fractional sounds in the svarodaya of the Narapatijayacaryā.

[On] 'krūrobhaya-…': In a piercing flanked on both sides by malefics—when there is a malefic piercing on both sides—death occurs; when there is a piercing on both sides by benefics [and malefics], an obstacle occurs; when there is a piercing on both sides by benefics, sickness, affliction, and imprisonment occur. [On] 'vaidhavyam…': clear. [On] 'adrayaḥ…': easy to understand. [On] 'candraṛkṣāṃśake…': At the time of the undertaking, the Moon pierces the very fractional division of the quarter occupied by the lunar mansion; if in that fractional division there is a piercing by another planet such as Mars, then on that day that lunar mansion should always in an auspicious work

be avoided.