Narapatijayacarya 3.1.76

| With the words 'inherent to the nature of living beings' [he gives an example]. The illustration [is as follows]: as for instance, the birth of Sadānanda takes place on the first lunar day of the bright lunar fortnight of Bhādrapada, under the asterism Uttarāphālgunī, in the third quarter. Following the third quarter of Uttarāphālgunī, the birth-name is Padmanābha. Now, the phoneme-sound of Padmanābha is 'a'. On Padmanābha's birth-tithi, the sound named 'child' is present, and its result should be declared. Thus [the rule]. The five verses beginning with 'capalā' are self-explanatory.

The query-sound diagram for the given moment:

a, i, u, e, o.

ka, kha, ga, gha, ca.

cha, ja, jha, ña, ṭa.

ṭha, ḍa, ḍha, ṇa, ta.

tha, da, dha, na, pa.

pha, ba, bha, ma, ya.

ra, la, va, śa, ṣa, sa, ha.

1 2 3 4 5

6 7 8 9 10

11 12 13 14 15 / Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn / a, a, a, a, a / 5 5 5 5 5 / The phonemes beginning with 'ka' and ending with 'da', as well as the five short vowels, / are strong in the bright lunar fortnight; all the remaining ones are [strong] in the other [fortnight].

If there is the same vowel-sound but different phonemes [assigned to] the two fortnights, / then the strength of the fortnight must be grasped according to the distinction between bright and dark.

And if two combatants share an identical vowel-sound and their letters belong to the same fortnight, / the fair-complexioned one conquers in battle in the bright [fortnight], and the dark-complexioned one definitely [conquers] in the other.

If two good warriors under the same vowel-sound are both dark or both fair, / when short, the letter nearest to the vowel is victorious; when long, the letter farthest away is victorious.

If there is identity of measure, name, and complexion between the two combatants, / then strength in that battle should be assigned according to the distinction between the attacker and the defender.

When all distinctions between the two warriors are identical, if the vowel is youthful or adolescent, / the attacker is victorious; likewise, the defender [is victorious] under the child, aged, and final [dead] vowel-sounds.

On the first lunar day there are three phonemes, and two each on the remaining ones; / in this manner, the number of phonemes should be known across the three lunar days in the tithi-sound [scheme].

The designations of the lunar days starting with the phoneme's tithi are 'birth', 'loss', and 'death'; / in 'birth' there is fear, in 'loss' sickness, and in 'death' death occurs without doubt.

"Beginning with ka", etc.: The phonemes beginning with ka and ending with da—ka, kha, ga, gha, ṅa; ca, cha, ja, jha, ña; ṭa, ṭha, ḍa, ḍha, ṇa; ta, tha, da—and likewise the five short vowels—a, i, u, e, o—these are strong in the bright fortnight. The remainder—dha, na, pa, pha, ba, bha, ma; ya, ra, la, va; śa, ṣa, sa, ha; [long vowels] ā, ī, ū, ai, au, aṃ, aḥ—these are strong in the dark fortnight. "Single sound", etc.: Where the sound of both is one, and the two phonemes at the beginning of the names belong to different fortnights, the bright and dark fortnights, there the strength of the fortnight is to be taken according to the division between bright and dark. As in the case of Kamalendra and Candrendra, who begin with the letters ka and ca, the phoneme-sound is one, the vowel a; the letter ka is strong in the bright fortnight, and the letter ca is strong in the dark fortnight.