Brihadyatra 33: adhyāyaḥ 33

or when Suraguru or Daiteyapūjya is in the ascendant or in a cardinal house,

success in the results of all undertakings is ensured, provided the rising sign is auspicious for the agent;

when a fixed lunar mansion favorable to one's own town is rising, a fine residence should be built or entered.

The attainment of the fruit of all undertakings occurs when the rising sign and the sign of the performer are auspicious;

When a sign that is own, domestic, or fixed rises, one should construct a fine house or make one's entrance into it.

When a malefic rises, on that [planet's] day, at a vyatīpāta yoga, on an empty tithi, at the ends of seasons, or at a vaidhṛti,

and in sharp and dreadful asterisms, during the dark fortnight, deeds of fire, poison, assault, and violence attain success.

From whatever direction comets, meteors, Manda, Rāhu, sunspots, or Kuja are observed entering the disc

of the sun or moon, or in whatever direction a segment of a halo is seen,

or from where jackals, dogs, snakes, ants, hares, deer, crows, and the like enter into the city

or into the army, from that side indeed he should strike the enemy's city.

When Rāhu and Ketu occupy the asterism of the fourth house, cutting off water and pulling down the ramparts should be done in the enemy's city.

When the son of the earth is situated in the seventh house or in its navāṃśa, aspected by the son of Indu, fire should be set.