續一切經音義 5.56

5.56

Mars (火星: the essence of fire; its colour is red; its nature is propriety; it is the image of enforcing the law; when it treads its path with brightness, the people are at peace and the state is prosperous; when it loses its degrees and appears contracted and small, there are military disasters and mourning within and without; generally it circles the heavens once in two years, appearing and disappearing once every 780 days, completing thirty-seven cycles and forty-two circuits of the heavens in seventy-nine years).