Shantikamalakara 5.p2

5.p2

Bharaṇī has three stars, is triangular in shape, female, looking downward; Yama is its deity; it is fierce; it belongs to the human class; its origin-yoni is the elephant; its tree is the āmalaka; its bird is the cock; its syllables are the sounds ‘i’ and ‘ī’. If red clouds appear at noon, there will be rain on the sixteenth day. On Tuesday, there is an obstacle. One should gather wealth and plant bṛhatī and bitter gourd. At the end of twenty-four nāḍikās, there are the venomous nāḍikās. In the month of Phālguna, it is void. In conjunction with Wednesday and the seventh lunar day, it is a venomous combination. On Wednesday, it is a combination for destruction. On Sunday, it is Yamakaṇṭaka. In another degree, there is death on that day. In the ascendant of Cancer or Sagittarius with a Martian degree, gathering of grain [is prescribed], and in that ascendant one should engage in agriculture. At the onset of fever, there is death or uncertainty. The food offering is jaggery cake; the flower is black and fragrant; the incense is Indian bdellium; the mantra for worship is “Tryambakam…”; the material for fire oblation is an equal measure of ghee and honey; at the end of five days, one should offer one hundred and eight oblations with the Gāyatrī; at the end of twenty-one days, he will be well; if there is no propitiatory rite, death occurs. Setting eyes on land at rising on the days of Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, except during Taurus, Scorpio, Virgo, and the Subhadrā ninth [tithi]. At the ingress of the sun, there are cheap prices. 2.