Shantikamalakara 5.p22

5.p22

Śroṇā (Śravaṇa) has three stars, shaped like a staff; male; facing upward; its deity is Viṣṇu; movable; divine class; monkey womb-source; banyan tree; peacock bird; the letters here are 'ma'; the poisonous period is after the tenth nāḍī; one should set out on a journey after drinking water; one should perform copulation in season, hair-parting, naming, first solid food feeding, tonsure, investiture with the sacred thread, consecratory sprinkling, adorning with ornaments, agriculture, sowing seeds, ear-piercing, and the like; one should also perform marriage, ancestral rites, sacrifices, and the like; empty in the month of Mārgaśīrṣa; on Sunday it is Siddhayoga; on Monday it is Mṛtyuyoga; on the fifth lunar day, in the ascendant of Leo, Cancer, Scorpio, or Sagittarius, in the lunar degree, one should store grain; in starting a lawsuit, there is victory; on Monday at sunrise, in the second degree, having commenced a house, one should enter it; if a cloud is seen, there is rain; if there is fever, there is suffering for two months, or it is uncertain; a round cake with milk, sugar, and ghee is the food offering; worship with jasmine flowers; tenfold incense; the worship mantra is 'ato devāḥ'; red husked rice is the material for homa; having offered one hundred and eight oblations with the Gāyatrī, one should offer a propitiatory offering to Viṣṇu with fragrant paste and flowers; at the end of a month or at the end of a year, he will be happy; at the planetary transit, prices increase. 22.