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Garudapurana 1.59

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Sūta said:
Having described the celestial sphere and the measurement of the earth, Keśava, the all-giver, / spoke to Rudra the four-hundred-thousand-verse essence of astrology.

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Hari said:
Kṛttikā is traditionally sacred to Agni; Rohiṇī belongs to Brahmā; / Ilvalā (Mṛgaśiras) has Soma as its deity; and Ārdrā is declared sacred to Rudra.

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Likewise, Punarvasu has Aditi as its deity, and Tiṣya has Guru as its presiding god; / Āśleṣā has the serpents as its deities, and Maghā belongs to the ancestors.

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Pūrvaphalgunī belongs to Bhaga, and the subsequent [Uttarāphalgunī] to Aryaman; / Hastā belongs to Savitṛ, and Citrā is proclaimed to belong to Tvaṣṭṛ.

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Svātī is proclaimed the lunar mansion having Vāyu as its deity; / Viśākhā is declared to have Indra and Agni as its deities, O bull-bannered god!

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Anurādhā is a lunar mansion sacred to Mitra; Jyeṣṭhā is proclaimed sacred to Śakra; / and Mūla is declared by knowers of the subject to have Nirṛti as its deity.

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Pūrvāṣāḍhā belongs to Āpaḥ; Uttarāṣāḍhā belongs to the Viśvedevas; / Abhijit is declared sacred to Brahmā; Śravaṇā is traditionally sacred to Viṣṇu.

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The lunar mansion Dhaniṣṭhā is said by the wise to belong to the Vasus; / and Śatabhiṣā is proclaimed to be the lunar mansion sacred to Varuṇa, O Śiva!

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Pūrvabhādrapadā belongs to Aja Ekapād; Uttarabhādrapadā to Ahirbudhnya; / the lunar mansion Revatī belongs to Pūṣan; and Aśvayuj belongs to the Aśvins.

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The lunar mansion Bharaṇī belongs to Yama; these are declared to be the deities of the lunar mansions. / Brahmāṇī resides in the east on the first and ninth lunar days;

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Māheśvarī in the north on the second and tenth lunar days; / on the fifth and thirteenth, Vārāhī resides in the south;

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on the sixth and fourteenth, Indrāṇī resides in the west; / on the seventh and full-moon day, Cāmuṇḍā resides in the northwest;

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on the eighth and new-moon conjunction, Mahālakṣmī resides in the northeast; / on the eleventh and third, Vaiṣṇavī resides in the southeast;

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and on the twelfth and fourth, Kaumārī resides in the southwest. / One must not undertake journeys and other activities facing a Yoginī directly.

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Aśvinī, Anurādhā, Revatī, Mṛgaśiras, Mūla, Punarvasu, / Puṣya, Hastā, and Jyeṣṭhā are said to be best for departure on a journey.

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The five lunar mansions beginning with Hastā, the triad of Uttarās, / Aśvinī, Rohiṇī, Puṣya, Dhaniṣṭhā, and Punarvasu—

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this group of lunar mansions is considered best for putting on new clothes. / Kṛttikā, Bharaṇī, Āśleṣā, Maghā, Mūla, Viśākhā,

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and the three Pūrvās are proclaimed to be downward-facing. / In these, [the digging of] step-wells, ponds, and wells, working the soil, grass-cutting,

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excavating for temples, digging for buried treasure, / mathematical calculation, beginning astronomical studies, and entering mines and cavities—

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one should perform these downward-directed actions and other such deeds, O bull-bannered god! / Revatī, Aśvinī, Citrā, Svātī, Hastā, Punarvasu,

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Anurādhā, Mṛgaśiras, and Jyeṣṭhā—these are considered sideward-facing. / The taming of elephants, camels, horses, oxen, and buffaloes,

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the sowing of seeds, coming and going, / and the moving of wheels, machines, chariots, and boats—

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whatever actions are directed sideways, one should perform them in these [lunar mansions]. / Rohiṇī, Ārdrā, Puṣya, Dhaniṣṭhā, the triad of Uttarās,

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the lunar mansion of Varuṇa [Śatabhiṣā], and Śravaṇā are remembered as nine upward-facing [mansions]. / In these, one should conduct royal consecrations and coronations.

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All activities directed upward and high-reaching one should perform in these. / The fourth is inauspicious, as are the sixth, eighth, ninth,

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new moon, full moon, and likewise the twelfth and fourteenth. / The dark first lunar day is auspicious; the second is best with the son of the Moon [Mercury];

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the third is best with the son of the Earth [Mars]; the fourth on a Saturday. / The fifth is auspicious on a Thursday; the sixth on a Tuesday and a Friday;

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the seventh with the son of the Moon [Mercury]; the eighth on Mars's and the Sun's days; / the ninth on Monday; the tenth is auspicious on Thursday;

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the eleventh on Thursday and Friday; the twelfth with Mercury; / the thirteenth on Friday and Tuesday; the fourteenth is best on Saturday;

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and the full-moon day and the new-moon day are best on Thursday. / The Sun burns the twelfth lunar day, and the Moon burns the eleventh;

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Mars burns the tenth, and Mercury burns the ninth; / Jupiter burns the eighth, and Venus burns the seventh;

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the son of the Sun [Saturn] burns the sixth, on which indeed travel and other such acts are forbidden. / On the first, ninth, fourteenth, and eighth lunar days,

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one should completely avoid setting out on a journey on a Wednesday. / The sixth in Aries and Cancer; the eighth in Virgo and Gemini;

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the fourth in Taurus and Aquarius; the twelfth in Capricorn and Libra; / the tenth in Scorpio and Leo; the fourteenth in Sagittarius and Pisces—

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these are 'burnt' [tithis]; men must not travel during them, for they bring suffering. / The triad beginning with Viśākhā on Sunday; the triad beginning with Pūrvāṣāḍhā on Monday;

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the triad of Dhaniṣṭhā on Tuesday; the triad of Revatī on Wednesday; / the triad beginning with Rohiṇī on Thursday; the triad of Puṣya on Friday, O Śiva;

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and on Saturday one should avoid the triad beginning with Uttarāphalgunī. / In these planetary combinations, misfortune, death, illness, and the like will occur.

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The Sun in Mūla, the Moon in Śravaṇā, Mars in Uttarābhādrapadā, / Mercury in Kṛttikā, and Punarvasu on Thursday, O Rudra,

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Pūrvaphalgunī on Friday, and Svātī on Saturday— / these are nectar-combinations, accomplishing all undertakings.

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[...] / Time, marked by the conjunctions and other occasions, must be known by those skilled in time.

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Uniting the letters of the two names of a man and a woman into syllabic measures, when divided by three, / if two remain, the woman perishes; if one or zero, the man dies.

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Five ghaṭikās are proclaimed in Viṣkambha, seven in Śūla, / six in Gaṇḍa and Atigaṇḍa, and nine in Vyāghāta and Vajra;

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and [the whole duration] day by day in Vyatīpāta, Parigha, and Vaidhṛti— / accompanied by death, one must avoid all rites during these.

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The Sun in Hastā, Jupiter in Puṣya, Anurādhā on Wednesday is auspicious; / Rohiṇī on Saturday is best; Mṛgaśiras on Monday is auspicious;

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Revatī on Friday is best; and Aśvinī on Tuesday is auspicious. / In these are combinations of success, destroying all flaws.

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Bharaṇī on Friday, Citrā on Monday, O bull-bannered god, / Uttarāṣāḍhā on Tuesday, and Dhaniṣṭhā on Wednesday, O Hara,

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Śatabhiṣā on Thursday, O Rudra, Rohiṇī on Friday, / and Revatī on Saturday, O Śambhu, are proclaimed as poison-combinations.

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Puṣya, Punarvasu, Revatī together with Citrā,
Śravaṇa, Dhaniṣṭhā, Hastā, Aśvinī, and Mṛgaśīrṣa,

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and under Śatabhiṣā, a man should perform rites such as the birth ceremonies.
Viśākhā, the three Uttarās, Maghā, Ārdrā, Bharaṇī,
Āśleṣā, and Kṛttikā, O Rudra, cause death when setting out on a journey.

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Thus ends the fifty-ninth chapter, entitled “Description of the Lunar Mansions, Their Deities, Burnt Combinations, and the Like, in the Science of Astrology,” in the Section on Proper Conduct, within the first part of the first section of the glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa.

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