History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c82.352

v6.c82.352

Br. J. (chap 17. 1-12) sets out the characteristics of persons born when the Moon was in Meṣa and the following rāśis and remarks at the end (in verse 13) that the results described will come out fully if the moon, the rāśi it occupies and the lord of that rāśi are powerful. In Br. J. I 19 it is said that two-footed rāśis (mithuna, kanyā, tulā, kumbha and forepart of dhanus) are powerful by day if they be in kendra; four-footed rāśis (meṣa, vṛṣa, siṁha, makara forepart and dhanus latter part) are powerful at night in kendra position and the rest i. e. watery signs and insect signs (kulīra, vṛścika, mīna and latter part of makara) are powerful at twilight, when in kendra position. Br. J 18. 20 provides that similar results (as in chap 17) follow if a person is born when the *lagna* at his birth is meṣa or any one of the other rāśis.