History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c82.393

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Certain technical words have yet to be explained. One meaning of *horā* is half a *rāśi*. In the case of the rāśis of odd numbers (viz. 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11) the lord of the first half is the sun and that of the 2nd half is the moon, while in the case of rāśis of even numbers (2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12) the lord of the 1st half is the moon and of the 2nd half the sun (Br J. I. 11) The purpose of this is that those born on sun's horā are energetic (assertive) by nature and those born on moon's horā are mild by nature. Br. J. (I. 12) mentions the view of some⁸⁶⁵ (of Yavaneśvara, according to Utpala) that the lord of the first horā is the same as the lord of the rāśi and the lord of the second horā is the lord of the 11th house in the horoscope The result of this view would be that all planets can be lords of horās and not the sun and the moon alone as Varāha, Satya and others say Each rāśi (of 30 degrees) is divided into three parts, each of 10 degrees, called dreṣkāna or drekkāna or dṛkāna or dṛgāna (in Br. J. III 5, probably for the sake of the metre) The lords of the three parts of each rāśi are respectively the lord of the rāśi itself (of the first part), the lord of the 5th rāśi (of the 2nd part) and the lord of the 9th rāśi (of the 3rd part). For example, in the case of Vṛṣabha (of which the lord is Venus), the lords of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd parts are respectively Venus, Mercury (lord of 5th from Vṛṣabha) and Saturn (lord of 9th from Vṛṣabha). And so on for the other rāśis