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Agni Purana (Jyotisha Selections) · by Vyasa
Chapter 1 · Muhurta: Marriage, Home, Farming
ज्योतिःशास्त्रम्
धनिष्ठा चार्धमासं च वारुणे च दशाहकम् ।नैव भाद्रपदे मोक्ष उत्तरासु त्रिपञ्चकम् ॥ ७६ ॥
In the full Agni Purana this is chapter 121, verse 76.
Dhanishta: half a month. Shatabhisha: ten days. Purva Bhadrapada: no release. Uttara Bhadrapada: fifteen days.
Simple meaning: Dhanishta takes half a month, Shatabhisha ten days, Uttara Bhadrapada fifteen days. Purva Bhadrapada gives no release.
रेवती दशरात्रं च अहोरात्रं तथाऽश्विनी ।
Revati takes ten nights, Ashvini one day. Bharani can bring death. A Gayatri fire offering helps.
पञ्चधान्यतिलाज्याद्यैर्धेनुदानं द्विजे शमम् ।
Offer grain, sesame and ghee, and give a cow to a Brahmin. The Sun's period is eight years, the Moon's fifteen.
अष्टौ वर्षाणि भौमस्य दश सप्त दशा बुधे ।
Mars has eight years, Mercury seventeen, Saturn ten, Jupiter nineteen, Rahu twelve and Venus twenty-one.