Hayanaratna · by Balabhadra
Chapter 2 · Aspects, Strength, Results
दृष्टिसाङ्गबलेष्टकष्टाद्यानयनाधिकारः
अयमर्थः ॥ लग्नस्थग्रहस्य भोग्यभागादारभ्य सप्तमभुक्तभागपर्यन्तं यावद्दृष्टिः सा दक्षिणा । एवं सप्तमाच्च लग्नं यावद्वामदृष्टिस्सा दक्षिणदृष्ट्यऽपेक्षया सबला ज्ञेयेति ॥
This is the meaning. Take a planet in the lagna (rising sign). Its drishti (a planet's look) runs from the degrees still to travel in the lagna. It ends at the degrees already travelled in the 7th. This is the right look. In the same way, the look from the 7th up to the lagna is the left look. It is to be known as stronger than the right look.
Simple meaning: Right look: from the planet's place to the 7th. Left look: from the 7th round to the lagna, said to be stronger.
उदाहरणमाह समरसिंहः॥
Left look example: the look on the 4th, the earth's corner, is stronger than the look on the 10th, the middle.
अस्यार्थः दशमदृष्टेस्सकाशाद्भकेन्द्रोपरि या दृष्टिस्सा सबला एवं सर्वत्र ज्ञेयम्॥
Meaning: the look on the 4th, a corner sign, is stronger than the look on the 10th.
यथा सप्तमस्थग्रहस्य लग्नाद्दशमे चतुर्थे च पादमिता दृष्टिरस्ति ॥ परन्तु चतुर्थदृष्टिर्वामदृष्टित्वाद्दशमदक्षिणदृष्ट्यपेक्षया इत्थशालादियोगेष्वन्ययोगेष्वपि वासबलाज्ञेयेति ॥
Left look example: a planet in the 7th looks at the 4th and 10th with 15; the 4th is the left look and stronger.