Month Chart and Monthly Results

With Mars: beautiful women, gold, jewels, cloth, a garland, animals, coral. With Mercury: horses, going to heaven, talk of duty. With Jupiter: love, tales of duty, a sight of the gods.

The same verse is in Tajika Nilakanthi 22.50, with our English meaning there.

When [the planet] is mixed, say a mixed dream. When it is joined with its lord, a dream that has a cause. [It may be] at its nicha (low point), in an enemy's sign, or defeated. [It may be] gone to another's sign, or asta (set near the Sun). Then that dream should be called a bad dream. Otherwise, say it brings joy.

The Sun may be in the lagna (rising sign). Good planets may look at it. The Sun's sign may be joined with those two. Then one would say with certainty that a dream within a dream was seen.

The Sun, Moon and Venus may be looked at. Or [one] may be in the 7th from those two. Then a king is seen in the dream, as told by king Chandeshvara. This ends the thought on dreams.

Next, to help slow learners understand, the order of writing the varshapatri (the yearly horoscope paper) is given. First, verses of good wishes and verses of blessing are to be written. Then the time of the year is to be written. It is given by the year, the Shaka (era) and the ayana (half-year). Then the season, the month, the fortnight and the tithi (moon day). Then the weekday, the star, the almanac yoga and the karana (half of a moon day). Then the length of day, the length of night, the ishtakala (the time elapsed to the chosen moment) and the rest.

Then the year chart (chart for the year) and the birth chart, each after the placing of the planets, are to be written. Then the exact points of the planets are to be written. So are the junctions of the twelve houses, from the 1st on. The vishopaka (twentieth part) strength of the planets is to be written. So are their drishti (a planet's look) at each other, and their drishti at the houses.

Then the maitri chakra (friendship wheel) of the planets is to be written. Then the panchavargi (five-part strength) and the dvadashavargi (twelve-part division) are to be written. Then the planets' strengths are to be written. They are of place, direction, time, nature, cheshta (strength of motion) and look. They come with ishta (good strength) and kashta (bad strength). Then the house strength is to be written. Then the settling of the varshesha (year lord) and its result are to be written. So is the result of the muntha (the point that moves one sign each year).

Then the sahamas (special points for one life topic) and the sahama chart are to be written. Then arishta (harm in the year), the breaking of arishta, raja yoga, and the breaking of raja yoga are to be written. Then the house results of the planets are to be written. They come from the study of the twelve houses, from the 1st on. From the same study, the sahama results are to be written. They are given as the sahamas stand in the houses.

Then, at the year entry, the dasha (planet period) that has come is to be written. It is given by the division by the subject of the dasha. [Also] its entries, ... Then the results of the dashas are to be written. Then, inside the dasha, its antardashas (sub-periods) are to be written, with results. (Our text is unclear here: the words tatpraveshah kashchillekhyah do not agree in number and kashchit has no clear place.)

Then the twelve month entries, the month charts, and the exact planets with the twelve houses are to be written. In the month, the settling of the month lord is to be written. So are the month periods with their results, together with results.

Then, within the month entry, the day-entry chart is to be written. So are the exact planets and the results of the twelve houses. So are the settling of the day lord, the day lord's result, and the day period result. As far as possible, [write] them with meals, hunting, dreams and the like. Then the next year's entry, with its chart, is to be written. This ends the order of writing the varshapatri (the yearly horoscope paper).

Having churned the ocean of the good Tajika science, [this work] named Hayanaratna [was made] from a collection. It is a neck-ornament for astrologers who are ready to make good yearly charts.

I have no other wealth. [What I offer] is only the toil born of churning the ocean of others' [works]. Thinking so, O Somesha (lord of the Moon, a name of Shiva), I offer this jewel at your feet.

O lord of the earth, O great hero, in the [time of the] glorious Shah Sujatike. This book was made by me, staying at glorious Rajmahal. (Our text is unclear here: the ending 'tike' after Shah Suja's name.)

[The date, as a riddle:] The almanac yoga, times two (kara, 'hands'), equals the square of my month. The tithi (moon day), likewise, is three times the weekday. With these, the star is half of the whole sum. Again, in the total, with 1551 (bhu 1, bana 5, aksha 5, ku 1), comes the measure of the book. Whoever [finds] just that, I take him as the Sun. He wakes the lotuses, the knowers of the two maths. (Our text is unclear here: how the total and 1551 make the date is not stated.)

Thus the eighth chapter is complete. It is on thought about the month entry and the rest. It is in the Hayanaratna, made by Balabhadra. He is the son of the revered Damodara, a daivajna (astrologer), acharya (teacher) and pandit. And this book is complete.

Samvat 1950. This book was printed and published by a merchant who owned a press. In Shaka years 1815, Phalguna, bright half, 12th day, on a Sunday, this book was completed.