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Check free →It lists what each branch teaches. Then it turns to sums. It shows how a star, a moon day and a yoga are worked out from the Sun and Moon. It gives the rule for the karanas, and the rising times of the signs. It ends with the sum for Vyatipata and Vaidhriti, a dreadful time to avoid in every task.
The English below is our translation from the Sanskrit.
ज्योतिषांगं प्रवक्ष्यामि यदुक्तं ब्रह्मणा पुरा ।यस्य विज्ञानमात्रेण धर्मसिद्धिर्भवेन्नृणाम् ॥ १ ॥
I will explain the limb of jyotisha (astrology) that Brahma spoke long ago. Just by knowing it, people succeed in their religious duties.
Simple meaning: Brahma once taught astrology. Knowing it helps people succeed in their duties.
त्रिस्कंधं ज्यौतिषं शास्त्रं चतुर्लक्षमुदाहृतम् ।गणितं जातकं विप्र संहितास्कंधसंज्ञिताः ॥ २ ॥
The science of jyotisha (astrology) has three skandhas (branches) and is said to hold four lakh [verses]. O Brahmin, the branches are called ganita (maths of the planets), jataka (birth chart reading) and samhita (world events astrology).
Simple meaning: Astrology has three branches: planet maths, birth chart reading, and world events.
It names the three branches of astrology. Then it shows the sums for stars, moon days, yogas and karanas.
Verse 1.2 names three: maths of the planets, birth chart reading and world events astrology.
Verse 1.16 says to take the Moon minus the Sun and divide by 720.
गणिते परिकर्मादि खगमध्यस्फुटक्रिंये ।अनुयोगश्चंद्रसूर्यग्रहणं तचोदस्याकम् ॥ ३ ॥
In ganita (maths of the planets) come the basic workings and the like. Then the working out of the mean and true planets. Then questions and answers, and the eclipses of the Moon and Sun. Then [the planets'] risings and settings.
Simple meaning: Planet maths covers basic sums, true planet positions, eclipses, and risings and settings.
छाया शृङ्गोन्नतियुती पातसाधानमीरितम् ।जातके राशिभेदाश्च ग्रहयोनिश्च योनिजम् ॥ ४ ॥
Shadow, the rise of the Moon's horns, and the meetings of planets are described. So is the working out of the fall-point [of Sun and Moon]. In jataka (birth chart reading) come the kinds of signs and the kinds of planets. Then births from wombs [of other creatures].
Simple meaning: Planet maths also covers shadows and the Moon's horns. Birth charts cover the kinds of signs and planets.
निषेकजन्मारिष्टानि ह्यायुर्दायो दशाक्रमः ।कर्माजीवं चाष्टवर्गो राजयोगाश्च नाभसाः ॥ ५ ॥
Conception and birth. Troubles at birth. The giving of lifespan and the order of the dasha (planet period). Work and livelihood, the ashtakavarga (eight-source point table), the combinations of kings, and the Nabhasa combinations.
Simple meaning: Birth charts cover birth, life span, planet periods, livelihood, point tables and royal combinations.
चंद्रयोगाः प्रव्रज्याख्या राशिशीलं च दृक्फलम् ।ग्रहभावफलं चैवाश्रययोगप्रकीर्णके ॥ ६ ॥
The Moon combinations. The combinations called pravrajya (taking up renunciation). The nature of the signs. The results of a planet's look. The results of planets in the houses, the Ashraya combinations, and a mixed collection.
Simple meaning: More topics: Moon combinations, renunciation, sign nature, planets' looks and houses, and mixed rules.
अनिष्टयोगाः स्त्रीजन्मफलं निर्याणमेव च ।नष्टजन्मविधानं च तथा द्रेष्काणलक्षणम् ॥ ७ ॥
Bad combinations, the results of a woman's birth, and also the end of life. The method for a lost birth, and the marks of the drekkana (one-third part of a sign).
Simple meaning: The text also covers bad combinations, women's charts, the end of life, lost birth times and drekkanas.
संहिताशास्त्ररूपं च ग्रहचारोऽब्दलक्षणम् ।तिथिवासरनक्षत्रयोगतिथ्यर्द्धसंज्ञकाः ॥ ८ ॥
The form of the samhita (world events astrology) science, the movement of the planets, and the marks of the year. Tithi (moon day), weekday, nakshatra (star), yoga (Sun-Moon yoga of the almanac), and the half of a tithi are named.
Simple meaning: World events astrology covers planet movement, the year, and the parts of the almanac.
मुहूर्तोपग्रहाः सूयसंक्रांतिर्गोचरः क्रमात् ।चंद्रताराबलं चैव सर्वलग्नार्तवाह्वयः ॥ ९ ॥
Muhurtas (choosing a good time), the upagrahas (shadow points), and the Sun's sankranti (the Sun's entry into a sign). Then gochara (transit through a sign) in order. The strength of the Moon, and of the tara (star count from the birth nakshatra). All the lagnas, and the topic called first menses.
Simple meaning: Timing covers shadow points, sign changes, transits, Moon strength, all risings and a girl's first period.
आधानपुंससीमंतजातनामान्नभुक्तयः ।चौलङ्कर्ण्ययणं मौंजी क्षुरिकाबंधनं तथा ॥ १० ॥
The rite of conception, the rite for a son, the hair-parting, the birth rite, naming, and first feeding. The first haircut, ear-piercing, the munja-grass girdle rite, and the tying on of the dagger. (Our text is unclear here: one word after ear-piercing.)
Simple meaning: Rites covered: conception, birth, naming, first food, haircut, ear-piercing and the sacred thread.
समावर्तनवैवाहप्रतिष्ठासद्मलक्षणम् ।यात्राप्रवेशनं सद्योवृष्टिः कर्मविलक्षणम् ॥ ११ ॥
The return after study, marriage, the setting up of images, and the marks of a house. Journeys, entering [a house], and sudden rain. The marks of different kinds of acts.
Simple meaning: More topics: ending study, marriage, house features, journeys, house entry, sudden rain and kinds of acts.
उत्पत्तिलक्षणं चैव सर्वं संक्षेपतो ब्रुवे ।एकं दश शतं चैव सहस्त्रायुतलक्षकम् ॥ १२ ॥
The marks of how things arise. I will tell all of this in brief. One, ten, a hundred, a thousand, ten thousand, a lakh.
Simple meaning: I will explain all this briefly. Then the places of numbers are named, from one up to a lakh.
स्वाहोरात्रचतुर्भागे दिनरात्रिदले स्मृते ।याम्यक्रांतौ विपर्यस्ते द्विगुणैते दिनक्षये ॥ १२२ ॥
Take a quarter of [a planet's] own day and night. [Corrected by the latitude difference,] it gives half its day and half its night. For a southern declination, do the reverse. Doubled, these give the day and the night.
Simple meaning: A quarter of a planet's day-and-night, corrected, gives half its day and night. Double them for the full lengths.
भभोगोऽष्टशतीर्लिप्ताः स्वाश्विशैलोस्तथातिथेः ।ग्रहलिप्ता भगाभोगाभानि भुक्त्यादिनादिकम् ॥ १२३ ॥
The nakshatra (star) extent is 800 minutes of arc. Likewise the tithi (moon day) extent is 720 [minutes]. A planet's minutes divided by the star extent give the stars [passed]. [The remainder] divided by its daily motion gives the days and so on.
Simple meaning: A nakshatra spans 800 minutes of arc and a tithi 720. Divide a planet's minutes by 800 to get its nakshatra.
रवींदुयोगलिप्तास्तु योगाभभोगभाजिताः ।गतगम्याश्च षष्टिघ्ना भुक्तियोगातनाडिकाः ॥ १२४ ॥
Add the minutes of the Sun and Moon. Divide by the star extent (800 minutes). That gives the yogas (Sun-Moon yoga of the almanac). The gone and the yet-to-come parts, times 60, are divided by the sum of the daily motions. That gives the ghatikas (24-minute unit).
Simple meaning: Add the Sun and Moon minutes and divide by 800 to get the yoga. Then find the ghatikas.
अर्कोनचंद्रलिप्तास्तु तिथयो भोगभाजिताः ।गतगम्याश्च षष्टिघ्ना नाऽतोभुक्ततरोद्धताः ॥ १२५ ॥
The Moon's minutes less the Sun's, divided by the extent [720], give the tithis (moon days). The gone and the yet-to-come parts, times 60, are divided by the difference of the daily motions. That gives the ghatikas (24-minute unit).
Simple meaning: Moon minus Sun, divided by 720, gives the tithi. Then find the ghatikas.
तिथयः शुक्लप्रतिपदो द्विघ्नाः सैका न गाहताः ।शेषं बवो बालवश्च कौलवस्तैतिलो गरः ॥ १२६ ॥
Take the tithis (moon days) passed from the bright pratipada. Double them and add one. Divide by 7. The remainder [gives the karanas] Bava, Balava, Kaulava, Taitila and Gara.
Simple meaning: Count tithis from the first of the bright half, double, add one, divide by 7. The remainder names the karana.
वणिजोभ्रे भवेद्विष्टिः कृष्णभूतापरार्द्धतः ।शकुनिर्नागश्च चतुष्पद किंस्तुघ्नमेव च ॥ १२७ ॥
[Then] Vanija, then Vishti (bad half of a moon day). From the last half of the dark 14th come Shakuni, Naga, Chatushpada and Kimstughna.
Simple meaning: After Vanija comes Vishti. Four fixed karanas fall from the last half of the dark 14th.
ग्रहोदयाः प्राणहताः खखाष्टैकोद्धता गतिः ।चक्रासवो लब्धयुती स्वाहोरात्रासवः स्मृताः ॥ १४४ ॥
Multiply a planet's daily motion by the rising asus (4-second units) [of its sign]. Divide by 1800. Add the result to the asus of the circle (21600). That gives the asus of the planet's own day and night.
Simple meaning: A planet's own day-and-night length comes from its daily motion and its sign's rising time.
त्रिभद्युकर्णार्द्धगुणा स्वाहोरात्रार्द्धभाजिताः ।क्रमादेकद्वित्रिभाज्या तच्चापानि पृथक्पृथक् ॥ १४५ ॥
Take the sines of one, two and three signs, in order. Multiply each by the day-radius of three signs. Divide by its own day-radius. Take their arcs, one by one.
Simple meaning: A sine rule gives the equator rising points of the first three signs.
स्वाधोधः प्रविशोध्याथ मेषाल्लंकोदयासवः ।स्वागाष्टयोथंगोगैकाः शरत्र्येकं हिमांशवः ॥ १४६ ॥
Subtract each from the one below it. These are the rising asus (4-second units) at Lanka, from Aries: 1670, 1795 and 1935.
Simple meaning: At the equator Aries rises in 1670 asus, Taurus in 1795, Gemini in 1935.
स्वदेशचरखंडोना भवंतीष्टोदयासवः ।व्यस्ताव्यस्तैर्युतास्तैस्तैः कर्कटाद्यास्ततस्तु यः ॥ १४७ ॥
Take off the charakhandas (parts of the latitude correction) of your own place. These give the rising asus (4-second units) for the wanted place. The three from Cancer use the same figures in reverse order, with the same parts added in reverse.
Simple meaning: Take off the latitude parts to get local rising times. Cancer, Leo and Virgo add them back in reverse.
उत्क्रमेण षडेवैते भवंतीष्टास्तुलादयः ।गतभोग्यासवः कार्याः सायनास्स्वेष्टभास्कराः ॥ १४८ ॥
In reverse order these same six become the wanted [signs], from Libra on. Work out the gone and the yet-to-come asus (4-second units) from the Sun at the wanted time. Use its sayana (counted from the equinox) place.
Simple meaning: Libra onward use the same six figures in reverse. Work out the gone and coming parts from the Sun.
तद्वदेवैष्यलग्नासूनेवं व्याप्तास्तथा क्रमात् ।शेषं त्रिंशत्क्रमाद्व्यस्तमशुद्धेन विभाजितम् ॥ १५० ॥
In the same way, take off the asus (4-second units) of the signs that follow. Do the same with the gone ones, in reverse order. Multiply the remainder by thirty. Divide it by [the asus of] the sign that could not be taken off.
Simple meaning: Take off the rising times sign by sign. Turn what is left into degrees of the next sign.
भागयुक्तं च हीनं च व्ययनांशं तनुः कुजे ।प्राक्पश्चान्नतनाडीभ्यस्तद्वल्लंकोदयासुभिः ॥ १५१ ॥
Add these degrees, or take them off [for the reverse count]. Remove the ayanamsha (equinox shift). That is the lagna (rising sign) on the horizon. From the east or west hour-angle ghatikas (24-minute unit), [work] the same way with the Lanka asus (4-second units).
Simple meaning: Add or take off the degrees and remove the equinox shift to get the rising sign.
भानौ क्षयधने कृत्वा मध्यलग्नं तदा भवेत् ।भोग्यासूनूनकस्याथ भुक्तासूनधिकस्य च ॥ १५२ ॥
Take the result off the Sun, or add it to the Sun. Then you get the middle lagna (rising sign), the sign on the meridian. To find the time, take the yet-to-come asus (4-second units) of the smaller one. Take the gone asus of the larger one.
Simple meaning: Adjust the Sun to find the sign on the meridian. Then start the rule for finding the time.
सपिंड्यांतरलग्नासूनेवं स्यात्कालसाधनम् ।विराह्वर्कभुजांशाश्चेदिंद्राल्पाः स्याद् ग्रहो विधोः ॥ १५३ ॥
Add them to the asus (4-second units) of the signs between. This is how the time is worked out. Take the Sun less Rahu and find its arm in degrees. If this is under 14, there is an eclipse of the Moon.
Simple meaning: Time comes from the rising times in between. If the Sun is within 14 degrees of Rahu's axis, the Moon is eclipsed.
एकायनगतौ स्यातां सूर्याचन्द्रमसौ यदा ।तयुते मंडले क्रांत्यौ तुल्यत्वे वै धृताभिधः ॥ १७४ ॥
Say the Sun and Moon are on one course. Their sum makes a full circle. Their declinations are equal. Then it is called Vaidhriti.
Simple meaning: When the Sun and Moon are on the same course and have equal declinations, Vaidhriti occurs.
विपटीतायनगतौ चंद्रार्कौ क्रांतिलिप्तिकाः ।समास्तदा व्यतीपातो भगणार्द्धे तपोयुतौ ॥ १७५ ॥
Say the Moon and Sun are on opposite courses. Their declinations are equal in minutes. Their sum is half a circle. Then it is Vyatipata (a bad Sun and Moon yoga).
Simple meaning: When the Sun and Moon are on opposite courses with equal declinations, Vyatipata occurs.
भास्करेंद्वोर्भचक्रांतचक्रार्द्धावधिसंस्थयोः ।दृक्कल्पसाधितांशादियुक्तयोः स्वावपक्रमौ ॥ १७६ ॥
Say the Sun and Moon stand near the end of the circle, or of half the circle. Their degrees are found to match what is seen. Find the declination of each.
Simple meaning: When the Sun and Moon together are near 360 or 180 degrees, find each one's declination.
अथोजपदगम्येंदोः क्रांतिर्विक्षेपसंस्कृता ।यदि स्यादधिका भानोः क्रांतेः पातो गतस्तदा ॥ १७७ ॥
Then the Moon's declination, going by the odd quarter, is corrected by its latitude. If it is more than the Sun's declination, the fall point has already passed.
Simple meaning: Correct the Moon's declination by its latitude. If it is greater than the Sun's, the point has passed.
न्यूना चेत्स्यात्तदा भावी वामं युग्मपदस्य च ।यदान्यत्वं विधोः क्रांतिः क्षेपाचेद्यदि शुद्ध्यति ॥ १७८ ॥
If it is less, the point is still to come. For an even quarter it goes the other way. Say the Moon's declination must be taken from its latitude. Then the quarter changes.
Simple meaning: If it is less, the point is still to come. The even quarter works the other way.
क्रांत्योर्जेत्रिज्ययाभिस्ते परमायक्रमोद्धते ।तच्चापांतर्मर्द्धवायोर्ज्यभाविनशीतगौ ॥ १७९ ॥
Multiply the sines of the two declinations by the radius. Divide by [the sine of] the greatest declination. Take their arcs. Add the difference of the arcs, or half of it, to the Moon when the point is to come.
Simple meaning: Turn both declinations into arcs and correct the Moon by their difference.
शोध्यं चंद्राद्गते पाते तत्सूयगतिताडितम् ।चंद्रभुक्त्या हृत भानौ लिप्तादिशशिवत्फलम् ॥ १८० ॥
When the point has passed, subtract [this] from the Moon. Multiply it by the Sun's motion. Divide by the Moon's motion. Apply it to the Sun in minutes and so on, the same way as to the Moon.
Simple meaning: When the point has passed, take it off. Multiply by the Sun's motion and divide by the Moon's motion.
तद्वच्छशांकपातस्य फलं देयं विपर्ययात् ।कर्मैतदसकृत्तावत्क्रांती यावत्समेतयोः ॥ १८१ ॥
In the same way the result for the Moon's fall point is given in reverse. This work is repeated until the two declinations come equal.
Simple meaning: Repeat the work until the Sun's and Moon's declinations are equal.
क्रांत्योः समत्वे पातोऽथ प्रक्षिप्तांशोनिते विधौ ।हीनेऽर्द्धरात्रिकाघातो भावी तात्कालिकेऽधिका ॥ १८२ ॥
When the declinations are equal, that is the point. Now take the Moon less the degrees that were added. If it is less than the Moon at midnight, the point has passed. If it is more, the point is to come.
Simple meaning: When the declinations match, the point is reached. Compare with the midnight Moon to see if it passed.
स्थिरीकृतार्द्धरात्रार्द्धौ द्वयोर्विवरलिप्तकाः ।षष्टिश्चाचंद्रभुक्ताप्ता पातकालस्य नाडिकाः ॥ १८३ ॥
Take the fixed Moon and the Moon at midnight. Find the difference in minutes. Multiply by 60 and divide by the Moon's daily motion. This gives the ghatikas (24-minute unit) of the point's time.
Simple meaning: The gap between the fixed Moon and the midnight Moon gives the time of the point.
रवींद्वोर्मानयोगार्द्धं षष्ट्या संगुण्य भाजयेत् ।तयोर्भुक्त्यंतरेणाप्तं स्थित्यमर्द्धां नाडिकादिवत् ॥ १८४ ॥
Take half the sum of the sizes of the Sun and Moon. Multiply by 60. Divide by the difference of their motions. The result is the half-duration, in ghatikas (24-minute unit) and so on.
Simple meaning: Half the sum of the Sun's and Moon's sizes, times 60, divided by the difference in motion, gives the half-duration.
पातकालः स्फुटो मध्यः सोऽपि स्थित्यर्द्धवर्जितः ।तस्य संभवकालः स्यात्तत्संयोगेक्तसंज्ञकः ॥ ८५ ॥
The true point time is the middle. Less the half-duration, it is the starting time. With the half-duration added, it is called the end.
Simple meaning: The mid-time less the half-duration is the start. Plus the half-duration is the end.
आद्यंतकालयोर्मध्ये कालो ज्ञेयोऽतिदारुणः ।प्रज्वलज्ज्वलनाकारः सर्वकर्मसु गर्हितः ॥ १८६ ॥
The time between the beginning and the end is to be known as very harmful. It looks like a blazing fire. It is held unfit for all acts.
Simple meaning: The time between the start and the end is harmful and should be avoided for every task.