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Narada Purana (Jyotisha Selections) · Chapter 4
जातकम् ३
This chapter gives women's horoscope rules. It opens with placements that may trouble a man's home life and well-being.
Then it reads a woman's nature from the rising sign and the Moon. Odd and even signs are compared, and so are the thirtieth parts of a sign. Then it turns to the 7th house. That house shows the husband's nature. The chapter also lists what good planets in the rising sign tend to give. It adds that results told for men apply to women where they fit.
The English below is our translation from the Sanskrit.
मानोन्मान्पापसोतौलीभांडमुल्पविचिंतकः ।क्षुत्तृड्युतो नरः कुंभीगृध्रस्य स्त्रीसुतोपगः ॥ ३५८ ॥
A man of measures and weights, in a shop, with a balance. He thinks about the price of goods. [Next:] a man worn by hunger and thirst, holding a pot, with a vulture's face. He goes to his wife and son. (Our text is unclear here: the words read as in a shop and a vulture's face.)
Simple meaning: A man with weights and scales thinking of prices; and a hungry, thirsty man with a pot going to his family.
धन्वीकिंतरचेष्टस्तुहैमवर्मामृगानुगः ।सिंधेकूजंव्रजंतीस्त्रीनानासर्पसितांहिका ॥ ३५९ ॥
An archer who acts like a kinnara (a heavenly musician), in golden armour, following deer. [Next:] a woman going to the shore of the sea. Many snakes are on her feet. (Our text is unclear here: the word for her feet, white or bound.)
Simple meaning: An archer in golden armour who follows deer; and a woman going to the seashore with snakes on her feet.
सौख्यस्पृहाह्यावृतांगीभत्रर्थकच्छपाकृतिः ।कूर्मास्यो मलये सिंहः श्वक्रोंडमृगभीषकः ॥ ३६० ॥
A woman who longs for comfort, her body covered, shaped like a tortoise. She is [there] for her husband's sake. [Next:] a lion with a tortoise's face on the Malaya hills. It frightens dogs, boars and deer.
Simple meaning: A covered, tortoise-shaped woman who longs for comfort; and a tortoise-faced lion scaring dogs, boars and deer.
कूर्चांसने चंपकाभो दंडी कौशेयकानिनी ।परमोऽथो गृध्रमुखः स्नेहमद्याशनस्पृहः ॥ ३६२ ॥
On a seat of kusha grass sits a man bright as a champaka flower. He holds a staff and wears silk and deerskin. [Next:] a vulture-faced man who craves oil, wine and food. (Our text is unclear here: the word read as deerskin.)
Simple meaning: A staff-holding man in silk and deerskin on a grass seat; and a vulture-faced man who loves oil and wine.
नौस्थोध्वौसंविभूषांर्थ नानारत्नकरोंचितः ।नौस्थाब्धेः कूलमायांती सयूथां चम्पकानना ॥ ३६४ ॥
A man in a boat, his hands adorned with many jewels. [Next:] a woman in a boat, coming to the shore of the sea with her group. Her face is like a champaka flower. (Our text is unclear here: a few words about the man.)
Simple meaning: A jewelled man in a boat; and a woman coming by boat to the seashore with her group.
It reads a woman's nature and her husband's nature from the rising sign, the Moon and the 7th house.
Verse 4.34 says her husband's nature follows the sign or part on the 7th. Mercury's may give a learned, skilled man.
Verse 4.37 says three good planets in the lagna give comfort, wealth and virtue.