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Narada Purana (Jyotisha Selections) · by Vyasa
Chapter 5 · Portents, Comets
ग्रहचारः केतवश्च
एकस्मिन्नेव मासे तु चंद्रार्कग्रहणं यदा ।विरोधो धरणीशानामर्थवृष्टिविनाशनम् ॥ ८७ ॥
In the full Narada Purana (Purva Bhaga) this is chapter 56, verse 87.
The Moon and the Sun may both be eclipsed in a single month. Then kings quarrel, and wealth and rain are lost.
Simple meaning: Two eclipses in one month can bring quarrels among kings and loss of wealth and rain.
ग्रस्तोदितावस्तमितौ नृपधान्यविनाशदौ ।
A rising or setting eclipse can harm kings and grain. A full eclipse can bring fear of hunger, illness and fire.
सौम्यायने क्षत्रविप्रानितरांहन्ति दक्षिणे ।
An eclipse in the Sun's northern course may harm warriors and priests; in the southern, others.
तथैव ग्रामभेदाः स्युर्मोक्षभेदास्तथा दश ।
Eclipses have ten kinds of covering and ten of release. Even gods cannot tell them all.