Simha represents forests, inaccessible places, caves, mountains covered with forests and places frequented by forest men.

Kanya represents places overgrown with grass, women's sleeping apartments, and female schools.

Tula represents customs houses, middle streets, bazaars, roads leading to towns, market places, high ground and places where crops grow.

Vrischika represents caves, fortified towns, ditches, places where there are poisonous stones and hills, snake holes and scorpion holes.

Dhanus represents good and even places where there are horses or cavalry men or armed men, places of sacrificial fire, ceremonies or where vehicles are kept.

Makara represents rivers, gardens, forests, tanks, water banks and ditches.

Kumbha represents places frequented by birds, by women, by dealers in liquor or by gamblers.

Meena represents temples, places frequented by the Brahmins, holy waters, rivers and seas

(b) If both (fixed and movable), the birth would occur in the outer verandah of the house.

14. If, at the time of birth, Mars and Saturn occupy a single sign, and if the Sun or the Moon (a) occupy the 5th or the 9th house from them, the child will be deserted by its mother; but if the Sun or the Moon be aspected by Jupiter, the child, though abandoned by its mother, will live long and in comfort.

Notes

(a) If the Moon occupy the setting sign according to some other reading.

15. If a malefic planet (a) aspect the Moon in the rising sign, Mars occupying the 7th house, or if Mars and Saturn occupy the 11th house from the Moon when in the rising sign aspected by a malefic planet (b) the child deserted by its mother will die. If the Moon be also aspected by a powerful benefic planet, (c) the deserted child will fall into the hands of the class of men represented by the aspecting benefic planet and will live. If the aspecting malefic planet be powerful, the deserted child will fall into the hands of others and will perish.

Notes

(a) Saturn or Mars.

(b) The Sun.

(c) If Jupiter aspect the Moon, none of these evils will befall the child.

16. If a paternal planet be powerful, the birth will occur in the father's house (a); if a maternal planet be powerful, the birth will occur in the mother's house (b); if three benefic planets be in their depression signs the birth will occur at the foot of walls, trees and the like (c); and if the three planets occupying a single sign fail to aspect the Lagna and the Moon also occupying a single sign, the birth will occur in a forest (d),

Notes

(a) Or in the house of the paternal . uncle or paternal aunt.

(b) Or in the house of the maternal uncle or maternal aunt.

(c) The like:-That is near rivers, wells, flower gardens or hills.

(d) So that, if three planets occupying a single house aspect the Lagna and the Moon, the birth will occur in a locality where crowds of people live.

17. If the Moon occupy the Navamsa of Saturn or the 4th house (a) from the Lagna, or if she be aspected by Saturn, or if she occupy a watery Navamsa (b) or the same house as Saturn, the birth will occur in a dark spot (c). If three or more planets be in their Neecha signs (d), the birth will occur on the bare ground (e). The birth will follow the manner in which the rising; sign reaches the horizon (f). If malefic planets occupy the 4th or 7th house, from the Moon the mother will suffer much from travail (g).

Notes

(a) Yavanachariar uses the word Kendra, meaning the 1st, 4th, 7th and the 10th houses.

(b) Water Navamsas are those of Cancer and Pisces.

(c) If the Sun be powerful and be aspected by Mars, there will be no darkness.

(d) According to Saravali, if the Moon occupy the Lagna or the 4th house and be in his depression sign, the birth will also occur on the bare ground.

(e) On ground covered with straw according to the Commentator.

(f) That is, if the sign be one that rises with its head, then the head of the child will appear first; if the sign be one that rises with its leg, the leg of the child will appear first; and if it be one that rises with both its head and leg, as sign Pisces, the hands will appear first.

According to certain Commentators, this part of the text is interpreted as follows: "If the lord of the rising sign be in his direct course, the birth will be a natural one; and if in his retrograde motion, the birth will be an irregular one." This meaning has the support of Manittha.

(g) Or if malefic planets occupy the same sign as the Moon, the mother will suffer from travail.

18. The oil shall be determined from the Moon (a), the wick from the rising sign (b); the fixed or other nature of the lamp shall be determined from the sign occupied by the Sun (c). The entrance to the room will be in the direction of the powerful planet occupying a Kendra (d) or in that of the most powerful planet.

Notes

(a) That is, if the Moon occupy the beginning of a sign, the oil of the lamp in the delivery room will be full; if the Moon occupy the middle part of a sign, the oil will be one-half, and if the Moon occupy the end of a sign, there will be no oil in the lamp; in other words, the quantity of oil varies with the position of the Moon in the sign occupied by her.

According to Saravali, if the Moon be full, the oil will be full and the quantity of the oil varies with the illumined portion of the Moon's disc. Bhatta Utpala, the Commentator, objects to this view, for, he says that if such were the case, children born on new-moon days should always be born in the dark - this cannot be.

(b) That is, if the beginning of a sign begin to rise, the wick will be long and unburnt; if the middle of the sign begin to rise, the wick will be half burnt; and if the end of the sign begin to rise, the wick will be nearly wholly burnt. In other words, the length of the wick varies with the position of the point of the rising sign in contact with the horizon. The wick is of the color of the rising sign.