Notes

(a) That is, of the planets between the Lagna and the Moon, the number in the visible hemisphere is the number of midwives within the room, and the number of planets in the invisible hemisphere will be the number of midwives outside the room. In this view, Varaha Mihira does not concur, for it is opposed to his Swalpa Jataka.

Again, if benefic planets occupy the signs from the Lagna to the Moon, the midwives will all be beautiful women, well dressed and adorned; if malefic planets occupy the signs, the women will be dirty, ugly and with no ornaments.

Again, if any of the planets between the Lagna and the Moon be in their exaltation signs or retrograde in motion, the number given by them shall be trebled. But, if they be in their own signs, Navamsas or Drek-kauas, etc, the number given by the several planets shall be doubled.

23. The structure and other peculiarities (a) of the body shall be determined from the lord of the rising Na-vamsa or from the most powerful planet; and the color (b) of the body shall be determined from the (lord of the) Navamsa occupied by the Moon; and the size of the several parts of the body will follow the signs representing them, beginning from the rising sign which represents the head, (c)

Notes

(a) These are given in stanzas 8 to 11 in Chapter II (Definitions And Elementary Planetary Principles).

The Commentator adds that if the sign represented by the rising Navamsa be powerful, then the physical peculiarities shall be determined from the lord of such

Navamsa; if not, they shall be determined from the most powerful planet.

(b) This is given in stanza 4, Chapter II (Definitions And Elementary Planetary Principles). According to some, the color must be determined from the sign occupied by the Moon, vide Stanza 20, Chapter I (Definitions And Elementary Zodiacal Principles). To this the Commentator objects. For, he says that there are no people of the color of the parrot. In determining the color, the country, the climate, occupation and the like shall be taken into account.

(c) The division of the body referred to here is the same as that referred to in Stanza 4, Chapter!, with this difference that while the latter begins from sign Aries, the former begins from the rising sign. The divisions are as follow:

The rising sign represents the head; the 2nd house represents the face; the 3rd, the breast; the 4th, the heart; the 5th, the belly; the 6th, the hip; the 7th, the lower abdomen; the 8th, the genital organ; the 9th, the two thighs; the 10th, the two knees; the 11th, the two shanks and the 12th, the two feet. Now, in Stanza 19 of Chapter I (Definitions And Elementary Zodiacal Principles), the relative magnitudes of the several signs of the Zodiac are given as follow:

A

Aries ...........

20

- Pisces.

Taurus...........

24

- Aquarius.

B

Gemini..........

28

- Capricorn.

Cancer..............

32

- Sagittari.

C

Leo .............

36

- Scorpio.

Virgo...............

40

- Libra.

Of these, the 4 signs referred to in division A, are known as short signs. The 4 of division B are known as signs of middle length and the 4 of division C are known as long signs. So that, that part of the body will be long or short according as the sign representing it, is long or short. If the lord of a short sign occupy a long sign, or if the lord of a long sign occupy a short sign, the size of the part of body represented will be of middle length. If several planets occupy a sign, the most powerful of them shall be taken into account, and if no planets occupy a sign, the size of the part of body will simply follow that of the sign.

24. The three-fold divisions of the body beginning from the head, from the neck and from the lower abdomen, according as the rising Drekkana is the first, the second, or the third are as follow:

The twelve Houses.

Part of body represented when the rising Drekkana is

The first.

The second.

The third.

The rising sign.

Head.

Neck.

Lower abdomen.

2nd house..

Right eye

• • •

Right arm

...

Genital organ.

12th

"

...

Left eye

...

Left arm

• • •

Anus.

3rd

"

...

Right ear

...

Right hand

• • •

Right testicle.

11th

"

...

Left ear

...

Left hand

...

Left testicle.

4th

"

...

Right nostril

Right side

• • •

Right thigh.

10th

"

...

Left nostril..

Left side

...

Left thigh.

5th

"

...

Right temple

'Right breast

...

Right knee.

9th

"

...

Left temple..

Left breast

...

Left knee.

6th

,,

...

Right cheek.

Right belly

...

Right ankle.

8th

"

...

Left cheek

.

Left belly

...

Left ankle.

7th

"

...

Mouth

...

The navel

...

The feet.

25. Wounds will occur in those parts of body the signs representing which are occupied by malefic planets; but if such signs be occupied or aspected by benefic planets, moles will appear in those parts; if such malefic or benefic planets be in their own signs or Navamsas or in fixed signs or fixed Navamsas, the wound or the mole will exist from birth; otherwise, they will appear at a future time (a). As regards wounds, if the planet causing it be Saturn, the wound will be caused by a stone or by wind; if Mars, then by fire or weapon or by poison; if (malefic) Mercury, it will be caused by earth (b); if the Sun, then by wood or by quadrupeds; if the (waning) Moon, then by horned animals or by water animals. There will be no wound in those parts of the body which are represented by signs occupied by the other (benefic) planets, (c)

Notes

(a) That is, in the Dasa or planetary periods of the several planets.

(b) By landslips and by a piece of clod.

(c) By Jupiter, Venus, (benefic) Mercury and waxing Moon.

For the purposes of this stanza, the division of body is that referred to in Stanza 24.

26. If three planets, whether malefic or benefic together with Mercury occupy a single sign, a wound or a mole will appear without fail in the parts of body represented by the sign (a). Again, in the division(b) of the body into twelve parts beginning from the head (which the Lagna represents), if a malefic planet occupy the sixth house, a wound will appear(c) (in the hip); but if the malefic planet be aspected by a benefic planet, both a dark and a white mole will appear; but if benefic planets occupy the sixth house, there will appear only a crowded growth of hair.

Notes

(a) The division of body referred to is that given in Stanza 24.

(b) The division referred to is that given in Note (c) to Stanza 23.

(c) In theDasa period of the most powerful planet. Also, if the planet occupying the 6th house be in his own sign or Navamsa or in a fixed sign or Navamsa, the wound or the mole will exist from birth.