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वर्णो वश्यं तथा तारा योनिश्च ग्रहमैत्रकम् गणमैत्रं भकूटं च नाडी चैते गुणाधिकाः ॥ २१ ॥

Varṇa, vaśya, tārā, yoni, the friendship of the sign-lords, gaṇa-friendship, bhakūṭa and nāḍī — these are the eight points of matching, and each carries one more unit of merit (guṇa) than the one before it.

हित्वा मृगेन्द्रं नरराशिवश्याः सर्वे तथैषां जलजास्तु भक्ष्याः सर्वेऽपि सिंहस्य वशे विनाऽलिं ज्ञेयं नराणां व्यवहारतोऽन्यत् ॥ २३ ॥

All signs except Leo are under the sway (vaśya) of the human signs, and the watery signs are their food; all signs except Scorpio are under the sway of Leo. The remaining vaśya relations are to be understood from ordinary experience of how the creatures the signs stand for behave toward one another.

मित्रे चऽस्य रिपुः शशी गुरुशनिक्ष्माजाः समा गीष्पते र्मित्राण्यर्ककुजेन्दवो बुधसितौ शत्रू समः सूर्यजः मित्रे सौम्यशनी कवेः शशिरवी शत्रू कुजेज्यौ समौ मित्रे शुक्रबुधौ शनेः शशिरविक्ष्माजा द्विषोऽन्यः समः ॥ २८ ॥

— and the Moon is its enemy; Jupiter, Saturn and Mars are neutral to it. Jupiter’s friends are the Sun, Mars and the Moon; Mercury and Venus are its enemies; Saturn is neutral. Venus’s friends are Mercury and Saturn; the Moon and the Sun are its enemies; Mars and Jupiter are neutral. Saturn’s friends are Venus and Mercury; the Moon, the Sun and Mars are its enemies; the remaining planet (Jupiter) is neutral.

ज्येष्ठामैत्रभयोः कुरङ्ग उदितो मूलार्द्रयोः श्वा तथा मार्जारोऽदितिसार्पयोरथ मघायोन्योस्तथैवोन्दुरुः व्याघ्रो द्वीशभचित्रयोरपि च गौरर्यम्णबुध्न्यर्क्षयो र्योनिः पादगयोः परस्परमहावैरं भयोन्योस्त्यजेत् ॥ २६ ॥

The deer is the yoni of Jyeṣṭhā and Anurādhā; the dog of Mūla and Ārdrā; the cat of Punarvasu and Āśleṣā; the rat of Maghā and Pūrva-phalgunī; the tiger of Viśākhā and Citrā; the cow of Uttara-phalgunī and Uttara-bhādrapadā. One should reject a match in which the two star-yonis are great enemies of one another.

रक्षोनराऽमरगणाः क्रमतो मघाहिवस्विन्द्रमूलवरुणानलतक्षराधाः मूर्वोत्तरात्रयविधातृयमेशभानि मैत्रादितीन्दुहरिपौष्णमरुल्लघूनि ॥ २९ ॥

The rākṣasa gaṇa is Maghā, Āśleṣā, Dhaniṣṭhā, Jyeṣṭhā, Mūla, Śatabhiṣā, Kṛttikā, Citrā and Viśākhā; the human (manuṣya) gaṇa is the three Pūrvās, the three Uttarās, Rohiṇī, Bharaṇī and Ārdrā; the divine (deva) gaṇa is Anurādhā, Punarvasu, Mṛgaśirā, Śravaṇa, Revatī, Svātī and the three swift stars Hasta, Aśvinī and Puṣya.

निजनिजगणमध्ये प्रीतिरत्युत्तमा स्या दमरमनुजयोः सा मध्यमा सम्प्रदिष्टा असुरमनुजयोश्चेन्मृत्युरेव प्रदिष्टो दनुजविबुधयोः स्याद्वैरमेकान्ततोऽत्र ॥ ३० ॥

Within one and the same gaṇa the affection is of the very best kind; between the divine and the human gaṇa it is said to be middling; between the demonic and the human gaṇa death itself is foretold; between the demonic and the divine there is nothing but enmity.

ज्येष्ठारौद्रार्यमाम्भःपतिभयुगयुगं दास्रभं चैकनाडी पुष्येन्दुत्वाष्ट्रमित्रान्तकवसुजलभं योनिबुध्न्ये च मध्या वाय्वग्निव्यालविश्वोडुयुगयुगमथो पौष्णभं चापरा स्याद् दम्पत्योरेकनाड्यां परिणयनमसन्मध्यनाड्यां हि मृत्युः ॥ ३४ ॥

Jyeṣṭhā, Ārdrā, Uttara-phalgunī and Śatabhiṣā, each with its neighbouring star (Mūla, Punarvasu, Hasta, Pūrva-bhādrapadā), and Aśvinī make up the first (ādi) nāḍī. Puṣya, Mṛgaśirā, Citrā, Anurādhā, Bharaṇī, Dhaniṣṭhā, Pūrvāṣāḍhā, Pūrva-phalgunī and Uttara-bhādrapadā are the middle (madhya) nāḍī. Svātī, Kṛttikā, Āśleṣā and Uttarāṣāḍhā, each with its neighbour (Viśākhā, Rohiṇī, Maghā, Śravaṇa), and Revatī are the last (antya) nāḍī. Marriage of a couple in the same nāḍī is bad; in the same middle nāḍī it brings death.

प्रोक्ते दुष्टभकूटके परिणयस्त्वेकाधिपत्ये शुभो ऽथो राशीश्वरसौहृदेऽपि गदितो नाड्यृक्षशुद्धिर्यदि अन्यर्क्षैऽशपयोर्बलित्वसस्रिते नाड्यृक्षशुद्धौ तथा ताराशुद्धिवशेन राशिवशताभावे निरुक्तो बुधैः ॥ ३२ ॥

Even where the bhakūṭa is declared bad, marriage is approved if both signs have a single lord, or if the two sign-lords are friends — provided the nāḍī and the stars are clean. The same holds when the navāṃśa-lords are strong friends and nāḍī and stars are clean; and where the sign-vaśya fails, it is remedied by the purity of the tārā — so the learned have said.

मैत्र्यां राशिस्वामिनोरंशनाथद्वन्द्वस्यापि स्याद्गणानां न दोषः खेटारित्वं नाशयेत्सद्भकूटं खेटप्रीतिश्चापि दुष्टं भकूटम् ॥ ३३ ॥

When the lords of the two signs are friends, or the lords of the two navāṃśas, the gaṇa fault does not count. A good bhakūṭa destroys the enmity of the planets, and the friendship of the planets destroys a bad bhakūṭa.

राश्यैक्ये चेद्भिन्नमृक्षं द्वयोः स्यान्नक्षत्रैक्ये राशियुग्मं तथैव नाडीदोषो नो गणानां च दोषो नक्षत्रैक्ये पादभेदे शुभं स्यात् ॥ ३५ ॥

If the Moon-sign is the same but the stars differ, or the star is the same but the signs differ, there is neither a nāḍī fault nor a gaṇa fault; and when the star is the same, a difference of quarter (pāda) makes the match auspicious.

पौष्णेशशाक्राद्रससूर्यनन्दाः पूर्वार्धमध्याऽपरभागयुग्मम् भर्ता प्रियः प्राग्युजिभे स्त्रियाः स्यान्मध्ये द्वयोः प्रेम परे प्रिया स्त्री ॥ ३८ ॥

Beginning from Revatī, from Ārdrā and from Jyeṣṭhā, groups of six, twelve and nine stars form the first, middle and last portions of the star-circle. When the woman’s star falls in the first portion, the husband is dear to her; in the middle, the love is mutual; in the last, the wife is the beloved one.