The Brihat jataka of Varaha Mihira / translated into English by N. Chidambaram Iyer.

  • Varāhamihira, 505-587.
Date:
1885
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    CH. 12.] ERIHAT JATAKA. and kinsmen, earn wealth hy proper means. A person born under a Kedara yoga will till lands, and by doing good deeds, will be useful to others. A person born under a Sula yoga will be bold in fight, will receive blows and will be fond of mouey (a) but will be poor. Notes. In this stanza the author describes the effects of t more Sankhya yogas. (a). Will bo fond of torture ” according to some other reading. 19. A person born under a Yuga yoga will be poor and will act in contravention of Vedic rules. A person born under a Gola yoga will be poor, dirty, ignorant, addicted to low deeds, unskilled in work, and will ever be wandering from place to place (a). Thus have been been described the several Nabbasa yogas with their effects. These effects are felt throughout a man’s life. Notes. In this stanza the effects of the remaining two Sankhya yogas are described. (a) . For bare subsistence according to commentator. (b) . Except in the case of Vajra and other yogas (vide stanza 14) whose effects will be felt, as stated, in particular periods of a person’s life. So that wherever no periods are mentioned the effects will be felt throughout life. Notes:—Dala Yogas will coincide neither with Asraya yogas nor with Akriti yogas. They might coincide with Sankhyayogas—with the Vailaki, the Dimini, the Pasa, or the Kedara yogas, in which case the yogas are to be treited as only Dala yogas and not as S mkhya yogas. (Fide stanza 10). Again, according to stanza 12 if the Astaya yogas coincide with other yogas, they cease to be Asraya