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Brihat Jataka

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व्रीडामन्थरचारुवीक्षणगति: स्त्रस्तांसबाहु: सुखी श्लक्ष्ण: सत्यरत: कलासु निपुण: शास्त्रार्थविद्धार्मिक: ॥ मेधावी सुरतप्रिय: परगृहैर्वित्तैश्च संय्युज्यते कन्यायां परदेशग: प्रियवचा: कन्याप्रजोऽल्पात्मज: ॥ १७-६ ॥

Motion of the eyes is beloved, wide, and bashful; arms and shoulders drooping, possessed of happiness, gentle, delighted in the truth, skillful in the arts, knowing the purpose of the textbooks, virtuous, very intelligent, fond of sexual pleasure with the wives and wealth of others, going to a foreign country, kind speech, and bearing daughters and few sons when [the Moon] is in Virgo.

english translation

देवब्राह्मणसाधुपूजनरत: प्राज्ञ: शुचि: स्त्रीजित: प्रांशुश्चोन्नतनासिक: कृशुचलद्गात्रोऽटनोऽनोर्थान्वित: ॥ हीनाङ्ग: क्रयविक्रयेषु कुशलो देवद्विनामा सरुक् बन्धूनामुपकारकृद्विरुषितस्त्यक्तस्तु तै: सप्तमे ॥ १७-७ ॥

Delighted in the worship of the divine, priests, and saints; wise, virtuous, henpecked, tall, elevated nose, lean and trembling body, wandering, possessed of artha, lame, skillful in buying and selling, having two names from the divine, sickly; performing friendly service of kinsmen, but irritated and shunned by those [when the Moon] is in the 7th zodiac sign.

english translation

पृथुलनयनवक्षा वृत्तजङ्घोरजानुर्जननकगुरवियुक्त शैशवे व्याधितश्च ॥ नरपतिकुलपूज्य: पिंगल: क्रूरचेष्टो झषकुलिशखगांकश्छन्नपापोऽलिजात: ॥ १७-८ ॥

Broad eyes and chest; round shins, thighs, and knees, separated from father and guru in childhood, diseased, respectable family lording over people, yellowish, cruel behavior; mark of a fish, thunderbolt, or bird; and hidden evil for one born in Scorpio.

english translation

व्यादीर्घास्यशिरोधर: पितृधनस्त्यागी कविर्वीर्यवान् वक्ता स्थूलरदश्रवाधरनस: कर्मोद्यत: शिल्पवित् ॥ कुव्जांस: कुनखी समांसलभुज: प्रागल्भ्यवान् धर्मविद्- बन्धुद्विट् न बलात्समेति च वशं साम्नैकसाध्योऽश्वज: ॥ १७-९ ॥

Long extended face and neck, wealth from the father, ascetic, poet, possessed of vigor, speaker; has large teeth, ears, uterus, and nose; ready for action, knowledge of the arts, hunchbacked shoulders, bad or diseased nails, a pair of powerful arms, possessed of importance, knowing dharma, hating kinsmen, not from power does one come together into a position of power, but by negotiation to be accomplished by oneself is one one born of the horse (the Moon in Sagittarius).

english translation

नित्यं लालयति स्वदारतनयान्धर्मध्वजोऽध: कृश: स्वक्ष: क्षामकटिर्गृहीतवचन: सौभाग्ययुक्तोऽलस: ॥ शीतालुर्मनुजोऽटनश्च मकरे सत्त्वाधिक: काव्यकृ- ल्लुब्धोऽगम्यजराङ्गनासु निरत: सन्त्यक्तलज्जोऽघृण: ॥ १७-१० ॥

Always [with the Moon] in Capricorn, one causes dally in one’s own wives and sons, one is a hypocrite, lean lower part, handsome-eyed, thin hips, good memory, joined to good fortune, lazy, sensitive to cold, a person wandering, eminent warrior, creator of wisdom, covetous, delighted among unapproachable old women, lacking shame, and pitiless.

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