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ध्रुवः प्रज्वलितो घोरमपसव्यं प्रवर्तते । चित्रास्वात्यन्तरे चैव धिष्ठितः परुषो ग्रहः॥६-३-१६॥
Dhruva appears blazing and moves in a dreadful, leftward (inauspicious) course; and a harsh planet is stationed in the interval between Citrā and Svātī.
english translation
वक्रानुवक्रं कृत्वा च श्रवणे पावकप्रभः । ब्रह्मराशिं समावृत्य लोहिताङ्गो व्यवस्थितः॥६-३-१७॥
Having taken a retrograde and counter-retrograde course, fire-bright in Śravaṇa, the red-bodied one remains positioned, covering the Brahma-rāśi.
english translation
सर्वसस्यप्रतिच्छन्ना पृथिवी फलमालिनी । पञ्चशीर्षा यवाश्चैव शतशीर्षाश्च शालयः॥६-३-१८॥
The earth is covered with every kind of crop and garlanded with fruit; barley appears with five heads, and rice plants with a hundred heads.
english translation
प्रधानाः सर्वलोकस्य यास्वायत्तमिदं जगत् । ता गावः प्रस्नुता वत्सैः शोणितं प्रक्षरन्त्युत॥६-३-१९॥
Cows—revered as the chief supports of all the worlds, on whom this world is understood to rest—were seen with their calves streaming milk, yet at the same time discharging blood: a baleful portent, an inversion of nature’s order.
english translation
निश्चेरुरपिधानेभ्यः खड्गाः प्रज्वलिता भृशम् । व्यक्तं पश्यन्ति शस्त्राणि संग्रामं समुपस्थितम्॥६-३-२०॥
Swords were seen slipping forth from their sheaths, blazing with fierce radiance; as though the weapons themselves clearly ‘knew’ that battle was at hand.
english translation