बृहत्संहिता (आचार्य वराहमिहिर - स्थापत्य, खगोल, मौसम व जल विज्ञान)

746 बृहत्संहितायाम् [XCVIII. 16-17, XCIX. 1.
सावित्रपौष्णानिलमैत्रतिष्यत्वाष्ट्रे तथा चोडुगणाधिपर्क्षे ।
संस्कारदीक्षाव्रतमेखलादि कुर्याद्गुरौ शुक्रबुधेन्दुयुक्ते ॥१६॥
Sloka 16.—Sacraments, undertaking a religious act
such as a sacrifice, observance of a vow, tying the sacred
girdle (i. e., Upanayana) and such other things should be
performed on a Thursday, Friday, Wednesday or
Monday, when the Moon is in conjunction with any of
the asterisms, Hasta, Revati, Swati, Anuradha, Pushya,
Chittra and Mrigasiras.
शुद्धैर्द्वादशकेन्द्रनैधनगृहैः पापैस्त्रिषष्ठायगै-
र्लग्ने केन्द्रगतेऽथवा सुरगुरौ दैत्येन्द्रपूज्येऽपि वा ।
सर्वारम्भफलप्रसिद्धिरुदये राशौ च कर्तुः शुभे
सग्राम्यास्थिरमोदये च भवनं कार्यं प्रवेशोऽपि वा ॥१७॥
Sloka 17.—All undertakings are crowned with suc-
cess when the 12th, 8th and the Kendra houses are un-
contaminated (occupied by benefics and without malefics)
the malefics in the 3rd, 6th or the 11th, and Jupiter or
Venus in the Lagna or in a Kendra. A house should be
constructed or entered when the Lagna at the time is
beneficial to the owner (i. e., when it does not happen to
be the 12th or 8th from his Janma Rasi) and happens to
be a rural as well as a fixed sign.
Thus ends the 98th Adhyaya on the "Functions and Proper-
ties of the Asterisms."
तिथिकर्मगुणम् ॥९९॥ On the Functions and
Properties of Tithis or Lunar days.
कमलजविधातृहरियमशशिशुक्रषद्वक्त्रशक्रवसुभुजगाः ।
धर्मेशसवितृमन्मथकल्यो विश्वे च तिथिपतयः ॥१॥