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

Adh. VI. Sl. 8-12] षष्ठोऽध्यायः 79
मध्येन यदि मघानां गतागतं लोहितः करोति ततः ।
पाण्ड्यो नृपो विनश्यति शस्त्रोद्योगाद्भयमवृष्टिः ॥८॥
Sloka 8.—If Mars should pass through the middle of
the asterism Magha and retrograde from there alone, the
Pandya king will meet with his end, and people will
suffer from drought and war.
भित्वा मघां विशाखां भिन्दन् भौमः करोति दुर्भिक्षम् ।
मरकं करोति घोरं यदि भित्वा रोहिणीं याति ॥९॥
Sloka 9.—If Mars after cutting the asterism Magha
should cut Visakha, there will be famine in the country.
If he should cut the star Rohini, there will be terrible
mortality in the land.
दक्षिणतो रोहिण्याश्चरन्महीजोऽर्घवृष्टिनिग्रहकृत् ।
धूमायन् सशिखो वा विनिहन्यात् पारियात्रस्थान् ॥१०॥
Sloka 10.—When Mars passes through the southern
side of Rohini, kings will suffer, prices will fall and there
will be little rain. If he appears surrounded by smoke or
flame, people living in the Pariyatra region will be
destroyed.
प्राजापत्ये श्रवणे मूले त्रिषु चोत्तरेषु शाक्रे च ।
विचरन् घननिबहानामुपघातकरः क्षमातनयः ॥११॥
Sloka 11.—If Mars 'should transit Rohini, Sravana,
Moola, Uttaraphalguni, Uttarashadha, Uttarabhadra or
Jyeshta, he will spoil the thick clouds (Nimbus) that have
been formed, and there will be no rain.
चारोदयाः प्रशस्ताः श्रवणमघादित्यहस्तमूलेषु ।
एकपदाश्विविशाखाप्राजापत्येषु च कुजस्य ॥१२॥
Sloka 12 —If Mars should emerge from the Sun's
conjunction when he is passing the asterisms Sravana,