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KṚṢI-PARĀŚARA 65
20. King Venus (lit., the preceptor of demons) always enriches
monarchs, effects the acquisition of wealth, paddy and the like, and
makes the earth full of all crops.
21. Saturn being the king of the year, there take place fight,
stormy but scanty rainfall, constant wind, disease and calamity.
22. Just as the consequences with regard to rainfall have been
related under a planet being the king of a year, so also the con-
sequences as to rainfall are to be known by the wise when (that planet)
is the minister.
Now the determination of the cloud
23. The Śaka era, added to 3, (is to be) divided by 4; know the
remainder to be the cloud starting with Āvarta in due order.
24. Āvarta, Saṃvarta, Puṣkara and Droṇa—these are said to be
the four (kinds of) clouds in due order from Āvarta.
25. Āvarta is confined to a particular locality, under Saṃvarta
there is water everywhere; under Puṣkara water is scarce and under
Droṇa the earth has abundant water.
Now the ascertainment of āḍhaka of water
26. The measure of āḍhaka is said by sages to be a hundred
_yojanas_¹ wide and thirty yojanas deep.
27. When the sun passes to Cancer, the moon being in Gemini,
Aries, Taurus and Pisces, water becomes a hundred āḍhakas; it is
half when (the sun is) in Sagittarius, (they tell it to be) eighty (when
the sun is in) Virgo and Capricornus.
28. (They) say, there are ninety-six āḍhakas of water (when the
sun is) in Cancer, Aquarius, Scorpio and Libra. Agricultural opera-
tions are to be carried on after ascertaining the annual (quantity) of
water by this measurement.
29. Indra always showers ten parts on the ocean, six on the
mountain and four on the earth.
¹ Yojana="4 or 5 English miles, but more correctly=4 krośas or about
9 miles; acc. to other calculations=2½ English miles, and acc. to some=8
krośas" (Skt.—Eng. Dictionary by M. Wms.).