The Jewel of All Meanings

...portions. || 17 || In order, these are: Slow 31, Birthless 32, Death 33, Time-Fire 34, Thief 35, and Thorny 36. || Then follow: Nectar, Moon-like, Full Moon, Poison-burnt 37, 38, and Chief of Destruction. || 18 || Destruction of Lineage, Portent 39, 40, and Form of Time 41; then the gentle ones 42: Soft-portioned and Very Cool-portioned. || Fanged 43, Terrible 44, Moon-faced, Skilled 45, Time-Fire 46, Staff-bearer 47, Weapon-bearer, and Stainless-portioned 48. || 19 || Portions of good and evil: Very Cool-portioned 54, 55, Ocean of Nectar 56, Wandering Moon, and Moon-streak 57, 58. These should be known in order; in even signs, the order is reversed. If a planet is in a beneficial portion, it is auspicious. || 20 || All planets situated in cruel sixty-fold divisions original: "Shashtyansha", the 1/60th division of a zodiac sign used to determine precise karmic effects destroy their own results. Even if they possess full strength or are in their signs of exaltation or root-trines original: "Moolatrikona", a specific favorable placement for a planet, || 21 || or in their own signs, centers, or best divisions, or in the signs of friends or trines, or born of the seven-fold divisions, or in their own portions, or joined with the portions of great friends— || 22 || those ten divisions original: "Dashavarga", the ten types of divisional charts which were proclaimed by the ancient teachers and great seers—when these divisions combine, they receive names such as "Parijata" and so on. || 23 || But if planets are placed in bad houses, enemy signs, signs of debilitation, or are combust rendered invisible by the sun's proximity, they are devoid of strength. If they are in the "state of death," they destroy the auspicious "Parijata" and other combinations. || 24 || This view is not to be respected. The primary view to be accepted is: in one's own ninth-part, one's own third-part, and one's own house. The union of three divisions is called "Excellent" original: "Uttama"; four divisions is "Gopura" meaning a city gate or temple tower. The combination of five divisions is here called "Simhasana" meaning a Throne. || 25 || Two divisions is "Parijata" the celestial coral tree; six is the "Paravata" Pigeon portion. The seventh is "Devaloka" Heavenly Realm, and the eighth is...

+ The ten divisions are: Sign, Hour, Third-part, Thirty-fold part, Ninth-part, Twelfth-part, Seventh-part, Tenth-part, Sixteen-fold part, and Sixty-fold part. * In another text: The portions of root-trine, own house, and exaltation among the ten divisions—these are called the "Vaisheshika" portions, beginning with the name "Parijata-Uttama."