The Astrologer's Favorite (Unknown) - Page 9

⚠The manuscript leaves exhibit significant physical damage along the left vertical edges, resulting in partial loss of text. The ink is faded in several sections, and there is minor bleed-through from the reverse sides. The script is a semi-cursive Devanagari hand.

The half-circle of the Vyatipata A highly inauspicious astrological alignment or 'yoga' is entirely to be avoided. The pulses/time-measures should be avoided? unclear? for three nights.
That which is seen at the head of the Shula The 'Spear' yoga and in the mouth of the Vyatipata causes the destruction of limbs and life, just as a strike from a weapon.
First, the first... thirteen parts... the head...
...in the wheel... sorrow... twelve parts... the fall of the gaze...
ninety... here even here, men among the Maghas A specific lunar mansion or Nakshatra fall into deformity.
Because it leads to the destruction of auspiciousness, therefore, dear one, it must be abandoned 18. Twenty-two...
9 || 43 The Vyatipata and the twenty-second... in the city of Patana, ten ghatikas A unit of time equal to 24 minutes fall?... the remainder.
...by those qualities... in the pulses/time-measures, the fruit of the intellect... in the fall.

Upon the waning of the moon... for the increase of the wealth of Shri Deva... The Chapter on Yogas original: Yoga-prakarana 2...
Bava, Balava, Kaulava Names of the 'movable' Karanas or half-lunar days... Taitila, Gara, Vanija, and Vishti Vishti: an inauspicious period during which no important work should be started.
...the ripening of the results of the Karanas Divisions of a lunar day... 1 on the fourteenth day of the dark fortnight original: Asita-chaturdashi...
Chatushpada, Naga, and Kimstughna The 'fixed' Karanas, usually occurring at the end of the lunar month follow after this. Wealth is born... serpents, wind, demons, power...
...at sunrise... in Bava it is known... for those born in the directions... in Balava friends... Yama, gods...
...demons, serpents, happiness... Taitila 3...
...in Vanija, trade activities. The action of Vishti is known for destruction, not for the killing of enemies... specifically...
...five... six... the ghatikas...