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One who has few offspring and little sexual contact; of the Shudra the laboring class caste; fierce and cruel; possessing strength during the day; a biped two-footed; of even proportions and symmetrical limbs; and having a half-risen body: such is to be known as the sign Libra. || 8 || . Fixed referring to a 'fixed' quality in astrology, suggesting stability; white in color; a feminine sign; a watery sign; lord of the North direction; powerful at night; voiceless original: 'nih-shabdah', meaning a silent sign; many-footed; of a phlegmatic Kapha|One of the three bodily humors in Ayurveda, associated with water and earth constitution; rising evenly; a water-dweller; having excessive sexual contact and many offspring; auspicious and gentle; of a smooth or oily body; of the Brahmin the priestly or intellectual class caste: such is to be known as the sign Scorpio, which has a half-risen body. || 9 ||
Now he describes the form of the sign Scorpio ||
Fixed, white, feminine, watery, lord of the North, night-strong, voiceless, many-footed, and phlegmatic ||
Rising evenly, water-dwelling, with excessive contact and offspring, auspicious, smooth-bodied, a Brahmin is Scorpio || 9 || Now he describes the form of the sign Sagittarius
|| Masculine, gold-colored, mountain-dwelling, rising evenly, very noisy, day-strong, eastern, firm-bodied, yellow ||
Royal, hot-natured, bilious, Sagittarius has few offspring and little contact, dual-natured, biped, and fierce || 10 ||
Masculine sign; having the luster of gold; a mountain-dweller; rising evenly; very noisy making a great sound; powerful during the day; lord of the East direction; firm-limbed; rough lacking luster or oilyness; yellow in color; of the Kshatriya the royal or warrior class caste; of a hot temperament; of a bilious Pitta|The bodily humor associated with fire and metabolic heat constitution; said to have few offspring and little sexual contact; dual-natured possessing both movable and fixed qualities; a biped two-footed—though it should be known that the first half is two-footed and the second half is four-footed, as the author himself will explain later. An airy sign original: 'agni', though contextually here it refers to the fire element; fierce and cruel; of a golden or yellow hue: such is to be known as the sign Sagittarius. || 10 ||