The Lamp of Prices

Result 22 If Saturn original: "यम" (yama); here used as a name for Saturn as the dealer of fate and Venus original: "शुक्र" (śukra) are joined by the sons of Diti original: "दितिनन्दनौ" (ditinandanau); referring to the Asuras or demonic planets like Rahu/Ketu in the direction of the wind original: "वायु" (vāyu); the Northwest, [the world] suffers ña?. However, if excellent barley original: "यव" (yava) is harvested during the year of the Shatabhisha original: "शौतभिदं" (śautabhidaṃ); referring to the lunar mansion Shatabhisha nakshatra, other grains will be obtained in great abundance month by month.

23 When the Sun original: "आदित्य" (āditya) moves into the sign of fire original: "अग्ने" (agne); likely referring to Aries and Venus original: "भार्गव" (bhārgava) moves with its brother original: "भ्रातृ" (bhrātṛ); likely referring to Mars, and if the son of the Moon original: "सोम सुत" (somasuta); the planet Mercury is situated between them, then abundance original: "सुभिक्ष" (subhikṣa); plenty of food and resources is born there.

24 If the two sons of Saturn original: "शनि पुत्रौ" (śani putrau); possibly Saturn and the secondary planet Gulika are in one place and do not see original: "न पश्ये" (na paśye); an astrological aspect the son of the Moon Mercury, there will be abundance; there, the earth original: "मही" (mahī) will be filled with rivers of grain.

25 If the son of the Earth original: "भूमि सुत" (bhūmisuta); the planet Mars is in Aries original: "मेषे" (meṣe) and the Sun original: "भास्कर" (bhāskara) is in Taurus original: "वृषे" (vṛṣe), diseases will arise for kings original: "भूपते" (bhūpate) and there will be great fear among the people.

26 If Venus original: "भार्गव" (bhārgava), Mars original: "भौम" (bhauma), and Saturn original: "शौरि" (śauri) are all situated in Taurus, there will surely be famine original: "दुर्भिदं" (durbhikṣaṃ), the downfall of kings original: "राजभंग" (rājabhaṅga), and the earth original: "मेदिनी" (medinī) shall be scorched by fire.

27 If Saturn original: "शनैश्वरो" (śanaiścaro), Venus, and Mars are all in Aries, the earth will become as a single ocean original: "एकार्णावा" (ekārṇavā); a metaphor for total destruction or deluge filled either with blood or with water.

28 If the Sun original: "भानु" (bhānu) and Mars original: "कुज" (kuja) are both in Taurus, peace remains [only] if ceremonies are performed; otherwise, the people will be afflicted by hunger and the ruler original: "भूपाल" (bhūpāla) there ḍa?...