26. The first Decanate in Sagittarius is a man whose bow is drawn and whose speed is as violent as a horse’s. He has knowledge of chariots and weapons, and bears the instruments for the sacrifice. His body is protected by gold, and his ear-rings flash with gold.
27. The second Decanate in Sagittarius is a woman who is charming, graceful, and beautiful. She is seated on an auspicious throne, and is pale with a golden-hued garment. Opening a golden casket in a heap of jewels, she takes pleasure in distributing (its contents).
28. The third Decanate in Sagittarius is a bearded man with a black body. Clothed in silk and pining with love, he is graceful. On his breast hangs a string of pearls, and a bracelet is on his upper arm. He is fond of music and perfume.
29. The first Decanate in Capricorn is the color of collyrium. His teeth are as terrible as a crocodile’s, He is armed with a staff, and his actions are like those of Time and Death. He stands in the middle of a cemetery with an armour of heavy hair and a strong body.
30. The second Decanate in Capricorn is a man of blazing splendor whose teeth are dark blue and like a Pishaca’s, He is handsome, having bound on his armour, sword, and helmet (shirastrana). He wanders about constructing river-embankments, tanks, and aqueducts.
31. The third Decanate in Capricorn is a woman with loose hair, a gaping mouth, and a hanging belly. Her red body is tall and thin. She holds a noose in her hand, and wears a winding-sheet. She delights in injury.
32. The first Decanate in Aquarius is a man who has dreadful teeth. He knows how to practice magic. His is the color of a dark cloud, and his hair is filthy and sticks up. His actions are pitiless. Garbed in an antelope-skin and rags, he has a vile nature.
33. The second Decanate in Aquarius is a man with a shining sword. His tawny hair stands up. Covered with garlands of skulls, he wears armor. His is the color of sunset-clouds, and his protruding teeth are fierce. He is covered with the strings of nooses and so forth.
34. The third Decanate in Aquarius is a man with various weapons wearing a garland of golden Moons. His shape is boar-like, his form frightful. Producing red (?) in Malaya, he is an ascetic whose hair is reddish-brown like a monkey’s.
35. The first Decanate in Pisces is a woman with a beautiful body whose eyes are expansive and long. Her body is adorned with silk and gold. She stands by the Great Sea, which she has crossed in a boat for the sake of a heap of jewels.
36. The second Decanate in Pisces is a woman dreadful in strife, the foremost one. She is fierce, and has no clothes; her color is white, red, and black. Her garments and ornaments are destroyed; desiring clothes, she shouts out.
37. The third Decanate in Pisces is a woman whose hair has been loosened and who wears ornaments bearing the emblem of the Abhiras. She shrieks as she is frightened. She stands in the water adorned by troops of spirits having the shapes of jackals, cats, and boars.
38. These thirds of the signs which are called Drekkanas together with the natures that accompany each, to which much thought has been given, have been thus described by the great Greek masters who know the meanings, properties, and traditions of horoscopy.
39. Because of its doubtfulness, this pictorial representation is (to be) combined with (the effects of) the lords of the navamsas, the navamsas themselves, and the aspects of the planets; it is useful because it exemplifies the many forms, natures, and distinguishing marks in the world.
40. Whatever characteristics of a planet have been described with regard to the signs, the navamsas, and times, or whatever causal natures, their entire effect is in full force in all actions for whatsoever purpose.
41. What are the form, nature, quality, and distinguishing mark of (each) planet and sign has been said previously; the form which arises from the changes due to their mutual combinations in order is to be determined by a wise man.
42. They say that the form and distinguishing mark of a navamsha (are affected) by various changes because of the signs, planets, and (other) portions (of a sign); because of its situation in the rank of its own sign within a sign, they say a navamsa possesses especial strength.
The third chapter in the Yavanajataka: the forms of the Decanates.
CHAPTER 4
1. There are objects (dravyani) of various characteristics and natures which exist on earth, in the air, and in water; I shall tell of them as they pertain to the vargas and dvadashamshas (bhagas) of the signs, according to the associations (of each) in order.
2. Aries is lord of lands, fire, blood, weapons, gold, copper, minerals, smelters (agnijiva), battles, and mantras; of youths, children, fans, umbrellas, spears, flagstaffs, thieves, and commanders of armies;
3. of goats, sheep, artisans, sugar-cane (ikshuka), green onions (dudruma), mountains, (places for) assignations, and things which are burnt, cast off, or smashed; and of such objects as red arsenic (manahshila), red chalk (gairika), and red flowers.
4. Taurus is lord of games, parks, garlands, children, women, market-streets, woods, gardens, meeting-houses, and wells; of ghee (sarpis), sour milk (dadhi), milk (kshirasa), grass, flowers, city-squares, oxen, ploughs, and ploughmen;
5. of teams of oxen, yoke-pins, carts, axles, wheels, perfumes, bulls, shining buffaloes, and bulls; of works of beauty and pleasing ornaments; and of things belonging in treasure-houses.
6. To the third sign (Gemini) belong the sexual intercourse of men and women, gambling, amusements, crafts, music, singing, smiles, and instrumental music; exercise, magic weapons, writing, soldiers(?), conversations, good advice, and manuscripts (pustakani) ;
7. couples, the acquisition of money, weapons, wealth, and herbs; the bearers of knowledge, of instruction, and of commerce; those who live by cleverness, by affording humor, and by their hands; and dancers and rogues.
8. To the fourth sign (Cancer) belong women, ascetics, and Brahmanas learned in the scriptures (Sruti); rivers and white durva grass; lotuses (kumuda) and lilies (utpala); objects which are cold or soft and wet; sweets, medicines for restoring life (samjivana), and mirrors;
9. crocodiles (nakra), frogs (manduka), crabs (kulira), turtles (kurma), ashoka-trees, and water-plants and grasses; and white birds and carnivorous ones.
10. Leo is lord of peaks, forests, fortresses, poison, bones, sticks, skin, flesh, hair, deer-skins, and thread from the loom; of (animals) who live in the woods and have claws, tusks, or horns; of hunger, thirst, dry lips, flavors, and herbs;
