549 – 552. (a) A child born in the birth star etc. (Janma Tara, Sampat Tara etc.) of father or mother or a brother will prove fatal for that parent.
(b) If the birth is in Sampat Tara (2nd, 11th, 20th) of a parent, the child will be ever auspicious.
(c) If the birth is in Vipat Tara (3rd, 12th and 21st) of a parent, there will be incessant strife in the family.
(d) If the birth is in Kshema Tara (4th, 13th and 22nd) of a parent, the child will be soft in disposition and lonely.
(e) If the birth is Pratyak Tara (5th, 14th and 23rd) of a parent, he will be inimical (to parents & C).
(f) If the birth is in Sadhaka Tara (6th, 15th and 24th) of a parent, the native will achieve everyone of his undertakings.
(g) If the birth is in Naidhana (Vadha) Tara (7th, 16th and 25th) of a parent, the person will be a thief.
(h) If the birth is in Maitra Tara (8th, 17th and 26th) of a parent, he will be very dear to his parents.
(i) If the birth is in Parama Maitra Tara (9th, 18th and 27th) of a parent, he will be very friendly and very dear to his parents.
Bala Bhadra adds that computation of Janma, Sampat and other Nakshatras are well-known (i.e. he does not specially enlist them here).
Notes: Also see sloka 263, 264 etc. of this chapter. The text uses “Sajaatiyah Sajaatyaa” indicative of a son or a daughter (masculine and ferine
genders) born of one’s loins between a man and a woman of the same caste. Hence, it is but right to exclude the birth star & C of a brother, and retain the reference
only to parents in line with the caption. The text thus has a corrupt copy to that extent. The said term excludes children illicitly born, or children bought, adopted
etc. Strictly speaking children born to a couple with inter-caste marriage do not also come under the purview of these aphorisms.
The Nakshatras are divided as Janma etc. into nine groups and the relevant clarifications are already provided in the translation. Such groupificiation will be useful in analysing effects of dasa periods, transits and the like.
There is a school of though that these effects apply only to birth in dark lunar half, while the Moon sign (as a whole) is significant for birth in bright half.
It will be noted from the original’s instructions that birth in Vipat, Pratyak and Naidhana Nakshatras (3rd, 5th and 7th and their co-asterisms) are only bad
and the other six groups are auspicious.
