Sloka.19. Wise men say in respect of Mesha and other signs taken in order that they are mineral, vegetable and animal and even signs. Mineral comprises things of that class varying from gold to clay. Vegetable includes all plants from a tree down to a grass and the animal includes the whole body of living beings.
Sloka.20. Meena Vrischika and Vrishabha are Brahmins. Dhanus, Mesha and Simha are Kshatriyas. Kumbha, Mithuna and Thula are Vaisyas and Kanya, Makara and Kataka are Sudras.
Notes.
The sign Vrishabha is considered as Sudra and Kataka a Brahmin. This seems to be the correct view.
Sloka 2l. Mesha, Vrishabha and Simha are blind at the dead of night, Kataka, Mithuna and Kanya are blind at midday. Thula and Vrischika are deaf in the forenoon. Dhanus and Makara are so in the afternoon.
Sloke. 22: The deer faced and the bow bearing signs, ie, Makara and Dhanus which are lame become fatal in the two periods of twilight. The concluding portion of the signs Kataka, Vrischika and Meena are called Riksha-Sandhi and is well known as
Pragandantha – the end of the elbow – a vulnerable part (a critical period).
Sloha.23. Red, white, green (parrot’s hue), pink, pale-white, piebald, black, golden, yellowish or brown, variegated, deep, brown and white are the colours assigned to the signs from Mesha onwards.
