Brihat Jataka

Chapter 27 Drekkana adhyaya
Stanza 1:

The first drekkana of Aries represents a man with a white cloth around his waist, dark complexion, pretending to protect, fearful red eyes and a lifted ax

Stanza 2:

The second drekkana of Aries is sketched by yavanas as representing a woman with red cloth, fond of ornaments and food, pot-belly, horse-face, thirsty and single-footed

Stanza 3:

The third drekkana of Aries represents a man, cruel, skilled in arts, yellowish, fond of work, unprincipled, with a lifted-up stick, angry and covered with purple clothes

Stanza 4:

The first drekkana of Taurus represents a woman with torn ringlets, pot-belly, burnt cloth, thirsty, fond of food and ornaments

Stanza 5:

The second drekkana of Taurus represents a man possessing knowledge of lands, grains, houses, cows, arts, ploughing and carts, hungry, sheep-faced, dirty clothes and shoulders like the hump of an ox

Stanza 6:

The third drekkana of Taurus is represented by a man with a body like that of an elephant, white teeth, legs like that of a sarabha, yellowish color, and clever in capturing sheep and deer

Stanza 7:

The first drekkana of Gemini represents a female, fond of needlework, beautiful, fond of ornamentation, issueless, lifted hands and in menses

Stanza 8:

The second drekkana of Gemini represents a man, living in a garden, in armor, with a bow, warlike, armed with weapons, face like that of Garuda, fond of play, children, ornamentation and wealth

Stanza 9:

The third drekkana of Gemini represents a man, adorned, decked with gems, armored with a quiver and bow, skilled in dancing, drumming and arts, and poet

Stanza 10:

The first drekkana of Cancer represents a man, holding fruit, roots and leaves, elephant-bodied, residing on sandal trees in the forest, legs like that of sarabha and horse-necked

Stanza 11:

The second drekkana of Cancer represents a female worshipped on the head by lotus flowers, with serpents, full-blown youthfulness, living in forests on the branch of phalasa and crying

Stanza 12:

The third drekkana of Cancer represents a man covered with serpents, flat-faced and crossing the ocean in a boat in search of his wife’s jewels

Stanza 13:

The first drekkana of Leo represents a vulture and a jackal on the salmali tree, a dog and a man dressed in dirty garments, leaving father and mother, and crying

Stanza 14:

The second drekkana of Leo represents a man resembling a horse’s body with white garlands on the head, wearing krishnajina and kambalam, fierce as a lion with a bow in the hand and bent nose

Stanza 15:

The third drekkana of Leo represents a man with a bear’s face, acts like those of a monkey, long beard, curved ringlets and holding a stick, fruit and flesh

Stanza 16:

The first drekkana of Virgo represents a female with a pot, full of flowers, covering the body with dirty garments, fond of money and clothes, and going to the home of the preceptor

Stanza 17:

The second drekkana of Virgo represents a man with a pen in hand, dark-complexioned, the head tied around a cloth, counting gains and expenditure, body covered with dense hair and holding a big bow