Now the effects for births in Prabhava and other years based on Yavana Jataka.
349. Prabhava: One born in the year Prabhava will be endowed with all paraphernalia, sons, longevity and abundant pleasures.
350. Vibhava: One born in the year Vibhava will enjoy various pleasures. He will be black-bodied with reddish eyes, be a scholar and will receive royal honours.
351. Sukla: One born in the year Sukla will be highly fortunate, virtuous, be given to enjoying pleasures, be endowed with sons, wife and all good qualities, and be a learned man.
352. Pramoda: One born in the year Pramoda will enjoy pleasures and cause pleasures to others. He will be truthful and learned. His physique will reflect gold’s brilliance. He will be happy and honourable.
353. Prajapati: One born in the year Prajapati will look after his progeny. He will be righteous, liberal and truthful. Gods and Brahmins will be honoured by him.
354. Angira: One born in the year Angira (or Angirasa) will be lustful, happy, and egoistic. He will enjoy pleasures. Longevity and many sons will also result such a birth.
355. Sri Mukha: One born in the year Sri Mukha will be wealthy, highly intelligent, and peaceful yet given to anger. He will wish good for others and will be endowed with longevity and many sons.
Notes: Longevity and many sons, according to the text, are common to birth in Angira and in Sri Mukha.
356. Bhava: One born in the year Bhava will enjoy happiness, fame and be liberal. He will be blessed with agreeable physiognomical features.
357. Yuva: One born in the year Yuva will acquire fame, all virtues and longevity. He will be disposed to be quite liberal and peaceful, be very intelligent and pure in character.
358. Dhatru: One born in the year Dhatru will be granted longevity, good fortunes and skills. He will be immersed in the study of the Vedas and be charming in appearance.
359. Isvara: One born in the year Isvara will be well-versed in the doctrines of performing various acts, i.e. an all-rounder. He will honour his teachers, be extremely good-looking and ever irascible.
360. Bahu Dhanya: One born in the year Bahu Dhanya will perform charitable activities such as construction of wells and tanks, be munificent and wealthy.
361. Pramathi: One born in the year Pramathi will head an army and be a king’s minister. He will obtain boons from Lord Shiva (say, he will ardently worship Lord Siva), be learned in ancient scriptures and be inclined to hoard.
363. Vikrama: One born in the year Vikrama will be fiercely valorous, will destroy others’ kingdoms (or acquisitions), be Intent Upon committing sinful acts and be heroic.
363. Vrisha: One born in the year Vrisha will be slow in action, indolent, greatly foolish, will carry loads and serve others.
364. Chitra Bhanu: One born in the year Chitra Bhanu will be an expert in many branches of learning, be justly disposed and bold. Affluence, piety and eloquence will be further effects hereof.
365. Subhanu: One born in the year Subhanu will possess tawny eyes and hair. His physical complexion will be fair. He will be skilful, kingly and splendorous but be a very bad person.
366. Tarana: One born in the year Tarana will be wicked, sinful and heroic. He will incur pQverty, be harsh in speech, be a bad person, be fickle-minded and be a profligate.
Notes: “Dhrishta” is translated as “profligate” seeing the consequence of negative attributes to the subject born in Tarana. “Dhrishta” has other meanings like bold, audacious, confident etc. which are not compatible to the present context.
367. Parthiva: One born in the year parthiva will be soft spoken, will receive honours from the king, be endowed with favourable physiognomical features, be tan and wealthy.
368. Vyaya: One born in the year Vyaya will be addicted to gambling and intoxicants. He will waste away his resources in lustful pursuits with females, and be inclined to thieving and performing bad deeds.
369. Sarvajit: One born in the year Sarvajit (or Sarvajita) will be engaged in fulfilling his deeds, be learned in ancient scriptures, will keep away from sins and will protect himself from diseases. He will be short-statured, dark in complexion and corpulent.
370. Sarvadhari: One born in the year Sarvadhari will have many servants, be affluent, lustful, given to enjoying pleasures and be fond of sweet food. He will protect all (his) people.
371. Virodhi: One born in the year Virodhi will promote squabbles in his family. He will be attached to the wives of other men and be inimical to one and all.
372. Vikruti: One born in the year Vikruti will have a dark Colored and emaciated body, be devoted to arts but be devoid of virtues. He will have protracted joints (of limbs).
373. Khara: One born in the year Khara will have a physique smeared with dirt all over (be unclean). He will have a long life, will perform agreeable deeds on behalf of others, be highly lustful and shameless.
374. Nandana: One born in the year Nandana will ever derive happiness. He will contribute for water-cisterns (to quench travellers’ thirst), wells and tanks, will feed the poor and be endowed with good qualities.
375. Vijaya: One born in the year Vijaya will be bold, invincible in battles (Le. difficult to be won in general), endowed with wide-spread fame, a lord of the earth, a winner and be given to enjoyment.
376. Jaya: One born in the year Jaya will be scholarly, honourable, will honour others, and be an expert in all branches of ancient scriptures. He will beget respect from every quarter.
377. Manmatha: One born in the year Manmatha will enjoy pleasures, be lustful, eloquent in speech, rich in terms of happiness and ornaments, and brilliant in appearance (or handsome).
378. Durmukha: One born in the year Durmukha will be crafty, evil in disposition, wicked and shameless. He will marry a woman of low caste who will serve as a concubine or he will marry a barren female. He will possess odd face arms and legs.
Notes: “Vrishali” apart from meaning a woman of low caste serving as a concubine, also indicates the following – a girl of twelve years old in whom puberty has just commenced, a woman in her monthly course, a barren woman, the mother of a still-born child. Apparently birth in the year Durmukha will register some such peculiarities in one’s relationship.
379. Hemalamba: One born in the year Hemalamba will be rich with gold, money, corns, quadrupeds and robes and will also possess splendour, progeny and happiness.
380. Vilamba: One born in the year Vilamba will be mean¬minded, miserly, indolent, grieved and -troubled by phlegmatic imbalances. He will cheat others, be attached to his own work (rather in a selfish manner) and be sinful.
381. Vikari: One born in the year Vikari will be unwise, extremely proud, ill-mannered, skilful, wicked and will cheat others.
382. Sharvari: One born in the year Sharvari will be a trader and be valorous. He will show contempt (even) to his friends, be tall, emaciated and will possess drooping eyes, as though, for want of sleep.
383. Plava: One born in the year Plava will be unsteady, fickle-minded, libidinous, will serve others, will protect his wife’s younger sister and be short in stature.
Notes: “Hala Trata” is interpreted as “protector of wife’s younger sister”. “Hala” means a plough, as well as wife’s younger sister. “Protector of plough” makes no sense and hence such an interpretation is rejected. One can well protect his sister-in-law, for good.
384. Shubhakrit: One born in the year Shubhakrit will be very fortunate, will wish good for others, be well-educated and righteous. He will live long, and will long for wealth and progeny.
Notes: The years “Shubhakrit” and “Shobhakrit” are two different ones. The latter is discussed in the next verse.
385. Shobhakrit: One born in the year Shobhakrit will ever be successful. He will be libidinous, will possess an attractive appearance, be virtuous and kind.
386. Krodhi: One born in the year Krodhi will have tawny eyes. His wealth will be akin to that of royalty. He will walk in a slow pace, be addicted to women and will destroy others’ undertakings.
387. Visvaavasu: One born in the year Visvaavasu will be quite intelligent, happy, peaceful in disposition, endowed with all virtues, charitable, fond of sweet food and of unsullied character.
388. Parabhava: One born in the year Parabhava will long for others’ wives, be crafty and friendly to his kinsfolk as well as others. He will have no wealth and grains, i.e. be poor.
Notes: “Parabhaua” is different from “Prabhaua”, the first year of the cycle.
389. Plavanga: One born in the year Plavanga will indulge in offensive and sinful deeds, be fallen, will discard the family traditions and be impure.
390. Kilaka: One born in the year Kilaka will be of medium build and be libidinous. He will be troubled by thirst and hunger, hard-hearted and will cause bewilderment to miscreants.
Notes: “Koota Manmatha” or “Koota Mohana” indicates one who will baffle miscreants. It is also a synonym of Lord Skanda, the army-chief of Hindu Gods and the second son of Lord Siva.
For practical purposes, this term should denote demolition of miscreants.
391. Saumya: One born in the year Saumya will be a scholar and will spend wealth. He will honour Brahmins and guests (who come all of a sudden without bothering for good and bad days), and will perform penance. His physique will be weak.
392. Sadharana: One born in the year Sadharana will be wicked in disposition. He will, however, be pure in character and bereft of libido. He will live in foreign lands, will “see gods” and be irascible.
Note: Seeing gods may mean possession of unsullied spiritual pursuits.
393. Virodhakrit: One born in the year Virodhakrit will have enmity with one and all. He will neither honour his father. He will serve the men of his race (or family).
394. Paridhavi: One born in the year Paridhavi will be learned, will possess expertise in various arts, be skilful in trading, honoured by men of royalty and charitable in disposition.
395. Pramadi: One born in the year Pramadi will be inimical to his kinsmen, will trouble his family members, be miserly and interested in sinful acts. He will be highly intelligent.
396. Ananda: One born in the year Ananda will have many wives, be very skilful and will cause happiness to all. He will be of forgiving disposition and be endowed with sons and friends.
397. Rakshasa: One born in the year Rakshasa will eat anything. He will be ungrateful and be bereft of discretion between the righteous and the unrighteous, will trouble others and incur much distress.
398. Anala: One born in the year Anala will seek wealth by trading activities. He will have a large family, be pure in character and will swear by water.
Notes: “Water”, one of the five sacred and gross elements or Pancha Bhutas, is a divine gift. “Swearing by water” or “swearing by mother Ganges” like swearing by God or by Fire denotes that one is not telling a lie. Fire God is a witness in Hindu marriages to ensure that the male will never discard the female.
399. Pingala: One born in the year Pingala will be dark¬-bodied with rough hair. He will be industrious but will not be able to enjoy the fruits of his labour.
400. Kala Yukta: One born in the year Kala Yukta will be widely helpful. He will eat on time but will not reject even the uneatable. He will suffer from diseases.
401. Siddharti: One born in the year Siddharti will be endowed with super-natural and healing powers. He will enjoy pleasures and be skilful in music, be akin to a minister, famous and charitable.
402. Raudra: One born in the year Raudra will have a fierce spouse, be sinful, of tale-bearing disposition and short-¬lived.
403. Durmati: One born in the year Durmati will be foolish, cruel, libidinous, boastful, miserly but wealthy.
404. Dundhubhi: One born in the year Dundhubhi will be ever enthusiastic, be kingly with horses, elephants and large army. He will be involved in musical performances and be rich.
405. Rudhirodgari: One born in the year Rudhirodgari will be lustful, will have great blemishes, be troubled by weapons, will indulge in doing prohibited acts and will have ill-shaped nails.
406. Raktakshi: One born in the year Raktakshi will suffer from eye diseases and be weak-sighted. He will be a heterodox, a wicked man and be lustful.
407. Krodhana: One born in the year Krodhana will perform much penance, be devoid of any (other) virtues, wicked, be a metallurgist, be fierce, deceiving and sinful.
408. Kshaya: One born in the year Kshaya will be sickly right from birth. He will ever be in servitude and be unrighteous.
Thus end the effects of births in various Jovian years (as per Yavana Jataka).
Now stated are the effects of years (in groups of five each, known as a Yuga) based on another authority.
409. Prabhava & Others: Following kinds of persons are born in the year Prabhava and (four) others.
Prabhava – a righteous person;
Vibhava – a singer;
Sukla – a wealthy person;
Pramoda – a happy person;
Prajapati – one who will be liberal to indigent men.
Notes: In the current twelve slokas, Bala Bhadra provide pithy and terse effects for the various years in groups of five. Each group of five years is called a Yuga (Cf Kali Yuga and others). A Jovian cycle has twelve Yugas. The collective effects of each Yuia are described upto sloka 420 etc. of this chapter.
410. Angira & Others: Angira – one who knows everything;
Sri Mukha . a very valorous man;
Bhaava – a long-lived person;
Yuva – one with charming appearance;
Dhata – one equal to a king.
411. Isvara & Others: Isvara – one who will be victorious in battles;
Bahu Dhanya – a donor of money;
Pramathi – one who will enjoy pleasures;
Vikrama – one of sacrificial disposition and with virtues;
Vrisha – one who will be skilful and wealthy.
412. Chitra Bhanu & Others: Chitra Bhanu – one who will be ever irascible;
Subhanu – one who will be crooked;
Tarana – one who will be under the influence of eroticism;
Parthiva – one who will have no shame;
Vyaya – one who will be agreeable.
413. Sarvajit & Others: Sarvajit – an artisan, an artist or a craftsman;
Sarvadhari – one who will have knowledge of the science of music;
Virodhi – one having expertise in various undertakings;
Vikruti – one who will be quite fortunate;
Khara – a long-lived person;
414. Nandana & Others: Nandana – one who will be fond of women;
Vijaya – an enthusiastic person;
Jaya – one who will earn honours;
Manmatha – a famous person;
Durmukha – a virtuous person;
415. Hemalamba & Others: Hemalamba – one who will dwell in foreign lands;
Vilamba – a person devoted to his father;
Vikari – conqueror of his five senses, i.e. an ascetic;
Sharvari – a truthful person;
Plava – a skilful person;
Notes: An ascetic is one who has conquered his organs of five senses, viz. ear, nose, eye, tongue and skin. He is unaffected by their functions. So his path of spiritual attainment will have no obstacles whatsoever.
416. Subhakrit & Others: Shubhakrit – a skilful person; Sobhakrit – a righteous person;
Krodhi – one who will honour gods and virtuous men;
Visvaavasu – an indolent person;
Parabhava – again an indolent person;
417. Plavanga & Others: Plavanga – a bold person with tolerance;
Kilaka – one with patience;
Saumya – an ascetic subjugating his five senses;
Sadharana – a long-lived person;
Virodhakrit – one endowed with sons;
418. Paridhavi & Others: Paridhavi – a charming person; Pramadi – a person dear to all;
Ananda – a person liked by women;
Rakshasa – one who will be ill for a long time;
Anala – one with much splendour;
419. Pingala & Others: Pingala – one bereft of any sickness;
Kalayukta – a successful person;
Siddharti – one with physical energy and wealth;
Raudra – one devoted to gods;
Durmati – a person performing penance;
420. Dundhubhi & Others: Dundhubhi – a valorous person who will be friendly;
Rudhirodgari – a charitable person;
Raktakshi – an ascetic person winning his five senses;
Krodhana – one endowed with longevity,
Kshaya – a skilful person.
