135. Saturn has brown, inscrutable eyes. He is strong, but his limbs are curved by the bending of his head. He is tall and has thick, black, rough, and dreadful hair, and nails and teeth which are discolored and broken.
136. He is mean and very irascible; his actions are evil. Accustomed to hatred, he is a malicious master. In his black garments and looking like collyrium, thin and lazy Saturn has abandoned joy. His essence is of sinew.
137. They say that, if the planets are in the cardines in their own vargas and if they have temporal or other strength, then the natives have situations, castes, shapes, essences, and powers like theirs.
138. As these planets are strong and occupy their own dvadasamias, navamsas, and houses, they cause similar perfections of creation in the bringing forth of the limbs of men.
139. When the planets are not in their own vargas, then the signs and so forth are said to be strong, and it is by means of the natures of the vargas-according to the planets (which rule them)-that one decides upon the changes and complications (which affect the natives).
CHAPTER 2
1. Halves of the signs in the circle of (zodiacal) constellations are called by the name of their series Horas. I will describe them briefly, but in detail, together with their various shapes, insignia, distinguishing marks, and forms.
2. The first Hora in Aries wears red clothes and is flaming like the Sun at Doomsday. He holds a sword and a firebrand in his hands. His hair is tawny and sticks up, and his ear-rings are of gold. He is a fierce man who has raised the staff of Death for the sake of protection.
3. This is a man-shaped creature whose cry is loud and who has a long, thin face. Standing in the midst of flocks of goats and sheep, and mounted o n a goat, he rules hi host.
4. The second Hora in Aries wears a garland of skulls. His bow blazes with arrows. He has the strength of an elephant. He is bound with a half-girdle, and his clothes are black His limbs are adorned with snakes. Bearing a sword and (elephant’s) skin, and of terrible figure, he wears the diadem (of Siva).
5. Entering the forest with his swift thieves, he lets loose destruction, this fearful-faced man, splitting open the highest peak with his bolts. His anxiety is destroyed and lost.
6. The first Hora in Taurus is a woman who carries a pitcher of cow’s milk and clarified butter. She is pre-eminent, rising up with an axe in her hand. Her face is like that of a hone. She plays and swings gracefully, wearing bright-coloured robes, and her feet tinkle with anklets.
7. She is four-footed. Girdle-strings surround her body. She is filled with thirst, and has developed a desire for food. She is beautiful with her heavy breasts, has handsome hips, and wears a bright, pendant girdle.
8. The second Hora in Taurus is a youthful woman who is a. delight to the eyes. She is intelligent, and pale with the beauty of campaka-flowers. She knows the rules of sciences, pharmacology, and the arts. She is adorned with garments of silk, this blazing one.
9. She appears in an assembly of farmer, sacrificing her body to Brahma (?) like a woman in childbirth. She has garlands, perfumes, and cosmetic powders. Intoxicated from drinking liquors, she speaks in a lovely voice.
10. The first Hora in the third sign holds a lyre in his hand. His completion is the colour of a parrot’s tail-feather. He is an artistic man with a low-hanging robe whose nature it is to love singing, dancing, and listening (to music). Seated on a cane chair he composes poetry.
11. He runs after women and is clever in love. His sides are bound in the embrace of a maiden’s arms. He is not much of a businessman, but he speaks gently and sweetly, a very reprehensible person.
12. The second Hora in the third sign is established as being a woman whose actions are charming and glowing with youth. She is pale and red-limbed, clever and grateful. She is besieged by the leader of an army in a wide-spreading war. Clothed in red, she wears a long red necklace.
13. Raising her arms, she cries out when she is robbed, She is made naked by thieves in a park, but is brought back by means of an armed conflict.
14. The first Hora in the fourth sign is a woman who holds a blossoming lotus in her hand. She stands in the water, pale as the color of a campaka-flower. Her upper-garment and ornaments are pale like moon-beams. Her limbs are adorned with the splendor of full and half necklaces.
15. Leaning on the branch of an aioka-tree in a garden, she recalls to mind her beloved. She wears a golden girdle and a necklace trembles on her breast.
16. The second Hora in the fourth sign is established as being a very pale man in the middle of a garden who leans on a bright weapon and whose neck is raised (in longing). He is a lover whose radiance is made beautiful by gracefulness. Holding a lotus, the beloved one pours forth his complaints
17. He wears variegated garments and ornaments at Doomsday(?). The ointment on his body is as bright as Cupid’s His allies have been destroyed, and he is remembered with the harsh words …
18. The first Hora in Leo is to be spoken of as a bold man whose form is as terrible as a lion’s, He is blazing, a fierce and hideous tyrant. He has upward-curving tusks, and is like Yama and Kala. He stands in the midst of battles between Nishadas and thieves.
19. He has bound on his quiver. Desiring to taste flavors, he slays deer in mountain caves. His teeth are like those of the lord of elephants. His firm chest is wounded.
20. The second Hora in the house of the Sun is a fierce man who delights in battle. His bow is drawn back; his garment is a deer-skin. He is a eunuch, but, bearing his amour of gold, he protects women. The hair on his body is long.
