The 36 Drekkanas of Brihat Jataka

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Drekkana Adhyaya

 

Stanza 1:

The first drekkana of Aries represents a man with a white loth around

his waist, dark complexion, pretending to pro¬tect, fearful red eyes

and a lifted ax.

 

Stanza 2:

The second drekkana of Aries is sketched by yavanas as repre¬senting 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, ornamenta¬tion 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 a 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 youth¬fulness, living

in forests on the branch of phalasa and cry¬ing.

 

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 krishna¬jina 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, count¬ing gains and

expenditure, body covered with dense hair and holding a big bow.

 

Stanza 18:

The last drekkana of Virgo represents a female, yellowish, covered by

a great white silk cloth, tall, holding a pot and spoon, and going to

a temple with great sanctity.

 

Stanza 19:

The first drekkana of Libra, say Yavanas, represents a man seated in a

shop in the middle of the road, holding balances, clever in weighing

and measuring with a small scale for weigh¬ing gold, diamonds,

thinking of his money and the prices of the articles in his shop.

 

Stanza 20:

The second drekkana of Libra represents a man with a vulture's face,

hungry and thirsty, holding a pot which is ready to fall and thinking

of his wife and children.

 

Stanza 21:

The third drekkana of Libra represents a man decked with gems, wearing

a golden quiver and armor and frightening animals in the wilderness,

resembling a monkey and holding in the hand fruit and flesh.

 

Stanza 22:

The first drekkana of Scorpio represents a naked woman without

ornaments, coming from the middle of a great ocean to the shore,

dislocated from her original place, the feet bound by serpents and

handsome.

 

Stanza 23:

The second drekkana of Scorpio represents a woman fond of home and

happiness for her husband's sake and covered with serpents with a body

resembling a tortoise and a pot.

 

Stanza 24:

The last drekkana of Scorpio represents a lion with a broad flat face,

resembling a tortoise, frightening dogs, deer, boars and jackals,

protecting localities covered with sandal¬wood trees.

 

Stanza 25:

The first drekkana of Sagittarius represents a man with a human face

and a horse's body with a bow in hand residing in a hermitage,

protecting sacrificial articles and maharishis.

 

Stanza 26:

The second drekkana of Sagittarius represents a beautiful woman,

golden colored, picking up gems from the ocean and sitting in a

Bhadrasana fashion.

 

Stanza 27:

The last drekkana of Sagittarius representsa man with a long beard,

gold complexioned, holding a stick, sitting in a splen¬did posture and

keeping silks and deer skins.

 

Stanza 28:

The first drekkana of Capricorn represents a man covered with much

hair, teeth like those of a crocodile, body like that of a pig,

keeping yokes, nets and bandages, and with a cruel face.

 

Stanza 29:

The second drekkana of Capricorn represents a woman skilled in arts,

broad eyes like lotus petals, greenish dark, searching all kinds of

articles and wearing iron ear ornaments.

 

Stanza 30:

The last drekkana of Capricorn represents a man with a body like that

of Kinaras, with a quiver, arrows and bow, and bearing a pot on the

shoulder decked with gems.

 

Stanza 31:

The first drekkana of Aquarius represents a man with a mind disturbed

by oils, wines, water and food being brought to him, with a Kambala,

silk cloth and deer skin and a face resembling that of a vulture.

 

Stanza 32:

The middle drekkana of Aquarius represents a woman, covered with a

dirty cloth in a forest, bearing pots on her head and dragging metals

in a burnt cart loaded with cotton trees in it

 

Stanza 33:

The third drekkana of Aquarius represents a dark man with ears covered

with long hair, wearing a crown and wandering with pots filled with

iron, skin, leaves, gum and fruit.

 

Stanza 34:

The first drekkana of Pisces represents a man decked with ornaments,

holding in his hand sacrificial vessels, pearls, conch shells and

gems, and crossing the ocean in a boat in search of jewels for his wife.

 

Stanza 35:

The second drekkana of Pisces represents a woman with a color more

beautiful than that of Campaka, surrounded by her attend¬ants, and

sailing in a boat decked with long flags in search of the coast of the

ocean.

 

Stanza 36:

The last drekkana of Pisces represents a man crying in a pit in a

forest, naked and covered over his body by serpents and with a mind

distracted by thieves and fire.