Sanskrit verses with English translation from Vaidyanatha Dikshita. Read the full classical treatise on AstroFusion Learning.
स्त्रीणां लग्नं तनुः प्रोक्तं लग्नेशः प्राण एव च। चन्द्रः सौभाग्यहेतुश्च गुरुः पत्युः सुखावहः॥
strīṇāṃ lagnaṃ tanuḥ proktaṃ lagneśaḥ prāṇa eva ca | candraḥ saubhāgyahetuśca guruḥ patyuḥ sukhāvahaḥ ||
For women, the lagna is the body and the lagna lord is the very life-breath; the Moon is the cause of marital fortune, and Jupiter brings happiness from the husband.
स्त्रीणां जन्मनि लग्नशीतकरयोर्मध्ये बली यस्ततः सम्पद्रूपबलानि तन्नवमतः पुत्रायवृद्धिं वदेत् । सौमङ्गल्यप्रनिष्टमष्टमगृहाद् भर्तृश्रियं सप्तमात् केचिद्भर्तृशुभाशुभं शुभगृहादिच्छन्ति होराविदः ॥ ५॥
strīṇāṃ janmani lagnaśītakarayormadhye balī yastataḥ | sampadrūpabalāni tannavamataḥ putrāyavṛddhiṃ vadet | saumaṅgalyapraniṣṭamaṣṭamagṛhād bhartṛśriyaṃ saptamāt | kecidbhartṛśubhāśubhaṃ śubhagṛhādicchanti horāvidaḥ ||
In a woman's birth, whichever of the ascendant and the Moon is stronger shows her fortune, beauty and strength; from the stronger of the two the ninth house promises increase of sons, from the eighth house excellence of wedded felicity, and from the seventh the splendour derived from the husband — while some masters of hora infer the husband's good or ill from the benefic house.
वैधव्यं निधनेन लग्नभवनात्तेजो यशः सम्पदः पुत्रं पञ्चमभावतः पतिसुखं कामेन केचिद्विदुः । प्रव्रज्यामपि योषितामतिसुखं धर्मोपयातग्रहैः शेषं भावजयोगजन्यमखिलं नारीनराणां समम् ॥ ६॥
vaidhavyaṃ nidhanena lagnabhavanāttejo yaśaḥ sampadaḥ | putraṃ pañcamabhāvataḥ patisukhaṃ kāmena kecidviduḥ | pravrajjāmapi yoṣitāmatisukhaṃ dharmopayāta grahaiḥ | śeṣaṃ bhāvajayogajanyamakhilaṃ nārīnarāṇāṃ samam ||
The wise know widowhood through the house of death (the 8th); from the ascendant, radiance, fame and wealth; progeny through the fifth house; and happiness from the husband through the seventh. Even renunciation and supreme happiness for women arise from planets connected with the ninth (dharma); everything else is produced by the yogas of the bhavas, alike for women and men.
यमे लग्ननिशाकरौ यदि वरस्त्री रूपशिलान्विता सौम्यालोकितसंयुतौ गुणवती साध्वी च सम्पद्युता । ओजर्क्षे पुरुषाकृतिश्च चपला पुंश्चेष्टित पापिनी पापव्योमचरेण वीक्षितयुतौ जाता दुराचारिणी ॥ ७॥
yame lagnaniśākarau yadi varastrī rūpaśilānvitā | saumyālokitasaṃyutau guṇavatī sādhvī ca sampadyutā | ojarkṣe puruṣākṛtiś ca capalā puṃśceṣṭita pāpinī | pāpavyomacareṇa vīkṣitayutau jātā durācāriṇī ||
If the ascendant and the Moon stand in a yama sign conjoined with and aspected by the benefics, the woman is excellent, endowed with beauty and character, virtuous, chaste and prosperous. In an odd sign she takes a masculine form, fickle and behaving like a man, sinful; if they are born joined with or aspected by a malefic wanderer of the sky, she becomes immoral.
यदि शुभकरदृष्टा शिल्पिनी शुद्धचित्ता सततमिह सलज्जा चारुमूतिः सुपुत्रा । बहुधनशुभयुक्ता वल्लभे व्रजति शुभशतानां भाजनत्वं च होरा ॥ ३९॥
yadi śubhakaradṛṣṭā śilpinī śuddhacittā satatamiha salajjā cārumūtiḥ suputrā | bahudhanaśubhayuktā vallabhe vrajati śubhaśatānāṃ bhājanatvaṃ ca horā ||
If aspected by the benefics, she is skilled in the arts, pure-hearted, ever modest, lovely in form and blessed with noble sons; united with abundant wealth and auspiciousness she goes to her beloved and becomes — so say the masters of hora — the vessel of a hundred blessings.