Bīrūnī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, Alberuni's India (v. 1)

(London :  Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,  1910.)

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ALBERUNPS INDIA.
 

Names of
the twenty-
four horas.
 

equatorial degrees which have risen," &c., the calcula¬
tion would have resulted in horce cequinoctiales.

The Hindus give certain names to the horce obliquce,
which we have united in the following table. We think
they are taken from the book ^rUdhava.
 

The number
of the Hoi-as.
 

Names of the
Hor&s in the day.
 

Whether
favourable
or unlucky.
 

Their names in the
night.
 

Whether
favourable
or unlucky.
 

I.
 

Raudra.
 

Unlucky.
 

Kalardtri.
 

Unlucky.
 

2.
 

Saumya.
 

Lucky.
 

Rodhinl.
 

Lucky.
 

3-
 

Kar^la.
 

Unlucky.
 

Vairahma (?).
 

Lucky.
 

4-
 

Sattra.
 

Luck J'.
 

Tr^saniya.
 

Unlucky.
 

5-
 

Vega.
 

Lucky.
 

Gflhaniya (?).
 

Lucky.
 

6.
 

Visala.
 

Lucky.
 

MtjL
 

Unlucky.
 

7-
 

Mrityusara.
 

Unlucky.
 

Damariya (?).
 

Lucky.
 

8.
 

Subha.
 

Lucky.
 

Jivaharanl.
 

Unlucky.
 

9-
 

Kroda.
 

Lucky.
 

Soshini.
 

Unlucky.
 

10.
 

Candala.
 

Lucky.
 

Vrishni.
 

Lucky.
 

II.
 

Krittika.
 

Lucky.
 

Dahariya (?).
 

The most

1    unlucky

of all.
 

12.
 

Amrita.
 

Lucky.
 

Cantima (?).
 

Luck}'.
 

What time        The book Vishuu-Dharmct mentions, among the ndgas
influenoe^of*' or scrpeuts, a serpent called Ndga Kulika.   Certain por-
^e^Sj^^pent  ^iQ^g of the hours of the planets stand under its in-
Page 175.     fluence.    They are unlucky, and everything which is
eaten during them hurts and is of no use for anything.
Sick people who treat themselves with poisonous medi¬
cines do not recover, but die and perish.    During these
times no incantation is of any avail against the bite of
a snake, for the incantation consists in the mention of
the Garuda, and in those inauspicious times the stork
himself cannot help in any way, much less the mention
of his name.

These times are represented in the following table
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