Chapter on the Description of Inauspicious Birth — Bṛhat-Pārāśara-Horāśāstra, Adhyāya 86

अशुभजनुर्वर्णनाध्यायः

The complete Chapter on the Description of Inauspicious Birth chapter of the Bṛhat-Pārāśara-Horāśāstra — all 5 verses, each in the original Sanskrit with VedicSpace's clean-room English translation, cited by śloka. Translated from the Chaukhamba (Devachandra Jha) edition and audited against the printed plates.

Śloka 1 — Announcement — another cause of inauspicious birth despite a good chart

अथ ब्रवीमि मैत्रेय ! कारणान्तरमत्र ते । येनाऽशुभं जनुर्नॄणां शुभाङ्गेऽपि ससद्ग्रहे ॥ १ ॥

Now, O Maitreya, I shall declare to you a further cause in this matter — that by which the birth of men becomes inauspicious even when the aṅga (the lagna and its limbs) is auspicious and is accompanied by benefic grahas.

BPHS Adhyāya 86, śloka 1

Śloka 2 — Inauspicious birth times (i) — bhadrā, amāvāsyā, kṛṣṇa caturdaśī, saṃkrānti, brother's/father's nakṣatra, the three gaṇḍāntas

भद्राऽमासितपक्षीयचतुर्दश्यां च संक्रमे । रवेः सोदरपित्रर्क्षे गण्डान्तत्रितयेऽथवा ॥ २ ॥

In bhadrā (the viṣṭi karaṇa), in amāvāsyā, on the caturdaśī of the dark fortnight, and at the saṃkrama (ingress) of the Sun; or in the nakṣatra of a brother or of the father, or in the triad of gaṇḍāntas (the three kinds — of tithi, of nakṣatra, and of lagna) —

BPHS Adhyāya 86, śloka 2

Śloka 3 — Inauspicious birth times (ii) — eclipses, dagdha, pāta, avama (kṣaya) tithi, yamaghaṇṭa, vyatīpāta

सूर्येन्दुग्रहणे दग्ध-युतौ पातेऽवमेऽपि च । यमघण्टे व्यतीपाता-दियोगे जन्म चेन्नृणाम् ॥ ३ ॥

at a solar or lunar eclipse, in a dagdha conjunction, at a pāta, and also at an avama (a lost/kṣaya tithi); in yamaghaṇṭa, or in vyatīpāta and the like yogas — if the birth of men falls (at such times) —

BPHS Adhyāya 86, śloka 3

Śloka 4 — Inauspicious birth by sibling-order and by abnormal delivery — the apodosis

कन्यात्रयान्तरं पुत्रः, पुत्री पुत्रत्रयान्तरे । जायते, यदि वा सूते-र्विकारेऽप्यशुभं जनुः ॥ ४ ॥

(or) if a son is born after three daughters, or a daughter after three sons, or again if there is a disorder in the delivery itself — the birth is inauspicious.

BPHS Adhyāya 86, śloka 4

Śloka 5 — Remedy — perform the śāstra-sanctioned śānti; announcement of what follows

शुभाप्तये बुधः कुर्या-च्छान्तिं शास्त्रोक्तिसम्मताम् । शिवं शान्त्या प्रजायेत वच्म्यतस्तामनुक्रमात् ॥ ५ ॥

For the obtaining of good, the wise man should perform the śānti sanctioned by the declarations of the śāstra. By śānti welfare comes to be; therefore I shall now state that (śānti) in due order.

BPHS Adhyāya 86, śloka 5