Chapter 27
Drekkana adhyaya

Sloka 1: The first drekkana of Aries represents a man with a white cloth around his waist, dark complexion, pretending to protect, fearful red eyes and a lifted ax

Sloka 2: The second drekkana of Aries is sketched by yavanas as representing a woman with red cloth, fond of ornaments and food, pot-belly, horse-face, thirsty and single-footed

Sloka 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

Sloka 4: The first drekkana of Taurus represents a woman with torn ringlets, pot-belly, burnt cloth, thirsty, fond of food and ornaments

Sloka 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

Sloka 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

Sloka 7: The first drekkana of Gemini represents a female, fond of needlework, beautiful, fond of ornamentation, issueless, lifted hands and in menses

Sloka 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, ornamentation and wealth

 Sloka 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 poet

Sloka 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

 Sloka 11: The second drekkana of Cancer represents a female worshipped on the head by lotus flowers, with serpents, full blown youthfulness, living in forests on the branch of phalasa and crying

Sloka 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

 Sloka 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

Sloka 14: The second drekkana of Leo represents a man resembling a horse’s body with white garlands on the head, wearing krishnajina and kambalam, fierce as a lion with a bow in the hand and bent nose

Sloka 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

Sloka 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

 Sloka 17: The second drekkana of Virgo represents a man with a pen in hand, dark-complexioned, the head tied around a cloth, counting gains and expenditure, body covered with dense hair and holding a big bow

Sloka 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

 Sloka 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 weighing gold, diamonds, thinking of his money and the prices of the articles in his shop

Sloka 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

Sloka 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

Sloka 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

Sloka 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

 Sloka 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 sandalwood trees

 Sloka 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

 Sloka 26: The second drekkana of Sagittarius represents a beautiful woman, golden-colored, picking up gems from the ocean and sitting in a Bhadrasana fashion

Sloka 27: The last drekkana of Sagittarius representsa man with a long beard, gold-complexioned, holding a stick, sitting in a splendid posture and keeping silks and deer skins

Sloka 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

 Sloka 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

Sloka 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

Sloka 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

Sloka 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

 Sloka 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

Sloka 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

Sloka 35: The second drekkana of Pisces represents a woman with a color more beautiful than that of Champaka, surrounded by her attendants, and sailing in a boat decked with long flags in search of the coast of the ocean

 Sloka 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

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