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7-13. Planet's Rulerships.

The Sun rules snakes, wool, hills, gold,


weapons, poison, fire, medicines, kings, Aryas (foreigners in general), river
banks, forest, wood and Mantras. The Moon indicates poets, flowers,
eatables, beads, silver, conch, salt, water, arrow, robes, ornaments,
females, Gh, sesamum, oil and sleep. Mars rules blood, copper, Army, red
cloth. Mercury minerals, earth, king, destruction, swooning, bile and
thieves. Mercury rules Veda, writing, sculpture, medicines, expertise,
ministership, speech, jokes, birds, couples, fame, Vanaspathi (a large
forest tree, which bears fruit apparently without any blossoms) and gold.
Jupiter rules auspiciousness, virtue, physical stoutness, prowess,
preceptorship, deputation, city, state (province), gold, bed, conveyance,
position, grains, residence and sons. Venus rules diamonds, ornaments,
marriage, scents, friends, wreaths, females, cow dung, diagnosis (apart
from meaning diagnosis also indicates end, purity, rope to tying up a calf
etc.), education, sexual enjoyment and gold. Saturn is Karaka for lead,
zinc, black metals, inferior grains, dead relatives, fools, servants, mean
women, salable goods, poor people and self-restraint (apart from meaning
self-restraint also means investing with sacred thread, which is in vogue to
give second birth to Brahmins).
14-15. Planetary Places. The Sun rules Kalinga (a Coromandel district), the
Moon Yavana (Greek, Mohamedan, or European countries), Venus plain
river banks, Jupiter Sindhu (Indus), Mercury Magadha (southern part of
Bihar), Saturn Saurashtra (Gujarat), Mars Ujjain and the nodes Dravida
country (five tribes: Dravida, Karnataka, Grjara, Maharashtra and
Tailanga).
Thus ends the 7th Ch. entitled Karakadhyaya in Kalyana Varma's Saravali.

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