तत उपरिष्टाद्योजनलक्षद्वयात्प्रतीयमान: शनैश्चर एकैकस्मिन् राशौ त्रिंशन्मासान् विलम्बमान: सर्वानेवानुपर्येति तावद्भिरनुवत्सरै: प्रायेण हि सर्वेषामशान्तिकर: ॥ १६ ॥
tata uparistad yojana-laksa-dvayat pratiyamanah sanaiscara ekaikasmin rasau trimsan masan vilambamanah sarvan evanuparyeti tavadbhir anuvatsaraih prayena hi sarvesam asantikarah.
- tatah
- that (Jupiter)
- uparistat
- above
- yojana-laksa-dvayat
- by a distance of 1,600,000 miles
- pratiyamanah
- is situated
- sanaiscarah
- the planet Saturn
- eka-ekasmin
- in one after another
- rasau
- zodiac signs
- trimsat masan
- for a period of thirty months in each
- vilam-bamanah
- lingering
- sarvan
- all twelve signs of the zodiac
- eva
- certainly
- anuparyeti
- passes through
- tavadbhih
- by so many
- anuvatsaraih
- Anuvatsaras
- prayena
- almost always
- hi
- indeed
- sarvesam
- to all the inhabitants
- asantikarah
- very troublesome
Situated 1,600,000 miles above Jupiter, or 12,000,000 miles above earth, is the plane Saturn, which passes through one sign of the zodiac in thirty months and covers the entire zodiac circle in thirty Anuvatsaras. This plane is always very inauspicious for the universal situation.