Makara

Makara is the tenth sign. Its figure in Iyer's translation of the Brihat Jataka is a crocodile with the face of a deer, and the book places it at the knees of the Kalapurusha, the figure that the twelve signs form. The nakshatras inside it are the last three quarters of Uttara Ashadha, all of Shravana and the first half of Dhanishta.

Saturn rules Makara. Mars is exalted at the twenty-eighth degree, while Jupiter is in its fall at the fifth. The book calls it a night sign that rises feet first, and Iyer's notes make it movable, female and southern, with a color the translation gives as white red. The first navamsa, the opening ninth of the sign, belongs to Capricorn itself, and the Greek-derived name is Akokera.

For the Moon in Capricorn, the entry in the 1905 translation of chapter XVII lists good eyes, a thin waist, quick understanding of what is said, slowness at work, a wandering nature and a dislike of cold. It also lists a fondness for wife and children and authorship of books. The calculator treats Makara as 270 to 300 degrees of sidereal longitude, so the sign begins late in the Western Capricorn.