In an astrological text of which I so far have only a single
manuscript, I recently came across an expression which may be in
need of emendation or may just be an idiom I haven't seen before:
aśvadvayasya madhye ko vijayī lagnabhāji horeśe |
yaḥ prathamaṃ hṛdaye ’bhūt tasya jayo ’nyasya vaktavyaḥ ||
'Out of two horses, which will win? If the ruler of the hour
occupies the ascendant, the one that first occurred in the
[querent's] heart should be predicted to win over the other
(?).'
It is the double genitive in tasya jayaḥ anyasya that I am
uncertain about. Can anyone confirm (or deny) that this idiom
exists?
Best wishes,
Martin Gansten