Stanza 55.

� Right breath is favourable at the time of bathing, eating,

cohabitation,
transacting business, debating, gambling and fighting. It is also good when you are
in fear or
disappointment in anything.
Stanza 56. � Left side breath is good for travel, putting on new dress or
ornaments,
marriage, bringing about reconciliation, making a gift and entering the presence of
another.
Stanza 57. � When you see a pregnant woman at the time when you breathe through the
right, then predict that the child is male; if through left say it is female. If it
is in sushumna,
predict that she will give birth to a lifeless child.
Stanza 58. � Suppose a pregnant woman asks an astrologer 'what is the sex of the
child
that I will give birth to', then tell her it is to be male if she asks from the
side you have breath. If
not, say it will be a female. If breath passes through both sides, then she will
give birth to twins.
Stanza 59. � If one wants to succeed easily in any undertaking in life, one should
start
when the breath is in the left and reach his destination when the breath is in the
right.
Stanza 60. � In a query regarding an invasion, if the breath passes through the
left,
predict there will be no invasion; if through the right, there will be an attack.
Stanza 61. � To a query whether one will be successful in a friendly dual, if the
question
is made from the side where there is breath, then say he will succeed.
Stanza 62. � When the breath passes through the left, a wrestler can prepare, start
and
enter the arena. If he strikes the opponent in the left, when the breath is in the
right, success is
assured for him.
Stanza 63. � Even if the contestant enters the ring with the breath in the left
nostril, he
will be defeated when he moves on with the breath in the same nostril. In such a
contingency he
should resort to the East or North of the ring in order to avoid defeat.
Stanza 64. � In a question pertaining to birth of issue, when the astrologer's
breath is
ethereal, say the child in the womb will die. If the person asks the question from
the side where
there is breath and passes to the side where there is no breath, then predict that
a lifeless child
would be delivered.