बृहत्संहिता (आचार्य वराहमिहिर - स्थापत्य, खगोल, मौसम व जल विज्ञान)

154 बृहत्संहितायाम् [Adh. XII. Sl. 21-22 Sloka 20.—Agasthya causes diseases when he is rough ; drought, when he is russet ; harm to cows, if smoky ; if he should be throbbing, there would be fear engendered ; if similar to madder in colour, he brings famine and wars ; when he is tiny, he forebodes the siege of the town. शातकुम्भसदृशः स्फटिकाभस्तर्पयन्निव महीं किरणाग्रैः । दृश्यते यदि तदा प्रचुरान्ना भूर्भवत्यभयरोगजनाढ्या ॥२१॥ Sloka 21.—If he shines like gold or crystal and ap- pears to refresh, as it were, the Earth with streams of his rays, the country will have plenty of food and team with a contented and healthy population. तथा च गर्गः । शङ्खकुन्देन्दुगोक्षीरमृणालरजतप्रभः । दृश्यते यद्यगस्त्यः स्यात्सुभिक्षक्षेमकारकः ॥ वैश्वानरार्चिप्रतिमैर्मांसशोणितकर्दमैः । रणैर्भयैश्च विविधैः किञ्चिच्छेषायते प्रजा ॥ उल्कया विनिहतः शिखिना वा क्षुद्भयं मरकमेव विधत्ते । दृश्यते स किल हस्तगतेऽर्के रोहिणीमुपगतेऽस्तमुपैति ॥२२॥ Sloka 22.—If he be struck by a meteor or comet, he will bring danger of famine and pestilence. It is said that he rises when the Sun is in the asterism Hasta and sets when the Sun has reached Rohini.*

• "See Colebrooke, l.c. His statement that there are three periods of rising and setting, according to Utpala, is not quite exact. On the contrary, Utpala expressly intimates that the rising of Canopus when the Sun stands in Hasta, is contrary to science, and only repeated by the author out of deference for the Ancients. He says किलेत्यागमसूचने, which is quite true ; where our author uses किल, it is so much as relata refero यद्यत्रापि गणितसाम्यं न भवति तथाप्याचार्येण पूर्वशास्त्रदृष्टत्वात् कृतम् । The three periods of rising are