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

224 बृहत्संहितायाम् [Adh. XXIV. Sl. 1-3. Sloka 10.—If an asterism be afflicted by the Sun, Saturn or Ketu, or hurt by Mars, or by the three-fold portent, there will be no prosperity to mankind, nor will there be any rain. But if the asterism be unhurt and conjoined with benefics, beneficial results will accrue. तथा च गर्गः। सूर्यसौरहते वाच्यं नक्षत्र भौमघातिते । उत्पातैस्त्रिविधैर्वापि राहुणा केतुनापि वा ॥ अवृष्टिमशुभं विन्द्याद्विपरीते शुभं वदेत् । Thus ends the 23rd Adhyaya on "The Quantity of Rainfall". रोहिणीयोगाध्यायः ॥२४॥ The Moon's Conjunction with Rohini कनकशिलाचयविवररजतद्रुकुसुमासङ्गमधुकरानुरुते । बहुविहगकलहसुरयुवतिगीतमन्द्रस्वनोपवने ॥१॥ सुरनिलयशिखरिशिखरे बृहस्पतिर्नारदाय यानाह । गर्गपराशरकाश्यपमयाश्च यान् शिष्यसङ्घेभ्यः ॥२॥ तानवलोक्य यथावत् प्राजापत्येन्दुसम्प्रयोगार्थान् । स्वल्पग्रन्थेनाहं तानेवाभ्युद्यतो वक्तुम् ॥३॥ Slokas 1-3.—I shall now try to expound briefly the good and bad effects arising from the Moon's con- junction with Rohini, having duly taken cognisance of them as explained by Garga, Parasara, Kasyapa and Maya to their hosts of pupils and as instructed by Brihaspati to Narada in the park on the summit of the Meru, which resounds with the humming of the bees clinging to the flowers of the trees in the caves of the golden rocks, which rings with the twitterings of