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

272 बृहत्संहितायाम् [Adh. XXXII. Sl. 8-10. Sloka 3-7.—In days of yore, the earth, being shaken severely by the winged mountains which flew up and down, spoke bashfully to the creator in the assembly of the Gods—"My lord, the name that has been given to me by you—namely अचला-immoveable—is not quite right, for it is falsified by the flying mountains and I am unable to put up with this misery." Hearing these words of Mother Earth who was choked with tears, whose lower lip quivered slightly, and observing her face hanging down with tears trickling down from her eyes, the Creator spoke thus: “ Indra, remove this humiliation felt by Mother Earth; throw your thunderbolt and chop off the wings of the mountains.” At this, Indra saying ‘So be it’, comforted her with the word “Don’t you fear; but Wind, Fire, myself and Varuna will shake you in the four parts of the Day and Night put together respectively in order to reveal the good and bad effects to the world.” गर्ग आह कृत्वा चतुर्थाहोरात्रं द्विधाहोऽथ द्विधा निशाम् । देवताश्रययोगाच्च चतुर्था भगणं तथा ॥ पूर्वे दिनार्धे वायव्य आग्नेयोऽर्द्धे तु पश्चिमे । ऐन्द्रः पूर्वे च रात्र्यर्धे पश्चिमार्धे तु वारुणः ॥ चत्वार एवमेते स्युरहोरात्रविकल्पजाः । निमित्तभूता लोकानामुल्कानिर्घातभूचलाः ॥ इति. चत्वार्यार्यम्णाद्यान्यादित्यं मृगशिरोऽश्वयुक् चेति । मण्डलमेतद्वायव्यमस्य रूपाणि सप्ताहात् ॥८॥ धूमाकुलीकृताशे नभसि नभस्वान् रजः क्षिपन् भौमम् । विरुजन्द्रुमांश्च विचरति रविरपटुकरोऽवभासी च ॥९॥ वायव्ये भूकम्पे सस्याम्बुवनौषधीक्षयोऽभिहितः । श्वयथुश्वासोन्मादज्वरकासभवो वणिकपीडा ॥१०॥