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

308 बृहत्संहितायाम् [Adh. XLI. Sl. 1-3. flourish and fetch fair price, etc. But at the time of har- vest, if the Sun be aspected by or conjoined with the two malefics, effects, quite contrary to the above should be understood to happen (i. e. the corn will be very costly, useless and infested with pest. But for sale, the period will be all right.) Thus ends the 40th Adhyaya on 'Growth of Crops.' द्रव्यनिश्चयाध्यायः ॥४१॥ Classification of Substances. ये येषां द्रव्याणामधिपतयो राशयः समुद्दिष्टाः । मुनिभिः शुभाशुभार्थं तानागमतः प्रवक्ष्यामि ॥१॥ Sloka 1.—I shall now expound, on the authority of the Sastras, the Rasis which have been stated by ancient sages for a knowledge of good and bad effects as presid- ing over particular substances or objects. वस्त्राविककुतुपानां मसूरगोधूमरालक्यवानाम् । स्थलसम्भवौषधीनां कनकस्य च कीर्त्तितो मेषः ॥२॥ Sloka 2.—Sign Mesha presides over cloths, sheep's wool, clothes made of goats' hair, lentils, wheat, resin, barley, herbs growing on land and gold. तथा च काश्यपः मेषे सुवर्णस्थलजा गोधूमाजाविकास्तथा । ग्रहवर्णर्क्षसंयोगे शोभने सफलं भवेत् ॥ गवि वस्त्रकुसुमगोधूमशालयवमहिषसुरभितनयाः स्युः । मिथुनेऽपि धान्यशारदवल्लीशालूककर्पासाः ॥३॥ Sloka 3.—Sign Vrishabha presides over cloths, flowers, wheat, rice, barley, buffaloes and bullocks; Mithuna over corn, autumnal creepers such as vines, bulbs of lilies and cotton.