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

364 बृहत्संहितायाम् [Adh. XLVI. Sl. 78-81. and crying " Strike !, undo !, cut !, pierce !" will have immediate danger. तथा च पराशरः । यदि धनुरसिकाष्ठलोष्टहस्ताः पुरशिशवो रणवत्समाचरन्ति । प्रहरहरजहीत्युदाहरन्ते भयमचिरात्सुमहं निवेदयन्ति ॥ अङ्गारगैरिकाद्यैर्विकृतप्रेताभिलेखनं यस्मिन् । नायकचित्रितमथवा क्षये क्षयं याति नचिरेण ॥७८॥ Sloka 78.—A house where figures of monsters or ghosts are drawn with charcoal, red-chalk, etc., or a picture of the house-owner is drawn with charcoal, etc., will ere long be destroyed. लूतापटाङ्गशबलं न सन्ध्ययोः पूजितं कलहयुक्तम् । नित्योच्छिष्टस्त्रीकं च यद्गृहं तत्क्षयं याति ॥७९॥ Sloka 79.—That house, which is full of cobwebs, where there is no worship of Gods at dawn and Sunset, where there is constant quarrel and where there are unclean women every day, will meet with destruction. दृष्टेषु यातुधानेषु निर्दिशेन्मरकमाशु सम्प्राप्तम् । प्रतिघातायैतेषां गर्गः शान्तिं चकारैमाम् ॥८०॥ Sloka 80.—When goblins are seen, pestilence is said to be imminent. For averting these portents, Sage Garga has laid down the following expiation. महाशान्त्योऽथ बलयो भोज्यानि सुमहन्ति च । कारयेत महेन्द्रं च माहेन्द्रीं च समर्च्चयेत् ॥८१॥ Sloka 81.—The King should cause great expiations, oblations and large quantities of eatables to be made. There Indra with his consort should be worshipped.