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

382 बृहत्संहितायाम् [Adh. XLVIII. Sl. 13-16. Sloka 12.—Or, it may be performed on the sea-shore which is overcrowded with ships that have arrived safely being laden with costly things, and whose fringes are variegated with white birds and fishes and the like lurk- ing in the thick bushes of the Nichula trees. क्षमया क्रोध इव जितः सिंहो मृग्याभिभूयते येषु । दत्ताभयखगमृगशावकेषु तेष्वाश्रमेष्वथवा ॥१३॥ Sloka 13.—Or, it may be done in hermitages, where a lion is subdued by a female deer, as anger by forgive- ness and where the young ones of birds and the deer roam about without any fear. काञ्चीकलापनूपुरगुरुजघनोद्वहनविघ्नितपदाभिः । श्रीमति मृगेक्षणाभिर्गृहेऽन्यभृतवल्गुवचनाभिः ॥१४॥ Sloka 14.—Or, it may be done in a prosperous house where the deer-eyed ladies speak as sweetly as cuckoos, and have their gait impeded by the weight of heavy hips, girdles and anklets. पुण्येष्वायतनेषु च तीर्थेषूद्यानरम्यदेशेषु । पूर्वोदक्प्लवभूमौ प्रदक्षिणाम्भोवहायां च ॥१५॥ Sloka 15.—Or, it may be done in holy temples, rivers (Tirthas), attractive regions of gardens, in a place where the earth slopes down towards the east or the north, or where the water flows from left to right. तथा च वृद्धगर्गः । समुद्रतीरे संधाने नदीनां सङ्गमे शुभे । महाह्रदेऽथवा तीर्थे देवतायतने तथा ॥ सर्वर्तुकुसुमोपेते वने द्विजवरैर्युते । गृहे रम्ये विविक्ते वा पुष्यस्नानं समाचरेत् ॥ भस्माङ्गारास्थ्युषरतुषकेशश्वभ्रार्कर्कटावासैः । श्वाविधमूषकविवरैर्वल्मीकैर्या च सन्त्यक्ता ॥१६॥