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

Adh. LI. Sl. 27-29.] एकपञ्चाशत्तमोऽध्यायः 418 shanks, a labourer (messenger); if the navel, his own sister; if the heart, his own wife; if a thumb, his son; if the fingers, his daughter; if he touches his stomach, the thief is to be found in his mother; if the head, in his father (or teacher); and if the right and left arms, in his brother and brother's wife respectively. Thus prediction of theft has to be made from the touch of the limbs. अन्तरङ्गमवमुच्य बाह्यगस्पर्शनं यदि करोति पृच्छकः । श्लेष्ममूत्रशकृतस्त्यजत्यथो पातयेत्करतलस्थवस्तु चेत् ॥२७॥ भृशमवनामिताङ्गपरिमोटनतोऽप्यथवा जनधृतरिक्तभाण्डमवलोक्य च चौरजनम् । हृतपतितक्षतास्मृतविनष्टविभग्नगतो- न्मुषितमृताद्यनिष्ठरवतो लभते न हृतम् ॥२८॥ Slokas 27-28.—The following are the indications for the non-recovery of the stolen properties: The querist touches an external part of the body after an internal one; or spits phlegm, passes urine or evacuates the bowels; or drops something from his hand; or bends some limb extremely and cracks it; or beholds empty pots carried by people or thieves; or hears ominous words such as "taken away, fallen, injured, forgotten, lost, broken, gone, stolen, dead" and the like. निगदितमिदं यत्तत्सर्वं तुषास्थिविषादिकैः सह मृतिकरं पीडार्त्तानां समं रुदितक्षुतैः । अवयवमपि स्पृष्ट्वान्तःस्थं दृढं मरुदाहरे दतिबहु तदा भुक्त्वाऽन्नं संस्थितः सुहितो वदेत् ॥२९॥ Sloka 29.—All the signs mentioned above when coupled with the sight of husks, bones, poison, etc., or with the sound of weeping and sneezing (or injury?),