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

452 बृहत्संहितायाम् [Adh. LIII. Sl. 105-107 and misery; so is one that is imperceptible or ugly; one drawn with hide, charcoal, bone or tooth, causes disaster to the owner; one drawn in an anti-clockwise direction, produces hatred; in a clockwise direction, pros- perity; harsh words, spitting and sneezing at the com- mencement are said to be inauspicious. अर्द्धनिचितं कृतं वा प्रविशन् स्थपतिर्गृहे निमित्तानि । अवलोकयेद्गृहपतिः क्व संस्थितः स्पृशति किं चाङ्गम् ॥१०५॥ रविदीप्तो यदि शकुनिस्तस्मिन् काले विरौति परुषरवम् । संस्पृष्टाङ्गसमानं तस्मिन् देशेऽस्थि निर्दिश्यम् ॥१०६॥ Slokas 105-106.—When entering a finished or half- finished house, the architect should look for the sign such as where (in which part of the house-God) the owner is standing, and which limb he is touching. If a bird heated by the Sun, cries harshly at the time, it may be predicted that on the spot there is a bone of a mem- ber corresponding to the limb touched. The meaning of 'heated by the Sun' is—in the first watch of the day, the north-east is full of embers; the east is 'scorched', south-east, 'smoky', and the rest are calm; in the second watch, the east is 'full of embers,' south-east, 'scorched', south 'smoky', and the rest calm; in the third, south-east, 'full of embers', south, 'scorched', south-west, 'smoky', and the rest calm; in the last watch of the day, the south is 'full of embers', south west, 'scorched', west, 'smoky' and the rest, 'calm'; and so on. शकुनसमयेऽथवाऽन्ये हस्त्यश्वश्वादयोऽनुवाशन्ते । तत्प्रभवमस्थि तस्मिंस्तदङ्गसम्भूतमेवेति ॥१०७॥ Sloka 107.—Or, at the time of noting fore-tokens, if other animals such as elephants, horses and dogs being scorched by the Sun, produce a shrieking sound, it may