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

518 बृहत्संहितायाम् [Adh. LIX. Sl. 1-4. Sloka 58—The Lord of Siva's hosts has an ele- phantine face with a single tusk, a bulging belly, a hatchet in his hand and a turnip of very dark foliage and root. Thus ends the 58th Adhyaya on "Description of Idols." वनसम्प्रवेशाध्यायः ॥५९॥ Ingress into the Forest. कर्तुरनुकूलदिवसे दैवज्ञविशोधिते शुभनिमित्ते । मङ्गलशकुनैः प्रास्थानिकैश्च वनसम्प्रवेशः स्यात् ॥१॥ Sloka 1.—The maker of images should enter the forest on a favourable day, i. e., a day presided over by a planet bestowing prosperity, and having an unhurt as- terism—when good foretokens are discovered by the astrologer and when there are auspicious omens pre- scribed for a journey. पितृवनमार्गसुरालयवल्मीकोद्यानतापसाश्रमजाः । चैत्यसरित्सङ्गमसम्भवाश्च घटतोयसिक्ताश्च ॥२॥ कुब्जानुजातवल्लीनिपीडिता वज्रमारुतोपहताः । स्वपतितहस्तिनिपीडितशुष्काग्निप्लुष्टमधुनिलयाः ॥३॥ तरवो वर्जयितव्याः शुभदाः स्युः स्निग्धपत्रकुसुमफलाः । अभिमतवृक्षं गत्वा कुर्यात्पूजां सबलिपुष्पाम् ॥४॥ Slokas 2-4.—Those trees that grow in cemeteries, roads, temples, ant-hills, gardens, hermitages (penance- groves), sacred spots, near the confluences of rivers, those that are reared being watered, those that are stunt- ed, those that have grown beside others, those that are infested with creepers, that are broken by thunderbolt