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

Adh. LXXXVI. Sl. 70-72.] षडशीतितमोऽध्यायः 665 lustrous and looking down, though auspicious, the person arriving would be a perpetrator of heinous crimes. Another meaning for the 2nd half :—If the omen be lustrous, the person arriving would be one of a peaceful temperament ; if it looks down, he will be a doer of heinous crimes. विदिक्स्थः शकुनो दीप्तो वामस्थेनानुवाशितः । स्त्रियाः सङ्ग्रहणं प्राह तद्दिगाख्यातयोनितः ॥७०॥ Sloka 70.—If the cry of an omen stationed in a ‘ Burning ’ corner be followed by another to its left, it indicates a man's marital alliance with a woman of the type indicated by that direction. This idea may be stretched to the case of a woman also. शान्तः पञ्चमदीप्तेन विरुतो विजयावहः । दिङ्नरागमकारी वा दोषकृत्तद्विपर्यये ॥७१॥ Sloka 71.—The cry of an omen standing in a ‘Tran- quil ’ quarter being followed by another stationed in a ‘ Burning ’ one that is fifth from the ‘ Tranquil ’ quarter, bestows victory, or indicates the arrival of the person assigned to that quarter. If it be otherwise, (one cry in a ‘ burning ’ quarter followed by another in a ‘ tranquil ’ quarter fifth from it), troubles will arise. Another meaning is possible ·-An omen standing in a ‘ tran- quil ’ quarter and crying along with another in another ‘ tranquil ’ quarter which happens to be the fifth from the ‘ Burning ’ quarter at the time, etc. In this case तद्विपर्यये is to be interpreted as दीप्तः शान्तपञ्चमेन—one staying in a ‘ Burning ’ quarter crying with another in another quarter which is fifth from one of the ‘ Tranquil ’ quarters. वामसव्यगतो मध्यः प्राह स्वपरयोर्भयम् । मरणं कथयन्त्येते सर्वे समविराविणः ॥७२॥ Sloka 72.—An omen standing between two others to its left and right with its cry being reciprocated by बृ० सं 84