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

Adh. LXXXVI. Sl. 79-80.] षडशीतितमोऽध्यायः 589 some good person or danger respectively. Other things viz., good or bad doings (presaged by omens) take place in auspicious or inauspicious quarters. स्त्रीणां विकल्पा बृहती कुमारी व्यङ्गा विगन्धा त्वथ नीलवस्त्रा । दुस्त्री प्रदीर्घा विधवा च ताश्च संयोगचिन्तापरिवेदिकाः स्युः ।७९। Sloka 79.—When the question refers to women, omens appearing in the several quarters beginning with the East point to a buxom woman, a virgin, a woman of defective limbs, one that is stinking, one of blue-saree, a wicked woman, a tall one, and a widow respectively. These are useful in questions pertaining to meetings. There is another interpretation, since women are assigned to the corners. The four corners N. E., S. E., S. W., and N. W., indicate severally a buxom virgin, a crippled and a stinking woman a wicked woman of blue cloth and a tall widow. पृच्छासु रूप्यकनकातुरभामिनीनां मेषाव्ययानमखगोकुलसंश्रयासु । न्यग्रोधरक्ततरुरोध्रककीचकाख्याश्चूतद्रुमाः खदिरबिल्वनगार्जुनश्च॥ Sloka 80.—When at a query the querist or an omen stands in any of the eight quarters, the question refers severally to silver, gold, a sick person, a charming dam- sel, a goat or sheep, a vehicle (or journey), a sacrifice or a cow-shed. Similarly the trees corresponding to these quarters are in order, the banyan, a red tree, Lodhra, bamboo, mango, Khadira, Bilwa and Arjuna. When there is a good omen in the above quarters, one may get the articles belonging to them; otherwise, one will lose them. It refers to loss or theft of the several articles. The latter half gives us a clue as to which tree will flourish in each of the quarters. Thus ends the 86th Adhyaya on "Omens through Birds and Beasts."