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

Adh. LXXXIX. Sl. 1-3.] एकोननवतितमोऽध्यायः 693 the like, miseries ; but according to some, good results will accrue, when it carries a cloth. प्रविशति तु गृहं सशुष्कास्थिवक्त्रे प्रधानस्य तस्मिन् वधः शृङ्खलाशीर्णवल्लीवरत्रादि वा बन्धनं चोपगृह्योपतिष्ठेद्यदा स्यात् तदा बन्धनं लेढि पादौ विधुन्वन् स्वकर्णावुपर्याक्रमंश्चापि विघ्नाय यातु- र्विरोधे विरोधस्तथा स्वाङ्गकण्डूयने स्यात् स्वपंश्चोर्ध्वपादः सदा दोषकृत् ॥१॥ Dandaka 1 (d).—When a dog enters a house with a dry bone in its mouth, there will be the death of the head of the family living in it ; when it comes towards a traveller with a chain, shrivelled creeper, thong or other means of tying in its mouth, he will suffer imprisonment ; if it licks his feet or, shaking its ears, gets upon him, there will be obstacles to him ; when it obstructs him or scratches its own limbs, he will have impediments ; when it sleeps with its legs raised, there will be evil to all persons. सूर्योदयेऽर्काभिमुखो विरौति ग्रामस्य मध्ये यदि सारमेयः । एको यदा वा बहवः समेताः शंसन्ति देशाधिपमन्यमाशु ॥२॥ Sloka 2.—If one or more dogs bark at the Sun at Sun-rise from the middle of a village, it is an indica- tion of the immediate change of rulers. सूर्योन्मुखः श्वानलदिक्स्थितश्च चौरानलत्रासकरोऽचिरेण । मध्याह्नकालेऽनलमृत्युशंसी संशोणितः स्यात् कलहोऽपराह्ने ॥३॥ Sloka 3.—If a dog barks standing in the S. E. cor- ner and facing the Sun, there will erelong be danger from thieves and fire ; if at mid-day, outbreak of fire and death (or death from fire) ; if in the afternoon, a sanguinary feud.