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

Adh. XCVII. Sl. 5-8.] सप्तनवतितमोऽध्यायः 739 Sloka 4.—The effects of the reversal of the tempe- rature of hot and cold things (or seasons), the appearance of flowers and fruits out of season, burning of quarters, the reversal of the states of moving and fixed objects and abnormal births, will come to pass in six months. अक्रियमाणककरणं भूकम्पोऽनुत्सवो दुरिष्टं च । शोषश्चाशोष्याणां स्रोतोऽन्यत्वं च वर्षार्धात् ॥५॥ Sloka 5.—Things being done without an agent, earthquake, stoppage of festivities, terrible calamities, withering or drying of never-drying things and streams refusing to flow or flowing upwards, these effects will be felt in half a year. स्तम्भकुसूलार्चानां जल्पितरुदितप्रकम्पितस्वेदाः । मासत्रयेण कलहेन्द्रचापनिर्घातपाकाश्च ॥६॥ Sloka 6.—The effects of pillars, granaries, images, speeches, weeping, quaking, sweating, quarrels, rainbows, and portentous thunder will be felt in three months. कीटाखुमक्षिकोरगबाहुल्यं मृगविहङ्गविरुतं च । लोष्टस्य चाप्सु तरणं त्रिभिरेव विपच्यते मासैः ॥७॥ Sloka 7.—The effects of the pests, viz., worms, rats, flies and snakes, of the cries of beasts and birds, and of the floating of clods of earth in water will be felt in three months alone. प्रसवः शुनामरण्ये वन्यानां ग्रामसम्प्रवेशश्च । मधुनिलयतोरणेन्द्रध्वजाश्च वर्षात् समधिकाद्वा ॥८॥ Sloka 8.—The effects of bitches bringing forth their young ones in the forest, the entry of wild animals into the village, bee-hives, arches and Indra's banner will be felt in a year or a little more.