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

Adh. XXIV. Sl. 13-16.] चतुर्विंशोऽध्यायः 229
breeze not vitiated. I shall now treat of the effects of
the clouds and the wind.
तथा च गर्गः
योगे ह्यनुद्धता वाता ह्लादयन्तः सुखप्रदाः ।
प्रदक्षिणाः श्रेष्ठतमाः पूर्वपूर्वोत्तरा इति ॥
क्वचिदसितासितैः सितैः क्वचिच्च क्वचिदसितैर्भुजगैरिवाम्बुवाहैः ।
वलितजठरपृष्ठमात्रदृश्यैः स्फुरिततडिद्रसनैर्वृतं विशालैः ॥१३॥
विकसितकमलोदरावदातैररुणकरद्युतिराञ्जितोपकण्ठैः ।
छुरितमिव वियद्धनैर्विचित्रैर्मधुकरकुङ्कुमकिंशुकावदातैः ॥१४॥
Slokas 13-14.—The sky in some quarters is covered
with large and black and white clouds, in others with
white ones and in some others with dark ones as with
huge serpents whose bellies and backs alone are visible
in their coils and to whose moving tongues correspond
the flashes of lightning in the clouds. It appears as
though it were bedecked with clouds some of which are
as white as the interior of lotus-blossoms, whose fringes
are tinged by the rays of the rising Sun, which are dark
like bees, yellow like saffron, red like the Kimsuka
flower, and white and which consequently have a large
variety of colours.
असितघननिरुद्धमेव वा चलिततडित्सुरचापचित्रितम् ।
द्विपमहिषकुलाकुलीकृतं वनमिव दावपरीतमम्बरम् ॥१५॥
Sloka 15.—Or, the sky which is studded with dark
clouds and chequered with moving streaks of lightning
and the rain-bow, looks verily like a forest on fire, which
is teeming with herds of tigers and bisons.
अथवाञ्जनशैलशिलानिचयप्रतिरूपधरैः स्थगितं गगनम् ।
हिममौक्तिकशङ्खशशाङ्ककरद्युतिहारिभिरम्बुधरैरथवा ॥१६॥