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

262 बृहत्संहितायाम् [Adh. XXX. Sl. 9-12.
' Sloka 8.—The following things being glossy at
dawn or twilight betoken immediate rain. दण्ड-Danda
(vide Sloka 16, infra), lightning, fish-like clouds, a mock
Sun, a halo, a rainbow, ऐरावत-Airavata (vide Adhyaya
XLVI—20 infra) and Sunbeams.
विच्छिन्नविषमविध्वस्तविकृतकुटिलापसव्यपरिवृत्ताः ।
तनुह्रस्वविकलकलुषाश्च विग्रहावृष्टिदाः किरणाः ॥९॥
Sloka 9.—The Sun's rays, which are broken off,
unequal, discoloured, unnatural, crooked, turned anti-
clockwise, slender, short, crippled (impaired) and soiled
bring about war and drought.
उद्योतिनः प्रसन्ना ऋजवो दीर्घाः प्रदक्षिणावर्ताः ।
किरणाः शिवाय जगतो वितमस्के नभसि भानुमतः ॥१०॥
Sloka 10.—The Sun's rays which are brilliant,
pure, straight, long and turned in a clock-wise direction
and which are seen in a bright sky, tend to the prosperity
of the world.
शुक्लाः करा दिनकृतो दिवादिमध्यान्तगामिनः स्निग्धाः ।
अव्युच्छिन्ना ऋजवो वृष्टिकरास्ते त्वमोघाख्याः ॥११॥
Sloka 11.—The white, glossy, unbroken and straight
rays of the Sun, which pervade the whole firmament
(from the beginning to the end), produce rain and are
called ' Amogha ' or 'unerring '.
कल्माषबभ्रुकपिला विचित्रमाञ्जिष्ठहरितशबलाभाः ।
त्रिदिवानुबन्धिनोऽवृष्टयेऽल्पभयदास्तु सप्ताहात् ॥१२॥
Sloka 12.—Greyish, tawny, russet, variegated, mad-
der-hued, green and spotted rays stretching all over the
sky (and turned upwards), are conducive to drought and
produce some danger after a week.