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

20 बृहत्संहितायाम् [Adh. II. 15-19
पराशरश्चाप्यधिगम्य सोमाद्रहस्यं सुराणां परमाद्भुतं यत् ।
प्रकाशयांचक्रुरनुक्रमेण महर्षिमन्तो यवनेषु तत्ते ॥ इति
कुहकावेशपिहितकर्णोपश्रुतिहेतुभिः ।
कृतादेशो न सर्वत्र प्रष्टव्यो न स दैववित् ॥१५॥
Sloka 15.—Prediction made by people who are
sorcerers, who are possessed by deities and who learn
something about the subject in question by eaves-drop-
ping and by hearsay should on no account be con-
sidered, for they are no astrologers.
अविदित्त्वैव यः शास्त्रं दैवज्ञत्वं प्रपद्यते ।
स पङ्क्तिदूषकः पापो ज्ञेयो नक्षत्रसूचकः ॥१६॥
Sloka 16.—He who poses himself as an astrologer
by his knowledge of merely locating the stars, without
having actually studied and understood the science is
reckoned as a sinner and a blot to the society.
नगरद्वारलोष्टस्य यद्वत्स्यादुपयाचितम् ।
आदेशस्तद्वदज्ञानां यः सत्यः स विभाव्यते ॥१७॥
Sloka 17.—Just as a prayer addressed to the clod of
earth at the gate of a city for a boon is fulfilled through
blind chance, even so is considered the prophecy made by
the ignorant which sometimes comes out true.
सम्पत्त्या योजितादेशस्तद्विच्छिन्नकथाप्रियः ।
मत्तः शास्त्रैकदेशेन त्याज्यस्तादृङ् महीक्षिता ॥१८॥
Sloka 18.—A king ought to shun a Jyautishika who
justifies the occurrence of an event as a result of his
original prediction, who has become arrogant by dabbling
in astrology and who introduces irrelevant matters.
यस्तु सम्यग्विजानाति होरागणितसंहिताः ।
अभ्यर्च्यः स नरेन्द्रेण स्वीकर्तव्यो जयैषिणा ॥१९॥