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

452 बृहत्संहितायाम् [Adh. LIII. Sl. 105-107
and misery; so is one that is imperceptible or ugly;
one drawn with hide, charcoal, bone or tooth, causes
disaster to the owner; one drawn in an anti-clockwise
direction, produces hatred; in a clockwise direction, pros-
perity; harsh words, spitting and sneezing at the com-
mencement are said to be inauspicious.
अर्द्धनिचितं कृतं वा प्रविशन् स्थपतिर्गृहे निमित्तानि ।
अवलोकयेद्गृहपतिः क्व संस्थितः स्पृशति किं चाङ्गम् ॥१०५॥
रविदीप्तो यदि शकुनिस्तस्मिन् काले विरौति परुषरवम् ।
संस्पृष्टाङ्गसमानं तस्मिन् देशेऽस्थि निर्दिश्यम् ॥१०६॥
Slokas 105-106.—When entering a finished or half-
finished house, the architect should look for the sign
such as where (in which part of the house-God) the
owner is standing, and which limb he is touching. If a
bird heated by the Sun, cries harshly at the time, it may
be predicted that on the spot there is a bone of a mem-
ber corresponding to the limb touched.
The meaning of 'heated by the Sun' is—in the first watch
of the day, the north-east is full of embers; the east is 'scorched',
south-east, 'smoky', and the rest are calm; in the second watch,
the east is 'full of embers,' south-east, 'scorched', south
'smoky', and the rest calm; in the third, south-east, 'full of
embers', south, 'scorched', south-west, 'smoky', and the rest
calm; in the last watch of the day, the south is 'full of embers',
south west, 'scorched', west, 'smoky' and the rest, 'calm'; and
so on.
शकुनसमयेऽथवाऽन्ये हस्त्यश्वश्वादयोऽनुवाशन्ते ।
तत्प्रभवमस्थि तस्मिंस्तदङ्गसम्भूतमेवेति ॥१०७॥
Sloka 107.—Or, at the time of noting fore-tokens, if
other animals such as elephants, horses and dogs being
scorched by the Sun, produce a shrieking sound, it may