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

518 बृहत्संहितायाम् [Adh. LIX. Sl. 1-4.
Sloka 58—The Lord of Siva's hosts has an ele-
phantine face with a single tusk, a bulging belly, a
hatchet in his hand and a turnip of very dark foliage
and root.
Thus ends the 58th Adhyaya on "Description of Idols."
वनसम्प्रवेशाध्यायः ॥५९॥ Ingress into the Forest.
कर्तुरनुकूलदिवसे दैवज्ञविशोधिते शुभनिमित्ते ।
मङ्गलशकुनैः प्रास्थानिकैश्च वनसम्प्रवेशः स्यात् ॥१॥
Sloka 1.—The maker of images should enter the
forest on a favourable day, i. e., a day presided over by
a planet bestowing prosperity, and having an unhurt as-
terism—when good foretokens are discovered by the
astrologer and when there are auspicious omens pre-
scribed for a journey.
पितृवनमार्गसुरालयवल्मीकोद्यानतापसाश्रमजाः ।
चैत्यसरित्सङ्गमसम्भवाश्च घटतोयसिक्ताश्च ॥२॥
कुब्जानुजातवल्लीनिपीडिता वज्रमारुतोपहताः ।
स्वपतितहस्तिनिपीडितशुष्काग्निप्लुष्टमधुनिलयाः ॥३॥
तरवो वर्जयितव्याः शुभदाः स्युः स्निग्धपत्रकुसुमफलाः ।
अभिमतवृक्षं गत्वा कुर्यात्पूजां सबलिपुष्पाम् ॥४॥
Slokas 2-4.—Those trees that grow in cemeteries,
roads, temples, ant-hills, gardens, hermitages (penance-
groves), sacred spots, near the confluences of rivers,
those that are reared being watered, those that are stunt-
ed, those that have grown beside others, those that are
infested with creepers, that are broken by thunderbolt