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

Adh. LXVIII. Sl. 20-25.] अष्टषष्टितमोऽध्यायः 547
उन्नतकुक्षाः क्षितिपाः कुटिलाः स्युर्मानवा विषमकुक्षाः।
सर्पोदरा दरिद्रा भवन्ति बह्वाशिनश्चैव ॥२०॥
Slokas 19-20.—Those with fleshy sides become
wealthy ; with sunken and crooked ones, are devoid of
the pleasures of life ; with an even stomach, enjoy the
pleasures of life ; with a sunken one are without happi-
ness ; with a high one. become kings ; with an uneven
one, crafty ; with a serpentine (very long and thin) one,
penniless and gluttonous.
परिमण्डलोन्नताभिर्विस्तीर्णाभिश्च नाभिभिः सुखिनः ।
अल्पा त्वदृश्यनिम्ना नाभिः क्लेशवहा भवति ॥२१॥
वलिमध्यगता विषमा शूलाद्वाधां करोति नैःस्वयं च ।
शाठ्यं वामावर्त्ता करोति मेधां प्रदक्षिण गतः ॥२२॥
पार्श्वयाता चिरायुषमुपरिष्टाच्चेश्वरं गवाढ्यमधः ।
शतपत्रकर्णिकाभा नाभिर्मनुजेश्वरं कुरुते ॥२३॥
Slokas 21-23.—People become happy by a navel
that is round, raised and broad ; afflicted with troubles
by one that is small, almost invisible and deep ; poor and
die of colic (or wound from a spike) by one that is sur-
rounded by folds of skin and uneven ; rogues by one
that is turned from right to left ; intelligent by one that
is turned from left to right ; long-lived by one that is
elongated at the sides ; lords by one that is broad at the
upper end ; owners of cattle, at the lower end ; and kings
by one that resembles the knob in the centre of a lotus.
शश्वान्तं स्त्रीभोगिनमाचार्यं बहुसुतं यथासंख्यम् ।
एकद्वित्रिचतुर्भिर्वलिभिर्विद्यान्नृपं त्ववलिम् ॥२४॥
विषमवलयो मनुष्या भवन्त्यगम्याभिगामिनः पापाः ।
ऋजुवलयः सुखभाजः परदारद्वेषिणश्चैव ॥२५॥