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

Adh. LXXXVI. Sl. 8-11.] षडशीतितमोऽध्यायः 647
absence of a fixed habitat, Sage Garga, the senior, has
written the following two verses explaining their general
characteristics.
पीनोन्नतविकृतांसाः पृथुग्रीवाः सुवक्षसः ।
स्वल्पगम्भीरविरुताः पुमांसः स्थिरविक्रमाः ॥८॥
तनूरस्कशिरोग्रीवाः सूक्ष्मास्यपदविक्रमाः ।
प्रसक्तमृदुभाषिण्यः स्त्रियोऽतोऽन्यन्नपुंसकम् ॥९॥
Slokas 8-9.—“The male creatures have fleshy, high
and large shoulders, broad necks, a fine breast, small but
deep sound and great valour (or firm gait ?); whereas the
female ones have slender breast, head and neck, small
face and feet, little courage and harmonious and melodi-
ous voice. Those that are possessed of characteristics
different from these are eunuchs.”
Eunuch will have masculine as well as feminine characte-
ristics combined in them.
ग्रामारण्यप्रचाराद्यं लोकादेवोपलक्षयेत् ।
सञ्चिक्षिप्तुरहं वच्मि यात्रामात्रप्रयोजनम् ॥१०॥
Sloka 10.—The creatures that live in villages, fo-
rests, etc., are to be understood only from conventional
knowledge. Here I should like to delineate in brief
only those that are relevant to journeys.
पंथ्यात्मानं नृपं सैन्ये पुरे चोद्दिश्य देवताम् ।
सार्थे प्रधानं साम्ये स्याज्जातिविद्यावयोऽधिकम् ॥११॥
Sloka 11.—A man going on a journey ought to con-
sider the omens, good or bad, as relating to his own
person; in a marching army, they relate to the sove-
reign; in a city, to the tutelary deity (or to the Mayor);
in an assembly, to the chieftain. When there are many