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

668 बृहत्संहितायाम् [Adh. LXXXVI. Sl. 77-78.
parts, if there be an omen in the eight directions be-
ginning with the East, the respective materials on which
writing may exist are a tree, palm-leaf, a worthless frag-
ment of leaf, cloth, water-product (lotus-leaf), reed, lea-
ther and silk. The effects of the omens will be felt in
the respective divisions.
व्यायामशिखिनिकूजितकलहाम्भोनिगडमन्त्रगोशब्दाः।
वर्णास्तु रक्तपीतककृष्णसिताः कोणगा मिश्राः ॥७७॥
Sloka 77.—If omens are found in the eight quarters,
their effects will be felt severally near a place of military
exercise, near a fire-place, where some sound is heard,
where a quarrel takes place, near water, where fetters
and the like are kept, where Veda is chanted and where
the bellowing of cows is heard. The colours of things that
may be found as a result of omens in the prime quarters
beginning with the East are in order, red, yellow, black
and white; but in the corners, they are mixed.
In the S. E., it is yellowish red; in S. W., dark-yellow; in
N. W., grey and in N. E., pale-red. The use of this is—suppose
an omen has some substance with it; the person will get some
object of the colour assigned to the particular quarter. This
knowledge may be made use of in cases of theft and missing
articles, or colours of cloths, or devotion to deities presiding over
the colours.
चिह्नं ध्वजो दग्धमथ श्मशानं दरी जलं पर्वतयज्ञघोषाः ।
एतेषु संयोगभयानि विन्द्यादन्यानि वा स्थानविकल्पितानि ॥७८॥
Sloka 78.—The signs of the eight quarters begin-
ning with the East are: a banner, something burnt, a
burial ground, a cave, water, a mountain, a sacrifice and
a hamlet of cow-herds (or proclamation ?). Good or bad
omens stationed on these signs augur a meeting with