The Bṛihat Saṃhitâ of Varaha Mihira, Bände 1-2Printed at the South Indian Press, 1884 - 469 Seiten |
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afflicted with miseries animals appear Ardra Ashadha asterism astronomers benefic planets Bhadrapada birds Brahma Brahmins bright CHAPTER clouds color comets conjunction constellation countries cows creatures crow be seen cubits Devas disc disease dronas drought Earth east eclipse effects elephants enter the constellation evil fall fear fire flowers fruits Garga gems ghee glossy gold half happy horses inches Indra Jupiter Jyeshta Jyoutishaka Ketu king known Krittika Kshatriyas land lotus lunar day lunar eclipse lunar month Magha malefic planets mankind will suffer Mars Mercury meteoric milk mixture Mlechas Moon passes mountains Nakshatra occupied occur omen pearls perish person will suffer Phalguni princes prosperity Pushya quarter Rahu rain reappears Revati Rishis Rohini rulers Saturn seed seen to cry shape side solar Sravana stanza stars Sudras suffer defeat suffer miseries Swati tail tree Varuna Veedhi Venus Visakha Vishnu wealth women Yavanas Yoga yuga
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Seite ii - The rev. fathers, Jesuits, Franciscans, stranger-missions, and other corporations, unite with touching harmony in India to accomplish a work of Vandalism, which it is right to denounce as well to the learned world as to Orientalists. Every manuscript, every Sanscrit work that falls into their hands, is immediately condemned and consigned to the flames. Needless to say that the choice of these gentlemen always falls from preference upon those of highest antiquity, and whose authenticity may appear...
Seite i - And told our marvelling boyhood legends store, Of their strange ventures happ'd by land or sea, How are they blotted from the things that be ! How few, all weak and withered of their force, Wait, on the verge of dark eternity, Like stranded wrecks, the tide returning hoarse, To sweep them from our sight! Time rolls his ceaseless course.
Seite 142 - It is interesting to know that the number of combinations of n things taken r at a time is the same as the number of combinations of n things taken n — r at a time.
Seite 75 - Sun's light and are carried along by the influence of the nuclens ; fourth, an immense prolongation of the tail in the nature of attenuated volumes of gas. The solid materials of a comet, it is believed, consist of stones and sand, particles ground by ceaseless attrition. The proof of this is the concession of most astronomers that meteoric showers are shreds and patches of cometic matter, dropped from the tail, and these meteors are stones.
Seite 117 - ... Chaitra (March-April) and Vaisakha (April-May) indicate a healthy conception- of clouds. If during the months of conception (November-May) the " pregnant " clouds appear of the colour of pearls or silver or tamala leaf, or blue lotus, or of collyrium, then the rain during the season will be profuse. If the pregnant clouds should be exposed to the hot rays of the Sun, or accompanied by gentle winds, then the rain that follows after 195 days will be excessive. Certain phenomena, however, tend to...
Seite 132 - ... 8. The condition of elephants shall be determined by (weighing) their tusks; that of cows and horses by their hair; that of princes by gold, that of Brahmins and others by wax; that of countries, years, months and days shall also be determined by the wax, and that of other articles by the articles themselves. 9. Gold is the best material for making the beam of the balance; silver is of middle importance; if these two cannot be had, the beam may be of blackwood; it may also be of that arrow iron...
Seite 114 - It is there quaintly affirmed that " if pregnant clouds appear when the moon is in a certain Asterism, the delivery of rain will occur 195 days after, when the moon will be in the same Asterism...
Seite 209 - If, during twilight hours, he be found to neigh turning to a deepta quarter the master will suffer imprisonment or defeat in fight. 11. If the horse be found to neigh much during sleep or to flap its tail, there will be travel. If it be found to drop the hairs of its tail or to neigh pitiously or fearfully or to eat dust, there will be misery. 12. If the horse be found to lie on its right side like a box stretching its right leg, there will be succos.
Seite 130 - ... exercise a great influence over the future destiny of the child in embryo. Thus we read in the Sastras : "A woman, though at a distance, conceives a child of the shape of the person she loves ardently and thinks of at the time. Just as a tree that grows is not different from the parent tree whether we plant a branch or sow a seed, so the main features of the child partake of the features of its father, though there might be slight changes due to the soil.
Seite 132 - ... Prophecies by means of weighing: Gold is the best material for making the beam of the balance; silver is of middle importance; if these two cannot be had, the beam may be of blackwood; it may also be of that arrow iron which was employed in killing a man. The length of the beam shall be twelve inches. That article which should be found to weigh less when weighed again will perish; that which weighs more will flourish; that which weighs neither more nor less will neither flourish nor decay. These...