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[Full title: Atmospheric Omens (5) Twilight-clouds]

It is a matter of common experience that clouds appear with different colours at the time of twilight. They appear in different forms also. Their colours, forms, thunders and movements are believed to foretell the future. 67 66. It may be noted that the quarters are mentioned here in the anti-clockwise manner, as this is the way in which the whirl-wind revolves. 67. The clouds, as omens, are referred to in Ram. III.23.1, 9,24.4; Vedic Index 10.20, 23.5-6, 41,14-15, 57.36-37, 106.23; VII.9.31; Mahabharata I.163.9; V.143.24-26; Vedic Index 2.19-20,30, 19. 37, 112.9; VII.77.3; XIV.77.20; Matsya Purana 172.13,46; Bhagavata Purana IV.10.23; Visnu Pur. 5.3.

600 when the clouds have white, black, greenish, or deep blue colour, or when they have a glossy halo of the same colours, they are to be adored as they indicate rain. When a cloud appears like crystal, dark collyrium, crow, Asani, serpent or molten silver, it showers in the three (seasons). When the clouds envelop the twilight, they cause good rain, otherwise they foreshadow the danger of draught. When the clouds are of the form of boars, crocodiles, camels, wolves, herons, donkeys or horses, they cause fear (Cf. Brhatsamhita by Varahamihira 24.21). The clouds, which have a golden or red colour, or which produce a sound like that of a dog, ass, fox, vulture or crow, cause great destruction of the people. 68 The clouds which appear, in the morning and evening like soldiers riding or like horses or like elephants, indicate war. When the clouds appear like a noose, or goed (ankusa), or like elephants dashing against each other or like corpses being eaten by vultures, foxes and crows, or when the clouds attack each other, they cause danger to the king. When the clouds appear like peacock, staircase, lotus or Moon, and when they are blue like kasa grass, they augur the falling of heavy rain. When a cloud is characterised by lightning and rainbow and is thundering, and appears like a peacock or is brilliant like a lion, it should be known to be full of water. Similarly when it has red-blue border and 68. Sometimes the clouds, driven by winds, appear to attack each other, thundering and thundering back.

601 black neck is accompanied by lightning and has a colourless lining, it should be regarded as being full of water. If the clouds or their borders are tri-coloured at the time of the Sun-rise or Sun-set, it foreshows great danger to royal families and destruction of the people, if it does not rain. When an elephant trumpets in reply to the thundering clouds, the king should send his army in the direction of the thunder. A king should send his army in that direction also in which the elephants in the form of clouds, with tinkling bells in the form of the thunder, are seen possessed of weapons in the form of the rainbow, and are dashing as it were to kill one another. Then the king will be victorious in that direction. Similarly the king should send his army in the direction in which the cloud-elephants are seen as if catching, covering and thundering against one another. The Parisista (61) states that just as it is not possible to count the pearls in the ocean, it is also not possible to describe in detail all the modes of clouds in the sky (61.1.1-25).