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[Full title: Terrestrial Omens (3) Inanimate objects]

When moving things suddenly become stationary and stationary things begin to move (64.3.5) or cool things become hot and hot things cool down (64.3.5,5.1), it is naturally regarded as an utpata. When metals (64.3.5) or stones (70 b. 23.12) float on water, or when waters stop flowing or dry up (64.3.5,6.3), or when the figure of a lotus is seen in honey or clarified butter, or when the figure of a svastika is seen in clarified butter, honey or curds; death of the owner is indicated. If any unusual transformation is observed in milk, rice and oblation-materials, those things should be given away to a learned person, and the Varuni santi should be performed (70.6.2-5). Similarly when a transformation is seen in flesh or oil (64.6.8), when juicy things become juiceless, and when 97. Cf. Brhatsamhita by Varahamihira 46.49. 98. Cf. Atharvaveda-Parisistas 70.18.7; Brhatsamhita by Varahamihira 46.19. 99. For omens relating to fire, see Ram. III.24.5; Vedic Index 10.15; Mahabharata IV.46.4; Vedic Index 3.21,40,70,93,19.42-44; VII.193.19; VIII. 39.13; XII.102.8; XVI.3.12; Bhagavata Purana I.14.18; Harivansa I.142-38; Visnu Pur. V.3.6; Raghuvamsa 3.14; 10.74; 16. 87; Hargacarita p.142.

619 a bad smell is perceived without any reason (70.6.1), it should be regarded as an utpata. Similarly, when fat, blood, flesh, bones, marrow, hair, nails and ashes are seen together without any apparent reason, it is an utpata (70.5.5-6.1). When an ant-hill is produced in the house (72.3.11), it is ominous and hence the performance of Amrta santi becomes necessary. 100 When blood begins to ooze out and tears begin to flow from the idols of deities in a temple, or when the idols begin to laugh, look, dance, sing, speak, tremble, burn (64.6.2-3), wink their eyes or turn about (70.4.4), they should be regarded as predicting assault by an enemy, danger from draught, and death of the king within eight months (72.12. 1-4). Similar disasters are foreshown when the heads or the pedestals of the idols disappear (64.5.9), or when temples collapse (64.8.4) or when inanimate objects begin to speak (64.3.4). When forests, hills and deities shift their places and mountains tremble (64.4.6, 7.4), the destruction of the king and the country is foretold. Similar result follows when mortars move about and pestles enter (into the mortars) by themselves (64.4.10). 101 100. cr. 70掳.29.3-31.1; Kausika Sutra 93.13; 105; Brhatsamhita by Varahamihira 46.8; Visnu-dharmottara Purana II. 135.1. "The Sadvimsa Brahmana and the Adbhuta Brahmana mention images of gods which are said to laugh, cry, sing, dance, burst, sweat and twinkle." Max Muller, A History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature, p.348. Cf. Kausika Sutra 93.27; 120. 101.

620 When the yield of crops is four or five times the usual quantity (Cf. Brhatsamhita by Varahamihira 46.34), when ploughshares get 102 entangled into one another, when a granary begins to dance as it were and a heap of corn shakes, evil to the country is portended (64.3.6, 4.10).