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When there is a rain of flesh, bones, blood, marrow
and fat, it forestalls an attack by the enemy and a fierce
battle. When there is a rain of embers, sand (Cf. 70.32.25)
and corn, it prognosticates great danger. When there is a
rain of serpents, fish and birds, it foreshows a great rain
to the crops. When the rain showers honey, clarified butter,
oil, milk, curds and liquor (asava), it portends famine. 75
When there is a shower of meteors as well as stars, and when
the constellations emit fire, it augurs a terrible danger
arising out of diseases (71.8.3-9.3). When there is a shower
of dust, stones, curds, honey, clarified butter, milk, or of
74. Cf. Kaus. 94. S.C.Mitra ("Notes on three quaint Indian
superstitions," QJMS XXVIII, pp. 212-4) refers to such an
incident, the news of which was published in The Behar
Herald (1st July 1936). He has tried to rationalise the
same as follows: "Some bird of prey, say a vulture or a
kite, must have brought a dead rat or hare or a lump of
flesh from the butcher's stall and eaten it on the top-
most branches of the tree. The blood issuing from the dead
animal or lump of flesh must have collected in the
foliage. When it was agitated by a strong gust of wind,
which produced the rustling noise, the blood was shed on
the clothes of the person standing below the tree ..."
75. AVP 70.17.2-6. It is further pointed out that if
rainbows of the four colours, namely, white, red, yellow
and black, appear, they presage evil to the respective
castes (64.8.3-4). If a rainbow is seen in the absence
of clouds or a white rainbow is seen, it indicates
famine. Cf. 70掳.32.11; 71.16.2 with MBh VI.3.74;
XII.102.6 and BS 35.7-8; 46.45.