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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°.29.3-31.1; Kaus. 93.13; 105; BS 46.8; VDP II.
135.1. "The á¹¢advimsa Brahmana and the Adbhuta Brahmana
mention images of gods which are said to laugh, cry,
sing, dance, burst, sweat and twinkle." Max Müller,
A History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature, p.348.
Cf. Kaus. 93.27; 120.
101.