Essay name: Samrajya Lakshmi Pithika (Study)
Author:
Artatrana Sarangi
Affiliation: Savitribai Phule Pune University / Department of Sanskrit and Prakrit Languages
This is a study in English of the Samrajya Lakshmi Pithika (written by Lolla Lakshmidhara) representing an encyclopedic manual for emperors. The Samrajyalaksmipithika encompasses about 3870 verses in addressing topics such as public festivals, governance, warfare (military strategy), and rituals associated with the Tantric worship for the deity Samrajya-Lakshmi.
Chapter 2 - Rituals connected with Samrajya-lakshmi
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movement, laughter and dance or when there is earthquake
or bursting of earth's surface, when there's deformity
in child-birth in respect of men, cows, deer and birds,
when mushrooms (chatraka), bee-hives (madhu) and ant-hills
(Valmika) appear in the country and ants become winged,
when all of a sudden, trees of forests dry up, when rain-bow
appears at night and stars during day, when comets are
seen in the sky, when forest-animals run into human
habitation without any (apparent) reason, when the natural
property of herbs, bushes, creepers and trees get reversed,
when towns and cities are affected by sudden conflagration
and fire spreads from house to house, when twin fruits
appear in plantain and areca-nut trees or when banana plants
of the garden bear south-facing-fruits, when there is excess
or scarce rain-fall or when medicinal plants are widely
devoid of their sap (rasa), when the sun becomes lustre-
less and there appears a hole in its middle or when there are
meteoric falls and falling of flames (dipika) from the sky,
when fourdifferent suns appear in four directions or when
the sun and the moon are surrounded by three haloes (parivesa)
when lightnings strike in a cloudless sky but there is
none at the onset of clouds, when smoke is seen without
trace of fire (in the sky) and imaginary cities with a
variety of forms (gandharvanagara) appear in the sky and
stone blood and ash rain therefoon, when in a similar
