Angavijja

SR No.: 001439
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Punyavijay, Dalsukh Malvania, H C Bhayani
Publisher: Prakrit Text Society Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 2000
Total Pages: 470
Language: Prakrit
Classification: Book_Devnagari, Agam, Canon, Jyotish, & agam_anykaalin
File Size: 12 MB

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ANGAVIJJA-PRAKIRŅAKA Under the heading tree, thorny and milky trees are termed inauspicious; on the contrary green and flowering, trees are auspicious. The platforms (pidhikā) of the auspicious trees were made of earth or stone. (27).
Under the heading images (padima) the images of men and gods are mentioned. The images were made of stone, metal, wood, painted or of stucco (potthakamma). These are said to be of superior, middling or low quality according to their appearance. (27).
Under the heading 'green rests' heaps of grass, leaves, flowers and fruits are mentioned. (27), Utensils (bhāyana) were made by potter and metalsmiths. They included cups or tiles (padala), grain receptacles (kotthakāpala), boxes (mañjūsā) and wooden utensils. They were filled with liquids, food, water and riches. (27.) Receptacles (avatthambha) were also made of earth, stone and metals. Dry receptacles were made of grass, leaves, twigs, cloth, flowers and fruits. Utensils were also made of ivory and bones of cattle and fishes. (27).
The items described above are divided into masculine, feminine and neuter genders and the prognostications resulting from their different positions are recounted at great length. (28-31.)
The tenth section describes various positions of the body in proximity to seats, beds, seats and beds combined, cattle, human being, conveyance, palaces, staircase, tree stands, garlands, treasures, utensils, clothings, precious stones, pearls, emeralds, silver, ornaments, articles of food, contour of the lands, pure earth, stone, slabs, water, marshes, wet cow dung, path, drainage (paņāli-niddhamana), dry place, dusty place, hair, nails and bones, and cremation ground and the prognostications resulting from such proximities. (31-33).
The eleventh section deals at great length with various positions of the eyes and the prognostication made from them. (34–35). In the twelfth section laughter is divided into fourteen types, each betokening different results (35-36). The thirteenth section deals in detail with the body-postures of the questioner by which events could be foretold (36-38). In section fourteenth different kinds of salutation, the manner and direction in which they were made and the prognostications resulting from them are enumerated. (38-39).
The prognostications made from conversation of different topics form the subject matter of the fifteenth section. The conversation could veer round the topics of profit and loss, happiness and misery, sickness and death, professions, amusements, family love, enmity, union and separation, rains, and drought, playfulness, increase in power or loss of fortune, victory and defect and praise and reviling. (40-41).
Section sixteenth enumerates different kinds of approaches which prognosticated different results (4142). Sections seventeenth to thirtieth deal with different kinds of weeping, crying, sobbing, lying down, silence, going out, sleeping, yawning, prattling, kissing, embracing, sitting in meditation, service, etc. (43–56).
The ninth chapter is named as angamani or magical formulas and recounts 270 items of interest (5759) touching many walks of life. The first section enumerates seventy-five names of the different parts of the body and the prognostications resulting from them (59-60). Then various categories of men and their relatives are named. The names of planets, cattle, birds, reptiles, fishes, frogs, worms, shrubs, creepers, trees, flowers and fruits and vegetables follow. (61-64).
In the flower section various kinds of garlands, such as kanthaguna, samvitānaka, devamālya, urană, chumbhala, āmelaka, matthaka, gochhaka are mentioned (64). Then follows a list of drinks which includes wines and liquors besides milk and its products, malasses, oils, water, soup, juices, etc. The intoxicating drinks are arittha, asava, meraka, madhu. It is followed by a list of foods, which includes rice and its preparations, such as boiled rice, rice pudding, curd and rice, milk and rice, rice and ghi, rice pulao, etc. (64).
The list of textiles and clothing material (achchhādana and pachchhädana) mentions padasadaga (silken dhoti), linen (khoma and dugulia), gossamer, Chinese silk (chiņamsuga), ordinary Chinese silk (Chinapatta), wrapper (pāvāra), bedspread, sări (sadaka), white dhoti (sedasāda), sāri with silk border (koseyapāraa), different kinds of shawla (pada), upper cloth (uttarija), lower cloth (antarija), turban (ussisa), turban made of a long strip (vedhana), jacket (ka(ku)pāssa), coat (kanchuka), vāravāņo (perhaps quilted coat), coat with ties (vitānaka), pacchata (scarf), padded coat (saņņāhapatta), wrestler's shorts (mallasādaga). (64).
The list of clothes and clothing mentioned is followed by a fairly long list of ornaments (bhasana). Diadem and crown are called tirida, mauda and siha-bhandaka. The tiara is called parikkheva or matthakakantaka. Apparently these head ornaments were decorated with the figures of eagle, makara, bullock, siuka (?), elephant, pair of Brahmany ducks, fish, rings and spirals. It is noteworthy that these ornaments appear on the figures of the Kushāna period in the art of Mathura and Gandhāra. The temple mark (nidālamāsaka,