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INTRODUCTION
experiences portend evil as is stated in the AA'. Blackness in any form is particularly associated with bad luck as also the terrific appearance. The object where either of them is found is condemned as a symbol of evil whether it be a beast or a bird. Hence a buffalo' and a boar or a vultures and ans owl are definitely bad. Perversities of the physical world such as earthquakes, eclipses, storms, tornadoes, lightning, hailstorm and meteors are all attended or followed by general calamities. It is also stated in the ABS and BDS that the birds are moving about in the guise of the Fathers. The Grhyasūtras 10 contain references to a different kind of prodigies such as the ant-heap, the scream of a jackal, a cow giving bloody milk and a cow drinking milk from another?. The existence of the Science of Omens and Portents in the days of the Vedas suggests also that of the foretellers who could forecast from is the bodily signs and the smoke of the dung®.
1 See A1, iii, 2, 4; pp. 138ff (for which see lines 6-15 on page 97 of the text); seo LS'S. iii. 3. 6 ff; seo Āps's. ix. 20. 10.
2 Cf. 178 of the text. 3 Cf, st. 176 of the text. 4 Ibid; 5 ii, 15. 4. 6 ii. 8. 14; also ii. 9. 10. 7 See S'GS. v. 11. 10; see IIGS. i. 16. 19; also i. 17. 6; see Kaus, cxii. 8 Seo AY, P, 81; seo also HENRY, La Magie dans l' Inde Antique, pp. 68ff,
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