Risht Samucchaya

SR No.: 002800
Original Sutra Author: Durgadevacharya
Author: A S Gopani
Publisher: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan
Publication Year: 1945
Total Pages: 290
Language: Sanskrit, Hindi
Classification: Book_Devnagari & Literature
File Size: 16 MB

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THE RISTASAMUCCAYA
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Individual Ristas are not necessarily General Riṣṭas. The nation, as a whole, has nothing to do with the individual's exhaling a cold breath or the cracking of his fingers or the incessant falling of water particles from his eyes without any special reason. But the signs, symptoms and the predisposing causes of an earthquake or an epidemic have a direct relation with an individual. In this case, he may not get any warning or prognostication in the form of a bad dream or uncommon physical experiences. Still however he is one of the sufferers as he also forms a unit of the society or the nation. Moreover, if many individuals in a particular city get the same kind of omens or forebodings or get bad, though different, individual 1s indications, they are to be interpreted as signs of common miseries. Besides, if the prominent leaders of the nation get any previous prognostications individually, they do mean according to this science of omens & portents some common mischief or national disaster. The extent or the nature of 20 a misery should be determined by the type of such presages. Thus there cannot be any hard and fast distinction between the Individual Ristas and the General Ristas inasmuch as an individual is a unit of the nation, while a nation is composed of individuals. But, largely speaking, General Ristas are those 25 which are mostly the Ristas in the form of abnormalities or perversities of Nature resulting in general or common danger while the Individual Ristas are the out-of-the way experiences of an individual bringing about good luck or bad luck, as the case may be, to himself only. Thus the Science of 30 the Unknown, the Science of Omens and Portents and the Science of the Rituals also are all interrelated. I am briefly touching in the following pages the Science of the Unknown as it is found described in Non-Indian and Vedic literatures.
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(A) THE IDEA OF THE RISTAS (ESPECIALLY GENERAL) AS FOUND IN NON-INDIAN LITERATURES:-(I) OMENS AND PORTENTS: Good luck or bad luck portended by prodigies is decided by the culture to which a particular individual happens to belong. The interpretations are made in accordance with different cultures 40 because the same phenomenon has been found variously