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Bhagavai 3:7:258
- 155:The following are the phenomena that occur in the southern part of the Mt. Meru in the Island of Jambūdvīpa: disputes (riots), revolts, quarrels, murmurs, envious acts, great battles (disorderly fights), great wars (orderly fights), falling of a great weapon, fall of great people, flow of stream of blood, pests (germs, insects), epidemics which are widespread in family, village, district and city, headache, pain in the eye, pain in the ear, pain in the nail, toothache, being possessed by Indra, being possessed by Skanda, being possessed by Kumāra, being possessed by Yakşa, being possessed by ghost, fever on alternate days, fever on the third day, fever on the fourth day, fever on the fifth day, harassment created by thieves, cough, asthma, dehydration, aging, burning, abscess in the armpits, indigestion, jaundice, piles, fistula, angina, headache, vaginal pain, pain in the rib, stomachache, plague widespread in village, city, kheda (a city surrounded by a wall) kavvada (a city devoid of beauty), dronamuha (a city having access by land and sea), madamba (a village or city which has no habitation surrounding it up to a distance of 2%2 yojanas), pattana (a big town), āśrama (hermitage), samvāha (a camp) and sannivesa (a hamlet), destruction of life, destruction of people, destruction of wealth, destruction of family, inflicting evil and undesirable all such disasters-all these and such other phenomena are not unknown to, unseen, unheard of, unremembered or unperceived by the great king Yama, a custodian of Sakra, the chief and the king of gods, and also by those Yamakāyika gods.
Bhāsya
1. Sutra 258
Semantics dimba-dispute or riot.! damara--revolt. It is trouble caused by princes, etc.?
According to Apte, dimba means affray, or riot; dimba-yuddha means petty warfare etc.. bola—murmur or tumult. khāra-envy. mahāyuddha, mahāsangrāma-ordinarily they are synonymous. The Vrtti, however, draws a line of distinction between them. According to it, disorderly great battle is mahāyuddha; the orderly great battle in which there is circular array of troops, etc. is mahāsangrāma.? durbhūta—pest. The pest include the rats and locusts etc. which are a hazard to the crop, etc.. indragraha-to be possessed by Indra. skandagraha-to be possessed by Skanda. kumāragraha-to be possessed by Kumāra. Skanda and Kumāra are the two names of Kārtikeya. The text, however, has given Kumāra as separate from Skanda.
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