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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 (mañjāsā) 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 aud bones of cattle and fishes. (27.)
The items described above are divided into masculine, feminine and neuter genders and tbe 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-niddhamaņa), 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 (26-38). In section fourteenth different kinds of salutation, the manner and direction in which they were made and the prognostications resulting from them are enumerated. (38-40).
The prognostications made from conversation on 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 (41-42). 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 angamaņi or magical formulas and recounts 270 items of interest (56-59) 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 (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. (62-64).
In the flower section various kinds of garlands, such as kanthaguņa, samvitānaka, devamālya, uraņā, chumbhala, amelaka, 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 aritha, äsava, 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).
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