Risht Samucchaya

Author(s): Durgadevacharya, A S Gopani
Publisher: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan

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THE RIŞTASAMUCCAYA CS (7; 24). The RS is clear on the point that he is destined to live for a month and no more if a fat man becomes lean all of a sudden or vice versa ( st. 22). The substance of this théory is also to be found in the CS which, as usual without giving 3 a particular limit, advises the physician to reject the case as it is cent per cent likely to prove fatal (8; 10). The RS notes that he, who exhales a cold breath (st. 134), soon dies. This pathological condition has also been recorded in the CS (11; 20),
The trembling of body (without any reason) has been referred no to as evil by both; the RS (st. 22) and the CS (11; 10) are unanimous in granting one month's life. A simple sight of the serpent or cat and the hearing of bad words such as 'destroyed', 'broken' etc. as well as of the sound of the destruction of a banner are all considered by the RS as inauspicious (sts. 178; 187; 15 191; 192). This is wholly justified by the CS also (12; 28-30).
According to the RS, the emitting of cold wind from the mouth, nose and anus (st. 32), the loss of smelling power (sts. 133; 139) and the extinction of bodily lustre (st. 20) are all bad signs which betoken danger immediately or after some specifically mentioned za time. These physical abnormalities have also been mentioned as evil in the CS (12; 51, 52). In the category of good omens, the RS records the curds, king, banner, sandal-wood, white flower (such as jui), white mustard, white garment, the blowing of a
conch and the beating of a kettle-drum (st. 189). The woman 25 with a boy brings good (st. 190). All these have been referred to as such by the CS also (12; 71-86). There is found no essential difference between these two except in the appearance of a weeping crowd which is interpreted, curiously enough, as bad by the RS (st. 178 ) and as good by the CS, like all other so works on the subject ( 12 ; 86).
(c) The RS and the SS: The RS presents a theory that he lives, indeed, for a month who, anointed with ghee and oil, moves, in the dream, towards the south (sitting) on the buffalo, donkey or a camel (st. 123). The same is the case, according as to the RS, regarding him also who, in the dream, falls in a pit full of blood, pus, fat, oil or ghee (st. 129). The RS propounds a theory that he, who sees, in the dream, the falling of the sun or the moon, lives a little more than a month (st. 124). He is destined to live for two months, informs the RS, who vomits in
1 See App. XI, pp. 103f.