Risht Samucchaya

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

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THE RISTASAMUCCAYA
Thus it gives no option. The YR allots five days to him whò sees a smoky envelope round the image (loc. cit.) and the KJ, being somewhat miserly, restricts the duration to only one day (56). The RS does not recognize this side of the phenomenon. 5 The YR curses him with sudden end if he comes across the dise aflame (loc. cit.). This is missing in both the RS and the KJ. In the opinion of the RS he, who cannot see his tongue, nose, middle of eyebrows and eyes, lives for a day, three days, nine days and five days respectively (sts. 37, 38); and if he cannot hear 10 the indistinct sound, he lives for a week (st. 38). This idea has been metaphorically expressed in the YR. According to it the life should come to a termination in the case of those who cannot see the Arundhati, Dhruva, Viṣṇupada and Matṛmandala which mean tongue, nose, the middle of the eyebrows and the is eyebrows respectively (7; 2, 3). He, who does not hear the indistinct sound in the ears, when the ears are shut, also goes to the abode of Yama (7; 4). These very points are further elucidated, in stanza 5 which clearly mentions the specific duration, just similar to that of the RS, that was at first in sts. 20 2-3 vaguely and generally hinted at. He, who suddenly transforms, meaning thereby, if a fat man becomes lean and a lean man becomes fat, does not live more than a month, states the RS (st. 22). This portent is referred to in the YR but there it has assigned six months' life (7; 6). Both the RS (st. 28) and the 25 YR (7; 9) are unanimous on the impending danger of death as a result of the tongue becoming causelessly black. The RS itself is not consistent regarding the duration of life consequent on the teeth growing black without any apparent reason. At one place (st. 27), it states one month's life while at the other place (st. 3034), it narrows down the period to a week only. The YR scents sudden death therefrom and thus differs from the RS (p. 6).
The RS and the KJ
The KJ which is by one Sambhunatha is uptill now unpublished. I had come across its manuscript in the Manuscript Library of the Oriental Institute, Baroda. The KJ treats 3s of omens and portents as its title suggests. The reference is to the numbers of the stanzas.
In the opinion of the KJ, he dies soon if his nose is cold
1 See App. XV, pp. 108 f.