Risht Samucchaya

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

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INTRODUCTION
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a black spot, for which there is no reason, on the tip of a tongue which does not let him live for more than a month. The RS pronounces four months' life in the case of one who loses patience and memory (36), but the SRS' differs and allows six months for the same (235). If one cannot see his eyebrows, though looking :: with attention, he lives only for nine days-state both the RS (37) and the SRS' (199).
There is entire harmony between the statements of the RS ( 46 ) and the SRS' (183) on the point of abnormal phenomenon which restricts the life here only to one year if one sees 18 a hole or holes in the discs of either the sun or the moon or the stars. There is further agreement between them pertaining to the duration of one year's life if one sees the sun, moon or stars devoid of lustre (RS, 47; SRS, 193). There is some difference between the RS and the SRS regarding the is phenomenon of a sun's revolution; the former is of the opinion that if one sees the disc of the sun, revolving in the sky, he stays here for three months, indeed (50), while the latter prescribes instantaneous death for the same phenomenon (195). There is a marked similarity between the RS and the SRS z regarding the seeing of the falling of the sun or the moon on the ground. Both are unanimous in announcing that one, who sees this, lives for twelve days (RS, 53; SRS, 194). According to the RS, one lives for half a year if he sees something like a line of collyrium in the centre of the moon or the sun 23 (56), but the SRS', recording a different tradition declares only twelve days' life (179), though it should be remembered that the phenomenon responsible for that is one of partial blackness in the case of the RS and that of total darkness in the case of the SRS. Both the RS and the SRS perfectly agree 3 in point of immediate death in the case of one who calls night a day and day a night (RS, 58; SRS, 227, 228). If bones are found in one's kitchen, bed-room or house, he dies soon-state both the RS (62) and the SRS' (27). . There is a striking similarity between the RS and as the SRS' which state in clear terms that if a sick man does not see his own shadow, he lives here for only ten days (RS, 75; SRS', 54); and for two days if he sees two shadows (RS, 76: SRS, 54). There are three types of the great, namely the fat3141, Forn and 3141969 through which one can form the idea of the