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Stanza 132. — All the effects of a query can be fully understood by a careful study of what you see before you or what you hear or what others speak at the time of the query, in the shape of ominous sounds or expressive signs.

Stanza 133. — The sight of certain objects brings in comfort and welfare. Note these suggestive signs when you begin to make predictions. This will be useful also when you go or start for another place.

Stanza 134. — While discussing marriage affairs or when starting for a marriage ceremony, the sight of 'fresh dress' and the like indicate a happy marriage. Then if you happen to see two persons bidding farewell to each other and parting away, then the marriage tie will be broken or dissolved.

Stanza 135. — If you see any person thrusting his finger into any hole, then say that the bride in question is immoral. If however you notice any person coming towards you from any side, you may predict that a gentleman from that direction will marry her.

Stanzas 136 and 137. — In a query regarding 'birth of children' a casual sight of the following at the time brings in luck and attainment of object: a book, pen and the like, a small jingling bell, bangle, a necklace and other ornaments of children, a small piece of deer-skin, a stick, a belt of darbha grass, a pregnant woman, smiling children: these indicate clearly that the questioner will get children.

Stanza 138. — If you happen to see near, anybody cleaning his body or going away from your midst or anything burning brilliantly, say that the pregnant woman in question will have abortion.

Stanzas 139 and 140. — In a Yuddha Prasna, the following are considered as favourable signs: a person standing on his right leg or shaking his weapons pressing his right hand; a burning fire or a distinguished, august or calm personage.

or speaking in a faltering voice, a dirty person and one sheathing his sword: these sights indicate defeat in a fight.

Stanza 143. — In a query pertaining to an enterprise, the sight of a piece of gold or some fruits suggests financial gain.

Stanzas 144 and 145. — In a query bearing on disease, the sight of a living being or person on horseback or on an elephant portends immediate cure of the disease. But standing on a lifeless object will bring about the death of the questioner.

Stanzas 146 and 147. — Flowers for funeral rites, sesamum seeds, burning cinder, unwashed clothes, darbha grass (kusa grass), curd, all things used in obsequies — burial or cremation — these when seen indicate the death of the sick man.

Stanzas 148 and 149. — In a question pertaining to travel, if the messenger sits down or lies down after the question is put, then you can say that some obstructions will impede his trip. If he gets up on one leg and keeps standing on the other and contracts them, some delay will be caused in his trips. If he gets up or walks up as soon as the query is made, predict that the intended trip will take place soon.

Stanza 150. — If you chance to meet two persons with their hands clasped or if you find a stranger walking towards you, then a dispute will end in compromise. Separations, breaks, etc., lead to the obstruction of peace.

Stanza 151. — The following are considered as evil omens indicating failure: — Intermittent cries of Oh! Oh! — sniffing sounds, the falling of the flag-post or the family tree of worship, clothes, umbrella, or shoes getting spoiled or words connoting ruin or loss heard from all directions, or bad birds or cruel animals making unpleasant cries, light being extinguished unexpectedly — any vessel full of water or so firmly fixed that it tumbles down.

Stanza 152. — At the time of prasna, if you see on your left, cats, owls, a kind of snake, or Godha it is considered bad; if you hear the cry of a lizard on the left side, the effect is the same. Sneezing of persons to the right side also is harmful.

Stanzas 153 and 154. — If you hear anybody uttering the names of hogs, serpents, hare, Godha, etc., it is good. But to see these or hear their cries is bad. To see or to hear the cries of the monkey and the bear is good. But to hear their names uttered is bad. To see or to hear the cries of an elephant, a horse, or an ox is also good.

Stanza 155. — A veena, flute, drum, conch, — the sounds of these instruments are auspicious. General music, pleasant objects and beautiful women, dancing girls, pot of curd, coloured rice, sugarcane, Durva grass, sandal paste, pot filled with water, flowers and garlands, fruits and virgins, bells, lights and lotus flowers — all these are auspicious both for hearing and seeing.

Stanza 156. — Umbrella, arches, agreeable palanquins or carriages, hymns of prayer, or utterances of the Vedas, a cow tied with a rope, a bull, a mounted mirror, gold, a cow and its calf, eatables, fresh mud, or a learned pandit, are good. In brief, all those things which are agreeable to our ears and which are pleasant to our eyes can be considered as good omens at a query.

Stanzas 157 and 158. — Other signs and omens should be learnt from other treatises on the subject or under the guidance of a Guru or according to the code of conduct sketched by learned men. For general guidance, it may be taken as granted that whatever things or signs that help us to attain our objects, are good and all those things that are inauspicious indicate the contrary results. Knowing benefic or malefic nature of the omens, it is possible to make appropriate predictions.