The Compendium of Caraka 3.3.7_3

3.3.7_3

Land, moreover, one should know to be unwholesome when it has color, odor, taste, and touch that deviate from nature; is full of slimy moisture; is overrun with reptiles, beasts of prey, mosquitoes, locusts, flies, mice, owls, carrion birds, jackals, and the like; has clumps of grass and reeds and thickets of creepers and the like; whose crops have fallen, dried, or perished as never before; whose wind is smoky; whose flocks of birds are puffed up; whose herds of varied deer and birds are wandering about and distressed; whose communities have abandoned and lost righteousness, truth, modesty, conduct, character, and virtue; whose reservoirs of water are constantly agitated and swollen; which has frequent falls of meteors, thunderbolts, and earthquakes; which is of a terrifyingly roaring appearance; whose sun, moon, and stars are constantly covered by nets of dry, coppery, reddish-brown, and white clouds; appearing as if in confusion and agitation, as if weeping with fright, as if full of darkness, as if inhabited by guhyakas, and full of sounds of wailing;