Shantikamalakara 6.1

6.1

Now, the propitiatory rites for diverse portents.
Varāhamihira [says]: “The portents that Garga proclaimed to Atri, those I shall state:
This is their summary: a portent is an alteration of nature.
Due to the transgression of men, a calamity arises from the accumulation of sin. (1)