Matsya Purana 229.9

229.9

evamādīni loke'sminnāntarikṣaṃ vinirdiśet.
carasthira-bhavabhaumo bhūkampaścāpi bhūmijaḥ .. 229.8 ..

Garga said:—'The gods become angry at the incessant evil doings of men and then untoward things crop up. They are of three kinds, viz: ills pertaining to (1) Celestial, (2) Intermediate and (3) Terrestrial regions When stars and planets are malefic celestial and intermediate portents become visible, e.g., the shooting of stars, the preternatural redness of the sky, modifications in the halo of the Sun and Moon the sight of the city of the Gandharvas in the sky, the unnatural rains, etc., are the portents in the intermediate regions. Disturbances among the movable and the immovable, earthquakes, changes in the waters of the rivers, etc., are the portents of the terrestrial region The terrestrial portents show a little result and get fructified within a short time—5 9