Matsya Purana 232.1

232.1

śāntividhānavarṇanam.

Garga said :—The cities where the trees, inhabited by the Devas, begin to cry, laugh eject sap drop their branches without any cause or high wind, the plants that are only three years old bear fruit, trees begin to overflow with milk, oily substances blood, honey, or water, they suddenly dry up without disease, the dried ones begin to sprout, the fallen ones stand up, the standing ones fall down, all such things forebode ill of them. The weeping of the trees indicates the approach of some epidemic, and the country becomes annihilated by their laughing.—1 5