Matsya Purana 235.1

235.1

śāntividhānavarṇanam.

Garga said :—The bringing forth of children by women at unusual periods, their giving birth to twins the birth of other beings from human fœtus the birth of mouthless offspring as well as of those having more than ordinary limbs, or of the lower beings, birds, scorpions, snakes mean the destruction of that country and family in which such birth, takes place.—1-3.