History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c82.279

v6.c82.279

who have become forest hermits), who are free from worldly attachments and are without property, ask questions of one who knows the movements of heavenly luminaries. As the night without a lamp or the sky without the sun, so a king without an astrologer (with him) wanders about (or wavers) as a blind man on a road. If there be no astronomer and astrologer, auspicious times, *tithis*, naksatras, seasons and the *ayanas* (northward and southward passages of the sun),-these would all become confused What a single astrologer knowing the country and time can effect, that even a thousand elephants or four thousand horsemen cannot accomplish.'