History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c82.578

v6.c82.578

Muhūrtas are prescribed for beginning to take medicine in Rājamārtaṇḍa (folio 62a, verses 973 ff), Jyotiṣtattva pp 678 ff, Nirṇayasindhu p 362. Only one verse is cited⁹⁶⁷ here; 'If one begins to take medicine on the nakṣatras Mūla, Anurādhā, Mṛgaśiras, Puṣya, Punarvasu, Revatī, Aśvinī, Śravaṇa, Jyeṣṭhā, Hasta, Citrā, Svātī, and on Monday, Thursday or Friday, that would benefit the patient Medieval works like the Rājamārtaṇḍa, Bhujabala, Muhūrta-mārtaṇḍa, Jyotiṣtattva, Nirṇayasindhu describe the muhūrtas and inauspicious times for all matters under the sun (not necessarily religious) such as for purchase and sale of merchandise and animals, for agricultural operations, for planting trees, for digging tanks and wells, for oil bath, for baths with ground myrobalans &c