History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c82.845

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In the dark half, ¹¹²⁴ Visti will occur in the latter half of the third and 10th tithis and in the first half of the 7th and 14th tithis; in the bright half Visti will occur in the latter half of the 4th and 11th tithis and the first half of the 8th and 15th (i e. Paurnamāsī) tithis The Rājamārtanda ¹¹²⁵ states 'Some regard Visti as having the form of a cobra and as terrible; there is danger in the mouth of a snake but not in its tail. The mouth, neck, chest, navel region, waist and tail of Visti are respectively of five, one, eleven, four, six and three ghaṭikās Great sages declare that it (Vistı) does not confer fortunate results, therefore a good man should avoid these except the tail' (on last three ghaṭikās of Visti auspicious acts may be performed) Vistı is also euphemistically called Bhadrā or Kalyānī (it is really *abhadrā*). The terrible nature of Visti is described in two verses of Bhīma-parākrama quoted in Bhujabala-nibandha p 30 (vide pp. 95-96 of my paper on 'Bhoja and his works &c ' in Journal of Oriental Research, Madras, vol XXIII for 1953-54) which also occur in Rājamārtanda, verses 1021-22