History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c89.258

v7.c89.258

1282b It is somewhat remarkable that Vasantarāja is entirely silent about the fall of the house lizard on a person's body and devotes thirty-two verses merely to the interpretation of the sounds of the lizard in different directions and at different times of the day and to the prognostications derived from its movements on the walls It is not unlikely that prognostication from the fall of the lizard on a man's limb was a later development