History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c89.87

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¹¹⁸² तत्र वृद्धगर्गः। अभूतपूर्वं यत्पूर्वं यत्पूर्वं जायतेऽन्यथा। तदद्भुतमिति प्रोक्तं नैमित्ते स्यान्निमित्तजम्॥ q. by अद्भुतसागर p. 4. अथर्वपरिशिष्ट (p. 344ff) provides how certain portents indicated evil and death to the kings of certain countries. Vide the 'Reports of the Magicians and astrologers of Nineveh and Babylon' referred to above in note 839 Prof. Neugebauer refers to Babylonian tablets containing thousands of omens and observes that from about 700 B. C. systematic observational reports were made by astronomers to the royal court, in which no clear line of demarcation was drawn between astro-nomical and meteorological phenomena. Vide E. S. A. p. 96