History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c99.1992

v7.c99.1992

Śakunas (vide bırds, dıvination, nimitta, Vasantarāja-śakuna) are declared by Varāhamihira to be indicative of the actions of persons in their former lives and by Vasantarāja 538, 806; authors and works on 622, Bhāguri, Bharadvāja and Dravyavardhana on, 591, extensive literature on, 805-6; hooting of owl on top of a house at night portends sorrow and death of owner's son 808; words Śakuna and Śakunī mean 'bird' in Ṛgveda, gradually came to mean premonitions conveyed by cries and movements of birds and then any prognosticatory sign 804–805; some animals and birds are useless for prognostications at certain seasons 808–809; *Upaśruti* as method 809–810.