Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c9.812

c9.812

Mixed medicines, black grains, cotton, grass, dried cow-dung, charcoal, molasses, one whose head is shaven clean or whose body is smeared with oil or who is naked; flesh-eater; iron, dirt, skin, hair of the head, insane person, eunuch, prison, guard; women, who are either carrying or are widows; oil cake, paddy husk, ashes, skull, bone, broken vessel etc. are evil omens. Broken, fierce or murmuring instrumental music also is a bad omen.