Jyotihshastra: Astral and Mathematical Literature c6.49

c6.49

culture (vṛkṣāyurveda; BS 54); on temples (prasāda; BS 55); on adamantine glue (vajralepa; BS 56); on images (pratimā; BS 57); on entering the forest to find the appropriate trees for making images (BS 58); on installing the images (BS 59); on dogs (BS 61; see VYJ 70); on cocks (kukkuṭa; BS 62); on goats (chāga; BS 64); on horses (aśva; BS 65); on men (puruṣa; BS 67); on the five mahāpuruṣas (BS 68); on fly-whisks (cāmara; BS 71); on umbrellas (chatra; BS 72); in praise of women (strīpraśamsā; BS 73); on causing affection (saubhāgyakaraṇa; BS 74); on aphrodisiacs (kāndarpika; BS 75); on perfumes (gandhayukti; BS 76); on the union of women and men (BS 77); on beds and seats (śayyāsana; BS 78); the examination of jewels³⁹ (ratnaparīkṣā; BS 79); on pearls (muktā; BS 80); on rubies (padmarāga; BS 81); on emeralds (marakata; BS 82); on lamps (dīpa; BS 83); on sticks for cleaning the teeth (dantakāṣṭha; BS 84); animal and bird omens (śakuna; BS 85); on the howling of the jackal (BS 89; see Śārdūlakarṇāvadāna, pp. 167–171); on the activities of animals (mṛgaceṣṭita; BS 90); on the movements of cows (BS 91; see VYJ 71); on the movements of horses (aśveṅgita; BS 92); on the activities of elephants (BS 93); further animal and bird omens (BS 95); on natives born when the Moon is in each nakṣatra (BS 100; see Śārdūlakarṇāvadāna, pp. 61–62 and 132–135); the correspondence of zodiacal signs to nakṣatras (BS 101); on the horoscope of the wedding⁴⁰ (vivāhapaṭala; BS 102); on the planets' transits of the astrological places in the base-nativities (grahagocara, a topic appropriate to genethlialogy rather than divination; BS 103; see YJ 43). The wealth of information on the material, social, and religious life of India both in Varāhamihira's own time and in earlier periods (the latter can be assessed only by comparing the BS with the GS and their Babylonian sources) contained in the BS is obviously enormous.⁴¹