Brihat Samhita’s Omens and Spirit-Related Material
- Date of account
- Around the 6th century CE
- Location
- Ujjain and classical Sanskrit intellectual culture
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
Varahamihira’s Brihat Samhita is an encyclopedic Sanskrit work covering astrology, omens, architecture, weather, ritual, and portents. Parts dealing with signs, dangerous places, protective rites, or uncanny disturbances provide a context for how classical specialists organized extraordinary claims without presenting a modern case history. It is especially useful for comparison with later manuals that interpret environmental or household anomalies. The work’s chapters vary in genre and reliability, and terminology must be checked against Sanskrit rather than assumed from abbreviated translations.
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