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these latter, they bring good or ill luck.
Those under the
auspices of the moon, which in India is the symbol of
comfort and coolness, are favourable
but the case is just
the reverse with those governed by the sun.
It therefore
follows that a piece of poetry must never begin with a
malign ganam. The Hindu prosodies are very diffuse and
wearisome on this subject.
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