Note 395 — Chapter I

Thunder during the Rohini nakshatra395 is a bad omen: it foreshadows either a famine,396 or a Boterun, i.e., complete cessation of rains for seventy-two days after the thunder-claps are heard.391 According to another view, if the Rohini nakshatra lasts for a fortnight and if the sky is clear during the period and yet lightning and thunder occur, a Boterun will be the consequence; but if lightning and thunder were to accompany the clouds in the same nakshatra, heavy and plentiful rains may be confidently expected.397 Lightning without clouds in the same nakshatra is believed to be the cause of what is popularly called Rohinī-dāzi, i.e., the burning heat of Rohini.398