Note 399 — Chapter I
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Thunder or lightning in the Hasta399 nakshatra foretells good harvests and a prosperous year.400 Thunder in the same nakshatra is believed to muzzle the jaws of serpents and other noxious creatures, and to achieve this object, also, a sāmelu (or a log of wood) is struck against a mobhārā (or a hollow stone used for threshing corn).401 If thunder is not heard during this nakshatra, mosquitoes and other insects and vermin are believed to be likely to multiply.402