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Narada Purana (Jyotisha Selections) · by Vyasa
Chapter 10 · Yatra and Omens
यात्रा शकुनाश्च
चित्रांडजफलं कूर्मश्वाविद्गोधांश्च शास्वकम् ।हविष्यं कृशरान्नं च मुद्गान्नं यवपिष्टिकम् ॥ ६८३ ॥
In the full Narada Purana (Purva Bhaga) this is chapter 56, verse 683.
Foods, continued: the meat of a colourful bird, tortoise, porcupine, iguana, and shasvaka (a dish we cannot identify). Then rice with ghee for offering, rice cooked with pulse and sesame, rice with green gram, and barley-flour cakes.
Simple meaning: The star foods go on: bird, tortoise, porcupine and iguana meat, rice dishes and barley cakes.
मत्स्यान्नं च विचित्रान्नं दध्यन्नं दस्रभात्क्रमात् ।
Each star from Ashvini has its food. Eating it, the king marches with his army and beats his foes.
कार्यं निगमनं छत्रे ध्वजशस्त्रास्त्रवाहनैः ।
Go out with umbrella, banner, weapons and vehicles. The leaving place is two hundred dandas from home.
चत्वारिंशद्वादशैव प्रस्थितः स स्वयं गतः ।
Sending your things ahead counts as setting out. Do not then stay a week in one place.