If it be seen on trees of sweet fruits and fragrant flowers or close to sacred water, or on the heads of elephants, horses and serpents, on the tops of temples and on the king’s palace, in flower gardens or on the mansions of the rich; near cows, cow-pens, gatherings of Sādhus or holymen, sacrificial fire-sites, festival places, kings, Brāhmaṇas , elephant-sheds, horse-sheds, an umbrella, a flag-staff, a Cāmara and the like; near gold, white cloth, places adorned with the lotus and the water lily, in places washed with cow-dung, on vessels containing curdled milk or on heaps of grain, it forebodes prosperity to the king.