If the appearance known as Parigha should be perfect and unbroken, if the sky should be clear, the solar rays blue and glossy, the rainbow white, if lightning should be seen in the north-eastern sky, and if the appearance known as Abhravṛkṣa (cloud-tree) should be glossy and covered by the rays of the Sun, and if the evening Sun should be hid by clouds, there would be immediate rain.