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n. - The quality of suggesting an unsuccessful result.

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  • December 08, 2007 the dogs barking in the moonless night, mourning the inauspiciousness of the occasion,
  • Every kind of existence or life (save that which is identical with Brahma) is anistha or inauspiciousness.
  • Various reasons - such as the inauspiciousness of the south, the directions of the wind, etc. - are given for such a spatial arrangement.
  • Other than that, if (the monastery) starts introducing the propitiation of some harmful spirit, it will be a great source of inauspiciousness (to the monastery).
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