Prabhupāda: So we have to go down?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Not have to. Whatever you like.
Prabhupāda: As you like.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: We like what you like.
Prabhupāda: So there will be rain. And if there is rain now, it is good. For these food grains it is very good.
Jayapatākā: Good for everything but the masoori.
Prabhupāda: Well, masoori is not very important.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: What is masoori?
Jayapatākā: Lentils.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: But it's not good for construction.
Jayapatākā: No, no, it won't be . . .
Prabhupāda: No, it will not continue. A few hours in a day; it will be stopped. Yadi varṣe māghera śeṣa, daṇḍa-rājā puṇya-deśa. This is the month of Māgha. So at the end of Māgha, if there is little rain, then it is to be understood that the king of that country is very pious and blessed. This time a little rain is required. Yadi varṣe māghera śeṣa, daṇḍa-rājā puṇya-deśa. There is a book, Khanāra Vacana, astronomical prediction in this small verses.
Jayapatākā: Pradyumna Prabhu had a copy of that book.
Prabhupāda: Khanāra Vacana?
Jayapatākā: I was looking at it. It was very practical. Even how to . . . how many feet you should plant the different trees, banana and others.
Prabhupāda: Khanā was a woman, very intelligent. Wife . . . I think she was wife of Varāhamihira. He was very great astrologer, and she learned from her husband, and then she explained in common language. That is Khanāra Vacana.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Who?
Prabhupāda: This Khanāra Vacana. She was . . . I think so . . . I don't know whether . . . she was the wife of a great, a very big astrologer.
Jayapatākā: There was nine ṛṣis of one rājā, and then she was the daughter of one of those ṛṣis.
Prabhupāda: Oh, maybe, daughter or wife.
Jayapatākā: Wife of a . . . also.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: It's amazing how everything is so scientifically analyzed in the Vedas. The Westerners . . .
Prabhupāda: Therefore we say "perfect." Śruti-pramāṇam.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Even to the point of knowing about a certain amount of rain coming at the end of a particular season and how that indicates about the administration.
Prabhupāda: Yes. Yes, everything. Daṇḍa-rājā puṇya-deśa.
Jayapatākā: (Bengali) (break)
Prabhupāda: ". . . whether you have got such buildings, whether you have got such books, whether you have got such disciples, whether you have traveled so . . ."? Then what they will . . . will be reply? Hmm?
Jayapatākā: But they've got the āśīrbād.
Prabhupāda: Huh? Oh. They say that due to their āśīrbād?
Jayapatākā: No, he is saying that he is the counterpart, that he's got the āśīrbād.
Prabhupāda: No, āśīrbād, but what you have done for the āśīrbād. You are licking up the āśīrbād.