Whereas some ascetics and Brahmins make their
living by such base arts as predicting an eclipse of the moon,
the sun, a star; that the sun and moon will go on their proper ,
course - will go astray; that a star will go on its proper course
- will go astray; that there will be a shower of meteors, a blaze -
in the sky, an earthquake, thunder; a rising, setting, darkening,
brightening of the moon, the sun, the stars; and 'such
will be the outcome of these things', the ascetic Gotama refrains
from such base arts and wrong means of livelihood.