For reasons that were partly economic and partly political, the times were not auspicious for the growth of new subdisciplines in the social sciences.
This was hardly an auspicious time to inaugurate an era of innovation and experimentation.
Bodily marks in samudrik texts were in the main categorised as auspicious (shubh) and inauspicious (ashubh) signs.
Given such animosity, neither state expects the other to honour future commitments if auspicious, but unexpected, circumstances arise.
Alternatively, under less auspicious electoral conditions, a well-chosen strategy may reduce a party's margin of defeat.
Analysis of data reveals three underlying principles, namely, reciprocity, elders as transmitters of cultural heritage, and the social significance of auspicious days and festivals.
Following its auspicious start, medieval music retained pride of place in twentieth-century musicology.
Indeed, we may not always know prospectively whether our efforts at interdisciplinary objectivity will prove to be auspicious.
