Risht Samucchaya

SR No.: 002800
Original Sutra Author: Durgadevacharya
Author: A S Gopani
Publisher: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan
Publication Year: 1945
Total Pages: 290
Language: Sanskrit, Hindi
Classification: Book_Devnagari & Literature
File Size: 16 MB

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*TRANSLATION OF 110. He should observe a fast and silence and should
undertake nothing as well as he should do no prohibited
talks and should be devoid of passions that day. 111 After ten thousand recitals, the mantra is accompli
shed, if the recital is done with jasmine flowers and with a sacrificial offering of fragrant gumresin and
a triad of three sweet things. 112 Dream is twofold. One is that which is told by the
god and the other is a natural dream. That dream is a dream told by the god where a mantra (sacred formula)
is recited. 113 The other (viz, a natural drean) occurs when one, void
of worries and with well-poised body and well-propor. tioned humours, gets, indeed, without (muttering) a
mantra (sacred formula). 114 Listen to that (dream ) which is one though twofold
and which is being narrated in brief with reasoning employed in various scriptures and with periphrases. Know that the meaning of dreams is to be understood through watches of the night in the following respective order :-ten years, half of it (five years), six months
and ten days. 116-117 Listen to the fruit in the case of him who sees, while
sleeping at night, the image of the best amongst Jinas, devoid of hand, foot, knee, head, shank, shoulder and belly as well as in the case of one who sees destroyed the umbrella or retinue of that god of whom he happens
to be the devotee. 118 (His life would be) for four months, if the hands (of
the image ) are seen destroyed. Know (that his life would be) for three years (if it is seen ) devoid of feet; for one year, (if it is seen) deprived of knees; for five
days, if the head of the idol) is seen ruined. 119 (His life would be ) for two years (if in the dream he
sees the image ) without shanks; for one month, if the shoulders (of the image) are seen broken; if the stomach of the image is seen destroyed, (his life would be) for
eight months. 120 If the destruction of an umbrella ( of the image) is eeen,
king's death takes place, indeed. If the death of the