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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INTRODUCTION
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limbs in a shadow (sts. 74-85); but the VP makes a general statement that one, who sees a distorted shadow, lives for four or five months (19; 7). The RS contains a view that he who does not see his face well in water stays for six months on this earth (st. 143) but the VP narrows down 5 the limit to not more than a month (19;9). The RS allots three days' life to one whose hands and feet soon dry up after water is applied to them (st. 31 ), but the VP liberally grants ten days' life though it should be noted that it refers to heart and feet and not to hands and feet (19; 11); the YS prefers 10 the golden mean and gives him six days' life (5; 165). The RS makes a specific mention of a week's life in the case of one who does not feel the smell of a lamp (st. 139 ) but the VP vaguely states that death is imminent in his case (19; 21). A month's life is in store for him, informs the RS, who is led is dancing, to the southern direction in the dream (st. 128 ), but here also the VP points simply to the impending danger of death without referring to a definite period (19; 25). He lives for a week and no more if he cannot hear, mentions the RS ( st. 29), but the VP, taking notice of this phenomenon, simply says that 20 it is one of the two greatest evils, the second being the inability of the eyes to see the light (19; 28). According to the RS, he is about to lose his life whose eyes are stationed upwards without motion (st. 25); the VP interprets this as indicative of the unbalanced humours (19; 30).
The RS and the MatP1 The chaps. 242 and 243 of the MatP deal with evil signs prognosticating death, especially dreams and omens, good and bad. The RS and the MatP are uniform, almost cent per cent, in their treatment though they both are representatives of different traditions. The RS condemns the a dreams in which the vomit (st. 122), the falling of the moon and the sun (st. 124), the destruction of the limbs (st. 127) and the going towards the south (st. 128) are seen. They are also referred to as bad in the MatP (242; 9 and 11). But at the same time, it is interesting to note that with respecta to the realization of dreams both are entirely different. The RS enunciates a principle that the dream dreamt in the first watch, second watch, third watch and the fourth watch of the night
1 Soe App. VI, pp. 98 f.