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LIFE OF MAHAVIRA.
CHAPTER IV.
THE INTERPRETERS OF DREAMS AT COURT.
On entering the houses of the interpreters of dreams, the royal messengers delivered to them the King's message. On being thus summoned by the messengers of the noble Siddhartha, glad and delighted in heart, they first bathed, and performed the worship of the gods", then, to prevent any prodigy or misfortune, put the lucky mark on their foreheads (Tilaka), put on clean, fortunate, courtly garments, good, light, and valuable ; adorned their persons with jewels, and put on their heads the sesame seed and kusa grass, the insurers of good fortune. Thereon they left their houses, and went to the place, in the middle of Kundagráma, where King Siddhartha's palace was; there they stopped at the principal gate, distinguished by a crest in the shape of a crown, and having waited till all were collected, they
* This is omitted in one copy; but these men were probably by religion Brahmans.
