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PEEPING INTO THE FUTURE 163 implying that the saints in the panchama kāla would be unable to attain to the purity of conduct necessary to enable them to roam about singly !
The Sun covered over by clouds was seen next. It meant that no one would be able to attain to Omniscience in the panchama kāla.
A dried-up tree that cast no shade was the subject of the next dream. Its significance was that in the panchama kāla the generality of men and women would abandon religion, and become irreligious !
The sixteenth and the last dream consisted in the sight of dried up old leaves, and meant that the power of even great medicines would deteriorate in the end !
As regards the wisdom of the establishment of the Brāhmaṇa class, Bharata was told that his action was justified so far as regarded the requirements of his times, but that the class would be filled with conceit for its high birth, and Brāh-, maņas would take to eating meat in many cases and would become generally hostile to the true Dharma (Jainism) in the panchama kāla !
We may be sure that Bharata was not quite pleased with the forebodings or with the step he had taken in creating the fourth, namely, the Brāhmaṇa varna. He went back to his kingdom from the Samavasarana of the WORLD
