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AITAREYA-ÅRANYAKA.
11. Next, let him cover his eyes and watch, then threads are seen as if falling together! But if he does not see them, let him know then that it is so.
12. Next, let him cover his ears and listen, and there will be a sound as if of a burning fire or of a carriage 2. But if he does not hear it, let him know then that it is so.
13. Next, when fire looks blue like the neck of a peacocks, or when he sees lightning in a cloudless sky, or no lightning in a clouded sky, or when he sees as it were bright rays in a dark cloud, let him know then that it is so.
14. Next, when he sees the ground as if it were burning, let him know that it is so.
15. These are the visible signs (from 7-14). 16. Next come the dreams.
17. If he sees a black man with black teeth, and that man kills him; or a boar kills him; a monkey jumps on him; the wind carries him along quickly; having swallowed gold he spits it out®; he eats honey; he chews stalks ; he carries a red lotus; he drives with asses and boars; wearing a wreath of red flowers (naladas) he drives a black cow with a black calf, facing the south ?,
18. If a man sees any one of these (dreams), let
1 The Kashmir MS. reads batirakâni sampatantiva.
• See Kh. Up. III, 13, 8. The Kashmir MS. and the commentary give the words rathasyevopabdis, which are left out in the printed text.
• The Kashmir MS. reads mayûragrîvâ ameghe. 4 The Kashmir MS. reads svapnah. 0 The Kashmir MS. reads askandati. • The Kashmir MS. reads avagirati.
? The commentator separates the last dream, so as to bring their number to ten.
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| SR No. | 007670 |
| Book Title | Upnishad |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Max Muller |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1879 |
| Total Pages | 1835 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 35 MB |