Gaina sutras

SR No.: 020334
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Hermann Jacobi
Publisher: Clarendon Perss
Publication Year: 1884
Total Pages: 385
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 15 MB

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KALPA SÚTRA.
addressed with utmost courtesy the interpreters of dreams: (69)
O beloved of the gods, the Kshatriyâni Trisala was just on her couch, &c. (see $ 32, down to the end). (70 and 71) What to be sure, O beloved of the gods, will be the result portended by these fourteen illustrious great dreams ?' (72)
When the interpreters of dreams had heard and perceived this news from the Kshatriya Siddhârtha, they-glad, pleased, and joyful, &c.--fixed the dreams in their minds, entered upon considering them, and conversed together. (73)
Having found, grasped, discussed, decided upon, and clearly understood the meaning of these dreams, they recited before king Siddhartha the dream-books and spoke thus:
O beloved of the gods, in our dream-books are enumerated forty-two (common) dreams and thirty great dreams. Now, O beloved of the gods, the mothers of universal monarchs or of Arhạts wake up after seeing these fourteen great dreams out of the thirty great dreams, when the embryo of a universal monarch or an Arhat enters their womb; (74) viz. an elephant, a bull, &c. (75) The mothers of Vasudevas wake up after seeing any seven great dreams out of these fourteen great dreams, when the embryo of a Vâsudeva enters their womb. (76) The mothers of Baladevas wake up after seeing any four great dreams out of these fourteen great dreams, when the embryo of a Baladeva enters their womb. (77) The mother of Mândalikas wake up after seeing a single great dream out of these fourteen great dreams, when the embryo of a Mândalika enters their womb. (78) Now, O beloved