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The Adipurana, filled with joy, sent a message to the queen, like a seal on a letter. She went to the Lord of Life, the one who dispels the darkness of the world, the great one. ||120|| Reaching him, she sat comfortably on her appropriate, auspicious throne. Like Lakshmi, she shone with the radiance of her husband. ||121|| She told her husband about the dream she had seen, just as it had appeared. The god, with his divine vision, spoke of its meaning. ||122|| "You, O Devi, will have a son, a king of the mountains, a chakravarti. The sun will be eclipsed by his power, and the moon will be overshadowed by his brilliance." ||123|| "O lotus-eyed one, the lake you saw signifies that your son will be adorned with auspicious marks, with a broad chest, and will hold Lakshmi, the dweller in the lotus, upon it." ||124|| "O Devi, the earth-eating you saw signifies that your son, a chakravarti, will protect the entire earth, which wears the ocean as its garment." ||125|| "And the ocean signifies that he will be a charma-shariri, one who crosses the ocean of birth. Moreover, this son, the joy of the Ikshvaku dynasty, will be the eldest among your hundred sons." ||126|| Hearing her husband's words, the queen, filled with joy, grew like the tide of the ocean at the rising of the moon. ||127||
Then, the being of Ati-Grdhaka, who was once a tiger, then a god, then Subahu, and then Ahminndra in Sarvartha-siddhi, fell from there and came to reside in the womb of the glorious queen. ||128|| The Devi was carrying the child born of the divine influence of Lord Rishabhadeva. This was the reason why she could not bear the sun moving in the sky above her. ||129|| The Devi, who would give birth to a valiant son, saw the radiance of her face in the mirror of a sword. Being extremely proud, she could not bear her own unfavorable shadow falling on the sword. ||130|| Just as peacocks, when the time of rain arrives, look with great eagerness at the clouds filled with water, so also the Lord...
1. Purushaaya. 2. Avadhi-jnana-drishti. 3. 'Luti'. Labdha bhavishyasi. 4. Vishala. 5. Sagaravasanam. 6. Pratikoolam. 7. Mayura.