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घरंस अब्भंतर सचित्तकम्मे बाहिरओ दूमियघट्टमट्ठे विचित्त उल्लोयचिल्लि - यतले मणिरयणपणासियंधयारे बहुसमसुविभत्तदेसभाए पंचवण्णसरससुरभिमुक्क पुप्फपुर जोवयारकलिए कालागुरुपवरकुंदुरुक्कतुरुक्क धूवमघमघंतगंषुद्धयाभिरामे सुगंधिव गंध गंधवट्टिभूए तंसि तारिसगंसि सर्याणिज्जंसि सालिगणवट्टिए भविब्बो दुह उष्णए मज्झे णयगंभीरे गंगापुलिनवालुय उद्दालसालिसए उवचियखोमियदुगुल्ल पट्टपडिच्छायणे सुविरइयरयत्ताणे रत्तंसुयसंवुए सुरम्मे आइणगरुयबूरणवणीयतुलफासे सुगंध वरकुसुमचुण्णसयणोवयारकलिए अद्धरत्तकालसमयंसि सुत्तजागरा ओहीरमाणी ओहीरमाणी अयमेयारूवं ओरालं कल्लाणं सिवं धण्णं मंगल्लं सस्सिरियं महासुविणं पासित्ताणं पडिबुद्धा |
In that period at that time there was a city named Hastināpura. Description. There was a garden named Sahasrāmravana. Description. In that city there was a king named Bala. Description. He had a queen named Prabhāvati. Her hands and feet were soft etc. Description. The chamber of the queen, in its interior was decorated with frescoes, in the exterior was whitewashsd, clean and shining. The ceiling of the chamber was depicted with the paintings, the floor perfectly level and well-marked, the darkness of the chamber was dispelled by jewels and precious stones decorated with heaps of pleasant, fragrant and fresh flowers of multifarious colours and delighted by the curling, scented fumes burning of fine kundurukka and turuşka, as if the chamber had been turned into a pot of scented incense. In that chamber was a couch having a mattress of a full length, with pillows at head and foot, elevated at the two ends, with hollow in the middle, soft like sand on the bank of the Gangā, covered with a sheet of ornamental linen, with a well-worked towel to wrap, covered with red mosquito curtains, delightful to the touch like fur, cotton or butter besprinkled with fine and scented flowers and powder. On such a couch lay queen Prabhavati, half asleep and half awake and at the confluence of the prior and posterior halves of the night she dreamt the following noble, beautiful, blissful, blessed, auspicious and fortunate great dream and woke up.
