Agam 35 Chhed 02 Bruhatkalpa Sutra

Author(s): K C Lalwani
Publisher: Motilal Banarasidas

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Sramaņa Bhagavān Mahävira
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dhara line to the womb of ksatriyåņi Trišala of the line of Vasiştha, during that night, the chamber in which ksatriyāņi Trišalā lay was, in its interiors, decorated with frescoes; in the exteriors, (it was) white-washed, clean and shining; with the centre of the brilliant ceiling depicted with fine paintings; the floor perfectly level and well-marked (with svastika and other auspicious marks); the darkness dispelled by jewels and precious stones; (the chamber) decorated with heaps of pleasant, fragrant and fresh flowers of multifarious colours and delighted by the curling, scented fumes of burning and fine kundurukka and turuska, as if (the chamber had been turned into) a pot of scented incense; with 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 (for a walk) like sand on the bank of the Gangā, covered with a sheet of ornamented 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 she, halfasleep and half-awake, and at the confluence of the prior and posterior halves of the night, she dreamt the following noble, till fortunate, 14 great dreams and woke up. They are
an elephant, an ox, a lion, anointment, a garland, the moon, the sun, an ensign, a jar, a lotus lake, a sea, celestial abodes (vimāna-bhavana) a heap of gems and a burning flame. . 32
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[saw fourteen dreams] 1. Then ksatriyåņi Trišală saw in her first dream an auspicious elephant, possessing good marks, very powerful, with beautiful thighs and four tusks, whiter than a vast water-less cloud,