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PRINCE MEHA the silver mountain playing and yawning gracefully in the sky. Becoming glad and joyful, she took cognjsance of that dream, and rose up from the couch, and went to king Seniya, neither hastily, nor quickly but with a gait like that of a royal hamsa. Coming there, she awakened king Seniya with agreeable, lovely and pleasant words and being permitted by him she sat down on an auspicious throne decorated with diverse gems and jewels. Becoming restful and composed, and bringing her joined hands to her forehead she said, "Truly, 0 beloved of the gods, just now, on a couch of this wort, as I was half-asleep and half, awake,' I woke up after beholding in dream an ele
phant entering into my mouth. Now, O beloved of the gods, what kind of bappy issue will there be of this dream ?"
8. Then king Seniya, listening and hearing this matter from Queen Dháriņi, became glad and joyful, took cognisance of the dream, entered into enquiry upon it, and by his own native faculty of intelligence, arising from perception, he grasped the purport of the dream. Then, congratulating Queen Dháirgí, he said, “Noble is the dream you have seen, 0. beloved of the gods, happy is the dream you have seen, O beloved of the gods. We shall gain our object, О be. loved of the gods. We shall have a son, O beloved of the gods. We shall get happiness, O beloved of the gods. Truly, after the lapse of nine complete months and seven and a half days?, you will beget a boy, a
1. Qhíramání. 2. Lit, days and nights.
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