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banner to our family, an ornament to our family. This boy, after passing his childhood, will be a hero, a warrior, a king possessing a kingdom. You have seen, O Queen, a dream that will bring health, delight, long life and good auspices."
9. Then Queen Dháriní, being thus addressed by King Seniya became glad and joyful, and sat on her couch and said, "Let not this my excellent and important dream be counteracted by other ill dreams." So with sublime and religious tales relating to divine an holy persons, she kept awake in vigil to her dream.
10. Then, early in the morning, King Seniya sent for interpreters of dreams, well-versed in the various works on dreams, and enquired from them about the issue of the dream beheld by Queen Dháriní. Being asked thus, the interpreters of dreams, reciting passages from dream-books spoke as follows: "Truly, our Lord, in our dream-books, there have been explained forty-two dreams and thirty great dreams, seventy-two dreams, in all, Of these, our Lord, mothers of Arhats or mothers of emperors into whose womb an Arhat or an Emperor is coming down, see the following fourteen of the thirty great dreams and wake up-to wit, an elephant, a bull, a lion, a-besprinkling (of Fortune), a garland, a moon, a sun, a banner, a jar, a lotus pool, a sea, a celestial palace, a heap of jewels and a fire. Mothers of a chieftain, into whose womb a chieftain is coming down, see one of these fourteen great dreams and wake up. Thus noble is the dream, OLord, that Queen Dháriní, has
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