Kalpasutra

Author(s): J Stevenson
Publisher: Oriental Translation Fund London

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KALPA SÚTRA.
saw.
Glad and delighted, and with a heart filled with joy, pleased and placid, while a sensation of pleasure stole through all her soul, like that which affects the kadamba blossoms when moistened by a shower of rain, with all the hairs of her body standing upright in their pores with delight, and keeping the dream firmly fixed in her mind, she got up from her couch. Then without hurry or precipitation, or perturbation of mind, and yet without delay, with the stately gait of a swan, she went to the place where Rishabha Datta Brahman was, and saluting him by wishing him all joy*, sat down at her ease on a large comfortable seat, and then joining her hands, so as to bring the ten nails together, and having placed her joined hands on her forehead, she thus addressed him; "O beloved of the gods, to-night I was lying, slumbering on my couch, and after sleeping a very short time, I awoke after seeing fourteen remarkable dreams; they were an elephant, &c.; O beloved of the godst, tell me what good fortune these visions portend." Thereon Rishabha Datta Bráhman, having care
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* जएणं विजयेणं वद्धावेद is the original of this ancient
form of salutation.
This is the famous ancient title, Devánupiya, so common in Asoka's edicts, but which now by the Brahimans is applied to a silly or a crazy person, as if in contempt of the holders of the doctrine of Nirván.