Kalpasutra

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

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KALPA SÚTRA.
thrown over it*, with a handkerchief lying on it of the richest colours, covered with mosquito curtains, in a word, altogether delightsome, soft to the touch as fur, silk, cotton, or butter, and scented with sandal-wood, and other sweet-smelling woods, altogether a couch to be coveted, there, while lying, and having fallen asleep but a short time, about the middle of the night, she saw the same fourteen propitious dreams that the Brahmani Devanandi saw, after which she wakened up. The objects seen by her in her dreams were, first, an elephant with four tusks, looking like radiant drops of dew, or a heap of pearls, or the sea of milk, possessing a radiance like the moon, huge as the silvery mountain Vaitádhyat, while from his temples oozed out the sweet liquid that attracts the swarms of bees. Such was the incomparably stately elephant, equal to Airávat himself, which Queen Trišalá saw, while uttering a fine deep sound, with his trunk filled with water, like the sound of thunder; in every respect an incomparable elephant.
She next saw a bull shedding a flood of radiance, like to that which proceeds from a bunch
* Sans. To 37faut which should be linen or silk; but the Gujarathi makes the covering of cotton stuff.
+ A fabulous mountain, which the Jains suppose first to receive and then reflect the sun's rays.