________________ 100-108 ) English Translation 17 and lovely mansion of the gods. (100). In the morning, the queen got up from her bed and having gone to the king spoke thus with sweet words. (101) "I woke up this morning after having beheld in my dream the Residence of Gods: what will be the special fruit of such a dream?" (102). The king became pleased and gratified at this, and, with his body full of horripilation, spoke as follows according to his knowledge:-(103). "Well, queen, after full nine months and seven-and-a-half days, you will get a son possessed of many auspicious signs and virtues who would be, in fact, an eye to the world ( a friend of the world, or, the Sun in fact in this world ). (104 ). Having heard these words of the king and being pleased and gratified at her heart, the queen with the permission of the king arrived at her residence. ( 105 ). After having lived the life of a god, the soul of the prince, full of well--achieved merit, got there into the womb of Kirma just as a swan into a lake. (106). The queen bore an excessive splendour by virtue of that foetus, just as a mine of gems with a gem or a mother o'pearls with a big pearl. (107). By the innate power of the foetus and by the rise of her auspicious merit there arose in her the auspicious desire in pregnancy to
