Lord Mahavira Vol 02

Author(s): S C Rampuria
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati Institute

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Lord Mahavira where was his wife Tris’ala; having then cast her and her attendants into a deep sleep, without injury or pain, he introduced the adorable ascetic Mahâvîra in the womb of Kshatrayani. When he had performed this service, he returned and reported to his lord that he had performed what he was commanded to do.
In the same night that the adorable ascetic Mahâvîra was removed to the womb of Tris'ala, she was lying in her splendid mansion, she saw the same fourteen propitious dreams that the Brahmani Devananda saw, after which she wakened up, and fixing the dreams firmly in her memory, and descending from her couch by means of a footstool, went to the place where the Kshatriya Siddhartha was lying in his bed asleep; after being seated, thus in sweet accents addressed him :- “O my lord, while I was this evening sleeping in my splendidly furnished apartments, I saw the following objects in a dream, viz., an elephant, a bull, etc. Tell me then, my lord, what good fortune, happiness, these fourteen dreams forebode.” King Siddhartha, glad and delighted; after fully grasping with his mind, and reflecting again and again on the dreams, while "he summoned up all his powers of intellect and reason, having comprehended their meaning, thus explained it to Trisala. Such shall be thy son; and when he passes from the state of childhood to that of youth, he will be perfect in all the common branches of knowledge, and as a youth will be brave, heroic, powerful, well built, capable of leading armies; in a word, a king of kings. Thou hast seen, therefore, a most propitious dream:” — and this he repeated two or three times.
In the morning, at the first dawning of the day, Siddhartha attended by the commanders of the troops, and heads of departments, the vice-regent, the heads of the police, chief of the royal messengers, counsellors, inferior and superior astrologers, warders, cabinet ministers, slaves, and personal attendants, citizens, with the lawyers and bankers, commanders of the forces, commanders of the chariots, couriers, and sealers, issued forth the king and lord of men, the bull and lion among men, lovely to behold as the moon after emerging from a large white cloud, shining among the surrounding stars and planets, and came outside to the place where the hall of audience was, and sat down upon his throne, which was placed so as to face the east. In the north-east quarter were placed eight seats of honour, covered