Risabha Deva

Author(s): Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: Jain Mitra Mandal

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RISABHA DEVA
Maru Devi next saw two garlands of fragrant flowers, with black bees hovering over them, intoxicated with their fragrance, In the sixth dream she saw the Full Moon surrounded by her suteilite stars. The seventh dream consisted in the sight of the Rising Sun in the East, destroying the darkress, and rising gloriously in the sky. In the eighth dream she saw two golden vases with a large golden lotus each, on the top. In her ninth dream she saw fishes sporting in a lovely tank, bedecked with different kinds of lotuses. She next saw an effulgent Lake filled with a pale yellow fluid which shone like liquid gold. In the eleventh dream she saw a great Ocean agitated with waves whicn broke, wit gentle sou:ds, into small spray. She next saw a very big Throne that was set with bright stones. Her thirteenth dream was the sight of a heavenly Palace; the fourteenth, of the Residence of the Nager dra who is the Lord of the devas of the Naga Kumara clan; the fifteenth, a heap of glittering Jewels, and the last a Blazing Fire that burneil smokeless and bright! After these she saw one more dream which was the sight of a large beautiful bull, resp.endent like gold, entering her open mouth!
It was the morning time when the virtuous Queen of Nābhi Raja saw the above dreams. Soon she woke up, full of joy. She understood her dreams to be the herald of a great joy that was to come into her life. Who was there in all her great kingdom who might be ignorant of the great Event that was