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one whose seven primary fluids are neither more nor less. They are रसासृङ्मांसमेदोऽस्थिमज्जाशुक्राणि धातवः । They are sometimes taken as ten by including केश, त्वच् and स्नायु. 110 आरंभ, विकहा and कसाय are the three Jaina technical terms for a sinful activity, a sinful story and a sinful thought respectively. विकहाs are four, namely, स्त्रीविकथा, भक्तविकथा, देशविकथा and राजविकथा. अच्छित्ता - a gerund in Sauraseni. -three sweet things, namely, sugar, honey and clarified butter.
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From all these foregoing references we can easily conclude that the subject of dream, as a branch of the Ristasastra, is as old as history. For parallel passages and detailed discussion see Appendix and Introduction. is found in all the MSS. It should be : and hence interrogation.
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देवद for देवता reveals Saurasenī influence.
—a figure, form, shape. They are five in number, eg . परिमंडल, वट्ट, तंस, चउरंस and आयय.
- word with a Sauraseni characteristic.
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-Note that it is, mostly, a Māhārāṣṭrī Prakrit
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-There are no case-terminations; it is obviously in the Accusative case. Perhaps an Apabhramsa influence is working on it. I have quoted below a passage from the JAOS, XV, p. 214 though it does not deal with the images as they are dreamt of in the dream :
"Whenever in a region idols move about or laugh, when they have a frightful appearance, let one know that there is a great peril. When they laugh out, wink, sing and are changed and whenever there is an odour of meat and blood, there is great peril. In cases where a picture looks, sings, or moves suddenly let one declare the death of a king in eight months. When pictures, images and altars undergo a great change let one know that there is a great peril". 12.
The image referred to in the text is the image as it is dreamt of in the dream but both descriptions agree as far as the abnormal phenomenon of an image and its inauspicious consequences are concerned.
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