Risht Samucchaya

Author(s): Durgadevacharya, A S Gopani
Publisher: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan

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INTRODUCTION
47 the SRS with those of the MatPl and the DS" between which there is more agreement. It should also be mentioned that there is some discrepancy in the statement of the SRS inasmuch as it makes no difference between the times indicated for the third and the fourth watches. According to the RS, s one who dreams a dream of vomit, lives only for a couple of months (122), while in the SRS no time-limit has been given but it is merely denounced as a bad dream the result of which is death (149; 160). There is one fundamental difference between the RS and the SRS' with regard to the topic of 10 dreams. The former gives the time limit within which a dream, good or bad, is realized by one who had had it; while the latter simply says that the death is imminent or that there would be
eat monetary trouble or that he would die of fever, leprosy, sprue etc. etc. but does not give a specific duration. According is to the RS, he, who goes, in a dream, to the southern direction, anointed with ghee or oil, seated on a donkey, lives only for a month (123) while the SRS mentions merely the immediate danger of death without giving specific time-limit (127; 143). He lives for more than a month, states the RS, who sees in 20 a dream the eclipse of the sun or the moon or their falling on a ground (124). The SRS' recognizes the eclipse and the falling, in a dream, as two separate phenomena and pronounces death, as a result of the former, from pestilence and from the disease of the eyes as a result of the latter (140). The 25 association of a red flower or cloth and singing and dancing, in a dream, have all been counted by the RS as bad prognostications the inevitable result of which is death in course of a month (128). So far as death, as a result of these indications, is concerned the SRS also is with the RS though it does 30 not give the time-limit (128; 137; 147). He lives for a month who falls, in a dream, into the pit full of blood, fat, pus, skin, ghee or oil, states the RS (129). This phenomenon of abnormal dream and its common consequence of death minus a statement of one month's duration are shared by the SRS' (146 and 160 ). 25 After noting the unnatural dreams we are now in a position to observe that the RS has got definite statements with regard to the time during which one may pass away as a result of his
1 See App. VI, p. 99, sts. 17-19. 2 See App. XVI, p. 110, lines 10-11.