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each of the fourteen dreams seem to have been added later as shown by the analysis of Muni Punyavijaya' in his critical edition of the Pavitra KalpaSūtra. It may be added that the ornament dināra-mālā (necklace or garland of Dināra coins) in the description of Sri in these dreams (Kalpa-Sutra, sūtra 37) supports the inference that this section is added later and may be as late as the Valabhi council under Devarddhi gani Kşamāśramana.
Belief in dreams is common to all sects. The Brahmavaivarta Purāņa, in the Khanda dealing with the life of Krishna (adh. 77) gives a list of good dreams (with their results). The same Purana, adh. 70 gives a list of such dreams seen by Akrūra. Bad dreams with their results are referred to in ibid., adh. 80, similar dreams were also seen by Kamsa as narrated in ibid., adh. 63. Accounts of good and bad dreams are also available in the Devipurăṇa, adh. 22, Kalikapurapa, adh. 87, Matsya Purana, adh. 242 and so on. The science of Svapna-Sakuna was very popular in the age of Purapas and even medical works like the Astängahrdaya of Vägbhata, refer to such dreams in detail (in Sarirasthana, adh. 6).
Muni Shri Punyavijaya, in his Intro, to the Pavitra-Kapla-Sutra, p. 10, says that the detailed description of the fourteen dreams in the KS, is not referred to in the Carni of Agastya-Simha, and that it is difficult to say whether this part is genuine. According to him both the Niryukti and the Cürni on the Daś śrutaskandha (of which KS. is the eigth adhyayana) are about 1600 years old, or earlier, i.e. c. 350 A.D. or earlier. These remarks of the learned Muniji are further supported by the ref. to the coin Dināra noted above.
See, Sabda-kalpadruma-kośa, under svapna.
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