Studies in the Bhagavati Sutra

Author(s): J C Sikdar
Publisher: Research Institute of Prakrit Jainology & Ahimsa Mujjaffarpur

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STUDIES IN THE BHAGAWATI SŪTRA
[Ch. IV
If he or she beheld the vision of a great heap of gold or that of gem or that of diamond and thought himself or herself mounted by mounting it in dream, he or she would attain his or her liberation and put an end to all miseries by the very life.
If he or she experienced the dream-vision of one big pile of grass like 'Trja-nisarga' or that of wood, leaves, skins, husks, ashes and dust, various kin:ls of grass, such as, sarasta nbhaka (read grass), Viraṇīstambhala (a tuft of fragrant grass) Vamsi. stambhaka (a stem or root of bambɔɔ), Vallimalustambhuka (a tuft of stem or root of creeper plant) and thought himself or herself "uprooted thus" by uprooting it in dream, or a jar of milk or of curd or of clarified butter, or of honey and thought himself or herself "pulled up" by pulling it up in dream, or one big horrible pitcher of wine of sour rice gruel or of serum of flesh (i. e. oil and fat) and thought himself broken up" thus by breaking it up, or a large lotus lake furnished with flowers and thought himself or herself "plonged thus" by plunging into it in dream, or a great sea full of ripples of waves, thought himself or herself "crossed thus” by crossing it in dream, or a big house full of all kinds of jewels and thought himself or herself 'gone up" and "entered" into it thus by entering into it during the dreamvision, or a large aerial house inlaid with all kinds of jewels and thought himself or herself mounted thus, by mounting it in dream, he or she would attain liberation and put an end to all miseries by that very life.'
There is a further evidence of the general belief in dream as revealed in the following graphic account of the Bhs.
It is stated here that queen Prabhāvatīk Devī, the wife of king Bala of Hastinā pura, beheld in her dream at the midnight a vision of a lion having "a beautiful and worth seeing breast which was very white like the silver necklace, milk-ocean, moonlight, particle of water and silver-mountain, firm charming fore arms, round, thick, well-set, excellent sharp teeth, smiling
1 BAS, 16, 6, 581 ; 10, 11, 11, 428. It is already mentioned
in the topic conjugal life in the third section of this chapter.