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6. Fourteen Dreams:
Visarga and conjunct letters KS and JN are mentioned. Then follow three popular Mantras, the long vowel kutaksar a complex conjunct letter called pindaksar o r and from seven consonants. K,M,L.V.Y.R. and M. 14 conjuncts letters used mostly in the Jain script, the numerals 1 to 9 as required in Jain non-Jain Scripts. Zero followed by punctuation marks is used in ancient as well as modern writing. No specimens of Agra Matra or Padimatra are shown here. Here are shown the objects seen in fourteen significant dreams at midnight by the mothers who conceive Tirthankaras. Such significant dreams result only from the conceiving of Bhagawan of supreme merits. This suggests that the soul conceived is that of a Tirtha na kara, In the fourteen dreams visualised by the mother of the first Tirtha nkara the bull is visualised first and then follows the elephant, the lion, Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth etc. But the mother of the 22 Tirthankaras visualise the elephant first and then the bull, the lion etc. But the mother of Bhagawan Shri Mahavira the 24th Tirtha nkara visualises the lion first and then the elephant, the bull" etc. According to the scriptures, the person span of life and remains free from external troubles or his relatives. who get such dream attain wellbeing, wealth, health, contentment, a long. These fourteen dreams, with their names are depicted here.
7. Seven notes of music:
The number of musical notes can be innumerable but they are classified and included in seven notes. The scale of seven notes is like the seed of the cosmic world of sound which has spread like a banyan tree. Music has been compared to the fifth Veda. Wonderful is the world as well as the history of music. These seven notes are at the root of millions of melodies sung since time immorial. Here in this strip are shown the seven notes. The Prakrit names of these notes are sajja, Rishabha, Gam (Gam) dhar., Madhyam, Pancham, Dhaivata and Nisata. In Indian music they are known as Shadja, Rishabha, Gandhara, Madhyama, Pancham, Dhaivata and Nishada. Shadja is created from the tip of the tongue, Rishabha from the chest. Gandhara from the throat, Madhyama from the middle of the tongue, Panchama from the nose, Dhaivata from the teeth and the lips and Nishada from the head. The seven notes are called short Sarigama, Sarigama, Saregama or Sri gama," the scales and modes of these notes, their colours their appropriate seasons, aesthetic experience and their ornaments etc, are described in Agam texts of the Jains and in ancient books on music.
The musicologists have described notes coming from living beings and from inanimate objects. The notes are associated with the sounds made by certain beings. Again the inanimate musical instruments produce such notes. Tansen the great musician wrote a poem describing the various notes produced by birds and animals. According to this these birds and animals are shown in order in this beautiful strip. These birds and animals are the peacock, the chataka bird, the goat, the kraunch bird, the cuckoo, the frog and the elephant, but the commentary on Anuyogadwar and elsewhere there are variations in the names of these birds and animals 10 because the same note can be produced by many birds and animals
Note: 33. Pind means a composite body. So a Pindakshara mcans a conjunct letter created by compounding many letters. When such a conjunct
letter is written, it appears like the top of a hill (Koot). So it is called a kootakshara. In Sanskrit it is also called a Samyuktakshara There is difference about the number of such conjunct. Such conjunct letters are made from letters from K to H consonants. Here the conjunct letter an start with K and other letters start from Kh, G. There are 32 to 35 such conjunct letters. Refer to RISHIMANDAL
YANTRA edited by the author for a complete list of such conjunct letters. Note: 34. The mothers of most of the Tirthankaras i.e. the mothers of 22 Tirthankaras see the elephant first in the fourteen dreams. This is why
the scripture has first referred to the elephant. Because of this the Snatra Puja mentions Pahele Gajawar Deetho (saw the best clephant
first). Note: JS. If the soul of a Tirthankara comes from the heaven, the mother sees a divine aerial car in the twelfth dream and if the soul comes from
the hell the mother sees a mansion. Note: 36. Digambar sect of Jainism believes that the dreams ware 16. Note: 37. In the third Agama Anga Thana it is stated that Shadja is so called because the note is created by the nose, the neck, the chest, the
Palate, the tongue and the teeth (Shadja in sanskrit means born from six ). Rishabha is so called because the air which starts from the na vel strikes against the head and the sound produced resembles the sound of a bull which in Sanskrit is called Rishabha. For other notes see Thananga Sutra-553, U. 3. The description of the Scales and music was given in 'Swara Prabhruta'among the offering to the
past blessed one and formed an important part of the twelfth chapter called Drishtivada. This book is now lost for ever Note: 38. In the two Agamas-Sthananga and Anuyogadwar Dhaivata is mentioned as Raivata. This raises a question which word is correct? In
this Agama the short description of all scales, though concise is enlightening. Note: 39. Which was the original form-Sari or Sare? Keeping aside the conclusion I would like to note that the reference as made as Sari in the
Mallinathi commentary of the 14th Century on the tenth verse of the first canto of Shishupalvadha and in the first line of the seventh verse of Shyamala Navaratnamalika of Shankaracharya. Maharashtrian Poet Bidkar of the 16th Century has mentioned the word Sari
but (Sare) has been universally accepted. Note: 40. Here we produce a table showing variations of living being producing such notes as follows:
Tan
Amarkosh
Anu dwar
Tan
Amarkosh
Anuedwar
Sa-Peacock Re-Chataka Ga-Goat Ma-Krauncha
Cow Chataka
Goat Krauncha
Peacock
Bull Goat Krauncha
Cock Chataka Swan Krauncha
Pa-Cuckoo Dha-Frog Ni-Elephant
Cuckoo
Horse Elephant
Cuckoo
Horse Elephant
Cuckoo Sarasa Elephant
Foot-I. Just as notes produced by living beings are shown. The notes are compared with the notes produced by inanimate objects like drums
too
2. The cuckoo mentioned here is a male cuckoo.
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