Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 2

Author(s): Hemchandracharya, Helen M Johnson
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra

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CHAPTER TWO
waited a moment, bowed again to the King with devotion and, his hands joined together, related :
“Last night in the last watch your sister-in-law Vaijayanti saw these dreams entering her lotus-mouth. First, a mighty elephant, surpassing the elephants of the quarters in trumpeting; a bull with a white figure and a high hump, bellowing ; a lion with a massive måne erect and open mouth; Śrī, being sprinkled by elephants at both sides; a wreath of five-colored flowers like a rainbow; a full moon like a full pitcher of nectar; then a sun, as if the brilliance of every sun had been taken ; a tall flag-staff made of divine jewels with a fluttering banner; a full pitcher with its mouth covered with fresh white lotuses; a lotus-lake with a thousand eyes, as it were, with its blossoming lotuses; an ocean with waves wishing to bathe the sky, as it were; a magnificent palace resembling a palace of the Sāmānikas; a heap of jewels with light bursting forth, like the essence of Ratnācala ; and a smokeless fire which filled the sky with shoots of flames. These dreams were seen. Your Majesty alone knows correctly their fruit. Your Majesty alone shares their fruit."
The King said : “Queen Vijayā also saw these dreams clearly in the fourth watch last night. If these great dreams have equally great fruit, they will create joy, like the rays of the full moon. Nevertheless, we must question experts to know exactly the fruit of the dreams resembling moonlight producing joy for night-blooming lotuses."
Interpretation of the dreams (86-108) The Prince agreed and a door-keeper was sent eagerly by the King to summon men skilled in dream-science. The astrologers, covered with clean, white clothes, their skins shining from bathing, like stars veiled by the moonlight of the full moon; with blades of dūrvā-grass on their heads, as if they were wearing garlands; their hair (adorned) with flowers like rivers with hansas and blue lotuses; adorned on their foreheads with tilakas of powdered