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CHAPTER TWO Then Queen Vasundharā carried the embryo, like the earth a deposit, like a bamboo-shoot 292 a pearl. At the proper time Queen Vasundhară bore a son, marked with a śrivatsa, white in color, with all the lucky body-marks. King Stimitasāgara rejoiced at the birth of his son, like the ocean at the rising of the full moon. When the twelfth day had come, the father gave the name Aparājita to his son who had the brilliance of the twelve Adityas.293 Looking at his son, kissing him, embracing him, setting him on his lap, the king never stopped, like a poor man in the case of money that has been obtained.
Birth of Anantavīrya (19-30) Now, the soul of Śrīvijaya fell from Susthitāvarta and descended into the womb of Queen Anuddhară. During the last part of the night Queen Anuddharā saw seven dreams entering her mouth as she slept. The first of these was a young lion with a saffron colored mane, his nails like digits of the moon, his tail like a chauri; Padmā, seated on a lotus, being sprinkled with water from the Ocean of Milk by two elephants holding pitchers in their trunks; a sun, destroying dense darkness, causing day even at night, with a stream of intense brilliance; next, a pitcher filled with clear, sweet water, its mouth adorned with white lotuses, with golden bells and a wreath of flowers; then an ocean, crowded with various aquatic animals, shining with its burden of jewels, with waves reaching to the sky; then a heap of jewels, which had the beauty of a rainbow spread in the sky with the streams of light of five-colored jewels; and the seventh, a smokeless fire, which made the sky have shoots of flame, its appearance giving pleasure to the eyes--these were the seven.
The queen arose from sleep and related the dreams to her husband. He told the fruit of the dreams, “Your son will be a Vişnu.”
292 14. One of the sources of pearls. See I, n. 314. 203 17. A class of gods representing the sun in the twelve months.
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