GEM

Om. In this regard, the physician original: वैद्य: (vaidyaḥ). In this context, it refers to a learned scholar or a traditional doctor who understands the connection between the mind, body, and omens. explains the state of perceiving dreams: when all the senses are at rest, but the mind is not at rest and remains active among objects of thought, it enters into dreams of various forms. These are of two kinds: those with auspicious results original: इष्टफल (iṣṭaphala) and those with inauspicious results original: अनिष्टफल (aniṣṭaphala).

In general, an auspicious dream includes: crossing a river or the ocean; traveling through the sky; the rising of the sun; a blazing fire; and the sight of planets, lunar mansions, stars, or the orb of the moon. Likewise, climbing to the top of a mansion or a palace roof—seeing such things, a person may attain success. In a dream, drinking liquor, eating fat or meat, being smeared with worms or feces, being bathed in blood, or eating yogurt while dining—even if these seem unpleasant, seeing oneself adorned with clothes, ointments, jewels, and ornaments in a dream leads to success.

One also attains a gain of wealth in a dream by seeing: deities, Brahminsoriginal: विप्र (vipra); members of the priestly or scholarly class., twice-born men, umbrellas, tapaunclear: possibly referring to a sun-shade or a specific ascetic, lotuses, or kings; women dressed in white clothes and garlands and adorned with ornaments; climbing a bull, a mountain, or a fruit-bearing tree; or seeing a mirror, a fish, a garland, or a vast heap of cooked rice. By these, one is also liberated from two [unspecified] troubles.

In general, an inauspicious dream is one such as: climbing a Kimshuka tree, an anthill, or a Paribhadra tree; seeing oil, cotton, oil-cake original: पिण्याक (piṇyāka), or iron; performing a marriage; wearing red garlands or red clothes; being carried away by a current; or being lost in the mud or eating [raw] meat.

Furthermore, these two kinds of dreams are divided by the time they are seen. In the Treatise on Dreams, the dreams seen in the first watchoriginal: याम (yāma); a three-hour period of the night. ripen into results within a year. Those in the second watch ripen in eight months; those in the third watch in three months; and a dream in the fourth watch is known to give results within a month. If seen at the hour of dawn original: अरुणोदय (aruṇodaya), the result will occur soon. If seen at the time when cows are released for grazing, the result will be immediate.

Specifically, regarding auspicious dreams: he who sees in a dream a king, an elephant, a horse, gold, a bull, or a cow, his prosperity increases. Climbing upon cows, bulls, or elephants; reaching the top of a palace, a mountain, or a tree; being smeared with feces; weeping; or even dying in a dream—these are auspicious. Similarly, "going and coming" likely a euphemism for sexual union in a dream is fortunate. If a person dreams they are standing on a fruit-bearing tree that is sprouting and then they wake up, they will quickly obtain wealth.

He who is bitten by a snake on the right hand in a dream will gain a thousand [pieces of gold] that very day. If a man sees a snake, a ray of light, or is swallowed by water, he will be granted victory, wealth, and a son. A man who climbs a palace or mountain and crosses the sea, even if he is born into a lowly family, will become a king. He who, in the middle of a beautiful pond, eats ghee clarified butter and rice pudding on an unbroken lotus leaf, know him to be a lord of the earth. He who wakes up hearing the voices of the Ruddy Goose, the Osprey, or the Crane, will obtain a virtuous daughter or a sweet-speaking wife. He who is bound by chains or a rope will either have a son born to him or will quickly attain wealth. If, during the first watch, the body is surrounded by water... The text breaks off regarding the specific result of water in the first watch.