{"collection":"Jainism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/jai/sbe22/sbe2284.htm","path":"jai/sbe22/sbe2284.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/jai/sbe22/sbe2284.htm","text":"Jaina Sutras, Part II (SBE22), tr. by Hermann Jacobi, [1884]\nWhen the Kshatriy\u00e2n\u00ee Trisal\u00e2, having seen these fourteen illustrious, great dreams, awoke, she was glad, pleased, and joyful, &c. (see \u00a7 5, down to) rose from her couch, and descended from the footstool. Neither hasty nor trembling, with a quick and even\ngait like that of the royal swan, she went to the couch of the Kshatriya Siddh\u00e2rtha. There she awakened the Kshatriya Siddh\u00e2rtha, addressing him with kind, pleasing, amiable, tender, illustrious, beautiful, lucky, blest, auspicious, fortunate, heart-going, heart-easing, well-measured, sweet, and soft words. (47)\nThen the Kshatriy\u00e2n\u00ee Trisal\u00e2, with the permission of king Siddh\u00e2rtha, sat down on a chair of state inlaid with various jewels and precious stones in the form of arabesques; calm and composed, sitting on an excellent, comfortable chair, she addressed him with kind, pleasing, &c. (see last paragraph), words, and spoke thus: (48)\n'O beloved of the gods, I was just now on my couch (as described in \u00a7 32), &c. (see \u00a7 5), and awoke after having seen the fourteen dreams; to wit, an elephant, &c. What, to be sure, O my lord, will be the happy result portended by these fourteen illustrious, great dreams?' (49)\nWhen the Kshatriya Siddh\u00e2rtha had heard and perceived this news from the Kshatriy\u00e2n\u00ee Trisal\u00e2, he glad, pleased, and joyful, &c. (see \u00a7 5, down to) firmly fixed the dreams in his mind, and entered upon considering them; he grasped the meaning of those dreams with his own innate intelligence and intuition which were preceded by reflection, and addressing the Kshatriy\u00e2n\u00ee Trisal\u00e2 with kind, pleasing, &c., words, spoke thus: (50)\n'O beloved of the gods, you have seen illustrious dreams, &c. (see \u00a7 9, down to) you will give birth to a lovely, handsome boy, who will be the ensign of our family, the lamp of our family, the crown 1 of our family, the frontal ornament\nof our family, the maker of our family's glory, the sun of our family, the stay of our family, the maker of our family's joy and fame, the tree of our family, the exalter of our family; (a boy) with tender hands and feet, &c. (see \u00a7 9, down to the end). (51) And this boy, after having passed childhood, and, with just ripened intellect, having reached the state of youth, will become a brave, gallant, and valorous king, the lord of the realm, with a large and extensive army and train of waggons. (52) Therefore, O beloved of the gods, you have seen illustrious, &c., dreams, &c. (see \u00a7 9).'\nIn this way he repeatedly expressed his extreme satisfaction.\nWhen the Kshatriy\u00e2n\u00ee Trisal\u00e2 had heard and perceived this news from king Siddh\u00e2rtha, she glad, pleased, and joyful, &c. (see \u00a7 12, down to) and spoke thus: (53)\n'That is so, O beloved of the gods, &c. (see \u00a7 13, down to) as you have pronounced it.'\nThus saying she accepted the true meaning of the dreams, and with the permission of king Siddh\u00e2rtha she rose from her chair of state, inlaid with various jewels and precious stones in the form of arabesques. She then returned to her own bed, neither hasty nor trembling, with a quick and even gait like that of the royal swan, and spoke thus: (54)\n'These my excellent and pre-eminent dreams shall not be counteracted by other bad dreams.'\nAccordingly she remained awake to save her dreams by means of (hearing) good, auspicious, pious, agreeable stories about gods and religious men. (55)\nAt the time of daybreak the Kshatriya Siddh\u00e2rtha called his family servants and spoke thus: (56)\nNow, beloved of the gods, quickly make ready, or have made ready, the exterior hall of audience; see that it be sprinkled with scented water, cleaned, swept, and newly smeared, furnished with offerings of fragrant, excellent flowers of all five colours, made highly delightful through curling scented fumes, &c. (see \u00a7 32, down to) and turned, as it were, into a smelling box; also erect my throne, and having done this quickly return, and report on the execution of my orders.' (57)\nWhen the family servants were thus spoken to by king Siddh\u00e2rtha, they--glad, pleased, and joyful, &c. (see \u00a7 12, down to) on their heads, and modestly accepted the words of command, saying, 'Yes, master!' Then they left the presence of the Kshatriya Siddh\u00e2rtha, and went to the exterior hall of audience, made it ready, and erected the throne (as described in the last paragraph). Having done this, they returned to the Kshatriya Siddh\u00e2rtha; joining the palms of their hands so as to bring the ten nails together, laid the folded hands on their heads, and reported on the execution of their orders. (58)\nEarly at the wane of the night, when the bright morning disclosed the soft flowers of the full-blown lotuses and Nymphaeas, rose the sun: he was red like the Asoka, the open Kimsuka, the bill of a parrot or the Gu\u00f1g\u00e2rdha; of an intense redness like that of the Bandhug\u00eevaka 1, the feet and eyes of the turtle dove, the scarlet eyes of the Indian cuckoo, a mass of China roses, or vermilion. He, the thousand-rayed maker of the day, shining in his radiance, awakened\nthe groups of lotuses. When in due time the god of the day had risen and by the blows of his hands (or rays) the darkness was driven away, while the inhabited world was, as it were, dipped in saffron by the morning sun, the Kshatriya Siddh\u00e2rtha rose from his bed, (59) descended from the footstool, went to the hall for gymnastic exercises, and entered it. There he applied himself to many wholesome exercises, jumped, wrestled, fenced, and fought till he got thoroughly tired: then he was anointed with hundredfold and thousandfold refined different kinds of oil, which nourished, beautified, invigorated, exhilarated, strengthened, and increased all senses and limbs. On an oiled hide he was shampooed by clever men with soft and tender palms of the hands and soles of the feet, who were well acquainted with the best qualities of the practices of anointing, kneading, and stretching; well trained, skilful, excellent, expert, intelligent, and never tiring. When by this fourfold agreeable treatment of the body the king's bones, flesh, skin, and hair had been benefited, and his fatigues banished, he left the hall for gymnastic exercises, (60) and entered the bathing-house. The pleasant bathing-room was very agreeable, and contained many windows 1 ornamented with pearls; its floor was decorated with mosaic of various jewels and precious stones. On the bathing-stool, inlaid with various jewels and precious stones in the form of arabesques, he comfortably sat down and bathed himself with water scented with flowers and perfumes, with tepid water and pure water, according to an excellent method of\nbathing, combined with healthy exercises. When this healthy excellent bathing under many hundredfold pleasures was over, he dried his body with a long-haired, soft, scented, and coloured towel, put on a new and costly excellent robe, rubbed himself with fresh and fragrant Gos\u00eersha 1 and sandal, and ornamented himself with fine wreaths and sandal-ointment. He put on (ornaments) of jewels and pearls, hung round his neck fitting necklaces of eighteen, nine, and three strings of pearls, and one with a pearl pendant, and adorned himself with a zone. He put on a collar, rings, and charming ornaments of the hair, and encumbered his arms with excellent bracelets: he was of excessive beauty. His face was lighted up by earrings, and his head by a diadem; his breast was adorned and decked with necklaces, and his fingers were, as it were, gilded by his rings. His upper garment of fine cloth contained swinging pearl pendants. H e put on, as an emblem of his undefeated knighthood, glittering, well-made, strong, excellent, beautiful armlets, made by clever artists of spotless and costly jewels, gold, and precious stones of many kinds. In short, the king was like the tree granting all desires, decorated and ornamented; an umbrella, hung with wreaths and garlands of Korinta flowers, was held above him. He was fanned with white excellent chowries, while his appearance was greeted with auspicious shouts of victory. Surrounded by many chieftains, satraps, kings, princes, knights, sheriffs, heads of families, ministers, chief ministers, astrologers, counsellors, servants, dancing masters, citizens, traders, merchants, foremen of guilds, generals, leaders of caravans,\nmessengers, and frontier-guards, he--the lord and chief of men, a bull and a lion among men, shining with excellent lustre and glory, lovely to behold like the moon emerging from a great white cloud in the midst of the flock of the planets and of brilliant stars and asterisms--left the bathing-house, (61) entered the exterior hall of audience and sat down on his throne with the face towards the east. (62)\nOn the north-eastern side he ordered eight state chairs, covered with cloth and auspiciously decorated with white mustard, to be set down. Not too far from and not too near to himself; towards the interior of the palace, he had a curtain drawn. It was adorned with different jewels and precious stones, extremely worth seeing, very costly, and manufactured in a famous town; its soft cloth was all over covered with hundreds of patterns and decorated with pictures of wolves, bulls, horses, men, dolphins, birds, snakes, Kinnaras, deer, Sarabhas, Yaks, Samsaktas, elephants, shrubs, and plants. Behind it he ordered to be placed, for the Kshatriy\u00e2n\u00ee Trisal\u00e2, an excellent chair of state, decorated with arabesques of different jewels and precious stones, outfitted with a coverlet and a soft pillow, covered with a white cloth, very soft and agreeable to the touch. Then he called the family servants and spoke thus: (63)\n'Quickly, O beloved of the gods, call the interpreters of dreams who well know the science of prognostics with its eight branches, and are well versed in many sciences besides!'\nWhen the family servants were thus spoken to by king Siddh\u00e2rtha, they--glad, pleased, and joyful, &c.--laid the folded hands on their heads and\nmodestly accepted the words of command, saying, 'Yes, master!' (64)\nThen they left the presence of the Kshatriya Siddh\u00e2rtha, went right through the town Kundapura to the houses of the interpreters of dreams, and called the interpreters of dreams. (65)\nThen the interpreters of dreams, being called by the Kshatriya Siddh\u00e2rtha's family servants, glad, pleased, and joyful, &c., bathed, made the offering (to the house-gods) 1, performed auspicious rites and expiatory 2 acts, put on excellent, lucky, pure court-dress, adorned their persons with small but costly ornaments, and put, for the sake of auspiciousness, white mustard and D\u00fbrv\u00e2 grass on their heads. Thus they issued from their own houses and went right through the Kshatriya part of the town Kundapura to the front gate of king Siddh\u00e2rtha's excellent palace, a jewel of its kind. (66)\nThere they assembled and went to the exterior hall of audience in the presence of the Kshatriya Siddh\u00e2rtha. Joining the palms of their hands so as to bring the ten nails together, they laid the folded hands on their heads and gave him the greeting of victory. (67)\nThe king Siddh\u00e2rtha saluted and honoured the interpreters of dreams, made them presents, and received them with respect. They sat down, one after the other, on the chairs of state which had been placed there before. (68) Then the Kshatriya Siddh\u00e2rtha placed his wife Trisal\u00e2 behind the curtain, and taking flowers and fruits in his hands,\naddressed with utmost courtesy the interpreters of dreams: (69)\n'O beloved of the gods, the Kshatriy\u00e2n\u00ee Trisal\u00e2 was just on her couch, &c. (see \u00a7 32, down to the end). (70 and 71) What to be sure, O beloved of the gods, will be the result portended by these fourteen illustrious great dreams?' (72)\nWhen the interpreters of dreams had heard and perceived this news from the Kshatriya Siddh\u00e2rtha, they--glad, pleased, and joyful, &c.--fixed the dreams in their minds, entered upon considering them, and conversed together. (73)\nHaving found, grasped, discussed, decided upon, and clearly understood the meaning of these dreams, they recited before king Siddh\u00e2rtha the dream-books and spoke thus:\n'O beloved of the gods, in our dream-books are enumerated forty-two (common) dreams and thirty great dreams. Now, O beloved of the gods, the mothers of universal monarchs or of Arhats wake up after seeing these fourteen great dreams out of the thirty great dreams, when the embryo of a universal monarch or an Arhat enters their womb; (74) viz. an elephant, a bull, &c. (75) The mothers of V\u00e2sudevas wake up after seeing any seven great dreams out of these fourteen great dreams, when the embryo of a V\u00e2sudeva enters their womb. (76) The mothers of Baladevas wake up after seeing any four great dreams out of these fourteen great dreams, when the embryo of a Baladeva enters their womb. (77) The mother of M\u00e2ndalikas wake up after seeing a single great dream out of these fourteen great dreams, when the embryo of a M\u00e2ndalika enters their womb. (78) Now, O beloved\nof the gods, the Kshatriy\u00e2n\u00ee Trisal\u00e2 has seen these fourteen great dreams, &c. (see \u00a7 51, down to the end). (79) And this boy, &c. (see \u00a7 52, down to) the lord of a realm with a large and extensive army and train of waggons, a universal emperor or a Gina, the lord of the three worlds, the universal emperor of the law. (80). Therefore, O beloved of the gods, the Kshatriy\u00e2n\u00ee Trisal\u00e2 has seen illustrious dreams,' &c. (see \u00a7 9). (81)\nWhen king Siddh\u00e2rtha had heard and perceived this news from the interpreter of dreams, he--glad, pleased, and joyful, &c.--spoke to them thus: (82)\nThat is so, O beloved of the gods, &c. (see \u00a7 11, down to) as you have pronounced it.'\nThus saying he accepted the true meaning of the dreams, and honoured the interpreters of dreams with praise and plenty of food, flowers, perfumes, garlands, and ornaments. He made them a present in keeping with their station in life 1 and dismissed them. (83)\nAfter this the Kshatriya Siddh\u00e2rtha rose from his throne, went to the Kshatriy\u00e2n\u00ee Trisal\u00e2 behind the curtain, and addressed her thus: (84)\nNow, O beloved of the gods, you have seen these fourteen great dreams, &c. (see \u00a7\u00a7 79, 80, down to) emperor of the law.' (85, 86) When the Kshatriy\u00e2n\u00ee Trisal\u00e2 had heard and perceived this news, she--glad, pleased, and joyful, &c.--accepted the true meaning of the dreams. (87) With the permission of king Siddh\u00e2rtha she rose from her chair of state which was decorated with arabesques of various jewels and precious stones,\nand returned to her own apartments, neither hasty nor trembling, with a quick and even gait like that of the royal swan. (88)\nFrom that moment in which the Venerable Ascetic Mah\u00e2v\u00eera was brought into the family of the G\u00f1\u00e2tris, many demons 1 in Vaisramana's service, belonging to the animal world, brought, on Sakra's command, to the palace of king Siddh\u00e2rtha, old and ancient treasures, of which the owners, deponers, and families to whom they originally belonged were dead and extinct, and which were hidden in villages, or mines, or scot-free towns, or towns with earth walls, or towns with low walls, or isolated towns, or towns accessible by land and water, or towns accessible either by land or by water only, or in natural strongholds, or in halting-places for processions or for caravans, in triangular places, or in places where three or four roads meet, or in courtyards, or squares, or high roads, or on the site of villages or towns, or in drains of villages or towns, or in bazaars, or temples, or assembling halls, or wells, or parks, or gardens, or woods, or groves, or burying-places, or empty houses, or mountain caves, or hermits' cells, or secret places between walls, or in houses on an elevation, or houses for audience, or palaces. (89)\nIn the night in which the Venerable Ascetic Mah\u00e2v\u00eera was brought into the family of the G\u00f1\u00e2tris their silver increased, their gold increased; their riches, corn, majesty, and kingdom increased; their army, train, treasure, storehouse, town, seraglio, subjects, and glory increased; their real valuable property, as riches, gold, precious stones, jewels,\npearls, conches, stones, corals, rubies, &c., the intensity of their popularity and liberality highly increased. At that time the following personal, reflectional, desirable idea occurred to parents of the Venerable Ascetic Mah\u00e2v\u00eera: (90)\nFrom the moment that this our boy has been begotten, our silver increased, our gold increased, &c. (see \u00a7 90, down to) the intensity of our liberality and popularity highly increased. Therefore when this our boy will be born, we shall give him the fit name, attributive and conformable to his quality--Vardham\u00e2na 1.' (91)\nNow the Venerable Ascetic Mah\u00e2v\u00eera, out of compassion for his mother, did not move nor stir nor quiver, but remained quiet, stiff, and motionless. Then the following, &c. (see \u00a7 90, down to) idea occurred to the mind of the Kshatriy\u00e2n\u00ee Trisal\u00e2: 'The fruit of my womb has been taken from me, it has died, it is fallen, it is lost. Formerly it moved, now it does not move.' Thus with anxious thoughts and ideas, plunged in a sea of sorrow and misery, reposing her head on her hand, overcome by painful reflections, and casting her eyes on the ground she meditated. And in the palace of king Siddh\u00e2rtha the music of drums and stringed instruments, the clapping of hands, the dramatical performances, and the amusements of the people ceased, and mournful dejection reigned there. (92)\nThen the Venerable Ascetic Mah\u00e2v\u00eera, knowing that such an internal, &c. (see \u00a7 90, down to) idea had occurred to the mind of his mother, he quivered a little. (93)\nFeeling her child quivering, trembling, moving, and stirring, the Kshatriy\u00e2n\u00ee Trisal\u00e2--glad, pleased, and joyful, &c.--spoke thus: 'No, forsooth, the fruit of my womb has not been taken from me, it has not died, it is not fallen, it is not lost. Formerly it did not move, but now it does move.' Thus she was glad, pleased, and joyful, &c.\nThen the Venerable Ascetic Mah\u00e2v\u00eera, while in her womb, formed the following resolution: 'It will not behove me, during the life of my parents, to tear out my hair, and leaving the house to enter the state of houselessness.' (94)\nBathing, making offerings to the house-gods, performing auspicious rites and expiatory acts, and adorning herself with all ornaments, the Kshatriy\u00e2n\u00ee Trisal\u00e2 kept off sickness, sorrow, fainting, fear, and fatigue by food and clothing, perfumes and garlands, which were not too cold nor too hot, not too bitter nor too pungent, not too astringent nor too sour nor too sweet, not too smooth nor too rough, not too wet nor too dry, but all just suiting the season. In the proper place and time she ate only such food which was good, sufficient, and healthy for the nourishment of her child. She took her walks in places which were empty and agreeable as well as delightful to the mind; her desires were laudable, fulfilled, honoured, not disregarded, but complied with and executed; she most comfortably dozed, reposed, remained, sat, and laid on unobjectionable and soft beds and seats, and thus most comfortably carried her unborn child. (95)\nIn that period, in that age the Venerable Ascetic Mah\u00e2v\u00eera 1--after the lapse of nine months and\nseven and a half days, in the first month of summer, in the second fortnight, the dark (fortnight) of Kaitra, on its fourteenth day, [while all planets were in their exaltations, the moon in her principal conjunction, and the sky in all its directions clear, bright, and pure; while a favourable and agreeable low wind swept the earth; at the time when the fields were green and all people glad and amusing themselves] 1 in the middle of the night while the moon was in conjunction with the asterism Uttaraphalgun\u00ee--(Trisal\u00e2), perfectly healthy herself, gave birth to a perfectly healthy boy. (96) 2\nEnd of the Fourth Lecture.\n_______________________\n239:1 Vadimsaya (avatamsaka) is here rendered by sekhara.\n241:1 Pentapetes Phoenicea.\n242:1 G\u00e2la, windows formed by flat stones which are perforated so as to produce a network of more or less intricate design.\n243:1 Gos\u00eersha is a superior kind of sandal.\n245:1 Balikarman.\n245:2 P\u00e2yakkhitta = pr\u00e2yaskitta. The commentators explain it by p\u00e2dakhupta, touching their feet in order to avoid the wicked eye.\n247:1 Or a life annuity.\n248:1 Gambhaya = Grimbhaka; what they are is not said in the commentaries.\n249:1 I.e. 'the increasing one' not as we should expect, and Stevenson translated, the Increaser.\n250:1 The whole passage is in some disorder; for the subject is she (Trisal\u00e2) and the object is 'boy,' yet 'the Venerable Ascetic Mah\u00e2v\u00eera' p. 251 is also put in the nominative. It seems that the author or the copyists added the three words Samane Bhagavam Mah\u00e2v\u00eere because they usually followed the beginning: tenam k\u00e2lenam tenam samaenam. The same disorder occurs in all corresponding passages which we shall meet with later on.\n251:1 The passage in brackets seems to be a later addition; for it is wanting in my oldest MS., and the commentator says that it was not seen in many books. The occurrence of the astrological term exaltation (ukka = \u1f55\u03c8\u03c9\u03bc\u03b1) in this passage proves it to be inserted after 300 A.D. For about that time Greek astrology had been introduced in India, as I have shown in my dissertation: De Astrologiae Indicae 'Hora' appellatae originibus, Bonn, 3872.\n251:2 Cf. \u00c2k\u00e2r\u00e2\u1e45ga S\u00fbtra II, \u00b65, \u00a7 6.","title":"Jaina Sutras, Part I (SBE22): Lives of the Ginas: Life of Mah\u00e2v\u00eera, Lecture 4","type":"page"}