Simhasanadvatrimshika 23.p6

23.p6

tadanantaraṃ sāyaṃkāle saṃdhyākarma vidhāya bhojanaṃ kṛtvā śayanasthānam āgataḥ. tatra śaśikaranikaraprabhābhāsuraprachadapaṭaparistīrne kundamallikāvikīrne mañcake suptaḥ. prabhātasamaye svapne rājā svayam ātmānaṃ mahiṣārūḍhaṃ dakṣiṇāṃ diśaṃ gacchantaṃ dṛṣṭvā sahasā prabuddho viṣṇuṃ smaran samutthitaḥ. saṃdhyādikarma samanuṣṭhāya siṅhāsane samupaviṣṭo brāhmaṇānāṃ purataḥ svapnavṛttāntam akathayat. tac chrutvā sarvajñabhaṭṭeno 'ktam: bho rājan, svapnā dvividhāḥ; kecana śubhāh, kecanā 'śubhāḥ. tatra śubhāḥ:

After this, in the evening, when he had performed the evening rites and partaken of food, he went to his sleeping-apartment. There he slept upon a bed covered with a coverlet gleaming with light from a flood of moonbeams, and strewn with various jasmine [kunda and mallikā] flowers. Towards daybreak the king in a dream saw himself mounted on a buffalo and riding towards the south [compare the MR parallel]. And awakening with a start he sprang up, calling Viṣṇu to mind. When he had performed the morning rites, he mounted upon his throne and told his dream in the presence of the brahmans. Hearing this Sarvajña Bhaṭṭa [‘Doctor Know-it-all’] said: “O king, dreams are of two sorts, some favorable, and some unfavorable. Now these are favorable: 8. To be mounted on cows, bulls, or elephants, temples, mountain-peaks, or trees; to be smeared with dung; blood, and death, and intercourse with those with whom it is forbidden; all this in dreams is auspicious.