Simhasanadvatrimshika 23.p9

23.p9

What more [is there to say]? O King, this is a bad dream; it portends misfortune for you." The king said: "O brahmin, what should be done to avert this bad dream?" Sarvajñabhaṭṭa said: "O King, dressed in garments and ornaments, gaze upon clarified butter, and then give those garments and ornaments to a brahmin; then, having put on new clothes, having the deity bathed, and performing worship with the nine jewels, give the ten gifts to the brahmins, and give bountiful gifts to the lame, the blind, the destitute, and others. Through this observance and the brahmins' blessing, the evil fruit born of the bad dream will be destroyed." The king too, hearing these words of Sarvajñabhaṭṭa and carrying them out as directed, threw open his treasury for three days for bountiful giving. Then, with as much wealth as satisfied anyone, so much wealth was taken away by him. Having told this story, the statuette said to the king: "O King, if such generosity exists in you, then sit upon this throne." The king remained silent. Thus ends the twenty-third tale.