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Hārīta's Compendium of Medicine 2.3

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2.3.1

Ātreya said: / Listen, son, in brief, as it is illuminated, dear child; / so shall the knowledge of prognostic signs and the medicine be proclaimed.

2.3.2

Dreams arising from vāta, from pitta, from fear, or from deficient strength, / and those when full of urine and bile—one should discard these six dreams.

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A dream seen in the first watch of the night
yields its auspicious fruit within a year;

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that seen in the second watch after the watch has passed yields fruit in half a year; / that in the third watch yields fruit in three months.

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At the close of night, they declare, it may yield some fruit to man in ten days; / the tranquil declare it yields fruit in one day at dawn, and it is taught to take six months when seen at midday.

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In dreams, the wise consider white things auspicious, except for all of these: / cotton, ash, bones, skull, and a trident cause misfortune or illness to men.

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All black things in a dream cause misfortune or illness to men, / and they are blamed, except for these: / a cow, a horse, a king, a twice-born, an elephant, and fish;

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a mirror, a flower, an ornament, an umbrella, or a banner;
curd, fruit, and cloth, food, betel, and garments;

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a lotus, a water-pot, conch shells, and an ornament of gold— / all these bring welfare and well-being to the sick.

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A person who sees the sun, the lord of the night, a circle of stars,
or a lotus pool filled with clusters of blooming lotuses,

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or who crosses over an expanse of water and the other side of a mighty river, / attains intense happiness and prosperity, and the sick gain release from disease.

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Whatever word a god, a twice-born, the ancestors, or a king speaks in dreams, / exactly so and not otherwise will happen to a man, whether it brings him happiness, misfortune, or illness.

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A cow, a horse, an elephant, kings, and praised flowers:
if a sick man sees them in dreams, it leads to happiness;

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and one afflicted with disease sees them for the destruction of illness; / even a bound man sees them for immediate release from bondage.

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One who sees an ornament, a temple, a maiden, curd, a fish, or a boy, / or a tree flowering with creeping vines and bearing fruit—in a healthy person it brings wealth, and in an invalid the destruction of illness.

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Drinking milk in a dream is extremely auspicious, or drinking liquor, or eating goat, / or ghee, barley gruel, rice with lentils, or rice pudding—all bring happiness.

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If a white snake bites a sleeping man on the tip of the hand, on his limbs, / it portends the acquisition of a son or wealth, or it will quickly effect the destruction of diseases.

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A man who in a dream embraces an exquisite woman dressed in white clothes, / for him there will be great happiness, fortune, the birth of a good son, and destruction of illnesses.

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He who in dreams sees a heap of grain—sesame, rice, / wheat, mustard, barley, and the like—acquisition of grain is a cause of cure of disease and quickly brings happiness to a man.

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When it bears fruit, there is acquisition of wealth; when ablaze, destruction of disease; / when blooming, happiness is known; and when full, the desired fruit is attained.

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He who sees his own body being devoured by crows, herons, young camels, serpents, hogs, owls, vultures, / jackals, wolves, donkeys, female buffaloes, demons, dogs, / tigers, alligators, crocodiles, or monkeys, utterly experiences loss, calamity, or disease.

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The man who sees himself inunctioned
especially with clarified butter, animal fat, or oil,

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for him an onset of illness occurs quickly in this world; / the wise say proper countermeasures must be undertaken.

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If one sees a woman clad in red or black, with dishevelled hair, crawling along, / standing in the south, weeping, or singing,

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and she calls him angrily, embraces him, or chews him— / if a happy person sees this, he falls sick; if a sick person, he meets death.

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He in whose dream the falling out of decayed teeth is seen, / or whose hair and body hairs fall out—even if happy, he meets misfortune.

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He whose bed breaks from the blow of an iron club or similar weapon, / and blood is seen on his body—if healthy, he falls into disease.

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A man who sees an empty house, or sees a palace devoid of gods, / or intense heat from the moon, or trees in bloom—for him there is misfortune, and he quickly meets death.

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If a man sees a broken idol, a pot, a tree with broken branches, or a collapsed / temple—if happy, he incurs a host of diseases; if already seized by disease, he quickly dies.

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The man whom the ancestors summon, turning toward the southern quarter, soon suffers death. / The one to whom someone appears raising a spear, a staff, or a noose in hand and summons him, soon suffers a painful death.

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If one sees in a dream cotton, ash, bones, a skull, a trident, / a discus, or a noose, he faces calamities or the loss of disease and wealth, or if ill, he suffers a most painful death.

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Thus are described those [dreams], especially auspicious ones, when a man is asleep at night.

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Knowing thus quickly, O broad-minded one, you must prescribe a mantra for the destruction of the disease,

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As well as bathing, giving gifts, worship of the gods, and oblation, according to the ordinance for good fortune; / through these, bad dreams are destroyed, and [the treatment] quickly brings auspiciousness and happiness.

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Thus ends the second chapter, named 'The Chapter on Dreams', in the second section of the later work of Hārīta, spoken by Ātreya.