Agnipurana 228
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Puṣkara said:
I shall explain auspicious and inauspicious dreams, as well as the warding off of distress:
the sprouting of grass or trees on the body anywhere other than the navel,
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powder on the head, [breaking] of bell-metal vessels, shaving of the head, and nakedness;
wearing soiled garments, rubbing with oil, and being smeared with mud;
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falling from a high place, marriage, singing,
entertainment with stringed instruments, and mounting a swing;
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acquiring lotus-shaped iron, and killing serpents;
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1 ña. and ṭa. read "śaradyaśceti"
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trees with red flowers, and likewise a Caṇḍāla;
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the act of mounting boars, horses, donkeys, or camels;
eating the flesh of birds, oil, or rice cooked with sesamum;
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entering the mother's womb, climbing onto a funeral pyre,
the falling of Indra's banner, the falling of the moon and sun;
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the sighting of celestial, atmospheric, and terrestrial portents;
and the anger of gods, twice-born, kings, or elders;
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dancing, laughing, marriage, and singing;
and the playing of musical instruments other than stringed instruments;
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going downstream in a river, bathing with cow dung water,
or with muddy water, or with ink water;
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embracing maidens, copulating with men,
loss of one's own limbs, purging, and vomiting;
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setting out toward the southern quarter, being overcome by illness,
loss of fruits, and destruction of minerals [or bodily constituents];
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the falling of houses, sweeping the house,
and sporting with Piśācas, carnivorous beasts, monkeys, or outcasts;
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defeat by another, and the arising of calamity therefrom;
wearing ochre robes and sporting with such robes;
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1 The passage beginning with "tantrīvādyavinodaś ca" and ending with "tailasya kṛśarasya ca" is missing in the two manuscripts cha. and jha.
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2 ja. reads "vivāhotsava eva ca"
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3 ja. reads "tāsāmeva ca maithunam"
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4 The passage beginning with "hāniś caiva" and ending with "krīḍanaṃ tathā" is missing in the manuscript ja.
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drinking oil and plunging into it, and anointing oneself with red garlands:
these are inauspicious dreams; not speaking of them is auspicious.
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Sleeping again likewise, bathing, and worshiping twice-born are to be performed;
a fire oblation with sesamum, worship of Hari, Brahmā, Śiva, the Sun, and Gaṇeśa,
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likewise recitation of hymns of praise, and recitation of the Puruṣasūkta and other hymns.
Dreams [seen] in the first watch of the night bear fruit in a year;
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in the second, in six months; those in the third watch, in three months;
in the fourth, in half a month; and at dawn, in ten days.
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If in a single night [dreams are seen], whether auspicious or inauspicious,
whichever is seen later among them, its fruition one should predict.
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Therefore, after an auspicious dream, sleeping again is not recommended.
Climbing a mountain, a palace, an elephant, a horse, or a bull is favorable;
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trees with white flowers, and likewise [flying] in the sky, O twice-born;
trees and grass growing in the navel, and having many arms;
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Likewise, having many heads and the appearance of grey hair, / wearing bright white garlands, and wearing bright white garments,
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Seizing the moon, sun, and stars, and wiping them off, / embracing Indra's banner, and raising the banner,
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Seizing the earth and streams of water, the defeat of enemies, / and victory in dispute, gambling, and battle, O twice-born;
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Eating raw meat and eating milk-rice, / seeing blood, or bathing in blood,
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[Variant reading: 'in the first part' in manuscript kha.]
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[Variant reading: 'seizing the earth and oceans' in manuscripts ka, cha, and ña. Page 332]
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Drinking serum, blood, wine, or milk, / rolling about on the ground with weapons, and a clear sky;
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Milking she-buffaloes and cows with one's mouth is auspicious, / as well as lionesses, cow-elephants, and mares;
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Grace from gods, brahmins, and teachers, O twice-born, / and consecration by aspersion with water falling from a cow's horn
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Or fallen from the moon—that, O Rāma, should be known to bestow kingship; / as well as royal consecration by aspersion, and even the severing of one's head,
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Death, obtaining fire, fire burning down houses and the like, / the acquisition of royal emblems, and the playing of stringed musical instruments.
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He who sees at the end of a dream a king, an elephant, a horse, / gold, a bull, and a cow, his family prospers:
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Mounting a bull, an elephant, a house, a mountain peak, or a tree; weeping; / anointing with ghee or feces; intercourse with forbidden women;
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White garments, clear water, a fruit-bearing tree, and a spotless sky.
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Thus ends the two hundred and twenty-eighth chapter, called 'The Chapter on Dreams', in the Great Purāṇa of Agni.
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Now begins the two hundred and twenty-ninth chapter:
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Omens.
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- Agnipurāṇa (Nag Publishers edition, Delhi) — Sanskrit
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- Agnipurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit