History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c89.199.3

v7.c89.199.3

1-4) the Yādavas saw in dreams a black woman with whitish teeth running to Dvārakā with a laugh and kidnapping their women and terrible vultures were seen to be devouring the Vṛṣṇis and Andhakas in their own houses in which sacred fires had been established &c It is impossible to point out the unlucky and lucky dreams as their number mentioned in Adbhutasāgara (pp 502-513), quoting the Purāṇas, Parāśara, the works of Varāha and others is extremely large One passage from the Matsyapurāna (242 verses 2-14, quoted in Adbhutasāgara pp 502-503) is cited here by way of illustration; 'the springing of grass and plants from one's body (except from the navel); bronze vessels dashed against one's head and pulverized; shaving of the head; nakedness; wearing dirty garments; bath with oil; being smeared with mud; fall from a high spot (hill &c ); sitting in a swing, collecting mud and iron, killing horses; ascending trees that have flowers and over circles and riding boars, bears, asses and camels; eating of (the flesh of) birds and fishes and oil and rice mixed with *mudga* or *māṣa*, dancing, laughing, marriage and singing; playing on musical instruments other than stringed ones; going for a dip in a river, bath with water mixed with cowdung or mud or with water fallen on bare earth; entering the womb of one's mother, ascending a funeral pyre; the fall of Indra's banner; the fall of the Sun and the Moon;