Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c31.2297

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was of a deep pool with sloping banks overgrown with lotus. Men and beasts entered the pond; the middle was muddy, but at the edges was crystal water. This meant that in the future there would be unrighteous kings oppressing the people, who would leave the capital and take refuge in the frontier districts. The tenth dream was of rice cooking in a pot, which rice, instead of cooking evenly, remained in three parts: some sodden, some raw, some well cooked; this showed that in the future men of all classes, even brahmins and sages, will be wicked, the very forces of nature will be against them, and their harvest will be spoiled. The eleventh dream was of men bartering butter-milk for precious sandal-wood, and presaged a time when the Dhamma would decay and its votaries clamour for money and gifts. The twelfth dream was of empty pumpkins sinking in the water; the world will be reversed: the low-born will become great lords and the noble sink into poverty. In the thirteenth dream solid blocks of rock floated in the water; nobles and wise men will be scorned while upstarts shall have their own way. In the fourteenth dream tiny frogs chewed huge snakes and ate them; a time will come when men, because of their lusts, will become the slaves of their wives and be ruled by them. The fifteenth dream was of a wicked village crow attended by mallards; kings will arise, ignorant and cowardly, who will raise to power, not their peers, but their footmen, barbers, and the like; nobles will be reduced to waiting on these upstarts. In the sixteenth dream goats chased panthers, devouring them; the lowborn will be raised to lordship and nobles will sink into obscurity and distress; when the latter plead for their rights, the king's minions will have them cudgelled and bastinadoed.