Indian Medicine (Medicin), translated by C. G. Kashikar c9.16

c9.16

The consideration of omens is extended also to the time of departure and arrival of the physician, and his reaching the patient. The dreams of the patient are also important. Thus one who dreams that he has drunk liquor in company with dead spirits and is attacked by a hound, will soon die of fever. It is also a bad omen if he dreams that a black woman with red clothes laughs at him and dances and binds him with torn hair, and moves to the southern direction, or that dead spirits and mendicants embrace him, or that he drinks honey or oil or falls in a swamp, or being naked, carries a red wreath on his head, or that he is devoured by a fish, or tumbles down from a mountain peak or is carried away by a current etc. (l. c.)