Jyotihshastra: Astral and Mathematical Literature c6.85

c6.85

Durlabharāja’s son, Jagaddeva, besides completing his father’s Sāmudrikatilaka, wrote an important treatise on oneiromancy, the Svapnacintāmaṇi,⁶⁷ in about 1175. Again, though this is the earliest independent treatise on svapna that we possess, the interpretation of dreams goes back in Sanskrit literature to the Ṛgveda,⁶⁸ and had been treated systematically since at least the time of Minarāja (VYJ 66).⁶⁹ Aside from some oneiromancies preserved in various purāṇas—e.g., Matsyapurāṇa 241 and Brahmavaivartapurāṇa, Kṛṣṇajanmakhaṇḍa 77 and 82—the most common Sanskrit text on the interpretation of dreams is the Svapnādhyāya attributed to Bṛhaspati.⁷⁰