Hindu Medicine c7.288

c7.288

or whoever climbs up a silk-cotton tree (śalmalī: a region of hell is called after it), or up a kimśuka tree (the red blossoms of which adorn the victim of the executioner) or up a sacrificial post (to which the victim is fastened to be slaughtered), or whoever ascends an anthill, a coral-tree (Erythrina Indica), a kovidāra-tree in full blossom or a funeral pyre, or whoever receives raw cotton, sesame oil, oil-cakes or iron objects, or whoever eats cooked food or drinks liquor (in his dream): if he be healthy, he will contract a disease, and if he be diseased, he will come to death.