INAUSPICIOUS DREAMS
1-A dream becomes futile if the dreamer sleeps again after it. Hence, one should sleep again if one has a bad dream.
2. Nanda said, “O Lord” ! I have listened to your description of good dreams, now please tell me about the bad ones. Then the Lord said unto him,, “Now you hear the same”.
3. The Lord said, “If anybody in dream bursts into a jovial laugher, witnesses marriage, dance, music or sees his tutelary deity, he is certainly in danger.”
4. He, who in dream, gnashes his teeth or sees some body wandering, suffers loss of health, or falls a victim to physical diseases.
5. Death is certain to him who anointed with oil travels in dream towards the southern direction, on the back of a mule, or a camel or a buffalo.
6. One has to experience great difficulties if he sees in dream, lime, china-rose, asoka, oleander flower, oil and salt.
7. He, who sees in dream a naked, dark-complexioned sudra widow, with nose cut off, or a kapardaka (small shell called cowrie) or a palm fruit, comes to grief (aspirations are dashed).
8. Seeing an angry Brāhmaṇa or an angry Brāhmaṇa lady in dream one becomes endangered and the goddess of fortune is sure to quit his house.
9. One gets sorrow by seeing in dream a wild flower, a red flower, a palasa tree in blossom, cotton or white cloth.
10. Dreams of a woman singing, laughing and clad in black or a widow of dark complexion are fatal to the dreamer.
11. The dwelling land of a person who dreams gods dancing, singing, laughing and making flapping sounds with their arms (in challenge) or running, is destroyed.
12. One lives only for ten months after the dream of one’s eating vomited matters, urine, excrements, brass, silver or gold.
13. His death is impending to him who embraces a woman in black cloth, garlands and toilets, in dream.
14. His death also is impending, who gets in a dream, a dead child, the head, or a string of human bones of a king or any one else.
14. To see in dream human bones leads to various affections and dangers according to Western interpreters.
15. Ailment is impending to him who finds himself anointed with ghee (clarified butter), milk, honey, butter milk or molasses.
16 His death too is impending, who awakes from a dream after getting alone in a chariot drawn by mules or camels.
17. Maladies are sure to befall him who embraces in dream a woman in red clothes, garlands and toilets.
18. He, who dreams of cut-off hair and nails, extinguished charcoal, or a funeral pile full of ashes, dies very soon.
19. Distress positively comes to him who dreams of cremation ground, dry wood, grass, iron and blackish ink.
20. He, who finds in dresole of a wooden sandal, dreadfully red garland, grains of bean (masa), lentil (masura) and kidney beans (mudga) suffers from immediate eruption of boils.
21. Ailments are sure to him who dreams of thorns, vultures, crows, bears, monkeys, mules or pus and dirt of human body.
22-23. One suffers from calamities as a result of seeing in dream, a broken vessel, a wound, a sudra, a patient suffering from ulceros proriasis, a piece of red cloth, a person with matted hair, a lion, a pig, a buffalo, deep darkness, an awful car crass and male or female organ.
24. Death is impending on him, who finds in dream an ugly looking and shabbily clad ‘mleccha’ or a messenger of Yama (the king of the dead) hold a pasa weapon in his hand.
25. A person finds himself in distress as a result of receiving farewell in dream from an angry Brāhmaṇa or Brāhmaṇa lady, boy or girl, son or daughter.
26. Death is sure to him, who sees in dream, black flowers, a garland of black flowers, an armed soldier and an ugly looking mleccha woman.
27. One, who sees in dream playing on various musical instruments, dancing, singing, a musician clad in red, a jovial beating of ‘mṛdañga’ surely experiences sorrows.
28. A dreamer of the dead body of a dead person dies. Brother’s death happens to him, who catches fish or the like, in dream.
29. Death is the result of a dream of a spirit assuming a beheaded body, a person with indecently disheveled hair or one dancing rapidly.
30. His days are numbered, who is embraced in a dream by a dead male or female, or a dreadful mleccha with dark complexion.
31. One suffers from financial loss or gets physical diseases as a result of losing teeth or hair in dream.
32. Troubles from the king befall him, who is, in dream, chased by a horned or fanged animal or by boys or men.
33. Sorrow befalls a man, as a result of a dream of a tree cut-down or about to fall, hail, husk, a razor, red hot cinder or a shower of ashes.
34. Sorrow befalls him too, who witnesses in dream the fall of a house or a mountain, a dreadful comet or the broken trunk of a tree.
35 Distress is sure to him who finds himself, in dream, falling from a chariot, a house, a mountain, a tree, a cow, an elephant, a house or a mule.
36. Death is inevitable to come to those who in dream fall from a height into a funeral pile full of ashes and cinder, or a pit filled with salt (or fuller’s earth) or on a heap of lime.
37. He, from whose head an umbrella is forcibly removed by a rogue in dream, suffers the death of his father, or preceptor or king.
38. Laksmi, the goddess of fortune, leaves him, who finds, in dream, Surabhi leaving his house along with her calf, being frightened.
39. Death is inevitable to him who finds himself to be carried away being tied with ropes, by the messengers of Yama, (the king of the Hades) or by foreigners.
40. He, who is angrily cursed, in a dream by an astrologer, a Brāhmaṇa lady or his spiritual guide, will certainly be endangered.
41. Death is inevitable to him also on whose body falls in dream a crow, a dog, or a bear with a motive to harm him.
42. He, who is chased, in dream, by angry buffaloes, bears, camels, hogs, or donkeys, will surely fall ill.
