Essay name: Samrajya Lakshmi Pithika (Study)
Author:
Artatrana Sarangi
Affiliation: Savitribai Phule Pune University / Department of Sanskrit and Prakrit Languages
This is a study in English of the Samrajya Lakshmi Pithika (written by Lolla Lakshmidhara) representing an encyclopedic manual for emperors. The Samrajyalaksmipithika encompasses about 3870 verses in addressing topics such as public festivals, governance, warfare (military strategy), and rituals associated with the Tantric worship for the deity Samrajya-Lakshmi.
Chapter 3 - General Ritual mentioned in Samrajya-lakshmi-pithika
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sums up the contents of SLP on dreams seems to be the
spectacles that are uniformly bad throughout
both in
the realm of waking and dream and hence, the limitation.
At the end, we may note here that though it is
a fact that 'all ancient countries and peoples believed
in dreams and satisfied their curiosity to know the
12 future by interpreting them', yet
, yet
exceptions are not
rare, when people simply refuse to go by the significance
of dreams. Bhattanarayana seems to subscribe to such a
view when predictive study on planets, omens, dreams and
their effects are branded by him as mere coincidences in
13 which the learned ones refuse to repose any fear.
However, we feel that the SLP treatment of
dreams still creditably, serves two purposes. It upholds
a continuity of tradition in the matter and reflects
to some extent, the belief and practice of the time in
which it was written.
B. Santi
Santi (Pacification) in connection with bad-dreams:
The Santi rites are normally performed by a man who
experineces bad dreams during day or night (27-4-5).
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See HDS Vol. V. P.781
grahanan caritam svapnam nimittautpatikan ta tha,
phalanti kakataliyam tebhyah prai帽a na bibhyati /
Venisambara (2.15).
