223. Trijata's dream.

          Hearing Seetha, ogresses guarding her became very angry. Some swooned due to the fear of the punishment Ravana may inflict on them for not making Seetha agree to marry him. Some ogresses with more terrible appearance approached Seetha and shouted at her "O ignoble one! O one with a sinful resolve! O Seetha! Okay! We grant your wish. We are going to eat you presently."

         Seeing Seetha trembling with fright, an ogress named Trijata, sleeping till then, shouted at her cronies "O evil ones! Eat your selves. You will not eat Seetha who is the dear daughter of the king Janaka and the daughter-in-law of the king Dasharatha. Just now I woke up from a terrible dream which caused the hairs on my head to stand erect. The dream was about the destruction of all the rakshasas not only in Lanka but in all the worlds."

        Hearing Trijata all the ogresses were more frightened than curious and asked Trijata to tell them about her dream.
         Trijata then started telling them her unusual and  horrid, repellent, unsavoury and obnoxious dream "I saw in my dream Rama wearing white garlands and clothes coming through the sky, in a palanquin made of ivory tied with a thousand swans, landed here at Lanka with Lakshmana. I saw in the dream that Seetha too wearing white clothes was sitting on a white mountain surrounded by the ocean.

Seetha came together with Rama like the light with the Sun. Rama was also seen by me to be mounted on a great elephant with four tusks and looking like a mountain. Then Rama wandered together with Lakshmana. Thereafter shining with their own radiance, wearing white garlands and clothes, those neared Seetha.

        "Thereafter Seetha rested on the back of an elephant in the sky. Then I saw Seetha with eyes like lotuses rising up from the lap of her husband and gently touching the Moon and the Sun with her hand.
          "Then that elephant carrying those princes Rama and Lakshmana and Seetha stood on the top of Lanka. Rama together with his wife Seetha,  came here in a chariot tied with eight white bulls. Rama together with his brother Lakshmana and with Seetha ascended the wonderful Pushpaka viman which was shining like the sun, went in the northern direction. 

        "In my view it is not possible to defeat Rama by Suras or by rakshasas or by any others. At any rate Rama is  not  conquerable by sinners. Ha! I saw Ravana also standing on earth sprinkled with oil, with red clothes, with garlands tied with Oleander flowers, drinking oil and intoxicated. Then I saw Ravana with all his heads shaved and wearing black clothes falling down on to the earth from the Pushpaka viman.

        "Wearing red garlands and unguents, drinking oil, laughing, dancing, with confused minds, with agitated senses, Ravana went by a chariot tied by donkeys towards the southern direction. I then clearly saw that king of rakshasas Ravana stupefied with fear, falling down from a donkey with heads down.

      "That Ravana rising up quickly, together with perplexity, distressed with fear, excited by passion, being naked, like a mad man, prattling many bad words, entering dirt with a bad smell, which was intolerable, horrible and dark, like the hell and quickly sank in that.

          "Then I saw a black woman with red clothes,   with body smeared with dirt, tying Ravana by the throats, was pulling him in the southern direction. In that dream the rakshas Kumbhakarna also was seen thus by me. All the Ravana's sons have been seen to be sprinkled with oil. Ravana by a pig, Indrajit by a porpoise, Kumbhakarna by a camel set out in the southern direction.

       "Vibhishana was the only one who has been seen by me to be having a white umbrella, wearing white garlands and clothes and anointing his body with white unguents. Vibhishana was there adorned with the sound of conch shells and kettledrums, with dances and songs, ascended a kingly elephant looking like a mountain with the sound of a thundering cloud, with four tusks. He approached the sky together with four ministers.

      "In that dream I also saw an assembly  of rakshasas drinking oil and wearing red garlands, with red clothes, with the sound of songs and musical instruments. I saw this beautiful city of Lanka  with broken gates and fallen arches down in the ocean together with all the horses and elephants.

        "Lanka protected by Ravana was burnt by a quick Vanara who is a messenger of Rama. In Lanka horrible with ash, all rakshasas were drinking oil, laughing heartily with a great noise and also dancing a lot. I saw even Kumbhakarna and others taking a red cloth entered a hole filled with cow dung.
       "My this dream seems to indicate a warning to all of us. Go away! Or be destroyed! Rama will get Seetha. With a great anger he will have you killed together with other rakshasas.

         "Rama will not approve frightening or threatening of his dear wife who is highly valued by him and who followed him to live in the forest. For that reason, enough of cruel words. Gentle words indeed should be the order of this day as well as every day in future. Let us request Seetha.
     "O my friends! Now onward let us entreat Seetha who has been frightened. If we treat her kindly and courteously she will surely protect us from any danger.

        "I also witnessed the destruction of Ravana and victory of Rama near at hand in my dream. One left arm of this Seetha suddenly became erect and was slightly trembling. Seetha's left thigh looking like an elephant's trunk was trembling indicating Rama's standing in front of her. A bird also entering its dwelling place on a branch again and again speaking consoling words, was telling heartily welcoming words being delighted again and again, as though impelling Seetha."

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