63 - The baddream of Kamsa  

Narayana said- Thereafter Kamsa thinking of a bad dream, felt immensely agitated and frightened and leaving eating food, was filled with grief. He summoned his sons, friends, brothers, relatives and the family priest in his court and started narrating his bad dream to them. 

Kamsa said- I witnessed an extremely bad dream at the dead of night. All the intellectuals, relatives and family priests but listen to me. 

I found in my dream that in my city an old woman with black body was dancing. She was adorned with a garland of red flowers with the red sandal-paste applied on her body. She was clad in red garments and was laughing aloud.  She held a sharp sword in her hand and a terrific skull-cup; her moving tongue was protruding and looked quite horrible. 

Similarly, there was another black woman who was clad in black garments who appeared like a Mahashudra woman. Her dried hair was dishevelled and the nose was cut off. She wanted to embrace me. 

She was clad in dirty garments had dried up hair and applied tilakam of the ashes. О Satyaka, I found that the ripe fruits of tala, having black colours were falling on my cheeks, one after the other continuously creating a sound. 

A deformed mleccha worn "in adorned with dirty garments, having dry hair was offering broken small-shells for the making of ornaments. A chaste lady having her son alive, in great anger pronounced a curse again and again on me and broke a pitcher filled with water. 

I also saw that a Brahmana filled with anger was pronouncing a curse on me, was offering me his undecayed garland which was soaked in the red sandal-paste. 

I also found that in every bit of my kingdom there was a rain of burning flames, ashes and blood. 

I found that a monkey of terrific size, the crows, the dogs, the bears, the pigs and the donkeys were creating a terrific noise. 

The dry-wood had been collected the blackness of which could not be removed.

At the time of the sun-rise, I found the monkeys and the nails. A chaste woman came out of my palace. She was clad in pitambara and had applied the white sandal-paste and other cosmetics, adorned with garland of jasmine flowers and gem-studded ornaments. She was holding a lotus flower playfully and her forehead was painted with the spots of vermilion. The chaste lady getting annoyed with me pronounced a curse on me and left my palace. 

I found some people with dishevelled hair entering in my kingdom holding nooses in their hands. They looked quite terrific and dry.

I found unrobed women dancing in each and every house having dishevelled hair and terrific form. Then there was an unrobed widow, who belonged to the Shudra caste and whose nose was cut-off, looked quite terrific and was applying oil on my body.

I found all these astonishing types of women in the early morning who were carrying fire flames. They had no clothes on their bodies and had applied ashes on their entire bodies. They were smiling. 

In the dream I witnessed a marriage function which looked quite pleasant but I witnessed some people who were clad in red clothes, having red hair on the body. 

I found a naked person who looked quite frightening, who vomited blood sometimes and danced sometimes. Sometimes he was found running and sometimes he slept while at the other times he smiled. 

O brother, I found that both sun and the moon had risen in the sky at one and the same time. О family priest, in my dream I witnessed the falling of a comet, earth-quakes, national calamities, great storms and terrific disturbances. 

The trees were shaking, because of the force of the wind their branches were being broken and the mountain peaks were found falling on the earth. 

In every house a tall and naked male figure was found dancing, having no head. That terrific person held a garland of human skulls in his hands. 

All the houses were filled with dust after having been burnt to ashes and all the people were crying in panic all round. 

О Narada, after thus speaking the king Kamsa kept quiet. Listening to that dream all the brothers and relatives of the king started heaving deep sighs. 

The family priest Satyaka realising the total destruction of Kamsa approaching fainted, all the wives and parents of Kamsa started crying in grief; they came to realise that the time of destruction was fast approaching.