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 and awake, (Saying), 'Divine for me my dreams. What dreams are lucky? They have been of bears and grisly bears; They have been of cobras and (other) snakes.'

The chief diviner will divine them. 'The bears and grisly bears Are the auspicious intimations of sons; The cobras and (other) snakes Are the auspicious intimations of daughters .'

Sons shall be born to him:—They will be put to sleep on couches; They will be clothed in robes; They will have to play with; Their cry will be loud. They will be (hereafter) resplendent with , The (future) king, the princes of the land.

Daughters shall be born to him:—They will be put to sleep on the ground; They will be clothed with wrappers; They will have to play with. It will be theirs neither to do wrong nor to do good. Only about the spirits and the food will