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Small trees and plants, having broken through the earth, bloomed and bore fruit without growing even a span or a cubit. He saw this second dream. 3. He saw cows drinking the milk of calves born on that very day. This was the third dream. 4. He saw people yoking young bullocks to the yoke, instead of strong, well-built, mature oxen that were fit to pull, in a continuous line. Those young bullocks, unable to pull the yoke, abandoned it and stood still; the carts did not move. This was the fourth dream. 5. He saw a horse with two mouths; they gave it grass-ears on both sides, and it ate with both mouths. This was the fifth dream. 6. A great crowd He cleaned a golden bowl worth a hundred thousand, and offered it to an old jackal, saying, "Urinate here." He saw it urinating there. This was the sixth dream. 7. A man twisted a rope and placed it at his feet, and a hungry jackal lying under the seat where he sat ate it without his knowledge. He saw this seventh dream. 8. At the royal gate, he saw a large, full pot placed, surrounded by many empty pots, and all four castes, from the four directions and four intermediate directions, bringing water in jars, filled only the full pot, the overflowing water ran away, and they repeatedly poured water into that same pot, not even looking at the empty pots. This was the eighth dream. 9. He saw a deep pond, covered with five lotuses, with landing places all around, where bipeds and quadrupeds descended from all sides to drink water, in the middle, in the deep part, the water was turbid, but at the banks, where bipeds and quadrupeds trod, it was clear, pure, and untroubled. This was the ninth dream. 10. He saw rice cooking in a single pot, but it was uncooked, and considering it "uncooked," it seemed to be cooking in three ways, as if divided and placed: in one part, it was overcooked, in another, it was raw, and in another, it was well-cooked. This was the tenth dream. 11. He saw people selling heartwood of sandalwood, worth a hundred thousand, for rotten buttermilk. This was the eleventh dream. 12. He saw empty gourds sinking in water. This was the twelfth dream. 13. He saw huge, solid rocks, as large as pinnacled mansions, floating on water like boats. This was the thirteenth dream. 14. He saw tiny frogs, the size of honey flowers, swiftly pursuing large black snakes, tearing them apart like lotus stalks, eating their flesh, and swallowing them. This was the fourteenth dream. 15. With ten as He saw a crow, endowed with the qualities of the Dhamma, feeding in the village, surrounded by golden royal geese, who were called "golden" because of their golden color. This was the fifteenth dream. 16. Formerly, leopards ate goats. He saw those leopards chasing the goats and eating them with a "murā murā" sound. Then other frightened wolves, seeing the goats from afar, became terrified and afraid, and fled from fear of the goats, entering thickets and hiding. This was the sixteenth dream. 1. When the world is in decline, due to unrighteous kings and unrighteous people, when good things have waned and bad things have waxed, in a time of the world's decay, the sky will not rain properly. The cloud-feet will be cut off. The crops will wither. There will be famine. Clouds will rise from the four directions, as if wanting to rain. When women have brought inside rice and other grains spread out in the sun, fearing they will get wet; when men have gone out with hoes and baskets to build embankments; the clouds will show signs of rain, thunder, and flash lightning, but like bulls fighting, they will flee without raining. This is the first consequence. 2. In a time of the world's decay, when people's lifespan is short, beings will be intensely passionate. Girls, not yet of full age, will go to other men, become menstruating and pregnant, and raise sons and daughters. Their menstruation will be like the blossoming of small trees, and their sons and daughters will be like fruit. This is the second consequence. 3. When the practice of honoring elders among people has ceased, beings will not feel shame towards their mothers and fathers, or their mothers-in-law and fathers-in-law. They will manage the household themselves. Those who wish to give even just food and clothing to the elders will give; those who do not wish to give will not give. The elders, helpless and not self-sufficient, will live by pleasing their children, like large cows drinking the milk of calves born that very day. This is the third consequence. 4. Unrighteous In the time of unrighteous kings, unrighteous kings will not give honor to the wise ministers, skilled in tradition, capable of accomplishing tasks. Even in the court of justice, the place of judgment, they will not appoint wise, skilled, and experienced ministers. But they will give honor to their opposites, the very young, and will appoint such ones to the place of judgment. Those, not knowing royal duties and what is right and wrong, will not be able to uphold that honor, nor to accomplish royal duties. Being unable, they will abandon the burden of work. The old and wise ministers, not receiving honor, though capable of accomplishing tasks, will not do the arisen tasks, thinking: "What are these to us? We have become outsiders; the young boys within will know." Thus, in every way, there will be loss for those kings, like the time when young calves, incapable of bearing the yoke, are yoked, and like the time when great oxen, capable of bearing the yoke, are not yoked in a series of yokes. This is the consequence of the fourth. 5. In the time of unrighteous kings, unrighteous, foolish kings will appoint unrighteous, greedy people to judgment. Those fools, indifferent to good and evil, sitting in court and giving judgment, will eat bribes taken from the hands of both parties, the plaintiff and defendant, like a horse eating a head of grass with two mouths. This is the consequence of the fifth. 6. Unrighteous kings, of mixed lineage, will not give honor to noble sons of good birth, out of suspicion, but will promote those of ignoble birth. Thus, great families will become poor, and base families will become powerful. And those noble men, being unable to live, will give their daughters to ignoble ones, thinking: "We will live by depending on these." Thus, the cohabitation of those noble daughters with ignoble ones will be like an old jackal urinating in a golden bowl. This is the consequence of the sixth. 7. As time passes, women, lustful for men, addicted to liquor, and They will be fond of ornaments, fond of streets, fond of sensual pleasures, they will be immoral, of bad conduct. Having done farming and cattle-rearing and other tasks by their husbands, they will drink liquor with their lovers, wearing garlands, perfumes, and ointments, not looking after even urgent matters in the inner house, they will meet their lovers even over the fence of the house and in hidden places. They will pound the seeds that should be sown tomorrow, prepare gruel, rice, and snacks, and eat them, they will plunder like a hungry jackal lying under a stool, rolling and rolling the rope placed at its feet. This is the result of the seventh. 8. As time goes on, the world will decline, the country will be without prosperity, kings will be poor and miserable. Whoever will be the ruler, in his treasury there will be only a hundred thousand kahāpaṇas, being so poor, they will make all the people in the country do their work. Oppressed people, abandoning their own work, will sow, protect, reap, thresh, and store early and late crops only for the sake of the kings. Making sugarcane fields, operating mills, cooking molasses and the like, and making flower gardens and fruit orchards, they will bring the flowers and fruits produced here and there and fill only the king's granary. They will not even look at the empty granaries in their own homes, it will be like filling full pots without looking at empty, empty pots. This is the result of the eighth. 9. As time goes on, kings will be unrighteous, they will rule the kingdom going astray due to desire and the like, they will not give judgment according to the Dhamma, they will be greedy for bribes, greedy for wealth. There will be no patience, loving-kindness, or compassion for the inhabitants of the country, they will be harsh and cruel, like sugarcane knots in a sugarcane press, oppressing people, they will levy various kinds of taxes and take wealth. People, oppressed by taxes, will give something unable to do so, abandoning villages and market towns, they will go to the border regions and settle there. The central region will become empty. The border regions will be densely populated, just as in a pond, the water in the middle is turbid, and clear at the edges. This is the result of the ninth. 10. As time passes, kings will become unrighteous. When they are unrighteous, royal officials, Brahmins and householders, citizens and country folk, and all people, including ascetics and Brahmins, will become unrighteous. Then their guardian deities, offering-receiving deities, tree deities, and sky-dwelling deities, will also become unrighteous. In the realm of unrighteous kings, winds will blow unevenly and harshly. They will shake the sky-dwelling mansions. When these are shaken, the deities, angered, will not allow the god to rain. Even if it rains, it will not rain over the entire country all at once. Even if it rains, it will not rain everywhere so as to benefit agriculture or sowing. And just as in the country, so too in the district, in the village, and even in a single pond area, it will not rain all at once. Raining on the upper part of the pond, it will not rain on the lower part. Raining on the lower part, it will not rain on the upper part. In one part, the crops will be destroyed by excessive rain. In another, without rain, they will wither. In another, raining properly, they will thrive.