Shloka 4
Adhyaya 43 — Portents of Death (Ariṣṭa-lakṣaṇas) and the Yogin’s Response; Alarka Renounces Kingship
वान्ते मूत्रपुरीषे च यः स्वर्णं रजतं तथा ।
प्रत्यक्षं कुरुते स्वप्ने जीवेत स दशमासिकम् ॥
vānte mūtra-purīṣe ca yaḥ svarṇaṃ rajataṃ tathā /
pratyakṣaṃ kurute svapne jīvet sa daśa-māsikam //
夢の中で、吐瀉物・尿・糞の中に金銀を明らかに見る者は、その人の命は（ただ）十か月である。
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FAQs
Dream imagery is treated as diagnostic: when values (gold/silver) appear amid impurity, it signals inversion and instability—prompting renunciation, confession of faults, settling obligations, and intensified practice.
Ariṣṭa-lakṣaṇa is ancillary instruction; it supports the mokṣa orientation but is outside the five defining Purāṇic marks.
Gold and silver symbolize refined essence; appearing in waste suggests the ‘essence’ (ojas/tejas) is being lost or contaminated. The dream functions as a subconscious mirror of prāṇic decline.