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Lord Mahavira: lit. "Great Hero", traditionally 599 – 527 BCE, is the name most commonly used to refer to the Indian sage Vardhamana who established what are today considered to be the central tenets of Jainism. According to Jain tradition, he was the 24th and the last Tirthankara, Fordmaker.

Queen Trishala, mother of Lord Mahavira, at midnight saw fourteen beautiful and auspicious dreams after conception. They were:
1. Elephant
This dream indicates that her son will guide the spiritual chariot, and save human beings from misery, greed, and attraction of life.
2. Bull
This dream indicates that her son will be a spiritual teacher of great ascetics, kings, and other great personalities.
3. Lion
This dream indicates that her son will be as powerful and strong as a lion. He will be fearless, almighty, and capable of ruling over the world.
4. Goddess Laxmi
This dream indicates that her son will attain great wealth, power, prosperity.
5. Garland of Flowers
This dream indicates that the fragrance of her son's preaching will spread over the entire universe.
6. Full Moon
This dream indicates that her son will have a great physical structure, and be pleasing to all living beings of the universe.
7. Sun
This dream indicates that the teaching of her son will destroy anger, greed, ego, lust, pride, etc. from the life of the people.
8. Large Flag
This dream indicates that her son will be great, noble, and a well respected leader of the family.
9. Silver Urn
This dream indicates that her son will be perfect in all virtues.
10. Lotus-Lake
This dream indicates that her son will help to liberate the human beings who are tangled in the cycle of birth, death, and misery.
11. Milky-Sea
This dream indicates that her son will navigate through life on an ocean of birth, death, and misery leading to Moksha or liberation.
12. Celestial plane
This dream indicates that all Gods and Goddesses in heaven will respect and salute to his spiritual teaching and will obey him.
13. Heap of Gems
This dream indicates that her son will have infinite virtues and wisdom.
14. Smokeless Fire
This dream indicates that the wisdom of her son will excel the wisdom of all other great people.

fifteen cards from a primitive Latin suited pack, possibly of German origin for export to Spain, dated by paper analysis as "early XV century". There are Moorish influences in some of the cards: see the double-panelled Saracenic shield on the cavalier of swords (middle row).

The cards show lingering evidence of a suit system derived from early Arabic cards. They have been coloured by a technique known as 'a la morisca' which involved using the fingers dipped into the pigment. Cards in the Museo "Fournier" de Naipes de Alava.

www.wopc.co.uk/spain/morsica.html

This is one of the earliest Neoclassical paintings created in France. Inspired by the excavation of the ancient Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, painters like Vien began to include classical

architecture, furniture, and costumes in their work. Vien also changed his style of painting by favoring smoother surfaces, finer brushstrokes, and cooler colors. The artist transmitted this style to his pupil Jacques-Louis David, the best-known Neoclassical painter.

This painting is among the earliest depictions of "Sweet Melancholy," a subject derived from traditional emblems that became very popular in the late 18th century. The woman is not a tragic mourner or a brooding intellectual, but rather a gently regretful figure. The letter on the table may have brought news of a distant or lost love, while the dove underscores the sweetness of the scene.

Cleveland Museum Ohio