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order to increase his beauty and maintain it till death? And how such Pakas were prepared and what were their constituents ? etc.
(68) "SVARNA-PAKA-VIDHI” Method of preparing Pakas from gold:-People learnt how to prepare various kinds of Pakas from gold by means of this art. For example, first they were taught how to purify gold, then, to prepare a Paka by mixing this gold with necessary herbs and drugs in a fixed quantity; and after that to use it properly according to the time, place, and the age of the individual.
(69) "BANDHANA” Binding: The aim of this art was to teach how to produce an effect on an individual by means of Mantra or eye-sight that he may feel himself to be bound although to the audience he did not appear to be so.
(70) "MARANA” Killing:-The aim of this art was to teach how to cut off the head of any individual or otherwise to kill him simply by force of incantations or of the power of eye-sight, without fighting against him, without seeing him, and without using any weapons, after knowing his name and place of residence only.
(71) "STAMBHANA” Rendering inactive:-By means of this art people could know how to make a certain individual inactive for a particular period of time in order to take vengeance upon him. The aim of this art was conjoined with that of Mantra-Vidhi.
(72) "SANJIVANA” Reviving:-By means of this art people could know how to revive a man who was almost dead or who appeared to be dead before his time on account of some special reasons, by force of Mantras, Yantras or Tantras etc. or by touching his body with an invigorating herb etc.
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