Indian Antiquary Vol 39

SR No.: 032531
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Richard Carnac Temple
Publisher: Swati Publications
Publication Year: 1984
Total Pages: 418
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 16 MB

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[JUNE, 1910.
When the paste prepared from the animals such as chuchundari (musk-rat), khanjarita (?) and kharakita (?), with the urine of a horse is applied to the chains with which the legs of a man are bound, they will be broken to pieces.3
The sun-stone (ayaskanta) or any other stone (will break to pieces) when wetted with the serum of the flesh of the animals kulinda (?), dardura (?), and kharakita (?).
The paste prepared from the powder of the rib-bone of naraka (?), a donkey, kanka (a kind of vulture), and bhasa (a bird), mixed with the juice of water-lily, is applied to the legs of bipeds and quadrupeds (while making a journey).
When a man makes a journey, wearing the shoes made of the skin of a camel, smeared over with the serum of the flesh of an owl and a vulture and covered over with the leaves of the banyan tree, he can walk fifty yojanas without any fatigue.
(When the shoes are smeared over with) the pith, marrow, or sperm of the birds, éyena, kanka, kaka, gridhra, hamsa, krauncha, and chiralla, (the traveller wearing them) can walk a hundred yojanas (without any fatigue).
The fat or serum derived from roasting a pregnant camel together with saptaparna (lechites scholaris) or from roasting dead children in cremation grounds, is applied to render a journey of a hundred yojanas easy.
Terror should be caused to the enemy by exhibiting these and other wonderful and delusive performances; while anger causing terror is common to all, terrification by such wonders is held as a means to consolidate peace.
Chapter III.
The Application of Medicines and Mantras (Bhaishajyamantraprayogah).
Having pulled out both the right and the left eye-balls of a cat, camel, wolf, boar, poreupine, ráguli (P), naptri (?), crow and owl, or of any one, two, or three, or many of such animals as roam at nights, one should reduce them to two kinds of powder. Whoever anoints his own right eye with the powder of the left eye-ball, and his left eye with the powder of the right eye-ball can clearly see things even in pitch dark at night.
One is the eye of a boar; another is that of a khadyota (fire-fly), or a crow, or a mina bird. Having anointed one's own eyes with the above, one can clearly see things at night.5
Having fasted for three nights, one should, on the day of the star, Pushya, catch hold of the skull of a man who has been killed with a weapon or put to the gallows. Having filled the skull with soil and barley seeds, one should irrigate them with the milk of goats and sheep. Putting onthe garland formed of the sprouts of the above barley crop, one can walk invisible to others.
Having fasted for three nights and having afterwards pulled out on the day of the star of Pushya both the right and the left eyes of a dog, a cat, an owl, and a vaguli (?), one should reduce, them to two kinds of powder. Then having anointed one's own eyes with this ointment as usual, one can walk invisible to others.
Having fasted for three nights, one should, on the day of the star of Pushya, prepare a round-headed pin (salaka) from the branch of purushagháti (punndga tree). Then having filled with ointment (anjana) the skull of any of the animals which roam at nights, and having inserted that skull in the organ of procreation of a dead woman, one should burn it. Having taken it out on the day of the star of Pushya and having anointed one's own eyes with that ointment, one can walk invisible to others.
* In Sloka metre.
In Hoka metro.
In Roka metre.