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nant, a children's specialist should arrange for the nourishment of the foetus and for delivery When she has given birth, the purohita should perform sacraments for the son. When he is ready for it, experts should train hım (I 17 22-27) Supernatural and superhuman powers :
Kautilya prescribes some magico religious techniques for obtaining some supernatural and superhuman powers. Thus he prescribes some techniques against hunger The powder of Sırīsa, Udumbara and Sami mixed with clarified butter is a recipe against hunger, effective for half a month That prepared out of Kaseruka, the bulbous root of the lotus, the root of sugarcane, lotus-fibres, dūrva-grass milk and cream is effective for one month Drinking, with milk and ghee the powder of Māsa-beans, barley, Kulattha, and the roots of Darbha-grass, or Vallī, milk and ghee, boiled together in equal quantities or the paste of the roots of Săla, and Pļšniparni, along with milk, or partaking of milk boiled with that, along with honey and ghee, one is able to fast for a month (XIV 2.1-3)
Similarly, there are tricks of disfiguration in the Kautt lya's Arthaśāstra. Thus oil, prepared from mustard seeds kept for seven nights in the urine of white goats and kept in a bitter gourd for a month and half a month is a means of disfigur ing quadrepeds and bipeds (XIV, 24). The oil of white mustard seeds boiled with barley grains taken from the dung of a white donkey fed on butter milk and barley, after seven nights is a means of disfiguration (XIV 2.5)
The techniques of changing the colour of something into white are mostly based on sympathetic magic. Thus mustard oil, boiled along with the urine and dung of white goat or white donkey with the addition of the powder Arka, Tula, Patanga is a means of making a person white. A mixture of the dung of white cock and a boa constrictor, is a means of making white. White mustard seeds, kept in the urine of a white goat for seven nights, butter-milk, the bulk of Arka,
| SR No. | 520753 |
| Book Title | Sambodhi 1974 Vol 03 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Dalsukh Malvania, H C Bhayani |
| Publisher | L D Indology Ahmedabad |
| Publication Year | 1974 |
| Total Pages | 397 |
| Language | English, Sanskrit, Prakrit, Gujarati |
| Classification | Magazine, India_Sambodhi, & India |
| File Size | 11 MB |