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the fat of the owl and the vulture, covering them with leaves of the banyan tree, one walks fifty yojanas without being fatigued (XIV 2 42) The bone-marrow or the semen of the hawk, the heron, the crow, the vulture, the swan, the plover, and the Viciralla, enables one to walk unted one hundred yojanas One may use bone-marrow or semen of the lion, the tiger, the leopard, the crow and the owl also for the same purpose (XIV. 243) After pressing in d cainel shaped vessel the aborted foetusses of all Varnas, or dead infants in the cemetary, the fat produced from that enables one to walk untired for one hundred yojanas (XIV 2.44).
Arthaśāstra XIV, 3 4–ff magical techniques of becoming invisible are told Thus after fasting for three days and nights, one should sow, on the Pusya-day bailey seeds in earth in the skull of a man killed with a weapon on impaled on the stake and sprinkle them with sheep's milk Then wearing a garland of the sprouts of barley, one is able to move about with one's shadow and form invisible (XIV 3 4-5). After fasting for three days and nights, one should, on the Pusya-day powder separately the right and the left eyes of a dog, a cat, an owl and a flying fox. Then anointing the eyes with the powder of the corresponding eyes, one moves about with shadow and form invisible (XIV. 3 6-7). After fasting for three days and nights, one should prepare on the Pusya-day an iron salve-container and a pin Then, filling the skull of any one of the night-roaming creatures with an eyes salve one should insert it in the vagina of a dead woman and cause it to burn Taking out that salve on the Puysa-day, one should keep it in that salve-container, with eyes anointed with that, one moves about with shadow and form inyisible XIV 3.10-13) Where one sees a Brāhmana, who has maintained the sacred fires, cremated or burning on the pyre, there, after fasting for three days and nights, one should, on the Pusya day, make a bag out of the garment of a man who has died naturally and fill it up with the ashes of the funeral pyre; wearing that bag, one moves about with shadow and form in. visible (XIV 3.14). The skin of a serpent filled with the powder
| 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 |