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applied in a certain manner; how innumerable lives could be saved from earthquakes and sudden bursting up of volcanoes by extracting metal ores from mines; and why
and how mercury was useful for incantations etc. (16) “MANTRA VADA” THE ART OF INCANTATIONS:--
One well versed in this art knew how to attain the eight Siddhisi.e.,miraculous powers and nine Nidhis;i.e.,treasures which incantation was to be pronounced for invoking a certain god; how the power of using an incantation successfully was created in oneself; how evil was turned into good and an enemy into a friend by muttering incantations; how the divine power of incantation destroyed all calamities of a man; how the desired thing could be attained by repeating a certain Mantra at a certain time and place and in a certain manner; which Mantra was the best and puts an end to the Karmic bondage; through the agency of which Mantra a man might follow the path of Salvation and with the help of which Mantras the six good and six bad means such as Marana ( Destroying ) Mohana ( Deluding ), Vasikarana ( Captivating ), and Stambhana ( Stopping ), etc. could be
attained. (17) “KAVITVA SAKTI” THE ART OF COMPOSING
POEMS:-With the help of this art people became poets, and could say the most difficult and intricate things in the briefest and easiest manner in the language of a song so that the ordinary people, too, might remember any thing easily. This art regulated poetry which was divided and subdivided into hundreds and thousands of metres according to the Prastava, (syllabic arrangement)
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