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undeceitful and God-fearing people were taught the following things by means of this art. What is the method of muttering any incantation ? Where, when, how and after what amount of muttering is an incantation mastered ? How are the worldly desires satisfied by force of a mastered incantation ? How are the physical, divine, and material troubles removed by them? Which incantations are used for certain purposes ? etc.
(65) "YANTRA-VIDHI” Method of preparing Yantras:To make fixed number of columns on a plate of metal, on the Bhoja-patra, on a piece of paper or on a wall and to write figures in them, muttering incantations from the mouth, is to prepare a Yantra. This art taught when such Yantras were prepared; of how many kinds they were; how they were able to satisfy all the worldly desires and to remove three kinds of troubles; where they were kept or tied on the limbs of the body etc.
(66) "TANTRA-VIDHI” Method of doing Tantras or mystic practices:- This art taught the method of preparing the Tonas and the Utaras and to place them on the crossing of the ways near a village or a city; dispelling the injurious binding effect from the dishes served at dinner; and placing a handful of enchanted rice towards the head of a sleeping man etc. People believed that many kinds of physical, divine, and material calamities could be ended by means of this art very easily.
(67) "RUPA-PAKA-VIDHI” Methods of preparing Pakas for the sake of beauty:-People gained knowledge of the following things by means of this art. Which of the Pakas (decocted medicines) should be used by a man in accordance with his own nature and that of the seasons,time,and place,in
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