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JUNE, 1910.)
THE ARTHASASTRA OF CHANAKYA.
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Book XIV. Secret Means ( Aupanishadikam).
Chapter I. Means to injure an enemy (Paraghata prayogan). In order to protect the Institution of the four castes, ench measures as are treated of in Bécret science shall be applied against the wicked. Through the instrumentality of such men or women of Mlechchha class as can put on disgaises appropriate to different countries, arts, or professions, or as can put on the appearance of a hump-backed, dwarfish, or short-sized person, or of a dumb, deaf, idiot, or blind person, kalakuta and other manifold poisons should be administered in the diet and other physical enjoyments of the wicked, Spies lying in wait or living as inmates (in the same house) may make use of weapons on occasions of royal sports or musical and other entertainments. Spies, under the disguise of night-walkers (ratrichári) or of fire-keepers (agni-jiri) may set fire (to the houses of the wicked).
The powder (prepared from the cárcass) of animals such as chitra (?), bheka (frog), kaundinyaka (1), korikana (perdix sylvatika), panchakushtha (?), and satapadi (centepede); or of animals . such as uchchisinga (crab), kambali (1), krikaldsa (lizard) with the powder of the bark of satakanda
(Phyalis Flexuosa); or of animals such as grihagaulika (a small house-lizard), andhdhika (a blind snake), krakanthaka (a kind of partridge), pútikita (a stinking insect), and gomarika (?) combined with the juice of bhattátaka (Semecarpus Anacardium), and valgaka ();-the smoke (ased by burning the above powders causes instantaneous death.
Any of the above) insects may be heated with a black snake and priyangu (panic seed) and reduced to powder. This mixture, when barnt, causes instantaneous death.1
The powder prepared from the roots of dhåmárgava (luffa foetida) and yátudhana () mixed with the powder of the flower of bhallataka (semecarpus anacardium) causes, when administered, death in the course of half a month. The root of vydghdta (cassia fistula) reduced to powder with the flower of bhallataka (semecarpus anacardium) mixed with the essence of an ingect (kita) causes, when administered, death in the course of a month.
As much as a kalâ (th of a tola) to men ; twice as much to mules and horses; and four times as much to elephants and camels.
The smoke caused by burning the powder of batakardama (?) uchohifinga (crab), kararla (nerium odorum), katutumbi (a kind of bitter gourd), and fish together with the chaff of the grains of madana (1) and Kodrava (paspalan scrobiculatum), or with the chaff of the seeds of hastikarna (castor oil tree) and paldsa (butea frondosa) destroys animal life as far as it is carried off by the wind.
The smoke caused by burning the powder of pútiketa (a stinking insect), fish katutumbi (a kind of bitter gourd), the bark of Satakardama (?), and indragopa (the insect cochineal), or the powder of pútikita, kshudr drdla (the resin of the plant, shorea robusta), and hemaviddri (?) mixed with the powder of the hoof and horn of a goat causes blindness.
The smoke caused by burning the leaves of piti karanja (guilandina bonducella), yellow arsenic, realgar, the seeds of gunja (abrus precatorius), the chaff of the seeds of red cotton, dspota (a plant, careya arborea), kacha (salt ?), and the dung and urine of a cow causes-blindness.
The smoke caused by burning the skin of a snake, the dung of a cow and a horse, and the head of a blind snake causes blindness.
- This is in sloka metro.
