Book Title: Indian Antiquary Vol 39
Author(s): Richard Carnac Temple
Publisher: Swati Publications

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________________ THE ARTHASASTRA OF CHANAKYA. JUNE, 1910.] The proportion of a dose to bring on the desired deformities in men and animals in the course of a fortnight or a month is as laid down before. Mixtures become very powerful when, in the case of drugs, they are prepared by the process of decoction; and in the case of animals, by the process of making powders; or in all cases by the process of decoction. 167 Whoever is pierced by the arrow prepared from the grains of salmali (bombax heptaphyllum) and viddri (liquorice) reduced to powder and mixed with the powder of milavatsanabha (a kind of poison) and smeared over with the blood of chuchun dari (musk-rat) bites some ten other persons who in their turn bite others. The mixture prepared from the flowers of bhallataks (semecarpus anacardium), jatudhana (?) dhamargava (achyranthes aspera), and bana (sal tree) mixed with the powder of ela (large cardamom), kakshi (red aluminous earth), guggulu (bdellium), and háláhala (a kind of poison) together with the blood of a goat and a man causes biting madness. When half a dharana of this mixture together with flour and oil-cakes is thrown into water of a reservoir measuring a hundred bows in length, it vitiates the whole mass of water; all the fish swallowing or touching this mixture become poisonous; and whoever drinks or touches this water will be poisoned. No sooner does a person condemned. to death pull out from the earth an alligator or iguana (godha) which, with three or five handfuls of both red and white mustard seeds, is entered into the earth than he dies at its sight. When, on the days of the stars of krittiká or bharani and following the method of performing fearful rites, an oblation with a black cobra emitting froth at the shock of lightning or caught hold of by means of the sticks of a tree struck by lightning and perfumed is made into the fire, that fire continues to burn unquenchably. (a) An oblation of honey shall be made into the fire fetched from the house of a blacksmith; of spirituous liquor into the fire brought from the house of vintner; of clarified butter into the fire of a sacrificer (?); (b) of a garland into the fire kept by a sacrificer with one wife; of mustard seeds into the fire kept by an adultrous woman; of curds into the fire kept during the birth of a child; of rice-grain into the fire of a sacrificer; (c) oi flesh into the fire kept by a chandala; of human flesh into the fire burning in cremation grounds; an oblation of the serum of the flesh of a goat and a man shall be made by means of sacrificial ladle into the fire which is made of all the above fires; (d) repeating the mantras addressed to the fire, an oblation of the wooden pieces of rajavṛiksha (cassia fistula) into the same fire. This fire will unquenchably burn deluding the eyes of the enemies.100 Salutation to Aditi, salutation to Anumati, salutation to Sarasvati and salutation to the Sun; oblation to Agni, oblation to soma, oblation to the earth, and oblation to the atmosphere. Chapter II. Wonderful and delusive contrivances (Adbhutotpadanam). A dose of the powder of sirisha (mimosa sirisa), udumbara (glomerous fig-tree), and samt (acacia suma) mixed with clarified butter, renders fasting possible for half a month; the scum prepared from the mixture of the root of kaseruka (a kind of water-creeper), utpala (costus), and sugar-cane mixed with bisa (water-lily), durva (grass), milk, and clarified butter enables a man to fast for a month. 100 and are in floka metro.

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