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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[JUNE, 1910.
(0) May the dogs which are anxiously keeping watch over the village fall into deep and happy slumber; these three white dart-like hairs of the porcupine are the creation of Brahma,
(d) All prophets (siddha) have fallen into deep slumber. I do cause sleep to the whole village as far as its boundary till the sun rises.8 Oblation!
The application of the above mantra is as follows:
When a man, having fasted for seven nights and secured three white dart-like hairs of a porcupine, makes on the fourteenth day of the dark half of the month oblations into the fire with 108 pieces of the sacrificial fire-wood of khadira (mimosa catechu) and other trees together with honey and clarified butter chanting the above mantra, and when, chanting the same mantra, he buries one of the hairs at the entrance of either a village or a house within it, he causes the whole animal life therein to fall into deep slumber.
(a) I bow to Bali, the son of Vairochana, to Satamâya, Sambara, Nikumbha, Naraka, Kumbha, Tantukachchha, the great demon;
(6) To Armâlava, Pramila, Mandolaka, Ghatodbala, to Krishna with his followers, and to the famous woman, Paulom!.
(c) Chanting the sacred mantras, I do take the pith or the bone of the corpse (savasariká productive of my desired ends-may Salaka demons be victorious; salutation to them; oblation!May the dogs which are anxiously keeping watch over the village fall into deep and happy slumber.
(d) May all prophets (siddharthâh) fall into happy sleep about the object which we are seeking from sunset to sunrise and till the attainment of my desired end. Oblation!
The application of the above mantra is as follows:
Having fasted for four nights and having on the fourteenth day of the dark half of the month performed animal sacrifice (bali) in cremation grounds, one should, repeating the above mantra, collect the pith of a corpse (savasarika) and keep it in a basket made of leaves (pattrapau!!aliku). When this basket, being pierced in the centre by a dart-like hair of a porcupine, is buried, chanting the above mantra, the whole animal life therein falls into deep slumber.
I take refuge with the god of fire and with all the goddesses in the ten quarters; may all obstructions vanish and may all things come under my power.10 Oblation!
The application of the above mantra is as follows:
Having fasted for three nights and having on the day of the star of Pushya prepared twentyone pieces of sugar-candy, one should make oblation into the fire with honey and clarified butter; and having worshipped the pieces of sugar-candy with scents and garlands of flowers, one should bury them. When, having on the next day of the star of Pushya unearthed the pieces of sugar-candy, and chanting the above mantra, one strikes the door-panel of a house with one piece and throws four pieces in the interior, the door will open itself.
Having fasted for four nights, one should on the fourteenth day of the dark half of the month get a figure of a bull prepared from the bone of a man, and worship it, repeating the above mantra. Then a cart drawn by two bulls will be brought before the worshipper who can (mount it and) drive in the sky and tell all that is connected with the sun and other planets of the sky.
O, Chandali, Kumbhi, Tamba Katuks, and Sârigha, thou art possessed of the bhaga of woman, oblation to thee,
When this mantra is repeated, the door will open and the inmates fall into sleep,
• c and d are in floka metre.
a-d are in sloka metre.
10 In floka metro,
