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THE ARTHASASTRA OF CHANAKYA.
JUNE, 1910.)
173
Having fasted for three nights, one should on the day of the star of Pushya fill with soil the skull of a man killed with weapons or put to the gallows, and, planting in it valli (vallari ?) plants, should irrigate them with water. Having taken up the grown-up plants on the next day of the star of Pushya i.e., after 27 days), one should manufacture a rope from them. When this rope is cut into two pieces before a drawn bow or any other shooting machine, the string of those machines will be suddenly cut into two pieces.
When the slough of a water-snake (udaldhi) is filled with the breathed out dirt (uchchhvásamrittika 1) of a man or woman and is held before the face and nose of any person), it causes those organs to swell.
When the sack-like skin of the abdomen of a dog or a boar is filled with the breathed-out dirt (uchchhvdsanittikd) of a man or woman and is bound to the body of a man) with the ligaments of a monkey, it causes the man's body to grow in width and length (ancha).
When the figure of an enemy carved out of rajarriksha (cassia fistula) is besmeared with the bile of a brown cow killed with a weapon on the fourteenth day of the dark half of the month, it causes blindness to the enemy).
Having fasted for four nights and offered animal sacrifice (bali) on the fourteenth day of the dark half of the month, one should get a few bolt-like pieces prepared from the bone of a man put to the gallows. When one of these pieces is put in the fæces or urine (of an enemy), it causes (his) body to grow in size (andha); and when the same piece is buried under the feet or seat (of an enemy), it causes death by consumption; and when it is buried in the shop, fields, or the house of an enemy), it causes him loss of livelihood.
The same process of smearing and burying holde good with the bolt-like pieces (kilaka) prepared from vidyuddanda tree.
(a) When the nail of the little finger (púnarnavam ardchinam) ? nimba (mimba melia), kúma (bdellium), madhu (celtis orientalis), the bair of a monkey, and the bone of a man, all wound round with the garment of a dead man
(6) is buried in the house of, or is trodden down by, a man, that man with his wife, children and wealth will not survive three fortnights.
(6) When the nail of the little finger, nimba (nimba melia), kama (bdelliun) madhu (celtis orientalis), and the bone of a man dead from natural causes are buried under the feet of,
(d) or near the house of, a man or in the vicinity of the camp of an army, of a vil'age, or of a city, that man (or the body of man) with wife, children, and wealth will not survive three fortnights.
e) When the hair of a sheep and a monkey, of a cat and mangoose, of Brâhmans, of low-caste men (ávap dka), and of a crow and an owl is collected,
(S) and is made into a paste with fæces (vishtávakshunny), its application brings on instantaneous death. When a flower garland of a dead body, the ferment derived from burning corpse, the hair of a mangoose,
(9) and the skin of scorpion, a bee, and a snake are buried under the feet of a man that man will lose all human appearance so long as they are not removed.11
Having fasted for three nights and having on the day of the star of Pushya planted gunja seeds in the skull, filled with soil, of a man killed with weapons or put to the gallows, one should irrigate it with water. On the new or full moon day with the star of Pusbya, one should take out the plants when grown, and prepare out of them circular pedestals (mandalikd). When vessels containing food and water are placed on these pedestals, the food stuffs will never decrease in quantity.
11 - aro in sloka metre.
