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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[JONE, 1910.
When a grand procession is being celebrated at night, one should cut off the nipples of the adder of a dead cow and burn them in a torch-light flame. A fresh vessel should be plastered in the interior with the paste prepared from these burnt nipples, mixed with the urine of a bull. When this vessel, taken round the village in circumambulation from right to left, is placed below, the whole quantity of the butter produced by all the cows (of the village) will collect itself in the vessel.
On the fourteenth day of the dark half of the month combined with the star of Pushya, one should thrust into the organ of procreation of a dog on heat an iron seal (kataldyasím mudrikám) and take it up when it falls down of itself. When, with this seal in hand, a collection of fruits is called out, it will come of itself (before the magician).
By the power of mantras, druge, and other magical performances, one should protect one's own people and hurt those of the enemy.12
Chapter IV. Remedios against the injuries of one's own army
(Svabalopaghatapratikarah). With regard to remedies against poisons and poisonous compounds applied by an enemy against one's own army or people
When the things that are meant for the king's use, inclusive of the limbs of women, as well as the things of the army are washed in the tepid water prepared from the decoction of éleshmátaki (sebesten or cordia myo), kapi embliga officinalis), madanti (?), danta (ivory), satha (Citron tree), gojigi (gojihud p = elephantophus scaber), visha (aconitum feroa:), patali (bignonia suave olens), bala (lida cardifolia et rombifolia), ayonáka (bignonia indica) Punarnava (?), Sveta (andropogon aciculatum), and tagara (tabernaemontana coronaria), mixed with chandana (sandal) and the blood of adlavriki (jackal), it removes the bad effects of poison.
The mixture prepared from the biles of prishata (red-spotted deer), nakula (mongoose). nilakantha (peacock), and godhá alligator), with charcoal powder (mashirdjt), combined with the sprouts (agra) of sinduvdra (viter trifolia), tagara (tabernæmontana coronaria) udruna) (teriandium indicum), landuliyaka (amaranthus polygamus), and sataparva (convolvulus repens) together with pinditaka (vangueria spinosa) removes the effects of the mixture of madana.
Among the decoctions of the roots of srigala (bignonia indica), vinna (?) madana, sinduvdra (itsu trifolia), tagara (tabernæmontana coronaria), and valli (a creeper ?), any one or all mixed with milk removes, when dronk, the effects of the mixture of madana.
The stinking oil extracted from haidarya (vangueria spinosa) removes madness.
The mixture prepared from priyanga (panic seed) and nakramdla (galedupa arborea) removes, when applied through the nose, leprosy.
The mixture prepared from kushtha (costus), and lodhra (symploous) removes consumption.
The mixture prepared from katuphala (gmelina arborea), draranti (anthericum tuberosum), and vilanga (a kind of seer) removes, when applied through the nose, headache and other diseases of the head,
The application of the mixture prepared from priyangu (panic seed), manjishtha (ribia manjit), tagara (tabernæmontana coronaria), lákshdrasa (the juice or essence of lac) madhuka (P), haridra (turmeric), and kahaudra (honey) to persons who have fallen senseless by being beaten by rope, by falling into water, or by eating poison, or by being whipped, or by falling, resuscitates them.
The proportion of a dose is as much as an aksha (1) to men; twice as much as to cows and horses; and four times as much as to elephants and camels.
A round ball (maņi) prepared from the above mixtare and containing gold (rulma) in its pontre, removes the effects due to any kind of poison.
11 In floka metre.
