Indian Antiquary Vol 43

Author(s): Richard Carnac Temple, Devadatta Ramkrishna Bhandarkar
Publisher: Swati Publications

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY
[APRIL, 1914
Para pizabhaksanakari &c. Sarva dusana pradustana, dc. Sarva yaksa rakeşa graha nam vidhvai sanakari, dec. Sarva para vidya che'danakari, dc. Chatura-sitinâ graha sahasra nai vidhvan, dc. Astavi-sitingin naksatra na i prasadhanakari, dec. Astavi nan mahagraha nai Vidhvani, &c. Raksa rakṣa nam sarva satvansça. O White umbrella-one who issued from the diadem of the Tathagata, the Blessed One ! The greater averter (of harm] the diadem-thunderbolt, The great mother possessing a thousand hands, The great mother with a thousand heads, with millions of eyes of unchanging fire,
The great vast thunderbolt by whom, in the cycles of the three worlds, we ourselves and all living things will become blessed.
The thunderbolt always gaping, possessed of eyes like glittering gold. The white one with the gait of the thunderbolt (and) eyes like the Buddha. The thunderbolt like the light of the sun, holding a thunderbolt like the moon. Learned in all these various [mystic] forms and spells! We beseech thee to protect us and all living beings!
Oin risigana prasasta sarva latha jatosnisa sitâta patre han druri, Stanbhanakari, &c. ... rakṣa mai svaha.
O great averter, the thunderbolt diadem, the White Umbrella-one who issued from the diadem of the blessed Tathagata !
O great owner of a thousand heads and a hundred thousand eyes I thy distinctive name of the Fiery-one' is never changed !
Thy great vast thunderbolt is the terror of the three retinues of kings, of ourselves and the [other] beings!
It is the terror of everyone, the terror of water, of poison, of destructive weapons, of the hosts of foreign armies outside the frontier, of the famine, enemies, descending tongues, of untimely death, earthquakes, meteors !
It is a terror more than the punishment of kings!
It is a terror to the gods and nagas, to lightning, to the Garuda of the skies, to ferocious beasts of prey, the harmful spirits of the gods, the devils of the någas and asuras, the winddust-devils, gandharva [ .. &c. several other classes of spirits are named).
Instead of the pricks of these demons let us obtain happiness.
Feed [us] with wholesome fresh food, with plenteous food, with red amalaka fruit,c2 and meat and the fat of the land !
Feed us with harvests of lifeless animals ! . . [here various foods are specified]. Arrange for us the spells for doing all these things !
Bestow on us by the thunderbolt-dagger63 [favourable conditions) for our grain ! Arrange we beseech thee for this on a vast scale !
Bestow on us by the thunderbolt-dagger the spells necessary for performing these works by the sky-going fairies [dakini], by Brahma, Indra, Narayan, the Garuda and its associates, Mahakala, the troops of [divine) mothers, human skeletons (spectres ?] and vanquishers of dreams, [also] for performing the deeds of a naked ascetic, 64 (Jaina) the deeds of a Buddhist
c2 Myrobalan emblica.
63 P'ur-bus gdab-po.
64 Dge-sbyon gear-bus.