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The primithre in the Arihajästra
of the bones and marrows of that bull which is slaughtered in the funeral rites of a Brahmans is the means of making animals invisible (XIV. 315). The skin of Pracalaka, filled with the ashes of one bitten by a serpent, is the means of making deer invisible (XIV 316). The skin of a serpent, filled with the powder of the tail, the dung and the knee bones of an owl and a flying fox, is the means of making birds invisible (XIV, 1,1") Soporiferous techniques:
In order to make the enemy sleep. the Artha ästra prescribes many magico religious techniques. Thus one who wants to send one's enemy to sleep should fast for thrce days and nights Then on the fourteenth of the dark half of a month, with the moon in conjunction with the Pusva constellation, One should purchase from a Svapăka woman, the scrapings made by Bilakhas. Placing them with Māsa beans, in a basket, one should bury it in an uncrowded cremation ground. Taking it out on the fourteenth of the next fortnight and getting it pounded by a maiden, one should make pills out of it Then wherever one throws one pill after reciting the Mantras over it, there one sends all to sleep The Mantras to be recited in this connection contain obeisances to Asura-beings such as Ball, Sambaran Bhandīra-päka, Naraka, Nikumbha, Kumbna, to authors of smộtis like Närada, Devala etc and contain an expression of the desire that all the persons concerned may go to sleep (XIV 3.19-31). With these same Mantras another soponferous rite can also be performed. Thus one should bury the quill of a por cupine with three black and three white lines in an uncrowded cremation ground. Taking it out on the fourteenth of the next fortnight, wherever one throws it along with ashes from burn ing ground, reciting the Mantras referred to above, one sends all there to sleep (XIV 3 32-33). In the third soporiferous technique one should take similar quill of a porcupine. One should fust for seven days and then on the fourteenth of the dark fortnight offer into the fire sticks of Khadıra accumulating them to one hundred and eight, along with honey and ghee, reciting some Mantras 10 whuch obeisance is paid to Brahmi and all other
