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one should bring fire from a blacksmith and offer honey in it; wine in the fire from a vintner, ghee in the fire from the roads, garland-flowers in fire from a woman devoted to her husband, mustard seeds in the fire from a harlot, curds in the fire from a woman in confinement, rice in the fire from one who has kept sacrificial fires, meat in the fire from a Cândāla and human flesh in the fire from a funeral pyre Then he should mix all these fires together and offer fat of a goat and up of nose of a man and faggots of Rājavfkşa, with Mantras in honour of Agni. At this time obeisance is paid to Aditi, Anumati, Sarasvati, Savitr, etc. This fire then confounds the eyes of enemles without there being any iemedy against it (XIV 1 35-39) In the Arthaśāstra of Kautilya there are many other magico-religious sorceries for creating physical troubles or diseases to the enemy.Thus one should fill the skin of water-soake with the earth into which a woman or man has breathed This is a means of blocking the nostrils and choking the mouth (XIV 3 67). Filling the skin of a boar with breathed - in earth, one should tie it with a-monkey's tendons By means of this one causes suppression of urine and stools of the enemy (XIV 3 68). On the fourteenth of the dark fortnight, one should anoint the eyes of an effigy of the enemy made out of Rājavřkşa-wood with the bile of a tawny--coloured cow killed with a weapon. This is a means of making the enemy blind (XIV 369) One who has fasted for four meals, should make an offering on the fourteenth of the dark fortight and make pios out of the bones of a man impaled on the stake. One of these planted in the dung or urine of an enemy, causes suppression of stools and urine, planted in his foot-step oi seat, it kills him by consumption, planted in his shop, field or house it destroys the course of his livelihood (XIV.3 70,71). If one uses the wedges made out of a tree burnt by lightning then also similar effects can be produced XIV 3.72) He in whose house, the Punarnava turned downwards che Nimba and the Kāmamadhu, the hair of a monkey, and the bone of a human being, tied up in the garment of a corpse, are buried, or to whose foot-step one takes it after seeing it,
