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SANNYASA DHARMA
(v) the biroşadhi riddhi, where the excrement
if touched will cure disease, (vi) the sarvosadhi riddhi, where the wind
even that has touched the body of the saint become endowed with the curative
virtue, (vii) the asyābisa şiddhi, the power to remain unaffected by poisons, *
and (viii) the dristyābişa şiddhi, where a mere . . glance suffices to destroy the effectivity
of a poison, * 7. Rasa riddhi, which is the acquisition of the miraculous power of saving and destroying life by a mere word or look or wish, and includes the power to multiply articles of foods so as to be able to gratify large assemblages of men. This riddhi comprises the following types, namely,
(i) the asyā bisa riddhi, destroying with a
word, * (ii) the drişti bisa riddhi, destroying with a
mere look, * (iii) the kshirūsrāvi riddhi transforms ordin.
ary foods into strengthening ones, as if they contained milk, and also has the power to impart to mere words the strengthening virtues of milk, so that eyen emaciated persons are nourished thereby;
* It would seem that the, āsyābisa and the dristyūbisa riddhis have each two aspects, the curative and the destructive, which entitlethem to be enumerated under two different heads.
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