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If genitals are not noticed, respected persons, such as father, would die. Absence of thighs invites disease. Absence of legs implies foreign travel and if the whole body is not seen, the person would die immediately.
विद्यया दर्पणाङ्ग ष्ठकुड्यासिष्ववतारिता । विधिना देवता पृष्टा ब्र ते कालस्य निर्णयम् ॥१७३॥ सूर्येन्दुग्रहणे विद्यों नरवीरठवेत्यसो । साध्या दशसहस्त्र्याष्टोत्तरया जपकर्मतः ॥१७४।। अष्टोत्तरसहस्रस्य जापात्कार्यक्षणे पुनः । देवता लीयतेऽस्यादौ ततः कन्याऽऽह निर्णयम् ॥१७५।। सत्साधकगुणाकृष्टा स्वयमेवाथ देवता । त्रिकालविषयं ब्रते निर्णयं गतसंशयम ॥१७६।।
Meaning : A god attracted by the chanting of a mystical mantra, who decends (from heaven)and takes a temporary residence either in the mirror or the nail of the thumb or the wall. He conveyes how long a person is to live when a question to this effect is put to him. On the day of a solar or lunar eclipse the specific mystical mantra "ॐ नरवीरे ठः ठः स्वाहा" (Om Naravire Thah Thah Swaha) should be mastered by repeating it ten thousand and eight times. When one wants to get a work done through it, he should repeat it one thousand and eight times so that the invoked god may come. A virgin should be called to have a look at the mirror, the nail of the thumb, or the wall. When she sees the figure of god in it a question about one's age limit should be put through her. The invoked god will reply through her or the god himself,
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Yoga Shashtra
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