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may transgress it; it cannot be assailed by any spirit; it constitutes the auspiciousness of all the buddhas; it makes all mantras effective; it is the master of the worlds; it is the lord of all the lords of wealth;⁶⁸⁴ it is the love for all those who hate; it awakens the compassion of all beings; and it is the remover of all obstacles. In short, whatever it is employed in, that very thing it will accomplish. It can perform tasks even when it is not fully mastered.

“Whomever one touches while reciting this mantra⁶⁸⁵ will become enthralled. If one wears incanted clothes, one will obtain good fortune. If one bites an incanted tooth stick, one will get rid of a toothache. If one bites an incanted tooth stick from the white oleander tree,⁶⁸⁶ food will be found without one’s having to ask for it.

“If one has eye pain, one should grind sea salt, incant it seven times, and apply it to the eye. This will remove the pain. If one has an earache, one should take a mushroom⁶⁸⁷ that has grown in elephant dung while it thundered, wrap it in a leaf of kedhuka, and cook it over a low fire until it is well cooked. Having then added a lukewarm solution of sea salt, one should incant the decoction seven times and pour it into the ear.⁶⁸⁸ The pain will be assuaged at that moment.

“If, at the time of giving birth, a woman is having a difficult delivery and is overcome with pain, one should grind the root of Malabar nut with water that is free of living organisms and smear it over the navel area.⁶⁸⁹ She will give birth with ease. If a person with a splinter in his flesh⁶⁹⁰ drinks old ghee incanted one hundred and eight times, or smears it over the affected area, the splinter will come out.

“In the case of indigestion with vomiting and dysentery,⁶⁹¹ one should incant seven times some sochal salt, sea salt, or other type of salt, and eat it. One will be free from this disease the same day and will become well. In the case of the twofold dysentery or a sudden dysentery,⁶⁹² one should mash the fruits⁶⁹³ of citron⁶⁹⁴ with water that is free of living organisms and has been incanted once or more.⁶⁹⁵