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for vināyakas, oblations of sarja¹⁵⁷² resin.¹⁵⁷³ For each of these classes of beings one should offer one hundred and eight oblations for seven days.

“To enthrall a king,¹⁵⁷⁴ one should offer, at the three junctions of the day for seven days, one hundred and eight oblations of ‘royal’ mustard¹⁵⁷⁵ seeds smeared with sesame oil.

“If one recites the mantra¹⁵⁷⁶ 100,000 times while facing the sun, one will be free from all one’s nonvirtue.

“Propitiation of vidyās.

“One desiring to propitiate any vidyā should fashion, while living on a diet of barley and cow urine, an effigy of her out of an uśīra root. One should worship it with white flowers, offer one hundred and eight oblations of milk, wash the effigy in milk, and offer incense of agalloch incanted one hundred and eight times. The vidyā goddess will be propitiated.¹⁵⁷⁷ With a single utterance of her vidyā, one’s own protection will be effected; with a double utterance, the protection of other beings; with a triple utterance, the protection of substances.

“One desiring to help a vidyā [goddess] who has been broken, crushed, and destroyed¹⁵⁷⁸ by being nailed down with stakes should fashion her effigy out of uśīra root and worship it with white flowers. One should then offer, before the painting of the same¹⁵⁷⁹ Uṣṇīṣarāja, one thousand and eight oblations of ‘royal’ mustard¹⁵⁸⁰ smeared with curds, honey, and ghee. As for the vidyā, she will be freed from the stakes.

“If one knows that the vidyā [formula] has been corrupted by bad people,¹⁵⁸¹ one should write it on birchbark with bezoar [ink] and incant it one hundred and eight times with one’s own mantra. Then, one should offer a large pūjā to the Blessed One¹⁵⁸² and recite [the vidyā] together with the Blessed One¹⁵⁸³ one thousand and eight times. If one goes to sleep right at the place of recitation on a bed of kuśa grass, the vidyā goddess will arrive in one’s dream and tell the missing or superfluous [parts of the vidyā formula].¹⁵⁸⁴

“The sādhana of the lotus.

“If one wants to perform this sādhana, one should fashion a lotus flower out of red sandalwood and offer a large pūjā. After three nights’ fast, one should take the flower with one’s right hand and recite the mantra until the flower emits light. One will then fly up surrounded by a retinue of twenty and become a monarch of vidyādharas.