Kautilya's Arthashastra 14.3: Chapter 3 (Section 178): Deceiving through Occult Practices (cont.)

14.3.1

mārjāroṣṭravṛkavarāhaśvāvidvāgulīnaptṛ.kākolūkānām anyeṣāṃ vā niśācarāṇāṃ sattvānām ekasya dvayor bahūnāṃ vā dakṣiṇāni vāmāni cākṣīṇi gṛhītvā dvidhā cūrṇaṃ kārayet //

HAVING pulled out both the right and the left eye-balls of a cat, camel, wolf, boar, porcupine, váguli (?), naptri (?), crow and owl, or of any one, two, or three, or many of such animals as roam at nights, one should reduce them to two kinds of powder. Whoever anoints his own right eye with the powder of the left eye and his left eye with the powder of the right eye-ball can clearly see things even in pitch dark at night.

14.3.2

tato dakṣiṇaṃ vāmena vāmaṃ dakṣiṇena samabhyajya rātrau tamasi ca paśyati //

14.3.3

ekāmlakaṃ varāhākṣi khadyotaḥ kālaśārivā /
etenābhyaktanayano rātrau rūpāṇi paśyati //

One is the eye of a boar; another is that of a khadyota (fire-fly), or a crow, or a mina bird. Having anointed one's own eyes with the above, one can clearly see things at night.

14.3.4

trirātropoṣitaḥ puṣyeṇa śastrahatasya śūlaprotasya vā puṃsaḥ śiraḥkapāle mṛttikāyāṃ yavān āvāsyāvikṣīreṇa secayet //

Having fasted for three nights, one should, on the day of the star, Pushya, catch hold of the skull of a man who has been killed with a weapon or put to the gallows. Having filled the skull with soil and barley seeds, one should irrigate them with the milk of goats and sheep. Putting on the garland formed of the sprouts of the above barley crop, one can walk invisible to others.

14.3.5

tato yavavirūḍhamālām ābadhya naṣṭacchāyārūpaś carati //

14.3.6

triratropoṣitaḥ puṣyeṇa śvamārjārolūkavāgulīnāṃ dakṣiṇāni vāmāni cākṣīṇi dvidhā cūrṇaṃ kārayet //

Having fasted for three nights and having afterwards pulled out on the day of the star of Pushya both the right and the left eyes of a dog, a cat, an owl, and a váguli (?), one should reduce them to two kinds of powder. Then having anointed one's own eyes with this ointment as usual, one can walk invisible to others.

14.3.7

tato yathāsvam abhyaktākṣo naṣṭacchāyārūpaś carati //

14.3.8

trirātropoṣitaḥ puṣyeṇa puruṣaghātinaḥ kāṇḍakasya śalākām añjanīṃ ca kārayet //

Having fasted for three nights, one should, on the day of the star of Pushya, prepare a round-headed pin (saláká) from the branch of purushagháti (punnága tree). Then having filled with ointment (anjana) the skull of any of the animals which roam at nights, and having inserted that skull in the organ of procreation of a dead woman, one should burn it. Having taken it out on the day of the star of Pushya and having anointed one's own eyes with that ointment, one can walk invisible to others.

14.3.9

tato anyatamenākṣicūrṇenābhyaktākṣo naṣṭacchāyārūpaś carati //

14.3.10

trirātropoṣitaḥ puṣyeṇa kālāyasīm añjanīṃ śalākāṃ ca kārayet //

14.3.11

tato niśācarāṇāṃ sattvānām anyatamasya śiraḥkapālam añjanena pūrayitvā mṛtāyāḥ striyā yonau praveśya dāhayet //

14.3.12

tad añjanaṃ puṣyeṇoddhṛtya tasyām añjanyāṃ nidadhyāt //

14.3.13

tenābhyaktākṣo naṣṭachāyārūpaś carati //

14.3.14

yatra brāhmaṇam āhitāgniṃ dagdhaṃ dahyamānaṃ vā paśyet tatra trirātropoṣitaḥ puṣyeṇa svayaṃmṛtasya vāsasā prasevaṃ kṛtvā citābhasmanā pūrayitvā tam ābadhya naṣṭacchāyārūpaś carati //

Wherever one may happen to see the corpse burnt or just being burnt of a Bráhman who kept sacrificial fire (while alive), there one should fast for three nights; and having on the day of the star of Pushya formed a sack from the garment of the corpse of a man who has died from natural causes, and having filled the sack with the ashes of the Bráhman's corpse, one may put on the sack on one's back, and walk invisible to others.

14.3.15

brāhmaṇasya pretakārye yo gaur māryate tasyāsthimajjacūrṇapūrṇāhibhastrā paśūnām antardhānam //

The slough of a snake filled with the powder of the bones and marrow or fat of the cow sacrificed during the funeral rites of a Bráhman, can, when put on the back of cattle, render them invisible.

14.3.16

sarpadaṣṭasya bhasmanā pūrṇā pracalākabhastrā mṛgāṇām antardhānam //

The slough of prachaláka (a bird?) filled with the ashes of the corpse of a man dead from snake-bite, can render beasts (mriga) invisible.

14.3.17

ulūkavāgulīpucchapurīṣajānvasthicūrṇapūrṇā^ahibhastrā pakṣiṇām antardhānam //

The slough of a snake (ahi) filled with the powder of the bone of the knee-joint mixed with that of the tail and dung (purísha) of an owl and a váguli (?), can render birds invisible.

14.3.18

ity aṣṭāv antardhānayogaḥ //

Such are the eight kinds of the contrivances causing invisibility.

14.3.19

"baliṃ vairocanaṃ vande śatamāyaṃ ca śambaram /
bhaṇḍīrapākaṃ narakaṃ nikumbhaṃ kumbham eva ca //

I bow to Bali, son of Virochana; to Sambara acquainted with a hundred kinds of magic; to Bhandírapáka, Naraka, Nikumbha, and Kumbha.

14.3.20

devalaṃ nāradaṃ vande vande sāvarṇigālavam /
eteṣām anuyogena kṛtaṃ te svāpanaṃ mahat //

I bow to Devala and Nárada; I bow to Sávarnigálava; with the permission of these I cause deep slumber to thee.

14.3.21

yathā svapanty ajagarāḥ svapanty api camūkhalāḥ /
tathā svapantu puruṣā ye ca grāme kutūhalāḥ //

Just as the snakes, known as ajagara (boa-constrictor) fall into deep slumber, so may the rogues of the army who are very anxious to keep watch over the village;

14.3.22

bhaṇḍakānāṃ sahasreṇa rathanemiśatena ca /
imaṃ gṛhaṃ pravekṣyāmi tūṣṇīm āsantu bhāṇḍakāḥ //

With their thousands of dogs (bhandaka) and hundreds of ruddy geese and donkeys, fall into deep slumber; I shall enter this house, and may the dogs be quiet.

14.3.23

namaskṛtvā ca manave baddhvā śunakaphelakāḥ /
ye devā devalokeṣu mānuṣeṣu ca brāhmaṇāḥ //

Having bowed to Manu, and having tethered the roguish dogs (sunakaphelaka), and having also bowed to those gods who are in heaven, and to Bráhmans among mankind;

14.3.24

adhyayanapāragāḥ siddhā ye ca kaulāsa tāpasāḥ /
etebhyaḥ sarvasiddhebhyaḥ kṛtaṃ te svāpanaṃ mahat //

To those who are well versed in their Vedic studies, those who have attained to Kailása (a mountain of god Siva) by observing penance, and to all prophets, I do cause deep slumber to thee.

14.3.25

atigacchanti ca mayy apagacchantu saṃhatāḥ //

The fan (chamari) comes out; may all combinations retire. Oblation to Manu, O Aliti and Paliti.

14.3.26

alite, valite, manave svāhā //

14.3.27

etasya prayogaḥ //

The application of the above mantra is as follows:--

14.3.28

trirātropoṣitaḥ kṛṣṇacaturdaśyāṃ puṣyayoginyāṃ śvapākīhastād vilakhāvalekhanaṃ krīṇīyāt //

Having fasted for three nights, one should, on the fourteenth day of the dark half of the month, the day being assigned to the star of Pushya, purchase from a low-caste woman (svapáki) vilikhávalekhana (finger nails?). Having kept them in a basket (kandolika), one should bury them apart in cremation grounds. Having unearthed them on the next fourteenth day, one should reduce them to a paste with kumári (aloe?) and prepare small pills out of the paste. Wherever one of the pills is thrown, chanting the above mantra, there the whole animal life falls into deep slumber.

14.3.29

tanmāṣaiḥ saha kaṇḍolikāyāṃ kṛtvāsaṃkīrṇa ādahane nikhānayet //

14.3.30

dvitīyasyāṃ caturdaśyām uddhṛtya kumāryā peṣayitvā gulikāḥ kārayet //

14.3.31

tata ekāṃ gulikām abhimantrayitvā yatraitana mantreṇa kṣipati tat sarvaṃ prasvāpayati //

14.3.32

etenaiva kalpena śvāvidhaḥ śalyakaṃ trikālaṃ triśvetam asaṃkīrṇa ādahane nikhānayet //

Following the same procedure, one should separately bury in cremation grounds three white and three black dart-like hairs (salyaka) of a porcupine. When, having on the next fourteenth day taken them out, one throws them together with the ashes of a burnt corpse, chanting the above mantra, the whole animal life in that place falls into deep slumber.

14.3.33

dvitīyasyāṃ caturdaśyām uddhṛtyādahanabhasmanā saha yatraitena mantreṇa kṣipati tat sarvaṃ prasvāpayati //

14.3.34

"suvarṇapuṣpīṃ brahmāṇīṃ brahmāṇaṃ ca kuśadhvajam /
sarvāś ca devatā vande vande sarvāṃś ca tāpasān //

I bow to the goddess Suvarnapushpi and to Brahmáni, to the god Bráhma, and to Kusadhvaja; I bow to all serpents and goddesses; I bow to all ascetics.

14.3.35

vaśaṃ me brāhmaṇā yāntu bhūmipālāś ca kṣatriyāḥ /
vaśaṃ vaiśyāś ca śūdrāś ca vaśatāṃ yāntu me sadā //

May all Bráhmans and Kshattriyas come under my power; may all Vaisyas and, Súdras be at my beck and call,

14.3.36

svāhā - amile kimile vayucāre prayoge phakke vayuhve vihāle dantakaṭake svāhā //

Oblation to thee, O, Amile, Kimile, Vayujáre, Prayoge, Phake, Kavayusve, Vihále, and Dantakatake, oblation to thee.

14.3.37

sukhaṃ svapantu śunakā ye ca grāme kutūhalāḥ /
śvāvidhaḥ śalyakaṃ caitat triśvetaṃ brahmanirmitam //

May the dogs which are anxiously keeping watch over the village fall into deep and happy slumber; these three white dart-like hairs of the porcupine are the creation of Bráhma.

14.3.38

prasuptāḥ sarvasiddhā hi etat te svāpanaṃ kṛtam /
yāvad grāmasya sīmāntaḥ sūryasyodgamanād iti //

All prophets (siddha) have fallen into deep slumber. I do cause sleep to the whole village as far as its boundary till the sun rises. Oblation!

14.3.39

svāhā" //

14.3.40

etasya prayogaḥ //

The application of the above mantra is as follows:--

14.3.41

śvāvidhaḥ śalyakāni triśvetāni, saptarātropoṣitaḥ kṛṣṇacaturdaśyāṃ khādirābhiḥ samidhāmir(?) agnim etena mantreṇāṣṭaśatasampātaṃ kṛtvā madhughṛtābhyām abhijuhuyāt //

When a man, having fasted for seven nights and secured three white dart-like hairs of a porcupine, makes on the fourteenth day of the dark half of the month oblations into the fire with 108 pieces of the sacrificial fire-wood of khadira (mimosa catechu) and other trees together with honey and clarified butter chanting the above mantra, and when, chanting the same mantra, he buries one of the hairs at the entrance of either a village or a house within it, he causes the whole animal life therein to fall into deep slumber.

14.3.42

tata ekam etena mantreṇa grāmadvāri gṛhadvāri vā yatra nikhanyate tat sarvaṃ prasvāpayati //

14.3.43

"baliṃ vairocanaṃ vande śatamāyaṃ ca śambaram /
nikumbhaṃ narakaṃ kumbhaṃ tantukacchaṃ mahāsuram //

I bow to Bali, the son of Vairochana, to S'atamáya, S'ambara, Nikumbha, Naraka, Kumbha, Tantukachchha, the great demon;

14.3.44

armālavaṃ pramīlaṃ ca maṇḍolūkaṃ ghaṭobalam /
kṛṣṇakaṃsopacāraṃ ca paulomīṃ ca yaśasvinīm //

To Armálava, Pramíla, Mandolúka, Ghatodbala, to Krishna with his followers, and to the famous woman, Paulomi.

14.3.45

abhimantrayitvā gṛhṇāmi siddhyarthaṃ śavaśārikām /
jayatu jayati ca namaḥ śalakabhūtebhyaḥ svāhā //

Chanting the sacred mantras, I do take the pith or the bone of the corpse (savasárika) productive of my desired ends--may S'alaka demons be victorious; salutation to them; oblation!--May the dogs which are anxiously keeping watch over the village fall into deep and happy slumber.

14.3.46

sukhaṃ svapantu śunakā ye ca grāme kutūhalāḥ /
sukhaṃ svapantu siddhārthā yam arthaṃ mārgayāmahe /
yāvad astam ayād udayo yāvad arthaṃ phalaṃ mama //

May all prophets (siddhártháh) fall into happy sleep about the object which we are seeking from sunset to sunrise and till the attainment of my desired end. Oblation!

14.3.47

iti svāhā //

14.3.48

etasya prayogaḥ //

The application of the above mantra is as follows:--

14.3.49

caturbhaktopavāsī kṛṣṇacaturdaśyām asaṃkīrṇa ādahane baliṃ kṛtvaitena mantreṇa śavaśārikāṃ gṛhītvā pautrīpoṭṭalikaṃ badhnīyāt //

Having fasted for four nights and having on the fourteenth day of the dark half of the month performed animal sacrifice (bali) in cremation grounds, one should, repeating the above mantra, collect the pith of a corpse (savasárika) and keep it in a basket made of leaves (pattrapauttaliká). When this basket, being pierced in the centre by a dart-like hair of a porcupine, is buried, chanting the above mantra, the whole animal life therein falls into deep slumber.

14.3.50

tanmadhye śvāvidhaḥ śalyakena viddhvā yatraitena mantreṇa nikhanyate tat sarvaṃ prasvāpayati //

14.3.51

"upaimi śaraṇaṃ cāgniṃ daivatāni diśo daśa /
apayāntu ca sarvāṇi vaśatāṃ yāntu me sadā //

I take refuge with the god of fire and with all the goddesses in the ten quarters; may all obstructions vanish and may all things come under my power. Oblation.

14.3.52

svāhā" //

14.3.53

etasya prayogaḥ //

The application of the above mantra is as follows:--

14.3.54

trirātroposṣitaḥ puṣyeṇa śarkarā ekaviṃśatisampātaṃ kṛtvā madhughṛtābhyām abhijuhuyāt //

Having fasted for three nights and having on the day of the star of Pushya prepared twenty-one pieces of sugar-candy, one should make oblation into the fire with honey and clarified butter; and having worshipped the pieces of sugar-candy with scents and garlands of flowers, one should bury them. When, having on the next day of the star of Pushya unearthed the pieces of sugar-candy, and chanting the above mantra, one strikes the door-panel of a house with one piece and throws four pieces in the interior, the door will open itself.

14.3.55

tato gandhamālyena pūjayitvā nikhānayet //

14.3.56

dvitīyena puṣyeṇoddhṛtyaikāṃ śarkarām abhimantrayitvā kapāṭam āhanyāt //

14.3.57

abhyantarm catasṛṇāṃ śarkarāṇāṃ dvāram apāvriyate //

14.3.58

caturbhaktopavāsī kṛṣṇacaturdaśyāṃ bhagnasya puruṣasyāsthnā ṛṣabhaṃ kārayet, abhimantrayec caitena //

Having fasted for four nights, one should on the fourteenth day of the dark half of the month get a figure of a bull prepared from the bone of a man, and worship it, repeating the above mantra. Then a cart drawn by two bulls will be brought before the worshipper who can (mount it and) drive in the sky and tell all that is connected with the sun and other planets of the sky.

14.3.59

dvigoyuktaṃ goyānam āhṛtaṃ bhavati //

14.3.60

tataḥ paramākāśe virāmati //

14.3.61

ravisagandhaḥ parighamati sarvaṃ pṛṇāti //

14.3.62

"caṇḍālīkumbhītumbakaṭukasāraughaḥ sanārībhago 'si - svāhā //

O, Chandáli Kumbhi, Tumba Katuka, and Sárigha, thou art possessed of the bhaga of a woman, oblation to thee.

14.3.63

tālodghāṭanaṃ prasvāpanaṃ ca //

When this mantra is repeated, the door will open and the inmates fall into sleep.

14.3.64

trirātropoṣitaḥ puṣyeṇa śastrahatasya śūlaprotasya vā puṃsaḥ śiraḥkapāle mṛttikāyāṃ tuvarīrāvāsyodakena secayet //(?)

Having fasted for three nights, one should on the day of the star of Pushya fill with soil the skull of a man killed with weapons or put to the gallows, and, planting in it valli (vallari?) plants, should irrigate them with water. Having taken up the grown-up plants on the next day of the star of Pushya (i.e., after 27 days), one should manufacture a rope from them. When this rope is cut into two pieces before a drawn bow or any other shooting machine, the string of those machines will be suddenly cut into two pieces.

14.3.65

jātānāṃ puṣyeṇaiva gṛhītvā rajjukāṃ vartayet //

14.3.66

tataḥ sajyānāṃ dhanuṣāṃ yantrāṇāṃ ca purastāc chedanaṃ jyācchedanaṃ karoti //

14.3.67

udakāhibhastrām ucchvāsamṛttikayā striyāḥ puruṣasya vā pūrayet, nāsikābandhanaṃ mukhagrahaś ca //

When the slough of a water-snake (udakáhi) is filled with the breathed-out dirt (uchchhvásamrittika?) of a man or woman (and is held before the face and nose of any person), it causes those organs to swell.

14.3.68

varāhabhastrām ucchvāsamṛttikayā pūrayitvā markaṭasnāyunāvabadhnīyāt, ānāhakāraṇam //

When the sack-like skin of the abdomen of a dog or a boar is filled with the breathed-out dirt (uchchhvásamrittika) of a man or woman and is bound (to the body of a man) with the ligaments of a monkey, it causes the man's body to grow in width and length (ánáha),

14.3.69

kṛṣṇacaturdaśyāṃ śastrahatāyā goḥ kapilāyāḥ pittena rājavṛkṣamayīm amitrapratimām añjyāt, andhīkaraṇam //

When the figure of an enemy carved out of rájavriksha (cassia fistula) is besmeared with the bile of a brown cow killed with a weapon on the fourteenth day of the dark half of the month, it causes blindness (to the enemy).

14.3.70

caturbhaktopavāsī kṛṣṇacaturdaśyāṃ baliṃ kṛtvā śūlaprotasya puruṣasyāsthnā kīlakān kārayet //

Having fasted for four nights and offered animal sacrifice (bali) on the fourteenth day of the dark half of the month, one should get a few bolt-like pieces prepared from the bone of a man put to the gallows. When one of these pieces is put in the feces or urine (of an enemy), it causes (his) body to grow in size (ánáha); and when the same piece is buried under the feet or seat (of an enemy), it causes death by consumption; and when it is buried in the shop, fields, or the house (of an enemy), it causes him loss of livelihood.

14.3.71

eteṣām ekaḥ purīṣe mūtre vā nikhāta ānāhaṃ karoti, pade 'syāsane vā nikhātaḥ śoṣeṇa mārayati, āpaṇe kṣetre gṛhe vā vṛtticchedaṃ karoti //

14.3.72

etenaiva kalpena vidyuddagdhasya vṛkṣasya kīlakā vyākhyātāḥ //

The same process of smearing and burying holds good with the bolt-like pieces (kílaka) prepared from vidyuddanda tree.

14.3.73

punar navam avācīnaṃ nimbaḥ kāmamadhuś ca yaḥ /
kapiroma manuṣyāsthi baddhvā mṛtakavāsasā //

When the nail of the little finger (punarnavam aváchínam?) nimba (nimba melia), káma (bdellium), madhu (celtis orientalis), the hair of a monkey, and the bone of a man, all wound round with the garment of a dead man.

14.3.74

nikhanyate gṛhe yasya dṛṣṭvā vā yat padaṃ nayet /
saputradāraḥ sadhanastrīn pakṣān nātivartate //

Is buried in the house of, or is trodden down by, a man, that man with his wife, children and wealth will not survive three fortnights.

14.3.75

punar navam avācīnaṃ nimbaḥ kāmamadhuś ca yaḥ /
svayaṃguptā manuṣyāsthi pade yasya nikhanyate //

When the nail of the little finger, nimba (nimba melia), káma (bdellium), madhu (celtis orientalis), and the bone of a man dead from natural causes are buried under the feet of,

14.3.76

dvāre gṛhasya senāyā grāmasya nagarasya vā /
saputradāraḥ sadhanastrīn pakṣān nātivartate //

Or near the house of, a man or in the vicinity of the camp of an army, of a village, or of a city, that man (or the body of men) with wife, children, and wealth will not survive three fortnights.

14.3.77

ajamarkaṭaromāṇi mārjāranakulasya ca /
brāhmaṇānāṃ śvapākānāṃ kākolūkasya cāharet /
etena viṣṭhāvakṣuṇṇā sadya utsādakārikā //

When the hair of a sheep and a monkey, of a cat and mongoose, of Bráhmans, of low-caste men (svapáka), and of a crow and an owl is collected,

And is made into a paste with fæces (vishtávakshunna), its application brings on instantaneous death. When a flower garland of a dead body, the ferment derived from burning corpse, the hair of a mangoose,

14.3.78

pretanirmālikā kiṇvaṃ romāṇi nakulasya ca /
vṛścikāly(?).ahikṛttiś ca pade yasya nikhanyate /
bhavaty apuruṣaḥ sadyo yāvat tan nāpanīyate //

And the skin of scorpion, a bee, and a snake are buried under the feet of a man, that man will lose all human appearance so long as they are not removed.

14.3.79

trirātropoṣitaḥ puṣyeṇa śastrahatasya śūlaprotasya vā puṃsaḥ śiraḥkapāle mṛttikāyāṃ guñjā āvāsyodakena secayet //

Having fasted for three nights and having on the day of the star of Pushya planted gunja seeds in the skull, filled with soil, of a man killed with weapons or put to the gallows, one should irrigate it with water. On the new or full moon day with the star of Pushya, one should take out the plants when grown, and prepare out of them circular pedestals (mandaliká). When vessels containing food and water are placed on these pedestals, the food stuffs will never decrease in quantity.

14.3.80

jātānām amāvāsyāyāṃ paurṇamāsyāṃ vā puṣyayoginyāṃ guñjavallīr grāhayitvā maṇḍalikāni kārayet //

14.3.81

teṣv annapānabhājanāni nyastāni na kṣīyante //

14.3.82

rātriprekṣāyāṃ pravṛttāyāṃ pradīpāgniṣu mṛtadhenoḥ stanān utkṛtya dāhayet //

When a grand procession is being celebrated at night, one should cut off the nipples of the udder of a dead cow and burn them in a torch-light flame. A fresh vessel should be plastered in the interior with the paste prepared from these burnt nipples, mixed with the urine of a bull. When this vessel, taken round the village in circumambulation from right to left, is placed below, the whole quantity of the butter produced by all the cows (of the village) will collect itself in the vessel.

14.3.83

dagdhān vṛṣamūtreṇa peṣayitvā navakumbham antarlepayet //

14.3.84

taṃ grāmam apasavyaṃ pariṇīya yat tatra nyastaṃ navanītam eṣāṃ tat sarvam āgacchati //

14.3.85

kṛṣṇacaturdaśyāṃ puṣyayoginyāṃ śuno lagnakasya yonau kālāyasīṃ mudrikāṃ preṣayet //
tāṃ svayaṃ patitāṃ gṛhṇīyāt //

On the fourteenth day of the dark half of the month combined with the star of Pushya, one should thrust into the organ of procreation of a dog or heat an iron seal (kataláyasam mudrikam) and take it up when it falls down of itself. When, with this seal in hand, a collection of fruits is called out, it will come of itself (before the magician).

14.3.87

tayā vṛkṣaphalāny ākāritāny āgacchanti //

14.3.88

mantrabhaiṣajyasamyuktā yogā māyākṛtāś ca ye /
upahanyād amitrāṃs taiḥ svajanaṃ cābhipālayet //E

By the power of mantras, drugs, and other magical performances, one should protect one's own people and hurt those of the enemy.