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Kautilya's Arthashastra 14.3.77

Kauṭilīya Arthaśāstra 14.3.77

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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,

R. Shamasastry 1915, Kautilya's Arthaśāstra

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,

R. Shamasastry 1915, Kautilya's Arthaśāstra

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