The Great Epic of India: Its Character and Origin c8.63

c8.63

¹ One example of magic recorded in the epic is particularly interesting, as it is referred to the Kāulika-çāstra, or left-hand cult, and is a parallel to the practice recorded in Theocritus' second idyll. It is called chāyopasevana or shadow-cult, and consists in making an image of an enemy and sticking pins into it to cause his death, iii, 32, 4.