Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c15.s1.t2.1

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Various practices are described to acquire these spells. Rites were performed on the days of dark caturdaśī and aṣṭamī³² and the charms were acquired with the help of the dead body of an uninjured person, endowed with auspicious marks.³³ The name of Satvaki has been already mentioned, who went to the cemetery for securing the *Malāṇola*-spell. Just he set fire to the pyre with the dead body of an orphan and then covering himself with a moist skin moved about slowly on his left toe till the pyre was kindled. Thus within seven nights Satvaki acquired the spells.³⁴