[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930) › v2.c23.207 # History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v2.c23.207 History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v2.c23.207 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c23.207](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c23.207) (10) \*Keeping off evil spirits\* :—Though Āśv. and Śāṅ. are entirely silent on this point several sūtras devote large space to this topic and are full of \*mantras\* which are more are less magic. Āp. prescribes the offering of mustard seed and rice chaff in fire three times with each of eight mantras (Āp. mantra-pāṭha II. 13. 7–14). Bhār. gṛ. (I. 23) also prescribes similar offerings with several verses. Hir. gṛ. requires the throwing of mustard seeds eleven times in the \*sūtikāgni\* with eleven mantras some of which are almost the same as in Bhāradvāja. Pār. gṛ. recites two of such mantras.⁵³⁶ - [Previous: v2.c23.206](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c23.206) - [Next: v2.c23.208](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c23.208) - [Up: v2.c23](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c23) ## Cites (7) - [Bhāradvājagṛhyasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.krsnayajur.bharadvaja.1.23) — Sanskrit - [Śāṅkhāyanagṛhyasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.rgveda.sankhayana) — Śāṅkhāyana, Sanskrit - [Āśvalāyanagṛhyasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.rgveda.asvalayana) — Āśvalāyana, Sanskrit - [Pāraskaragṛhyasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.paraskara) — Pāraskara, Sanskrit - [Hiraṇyakeśigṛhyasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.krsnayajur.hiranyakesi) — Hiraṇyakeśin, Sanskrit - [Āpastambagṛhyasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.krsnayajur.apastamba) — Āpastamba, Sanskrit - [Ekāgnikāṇḍa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.krsnayajur.ekagnikanda) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c23.207](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c23.207) · Pramāṇa