The Purana Index v3.c9.s1.337

v3.c9.s1.337

Rājaraksārahasyas—devices for the protection of the king's person, different kinds of mixtures of medicines used for 15 days, one month, etc, remedies to avert houses being consumed by fire, against snakes by burning their coating, examination of cooked food by giving it to birds or throwing it into the fire and then examining the change in colour, flies would not sit on the poisoned food, its effect on birds and beasts, the same is applicable to drinking water, such protection needed since he is the root of the tree of the people