The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads v2.c32.s4.23

v2.c32.s4.23

The potency of nakedness as a magic rite is seldom mentioned save for rain spells: the Kauçika³, however, tells how to expiate a day of ill omen by sitting naked and rubbing the forehead, and in its collection of spells for inducing slumber in women it prescribes nakedness in the performer of a rite, consisting in the besprinkling of the place where she is from a vessel full of water and the remains of an offering.