reciting, at the same time, the mantramt et qâçut aï ef ne 1. If these rites are performed duly one's desires will be fulfilled in the course of one month. But for the fulfilment of every separate desire, this worship will have to be performed for one month at a time. Moreover, every day, after reciting the mantram Hi Ef Af anà fofgaft gì an over a red flower, the same should be offered to the deity Ganesa. If this mantram is recited one hundred thousand times, the goddess Bhagavati, the giver of boons, will be satisfied and grant the prayed for boɔns. सिध्यन्ति नात्र सन्देहः पूर्व्वयेबायुते किल ॥ Charms for Winning a Woman's Love. Translation. (7) Take equal quantities of the white-flowered swallow-wort (ca'otropis procera), lingolikā (a kind of poison), vacha or the sweet-flag (Acorus calamus) and roots of the sensitive plant (mimosa pudica), pound them all and mix the same with the milk of a bitch. Then place the mixture within a fruit of the datura plant (Datura stramonium). as an arrow of the god of love. food to any woman, she will be you should also use the chandamantra with the aforementioned yogas. If the mantram be recited ten thousand times the charm is sure to be successful. This mixture or drug acts If you administer it with subject to your influence, A variant of the charm for bringing a woman under one's influence is as follows: (*) मोमर(जीरबेम्मल मल वा चक्रम । Translation. (8) If a person, whether male or female, wears on his or her waist the plant called somarājī or somrāja—the Purple Flea-bane [Fernonia (Conyza) anthelmintica], or the root of the swallowwort (Calotropis) or the root of the plant called chākutiya or, in Sanskrit, chakramarda [-ring-worm-destroyer-the Foetid Cassia (Cassia lora)], a woman or man will come under his or her influence. Then we come to the following charm which is of quite another description:· (ε) पुष्याऋक्षं समावाप्य पूवेनार्कमूलमुहरेत् । aunaldi azt azi caÛ ▼ aÑa ▼ || Translation. (9) If the root of the white-flowered swallow-wort (Calotropis procera) he plucked up while the Pushya asterism is in the ascendant, and then worn on the waist, the wearer will be able to stop the seminal emission at his will. Then there is the undermentioned charm for stopping the mouth of an enemy : (૧૦) के पत्र हरितालरसेन यस्य नामाभिलिख्य उद्यानमध्ये ईशानकोणे स्थापयेत् तस्य मुखबन्धनस्तम्भनं भवति । Translation. (10) If you write the name of any person on the leaf of the swallow-wort (Calotropis) with orpiment or yellow arsenic, and place it in the north-east corner of (his) garden, the mouth of that person will be stopped. IV.-The use of the swallow-worts in the Leechcraft of the Hindus. I shall now deal with the recipes or prescriptions for the nostrums or folk-medicines used in the leechcraft of the Hindus, into the composition of which the swallow-wort enters. The first group of these recipes treats of the nostrums for the cure of scorpion-stings and dog-bites and consists of the following: : (૧૧) शिरीषबीजं गोमेद : दाड़िम्बस्य च मूलकम् । Translation. (11) If the seeds of the Sirisha tree (Albizzia lebbek), the lard of bulls and cows, and the roots of the pomegranate tree (Punica granatum) are mixed with the milk of the swallowwort (Calotropis) and burnt, the smoke thereof will destroy the venom of scorpion-stings and allay the pain caused thereby. If a little bees' wax be exposed seven times to the steam of the milk of the mansa sij plant (Euphorbia neriifolia) and the swallow-wort (Calotropis), then heated over a fire aud then applied to the part of the body stung by a scorpion, it will expel the venom of the scorpion-sting. (૧૬) गुड़ तैलार्कदुग्धञ्च लेपाच्छनोर्व्विषं हरेत् । Translation. (3) If molasses, oil and the milk of the swallow-wort (Calotropis) be mixed together and then plastered over the part of the body bitten by a dog, it will destroy the venom of the dog-bite. The second group of recipes prescribes nostrums for the cure of ear-ache, and includes the following: If the juice of the roots of the purple-flowered swallow-wort (Calotropis gigantea) be mixed with canji or rice-gruel and then boiled in oil and then poured, while hot, into the ear, it will destroy the worms therein. The following is another nostrum for the cure of ear-ache: If the leaves of the swallow-wort (Calotropis) be roasted over a fire and then the juice, which should be expressed from them, be poured into the ears, ear-ache will be cured immediate ly. The third group consists of recipes for the concoction of nostrums for the cure of tooth-ache, elephantiasis and white leprosy. These are three in number and are as follows: (१६) व्यर्कपत्रेण तप्त न दन्ते स्वेदच्च कारयेत् । तदा न पतन्ति दन्ताः बकुलत्वक चर्व्वणात् ॥ Translation. (16) If the teeth be fomented with the heated leaves of the swallow-wort (Calotropis) or if the bark of the bakula tree (Mimw89ps elengi) be chewed, they will not fall off. The swallow-wort is also used in the conposition of the undermentioned folk-medicine for the cure of elephantiasis (१७) व्यर्कमूलं समुत्पाद्य उत्तरे चार्कबास रे । तन्मूल स्य रक्तसूत्रेण धारणात् पूलीपदचये ॥ Translation. (17) If, on a Sunday, standing with your face towards the north, you pluck up the root of the swallow-wort (Calotropis) and wear the same tied with a red string it may cure elephanthiasis. Or if bala or pilz-bere'ā (Sida carpini-folia) atibila or swetberelá_or_lal-berela (Sida rhombifolia) and lodh (Symplocos racemosa) be ground together into a paste and then plastered over the affected legs, elephantiasis may be cured. Then come the following recipe for the cure of white leprosy :- (१८) कुशाहरीतकी दुखी तलवार्कचीरकं । |