Chapter 306 - Mantras to be repeated to ward off evil incantations etc.

[Sanskrit text for this chapter is available]

[Full title: Description of the mantras to be repeated to ward off evil incantations etc.]

Fire-god said:

1-2. Stupefaction, dissension, ruin, destruction, delusion, death and illness are known to be (due to) evil incantations. Listen to me! I shall describe the means of getting relief from them. Oṃ obeisance to lord Unmattarudra (intoxicated Rudra)! Stupefy (2)!^[1] Make (him) wander (2)! Threaten such and such a person! Hurl him aloft (2) with anger! Hūṃ, phaṭ, ṭha (2): One should do oblation with honey with the twigs of dhūrta in the funeral fire after repeating (this mantra) three lakh times at night in a Cremation ground. (By this) the enemy would be wandering always.

3. (After having made) a black image (of the enemy) with red chalk, if it is pierced in the throat or heart with golden needles after repeating (the above mantra), the enemy would die.

4. One who wants to destroy (his enemy) should throw pulverized tail of the ass, funeral ash, brahmadaṇḍī and markaṭi [markaṭī?] on the house or head of the person.

5-7a. (I shall describe the method of worshipping the disc in the thousand-petalled lotus.) “Bhṛgu, ether, glowing fire, bhṛgu, fire armour, phaṭ” (is for the armour). One (should) thus (worship) in the thousand-petalled (lotus). ‘Hūṃ, phaṭ, to the disc (ācakrāya) oblations” is for the heart, (hūṃ phaṭ) to the disc (vicakrāya) for the head, (hūṃ phaṭ) to the disc (śikhācakra) of the tuft (for the tuft), (hūṃ phaṭ) to the disc (vicakra) for the eye, (hūṃ phaṭ) to the disc (sañcakra) for the weapon and (hūṃ phaṭ) to the glowing disc (jvālācakra) as before for the bow. (By worshipping) the disc in this way (with the constituent mantras), it would remove all the afflictions due to evil incantations and accomplish all (the desires). The letters of this (mantra) should be located on the head, eyes, mouth, heart, genital organ and feet.

7b-9a. (One should contemplate the Sudarśana disc personified as) seated on the lotus, resembling the colour of fire, having large teeth and four hands, (holding) the conch, disc, mace, lotus, brush and goad in his hand, holding the bow, having reddish brown hair and eye and pervading the three worlds by means of the spokes (of the disc). If the navel is pierced with its fire, the diseases and (afflictions due to) the planets would get destroyed.

9b-10. One should draw two discs. They should be yellow. They should be bearing the disc. The spokes should be red and their inter-spaces black. The periphery should be white and the outer line black. The inter-space should bear the colour of silver.

11-12. After having brought a pitcher with water first, it should be placed in front and the Sudarśana (disc of Lord Viṣṇu) placed there. One should offer oblation in order to the disc on the south. Clarified butter, twigs of apāmārga, unbroken rice, sesamum, mustard, sweet gruel and clarified butter from the cow (are the materials that are offered). (One should do oblation) one thousand and eight times.

13-14. The remaining (part) of each one of the materials after the oblation should be put into the pitcher by one who knows the mode of performance. A ball made of these offerings should be placed in the pitcher. (By doing so) (Lord) Viṣṇu and others would enter that (pitcher). Then offering should be made in the south with the residual water with (the repetition of) the mantra “Obeisance to the retinue of (Lord) Viṣṇu who appease everything. May they accept. Obeisance for peace!”

15-16a. (It may also be performed differently). One may inscribe (the disc) on a plank, place a vessel filled with milk and perform oblation with the twigs of palāśa and kṣīra (trees) in the different directions engaging brahmins. These two oblations done after offering appropriate fees (to the priests) would destroy the spirits, etc.

16b-17. Evil incantations would be removed by writing on leaves soaked in cow’s milk and without leaves. (One has to do oblation) with dūrvā (grass) for (prolonging) life, with lotus flowers for prosperity, with (twigs of) udumbara for progeny, with clarified butter at the cow-shed for cattle and with (the twigs) of all the trees for intellect.

18. Oṃ, kṣauṃ! Obeisance to Lord Narasiṃha! To one who has the flames as the garland, one who has effulgent teeth, one who has fiery eyes, one who is the annihilator of all the demons! To one who destroys all the spirits! To one who destroys all fevers! burn (2)! cook (2)! protect (2)! hūṃ phaṭ! This mantra of Narasiṃha (the man-lion manifestation of Lord Viṣṇu) removes all sins. Its repetition would remove evil incantations, (evil influences of malignant) planets, epidemics, poisons and diseases. One could arrest the force of water and fire (by rubbing over the body) the ground marrow of a frog (after the repetition of the above mantra).

Footnotes and references:

[1]:

The number 2 after the words indicates repetition of the respective words.