अनन्तवासुकितक्षककर्कोटकपद्मकमहापद्मकशङ्खकगुलिकपौण्ड्रकालिकनागक इत्येषां दिव्यानां महानागानां महानागादिरूपाणां विषतुण्डानां विषदन्तानां विषदंष्ट्राणां विषाङ्गानां विषपुच्छानां विश्वचाराणां वृश्चिकानां लूतानां प्रलूतानां मूषिकाणां गृहगौलिकानां गृहगोधिकानां घ्रणासानां गृहगिरिगह्वरकालानलवल्मीकोद्भूतानां तार्णानां पार्णानां काष्ठदारुवृक्षकोटरस्थानां मूलत्वग्दारुनिर्यासपत्रपुष्पफलोद्भूतानां दुष्टकीटकपिश्वानमार्जारजंबुकव्याघ्रवराहाणां जरायुजाण्डजोद्भिज्जस्वेदजानां शस्त्रबाणक्षतस्फोटव्रणमहाव्रणकृतानां कृत्रिमाणामन्येषां भूतवेतालकूष्माण्डपिशाचप्रेतराक्षसयक्षभयप्रदानां विषतुण्डदंष्ट्रानां विषाङ्गानां विषपुच्छानां विषाणां विषरूपिणी विषदूषिणी विषशोषिणी विषनाशिनी विषहारिणी हतं विषं नष्टं विषमन्तःप्रलीनं विषं प्रनष्टं विषं हतं ते ब्रह्मणा विषमिन्द्रस्य वज्रेण स्वाहा
anantavāsukitakṣakakarkoṭakapadmakamahāpadmakaśaṅkhakagulikapauṇḍrakālikanāgaka ityeṣāṃ divyānāṃ mahānāgānāṃ mahānāgādirūpāṇāṃ viṣatuṇḍānāṃ viṣadantānāṃ viṣadaṃṣṭrāṇāṃ viṣāṅgānāṃ viṣapucchānāṃ viśvacārāṇāṃ vṛścikānāṃ lūtānāṃ pralūtānāṃ mūṣikāṇāṃ gṛhagaulikānāṃ gṛhagodhikānāṃ ghraṇāsānāṃ gṛhagirigahvarakālānalavalmīkodbhūtānāṃ tārṇānāṃ pārṇānāṃ kāṣṭhadāruvṛkṣakoṭarasthānāṃ mūlatvagdāruniryāsapatrapuṣpaphalodbhūtānāṃ duṣṭakīṭakapiśvānamārjārajaṃbukavyāghravarāhāṇāṃ jarāyujāṇḍajodbhijjasvedajānāṃ śastrabāṇakṣatasphoṭavraṇamahāvraṇakṛtānāṃ kṛtrimāṇāmanyeṣāṃ bhūtavetālakūṣmāṇḍapiśācapretarākṣasayakṣabhayapradānāṃ viṣatuṇḍadaṃṣṭrānāṃ viṣāṅgānāṃ viṣapucchānāṃ viṣāṇāṃ viṣarūpiṇī viṣadūṣiṇī viṣaśoṣiṇī viṣanāśinī viṣahāriṇī hataṃ viṣaṃ naṣṭaṃ viṣamantaḥpralīnaṃ viṣaṃ pranaṣṭaṃ viṣaṃ hataṃ te brahmaṇā viṣamindrasya vajreṇa svāhā
«Of Ananta, Vāsuki, Takṣaka, Karkoṭaka, Padmaka, Mahāpadmaka, Śaṅkhaka, Gulika, Pauṇḍrakālika, and Nāgaka — of these divine great nāgas, with venomous mouths, teeth, fangs, limbs, and tails; of the all-roaming scorpions, spiders, small spiders, mice, house lizards, and geckos; of those arisen in houses, mountains, caves, in the fire of time, and in anthills; of grass and leaf-dwellers; of those living in wood, logs, and hollows; of those arisen from root, bark, wood, resin, leaf, flower, and fruit; of evil insects, dogs, cats, jackals, tigers, and boars; of the womb-born, egg-born, sprouting, and sweat-born; of [poisons] from weapon, arrow, cut, boil, wound, and great wound; artificial and every other kind; from bhūtas, vetālas, kūṣmāṇḍas, piśācas, pretas, rākṣasas, and yakṣas that bring fear — [their] poison is slain, poison has perished, the lurking poison has vanished; it is slain in you by brahman, slain by the thunderbolt of Indra — svāhā».
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उपलब्ध भाषाएँRUENश्लोक बदलें इन कुंजियों से
Here is a list encompassing everything that can cause harm; and it deserves examination, for it is, to my mind, the most curious passage in this book — not as a charm, but as an inventory of the world. It is listed by category, and the categories are deliberate. First the nāgas, by name.
Then small creatures: scorpions, spiders, mice, house lizards, geckos. Then by place: those arising in houses, mountains, caves, anthills; grass- and leaf-dwellers; those living in logs and hollows. Then by part of the plant: from root, bark, wood, resin, leaf, flower, fruit.
Then beasts: dogs, cats, jackals, tigers, boars. Then by manner of birth: womb-born, egg-born, sprouting from the earth, and born of sweat — this is the ancient Indian fourfold division of all living things. Then wounds: from weapon, arrow, cut, boil.
Then kṛtrima, “artificial,” that is, prepared poisons. And finally unclean spirits: bhūtas, vetālas, kūṣmāṇḍas, piśācas, pretas, rākṣasas, yakṣas. It is worth appreciating what has been done here.
This is an attempt to leave nothing unnamed; and in it one sees the same thoroughness as in the lists of elements and winds we examined reading the Varāha (5.31). Let us add what deserves saying about this inventory in substance. It shows what the life of the person this was written for was like: he lived among serpents in the anthill, lizards in the house, jackals beyond the fence, and wounds with nothing to treat them.
And this charm was the only thing he had. Hence, to my mind, it deserves being spoken of without mockery: it is mistaken, but it is not foolish; and a person reciting it over a bitten child was doing everything he could.