380 THE SANGUINARY CHAPTER, 



" O moft aufpicious ! the blifs which is obtained by 

 " the molt auftere devotion, by a els of charity and 

 c< performance of religious ceremonies' ; and at the fame 

 " time, O molt excellent ! attain fupreme blifs thy- 

 (C felf. May thy aufpices, O moft aufpicious ! keep 

 " me fecure from Rdrfliajas, Pifachos, terrors, ferpents, 

 " bad princes, enemies, and other evils ; and death 

 Ci being inevitable, charm Bhdgavatl in thy laft mo- 

 " ments by copious flreams of blood fpouting from 

 " the arteries of thy flefhy neck." 



Thus let the facrificer worfhip the viclim, add- 

 ing whatever other texts are applicable to theoccaflon, 

 and have been before mentioned. 



When this has been done, O my children ! the 

 victim is even as myfelf, and the guardian deities of 

 the ten quarters take place in him ; then BrdJwia and 

 all the other deities aiTemble in the viclim, and be he 

 ever fo great a linner, he becomes pure from fin, and 

 when pure, his blood changes to ambroiia, and he 

 gains the love of Me'hade'vi, the Goddefs of the Yog 

 Niddrfa (i. e. the tranquil repofe of the mind from an 

 abftr action of ideas ;) who is the Goddefs of the whole 

 univerfe, the very univerfe itfelf. He does not return 

 for a confiderable length of time in the human form, 

 but becomes a ruler of the Gana Devdtds^ and is 

 much refpecled by me myfelf. The viclim who is 

 impure from fin or ordure and urine, Cdmdc'hyd will 

 not even hear named. 



By the repetitions of the texts, and forms laid down 

 for the facrifice of buffalos, and other animals, their 

 bodies become pure and their blood acceptable to the 

 Goddeis Shivd. 



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