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Mr. C. F. Bf 



rown's Telugu Spelts. 



Telugu Spells, translated by C. P. Brown, Esq., late of the 

 Madras Civil Service. 



[The Editor is indebted to the Deputy Registrar of the High Court of 

 Madras, Appellate side, for the following translations, which were made 

 by Mr. C. P. Brown, late Telugu Translator to Government, while he was 

 Registrar of the Madras Sadr Court. The translations were made from 

 two Telugu documents, which were referred to in the evidence of the pro- 

 secutor in a criminal case, P. 'A. ]S : o. \4&5 of 1S39, No. 22 of the Cud- 

 dapah Calendar for the first Sessions of 1839, and sent up to the Faujdari 

 'Adalat in return to their precept of the 5th August. 1839. The prisoner 

 appears to have been indicted for the murder of a girl named Yenkatasub- 

 bamma, whom he had enticed into his house and killed with a view of 

 using her corpse as an ingredient in one of the following incantations. 

 The murder took place on a Saturday evening and the body was found next 

 day in a pagoda near the prisoner's house.] 



(This is a set of magic spells written In Sanskrit.) 



" Salutation to the Supreme Brahma! Salutation to Ganecat 

 Omf a) ! I salute Bhagavatl, who ruleth all magic arts : who 

 draweth all the gods: and all the ghosts : all, ail destruction. 



to to ; 



Swiftly seize on him, 0 thou who workest all things ?'(b) 



" O great Devadatta, O greatest of gods draw him. Mighty 

 sprite (yakshini) draw him. 0 thou science that sustainest 

 Magic, draw him ! Great Kali ! Om ! hum !' mighty Kali of 

 fevers ! Om ! Durga, mighty Kadi ! Kadi, Kali, O Kali jham 

 Kadi [here follow some unintelligible syllables] Karali, Ma- 

 rali, strike strike him ! [the next syllables are not in San- 

 scrit but in the Telugu language.] Fill thy mouth with 

 blood! crow! crow! vomit blood. Stuff it! cram it! [the 

 next words pikku pikku, pili pUi, &C- are unintelligible] 

 May his eyes turn in his head ! May his bowels be twisted ! 

 may his heart shudder with horror ! may his legs and joint's 

 totter ! mangle him, break him like an unburnt potsherd, 



(«) As to this mystic ejaculation sec Bohtlingk and Roth's Sanskrit - 

 Worterbuch I. 1122. ' The current explanation— that it consists of three 

 letters, a, v., m, combined and typifying the great divinities— appears to 

 be erroneous. — Ed. 



(/;) The above lines and some others are so ignorantly written that 

 the sense is a little obscure. Devadatta, the name now mentioned, is a 

 fictitious name used in magic, like John Doe in law, 



TRANSLATION of book No. 3., 



