Mr. C. P. Brown's Telugu SpelU. 



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and recite the spell in the elder house(a), and it shall cause 

 his death within a fortnight. 



Procure the bones of a par aiyan and say the spell over 

 them on a Wednesday, and bury them in the house of your foe : 

 his entire house shall die and he himself shall be left alive. 



Form an image with wax in the form of thine enemy : take 

 it in your right hand at night and hold your chain of beads 

 in your left hand. Then burn the image with due rites : 

 and it shall slay your enemy in a fortnight, and he shall 

 sink into hell. ^ 



Read over this spell in the presence of the Mothers (i. e., 

 goddesses,) and say I will come when the time approaches. 

 Then when you require their aid recite this spell a thou- 

 sand times, whereupon the goddess will appear and certain- 

 ly will do as thou desirest. 



Recite it a thousand times in a cemetery and your enemy 

 will perish in a fortnight. 



Take a bone from a buryial ground, and recite the spell 

 a thousand times over it, and throw it into your enemy's 

 house ; and it shall cause his ruin. 



Then form an image of waxf 6 ), touch it with your hand, 

 recite the spell a thousand times, and burn it with mould pro- 

 cured from a funeral pile, and it shall cause the death of the 

 enemy. 



I will next explain the Karnataka process of causing 

 death, invented by A'dinatha ; which, O goddess^, is in- 

 fallible if recited in a cemetery. 



(a) Jyeshthagare means 'in the elder house,' but perhaps is an error ; 

 both manuscripts here coincide. 



(b) Though this is written in Sanskrit verse the Telugu word mainam 

 for wax is inserted. 



(c) Throughout this chapter, w^hich is in verse, the words 0 goddess, &c. 

 are inserted to make the metre complete, and are needless in a translation. 



