140 H I N I) O 
keep me fecure from Racfhafas, Pifitchos, terrors, ferpents, 
bad princes, enemies, and other evils ; and, death being 
inevitable, charm Bhagavati in thy lad moments, by co¬ 
pious dreams of blood fpouting from the arteries of thy- 
flelhy neck.” 
“ Thus let the facrificer worfhip the viftim, adding 
whatever other texts are applicable to the occafion ; as, 
O, my .children! the viftim is even as myfelf, and the 
guardian deities of the ten quarters take place in him : 
then Brahma, and all the other deities, affemble in the 
■ivictim; and, be he ever fo great a finner, lie becomes pure 
from fin; and, when pure, his blood changes to ambrofia, 
and he gains the love of Mehadevi, the goddefs of the Yog 
Niddra ; (i.e. the tranquil repofe of the mind from an 
abftraftion of ideas;) who is the goddefs of the whole 
univerfe, the very univerfe itfelf. He does not return for 
a conliderable length of time in the human form, but-be¬ 
comes a ruler of the Gana Devatas, and is much refpected 
by me myfelf. The vidtim who is impure from fin, or 
ordure and urine, Camacliya will not even hear named. 
“ The blind, the crippled, the aged, the fick, the af¬ 
flicted with ulcers, the hermaphrodite, the imperfedtly 
formed, the fcarred, the timid, the leprous, the dwarfifh, 
and the perpetrator of mcha pataca, (heinous offences, fuch 
as flaying a .Brahmin, drinking fpirits, dealing gold, or 
defiling a fpiritual teacher’s bed,) one under twelve years 
of age, one who is impure from the death of a kinlrnan, 
&c. one who is impure from the death of vieha guru, (father 
and mother,) which impurity lads one whole year; thefe 
feverally are unfit lubjedts for immolation, even though 
rendered pure by facred texts. 
“ Let not the female, whether quadruped or bird, or a 
woman, be ever facrificed ; where the -victims of either the 
beads or birds creation are very numerous, the immola¬ 
tion of a female is excul'able; but this rule does not hold 
good as to the human I'pecies. 
“ Let not a Brahmin, or a Chandala, be facrificed ; nor 
a prince; nor that which has been already prefented to a 
Brahmin, or a deity; nor the offspring of a prince, nor 
one who has conquered in battle; nor the offspring of a 
•Brahmin, or of a Cfiiettree ; nor a childlefs brother, nor 
a father, nor a learned perfon, nor one who is unwilling, 
nor the maternal uncle of the facrificer. Thole not here 
named, and animals, and birds of unknowm I'pecies, are 
unfit. If thofe named are not forthcoming, let their 
place be fupplied by a male afs or camel. If other ani¬ 
mals are forthcoming, the facrifice of a tiger, camel, or 
afs, mud be avoided. 
“ Let the head and blood of a human vidtim be pre¬ 
fented on the right fide of Devi, and the facrificer addrefs 
her Handing in front. Let the head and blood of a goat 
be prefented on the left, and the head and blood of a buf¬ 
falo in front. Let the head and blood of birds be pre¬ 
fented on the left, and the blood of a period's own body 
in front. Let the ambrofia, proceeding from the heads of 
carnivorous animals and birds, be prefented on the left 
hand, as alfo the blood of all aquatic animals. Let the 
antelope’s head and blood, and that of the tortoife, rhino¬ 
ceros, and hare, and crocodile, and fifh, be prefented in 
front. Let a lion’s head and blood be prefented on the 
right hand, and the rhinoceros's alfo; let not, on any ac¬ 
count, the head or blood of a victim ever be prefented 
behind the Deity, but on the right, left, and in front. Let 
the confecrated lamp be placed either on the right hand, 
or in front, but on no account on the left. Let incenfe 
be burnt on the left, and in front, but not on the right 
hand. Let perfumes, flowers, and ornaments, be prefented 
in front: with refpect to the different parts of the circle, 
where to prefent the offerings, the mode already laid down 
may be obferved. Let madira (fpirituous liquors) be pre¬ 
sented behind, other liquids on the left. 
“ Let princes, miniders of date, counfellors, and venders 
■of fpirituous liquors, make human facrifices, for the pur- 
pol'e of attaining profperity and wealth, if a human la- 
orifice is performed wit flout the confen-t of the prince, the 
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performer incurs fin. In cafes of imminent danger or war, 
facrifices may be performed at pleafure, by princes tflem- 
felves and their miniders, but by none elfe. 
“ The day previous to a human facrifice, let the vidlim 
be prepared by the text Manajlac, and three Devi Gandha 
Sublahs, and the texts V/adrang ; and by touching his head 
wdth the axe, and befmearing the axe with fandal, &c. 
perfumes, and then taking fome of the fandal, &c. from 
off the axe, and befmearing the victim’s neck therewith. 
Then let the text Ambe Ambice,&cc. and the Rowdra and Bhai* 
rava texts, be ufed, and Devi lierfelf will guard the victim, 
who, when thus purified, malady does not approach him; 
nor does his mind fuffer any derangement from grief and 
fimilar caufes, nor does the death or birth of a kinlman 
render him impure. 
“ Now liden to the good and bad omens to be drawn 
from the falling of the head, when fevered from the body. 
If the head falls towards the north-ead, or fouth-wed, the 
prince of the country; and offerer of the facrifice, will both 
perifli. If the human head, when fevered from the body, 
falls in the following quarters, the following omens’are 
to be drawn: If in the ead, wealth; if in the fouth-wed, 
power; if in the l’outh, terror; if in the wed, profit; if in 
the north-wed, a fon; if in the north, riches. 
“ Liden now to the omens to be drawn from the falling 
of the head of a buffalo, when fevered from the body. If 
in the north, property; the north-ead, lofs; in the ead, 
dominion j fouth-ealf, wealth ; the louth, viflory over ene¬ 
mies ; if in the fouth-wed, fear ; if in the wed, attainment 
of kingdom; if in the north-ead, prof'perity: this rule, 
O Bhairava! holds good for all animals, but not for aqua¬ 
tic or oviparous -creatures. 
“ If the heads of birds, or fidies, fall in the fouth or 
fouth-ealf quarter, it indicates fear; and, if in any of the 
other quarters, profperity. If a noife, proceeding from 
the chattering of the teeth of the vidtim’s levered head, 
or fnapping of the beak, is perceptible, it indicates alarm; 
If tears proceed from the eyes of a human victim’s fevered 
head, it indicates dedruction to the prince. 
“If tears proceed from the levered head of a buffalo at 
the time of prefenting it, it indicates that fome foreign 
inimical prince will die. If tears proceed from the eyes 
of other animals, they indicate alarm, or lofs of health. 
“ If the fevered head of a human vidtim 1 ‘miles, it indi¬ 
cates increal'e of profperity, and long life to the facrificer, 
without doubt; and, if it lpeaks, whenever it fays will come 
to pais. If the found hoonh proceeds from the human 
victim’s fevered head, it indicates that the prince will 
die ; if phlegm, that the facrificer will die. If the head 
utters the name of a deity, it indicates wealth to the facri¬ 
ficer within fix months. If, at the time or prefenting the 
blood, the victim dil’charges fames or m ine, or turns about, 
it indicates certain death to the facrificer: if the victim 
kicks with his left leg, it indicates evil ; but a motion of 
his legs in any other mode, indicates profperity. 
“ The facrificer mud take l'ome blood between his thumb 
and third finger, and difeharge it towards the I'outh-welt 
on the ground, as an offering to the deities, accompanied 
by the Meha Cawfici Mantra. Let the vidtim od'ered to 
Devi, if a bud'alo, be five years old; and if human, twenty- 
five. Let the Cawfici Mantra be uttered, and the facrificer 
fay, EJha bali Seval/a ; “ Myderious prail'e to this victim.” 
“ A prince may facrifice his enemy, having firlt invoked 
the axe with holy texts, by fubdituting a buffalo or goat, 
calling the vidtim by the name of the enemy throughout 
the whole ceremony. Having fecured the vidtim with 
cords, and alfo with facred texts, let him flrike off the 
head, and prefent it to Devi, with all due care. Let him 
make thel'e facrifices in proportion to the increale or de- 
creal'e of his enemies, lopping off the heads of vidtims for 
the purpofie of bringing deftrudtion on his foes, infufing, 
by holy texts, the foul of the enemy into the body of the 
victim, which will, when immolated, deprive the foe of 
life alfo. 
“ Let him firft fay, “ 0 goddefs of horrid form, O 
Chandica.! 
