Essay name: Svacchandatantra (history and structure)
Author: William James Arraj
The essay represents a study and partial English translation of the Svacchandatantra and its commentary, “Uddyota�, by Kshemaraja. The text, attributed to the deity Svacchanda-bhairava, has various names and demonstrates a complex history of transmission through diverse manuscript traditions in North India, Nepal, and beyond.
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in the repetition and the oblation.
Thus, that one attracted by the adept,
The lord of the earth comes under control, with [his own]
self, and [his] possessions. /33/
He says that there should not be any doubt herein:
This procedure is effective and not another, I say to you.
Thus, after having stated the set of ten procedures for
subjugation, and the procedure for realization of the highest, etc.,
he states the procedure for obstructing:
After having taken up that powder, mixed with the dust of
copper,/34/
[105] and after having tied [it] up in cremation ground
cloth, recited upon seven times, [then] at a crossroads, after
having dug down seven fingers in the ground, that [bundle],
connected with the name of the enemy, /35/
he should throw down, with the name of that one, who
should become instantly obstructed.
Cremation ground cloth (śmaśānacirake), a piece of the cloth [used
to wrap] a corpse; recited upon seven times, i.e., with the
formula indicated, using the modified form, Obstruct N.N.
He states the procedure for maddening:
Having taken that powder, united with the five kinds of mad
[making substances], /36/
[and] having tied [it] up in the cloth of a corpse, [and]
having made it united with the name of the enemy, [then]
recited upon seven times, he should bury [it] quickly in a
burning ground, /37/
[and] the one to be effected becomes mad.
The five kinds of mad making [substances], i.e., datura, along
with its five parts, namely, root, stem, leaf, flower, and fruit.
Herein, as well, the pattern [of the formula] to be used is:
Madden N.N.
He states the restoration of this one:
When extracted, he is freed.
