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THE HINDOO MYTHOLOGY. 149
cious! O thou who art an assemblage of all the deities,
and most exquisite! bestow thy protection on me; save me,
thy devoted; save my sons, my cattle, and kindred; pre-
serve the state, the ministers belonging to it, and all
friends; and as death is unavoidable, part with (thy organs
of) life, doing an act of benevolence. Bestow upon me, O
most auspicious! the bliss which is obtained by the most
austere devotion, by acts of charity, and performance of
religious ceremonies; and at the same time, O most excel-
lent ! attain supreme bliss thyself. May thy auspices, O
most auspicious! keep me secure from rakshusus, pisha-
ehus, terrors, serpents, bad princes, enemies, and other
evils; and, death being inevitable, charm Bhuguvutee in
thy last moments by copious streams of blood spouting
from the arteries of thy fleshly neck.'—When this has been
done, O my children! the victim is even as myself, and
the guardian deities of the ten quarters take place in him ;
then Briimha and all the other deities assemble in the vic-
tim ; and be he ever so great a sinner, he becomes pure from
sin; and when pure, his blood changes to ambrosia, and he
gains the love of Muhadevee, the goddess of the yogu
nidru, (i. e. the tranquil repose of the mind from an abstrac-
tion of ideas,) who is the goddess of the whole universe,
the very universe itself. He does not return for a consi-
derable length of time in the human form, but becomes a
ruler of the gunu deltas, and is much respected by me
myself. The victim who is impure from sin, or ordure and
urine, Kamakshya will not even hear named. The blind,
the crippled, the aged, the sick, the afflicted with ulcers, the
hermaphrodite, the imperfectly formed, the scarred, the
timid, the leprous, the dwarfish, and the perpetrator of
muha patuku, (heinous offences, such as slaying a bram-
hun, drinking spirits, stealing gold, or defiling a spiritual
teacher's bed,) one under twelve years of age, one who is
cious! O thou who art an assemblage of all the deities,
and most exquisite! bestow thy protection on me; save me,
thy devoted; save my sons, my cattle, and kindred; pre-
serve the state, the ministers belonging to it, and all
friends; and as death is unavoidable, part with (thy organs
of) life, doing an act of benevolence. Bestow upon me, O
most auspicious! the bliss which is obtained by the most
austere devotion, by acts of charity, and performance of
religious ceremonies; and at the same time, O most excel-
lent ! attain supreme bliss thyself. May thy auspices, O
most auspicious! keep me secure from rakshusus, pisha-
ehus, terrors, serpents, bad princes, enemies, and other
evils; and, death being inevitable, charm Bhuguvutee in
thy last moments by copious streams of blood spouting
from the arteries of thy fleshly neck.'—When this has been
done, O my children! the victim is even as myself, and
the guardian deities of the ten quarters take place in him ;
then Briimha and all the other deities assemble in the vic-
tim ; and be he ever so great a sinner, he becomes pure from
sin; and when pure, his blood changes to ambrosia, and he
gains the love of Muhadevee, the goddess of the yogu
nidru, (i. e. the tranquil repose of the mind from an abstrac-
tion of ideas,) who is the goddess of the whole universe,
the very universe itself. He does not return for a consi-
derable length of time in the human form, but becomes a
ruler of the gunu deltas, and is much respected by me
myself. The victim who is impure from sin, or ordure and
urine, Kamakshya will not even hear named. The blind,
the crippled, the aged, the sick, the afflicted with ulcers, the
hermaphrodite, the imperfectly formed, the scarred, the
timid, the leprous, the dwarfish, and the perpetrator of
muha patuku, (heinous offences, such as slaying a bram-
hun, drinking spirits, stealing gold, or defiling a spiritual
teacher's bed,) one under twelve years of age, one who is