Part
7 - Chapter 1
ON
PERSONAL ADORNMENT;
ON
SUBJUGATING THE HEARTS OF OTHERS;
AND
ON TONIC MEDICINES
WHEN
a person fails to obtain the object of his
desires by any of the ways previously
related, he should then have recourse to
other ways of attracting others to himself.
Now
good looks, good qualities, youth, and
liberality are the chief and most natural
means of making a person agreeable in the
eyes of others. But in the absence of these
a man or a woman must have resort to
artificial means, or to art, and the
following are some recipes that may be found
useful.
An
ointment made of the tabernamontana
coronaria, the costus speciosus or arabicus,
and the flacourtia cataphracta, can be used
as an unguent of adornment.
If
a fine powder is made of the above plants,
and applied to the wick of a lamp, which is
made to burn with the oil of blue vitrol,
the black pigment or lamp black produced
therefrom, when applied to the eyelashes,
has the effect of making a person look
lovely.
The
oil of the hogweed, the echites putescens,
the sarina plant, the yellow amaranth, and
the leaf of the nymphae, if applied to the
body, has the same effect.
A
black pigment from the same plants produces
a similar effect.
By
eating the powder of the nelumbrium
speciosum, the blue lotus, and the mesna
roxburghii, with ghee and honey, a man
becomes lovely in the eyes of others.
The
above things, together with the
tabernamontana coronaria, and the
xanthochymus pictorius, if used as an
ointment, produce the same results.
If
the bone of a peacock or of a hyena be
covered with gold, and tied on the right
hand, it makes a man lovely in the eyes of
other people.
In
the same way, if a bead, made of the seed of
the jujube, or of the conch shell, be
enchanted by the incantations mentioned in
the Atharvana Veda, or by the incantations
of those well skilled in the science of
magic, and tied on the hand, it produces the
same result as described above.
When
a female attendant arrives at the age of
puberty, her master should keep her
secluded, and when men ardently desire her
on account of her seclusion, and on account
of the difficulty of approaching her, he
should then bestow her hand on such a person
as may endow her with wealth and happiness.
This
is a means of increasing the loveliness of a
person in the eyes of others.
In
the same way, when the daughter of a
courtesan arrives at the age of puberty, the
mother should get together a lot of young
men of the same age, disposition, and
knowledge as her daughter, and tell them
that she would give her in marriage to the
person who would give her presents of a
particular kind.
After
this the daughter should be kept in
seclusion as far as possible, and the mother
should give her in marriage to the man who
may be ready to give her the presents agreed
upon. If the mother is unable to get so much
out of the man, she should show some of her
own things as having been given to the
daughter by the bridegroom.
Or
the mother may allow her daughter to be
married to the man privately, as if she was
ignorant of the whole affair, and then
pretending that it has come to her
knowledge, she may give her consent to the
union.
...
Swami Veet Chintan T'Zorba-Krsna
Jyotish
Shastracharya
& Vedic Astrologer of India
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