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ments. Incidentally they describe mystic diagrams to determine the future of royal undertakings, indicate good or bad omens, ascertain days believed to be auspicious for marching against the enemy and lay down details of tantric and magical rites such as initiation into warfare, purification of weapons to make them infallible, six black rites for controlling and causing destruction of enemies.
In the remaining sections the available literature like the number of MSS. in the Society is very poor.
In CAURYA-ŚĀSTRA or science of stealing, which is regarded as a fine art and included in the list of 64 Kalās, there is only one MS. of a very handy size of a ritualistic work containing incantations and descriptions of magical rites. MS. of another work, the Cauracaryā or Caurasvarūpa, is reported to exist in the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute of Poona.1 The art figures prominently in popular literature of the country.2
CHINTAHARAN CHAKRAVARTI.
Krishnagar College
May, 1954
1 Indian Historical Quarterly, VIII. 547.
2 Bloomfield, American Journal of Philology, 44, 97-133, 193-329; Chakravarti, Siddhabhārati (Hoshiarpur, 1950), Vol. I, pp. 230-32.
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