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Nāgārjuna
By the powder of nargata a specific medicinal root, one swiftly causes submission. This is the renowned Siddhayoga successful practice, which grants success even without a mantra. Fill a human vessel a skull or bone container with the marrow of a donkey's head. Prepare a wick made of cotton, soaked in the juice of bhringaraja false daisy. Light the marrow in the vessel seven times. On a Saturday, extract the essence from the human vessel. Anoint the eyes with it; by merely looking, one attracts a woman.
Shilā orpiment, tāla realgar, its own seed, and ankuli Sanskrit: ankola oil mixed together. Mixed with the mada mustard-like secretion from an elephant's temple, this tilaka forehead mark makes a woman submissive. Manahshila realgar, priyangu beauty-berry, nagakesara cobra saffron, and rochana yellow orpiment. Applied to the palm, the hair stands on end; it makes the charming woman submissive. Priyangu, lotus, leaf, rochana, anjana collyrium, and sandalwood. 13 Applied to the palm, the hair stands on end; she is certainly struck with desire upon seeing it. Somaraji, ravi sun-plant root, and chakramardana cassia tora root.
Whether worn at the waist by a man or woman, it makes them mutually submissive. On the eighth or fourteenth day of the dark fortnight, [take] the root of yellow dhattura thorn apple. Hema gold, nara human, pati lord, kustha costus root, and devadaru Himalayan cedar, equal parts. The powder of the seed thrown on the head makes the man submissive. The text notes that even a woman who is not easily conquered can be won over by the soudhamalaka a medicinal preparation. Daily, one should perform this act of submission for a woman endowed with excellent characteristics. Collect the root of indravāruṇikā bitter apple during the Pushya an auspicious lunar mansion constellation. Mixed with the three pungent spices ginger, black pepper, and long pepper and cow’s milk, it is rendered into a paste. Mixed with sandalwood, it makes a tilaka that causes a woman to be submissive. Bound in a cloth during svāti the fifteenth lunar mansion, with badari jujube and radha a specific herb, one should hold it in the hand; it acts as a separate means to make a woman submissive. The upward-flowering and downward-flowering girikarnika clitoria ternatea. Soak for a week in the juice of the five parts of the plant. Given in food or drink, it is the supreme means to make a woman submissive.