The Tantra of Siddhaikavīra
Chapter 2

As here follows:

Early in the morning, in a clean place, one should draw a maṇḍala, set up a jar, and make generous offerings to the god Vimalacandra.51 One should incant the mirror and show it to a boy or girl who is well washed,52 dressed in very clean clothes, anointed with white sandalwood paste and wearing a necklace of sweet-smelling flowers, and uncorrupted by “villagers’ dharma.” Then the mirror will reveal without error what should be done as regards the intended task.

In the evening, one should wipe the top surface of the maṇḍala disk and make generous offerings to the god, lord Vimalacandra.53 Having made an offering 108 times, one should go to sleep without speaking. The beneficial and harmful results of the task one has in mind will be revealed. To those who recite the mantra continuously, the events taking place in the three worlds will be revealed.

If one stands under a belleric myrobalan tree or under a banyan tree and silently recites the mantra 100,000 times, one will attain success. Muṇḍā, whispering in one’s ear,54 will recount all that is happening in the three worlds. Alternatively, bathed and dressed in clean clothes, one should recite it 10,000 times in a secluded place. Then one will attain success.

At night, one should incant costus root 108 times. Then, having anointed one’s face and feet with it, one should go to sleep without speaking. It will then be revealed in one’s sleep what will be beneficial and what will not.

If one follows here the same procedure described for the previous mantra, Calā will reveal things in a mirror, a conch, a candle, or a dish of water. One who recites the mantra silently, after washing his face with water incanted 108 times, will perceive in his sleep what is beneficial and what is not.

This mantra55 can be mastered by reciting it 10,000 times. [F.7.a] One should make generous offerings to the blessed noble lord Avalokiteśvara, wash one’s face with water incanted 108 times, and recite the mantra, having set one’s mind on the task to be accomplished. If one goes to sleep without speaking, one will behold the lord as one’s own body and learn what will be beneficial and what will not.

This mantra is the heart essence of Lord Lokanātha. One will attain success by reciting it one million times. If one follows here the same ritual described for the previous mantra, it will be revealed in one’s dreams what is beneficial and what is not.

One should make offerings, according to one’s ability, in front of a painting or a statue of venerable Mañjuśrī,56 or by a memorial that contains his body relics. If one recites the mantra seven hundred times, one will oneself behold the lord in a dream and show him to others, too.

Beneath a tree inhabited by piśācas, one should observe silence and sit absorbed in the samādhi of conquering the three worlds. Then, one should incant meat, fish,57 and black plum, and with them prepare a bali. One should recite the mantra in the three periods of the day. On the first day Karṇapiśācī will give a sign. Later, she will come, and one will attain success. From then on, whispering into one’s ear, she will recount all that is happening in the three worlds. After twenty-one days, one will succeed even in killing Brahmā.

One should recite [this mantra] in a charnel ground in front of a painting of Yamāntaka. After twenty-one days,58 Karṇapiśācī will be in one’s control.

In a memorial containing his relics, or in front of the venerable Buddha, one should recite the mantra 10,000 times as preliminary practice. Later, one should make offerings according to one’s ability. [F.7.b] At bedtime, one should recite the mantra eight hundred times. One should go to sleep with the following question in one’s mind: “What was my past existence, and what will my future existence be?” In one’s sleep, one will perceive one’s past and future births, there is no doubt.

If one is to die within six months, then in one’s dream one will not be able to see one’s own head or those of others. Similarly, a boy or a girl whom one sees in an incanted mirror with his or her head invisible will die within six months.59

One should make an unguent from malachite and the root of white agastya tree, incant it 108 times, and smear it on one’s eyes. One will distinctly see without heads all those who are going to die within six months, whether humans or animals.

This king of mantras works with all the methods previously described.

If one recites this mantra surrounded by water, one will be given the girl one has in mind.

One should recite the mantra 100,000 times for each syllable. By offering a homa of priyaṅgu flowers or palāśa flowers one will obtain great splendor.

If one recites this mantra at night while performing a homa using the wood of a milk tree, one will obtain any village for which one performs the homa and recitation.

By performing 100,000 homa rituals with lotuses or bilva fruits, one born into a royal family will obtain the kingdom. Others will obtain great splendor.

When one offers 700,000 homa rituals with any type of flowers, one will obtain inexhaustible wealth.

Reciting this king of the heart mantras of the four sisters 400,000 times, following the same procedures as described previously, will accomplish all the rituals described previously.

By offering a homa with flowers of the palāśa tree 100,000 times, using, as an option, firewood from the same tree, one will obtain 100,000 pieces of gold. [F.8.a] One who wishes for a girl will soon obtain the one he desires.

This mantra is the essence of Mahālakṣmī. When recited continuously, it will bring enormous glory. By offering a homa of whatever flowers are available, one will obtain great splendor and any girl one desires. By offering 100,000 homas of bdellium pills the size of a kernel of a cotton tree, smeared with the three sweet substances, or 100,000 homas of lotuses, one will obtain a kingdom.

This king of mantras is the heart essence of Nandinī. It accomplishes all the previously described activities.60 [S13]

This king of mantras brings the fulfillment of wishes when one makes offerings of oleander flowers to the venerable Tārā and recites the mantra 100,000 times for each syllable.

One should imagine oneself in the form of Jambhala, and visualize in one’s heart, in the center of a moon disk, the goddess Vasudharā, who is of golden color, has two arms, and is adorned with all adornments. In the four directions, starting with the east, she is surrounded by four goddesses. Her right hand is in a boon-granting gesture, and in her left she is holding grain and a cluster of blossoms. Visualizing her like this will bring fulfillment of one’s wishes.

One should draw a four-sided maṇḍala with cow dung, two hands in diameter, and offer sweet-smelling61 flowers in the three periods of the day. When one has done 4,000 recitations, one’s wishes will become fulfilled within six months.

By offering 400,000 homas of whatever flowers may be available, one will obtain great splendor. By reciting the mantra 100,000 times for each syllable, one will ensure great splendor. After offering 100,000 homas of bdellium pills, one’s wishes will come true. [F.8.b]

Observing one’s minor vows,62 one should bathe and, while in the water, recite this mantra 400,000 times. Then one will obtain the girl one desires.

At night, one should do a homa offering 100,000 times with the wood of a milk tree, including [in the mantra] the name of a village. Then one will obtain that village.

One should draw Vasudharā on a gold, silver, or copper leaf in the center of an eight-petaled lotus. On its petals, starting from the east, one should draw the great yakṣiṇīs, Candrakāntī, and so forth. One should then enclose it in two leaves and place it in between ghee, honey, and sugar.63 By following the same procedures as previously described, one will accomplish the tasks previously described. [S14]

The lord is surrounded by the eight great kings64 of the yakṣas, and accompanied by the goddess Vasudharā. He is of golden color, holding a mongoose and a citron, with a protruding belly, and adorned with all the jewel ornaments. The yakṣa lords, for their part, are accompanied by the yakṣiṇīs mentioned. The lord can even grant the rulership of the three worlds to those who meditate, make offerings during the three periods of the day, and recite the mantras, or to those who offer eight hundred handfuls of water.

One who recites this early in the morning, before crows start to caw, while standing in water, will have an inexhaustible accumulation of wealth.

Alternatively, on a golden plate one should engrave Vasudharā surrounded by the yakṣiṇīs, and on a second plate Lord Jambhala surrounded by the yakṣas. [F.9.a] One should join them together and wear65 them. Then the lord will grant the eight great siddhis, not to mention other siddhis.