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generally directed (except & few which are eifhej- philosopical (1)
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. nity benefit (without causing harm to others) or to.caase injury
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(a) Paustika hymns ; for growth and welfare^ ', (b) Ayusya
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(1) AV.BT$M\ VIII.9, 10; X.7; XIX.53, 54.
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of maleficent occult practices, iater on, Sayana'4"1-' .also
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vi.129 - 131 in the matter of winning ov,pr a wicked wife by. per-
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forming a sympathetic occult rite : an effigy of the wickec^wife*
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b-eli^ behind such rites is that as the effigy simulates the
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act on the actual persen exactly in the.same manner.
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Sayanabhasya (AV.xix.56)
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