help sought to indetify mandukavasanja

[Dominic Goodall]

I haven't seen your passage and so can't judge, but how about simply  
taking the expression literally: `ointment prepared with the fat of a  
frog' ? Such an ointment might have the magical effect of confounding  
the senses.

Such magical ointments involving frog's fat (of frog's marrow?) are  
prepared (though for rather different magical goals) in the  
Ma~nju"sriimuulakalpa (chapter 41 after verse 3), in the Artha"saastra  
(14.2), in the Tantrasadbhaavatantra (in a prose section between  
23.276 and 277 in Mark Dyczkowski's e-text), in Garu.dapura.na  
1.182.13, in K.semendra's Kalaavilaasa 9.12,
and in chapter 3 of the Guhyasuutra of the Ni"svaasatattvasa.mhitaa  
(where frog's fat is to be combined with a chameleon that has been  
buried for a month and with sharp oil (i.e. mustard-seed oil?) and  
then rubbed on the legs to enable one to go great distances and return  
before sunset):

tata.h karmma prakurviita g.rhiitvaa k.rkalaa"sakam|
bhaa.n.dasthan nikhaned bhuumau mantre.naivaabhimantritam|| 3:48||
maase puur.n.ne samaaddh.rtya ma.n.duukava"sayaa yutam|
ka.tutailavi<<liptan tu>> "satadhaa caabhimantritam|| 3:49||
paadapralepa.m k.rtvaa tu gacchate pa~nca pa~nca vaa|
<<anastamitamaaditye>> punar aagacchate drutam|| 3:50||


Perhaps the source of your passage is "Slokavaarttika, spho.tavaada 43 ?

SPH41ab madhura.m tiktaruupe.na "sveta.m piitatayaa tathaa
SPH41cd g.rh.nanti pittado.se.na vi.saya.m bhraantacetasa.h ||
SPH42ab tathaa vegena dhaavanto naavyaaruu.dhaa"s ca gacchata.h
SPH42cd parvataadiin vijaananti bhrame.na bhramata"s ca taan ||
SPH43ab ma.n.duukavasayaaktaak.saa va.m"saanuragabuddhibhi.h
SPH43cd vyaktyalpatvamahattvaabhyaa.m saamaanya.m ca tadaa"srtayam ||
SPH44ab g.rh.nanti yadvadetaani nimittagraha.naad vinaa
SPH44cd vya~njakasthamabudhvaiva vya"ngye bhraantir bhavi.syati ||

Dominic Goodall
Pondicherry Centre,
Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient ("French School of Asian Studies"),



On 29 Dec 2008, at 08:05, veeranarayana Pandurangi wrote:

> Dear Freinds
> In adavaitasiddhi and other texts (Gadadharas  
> प्रतिबध्यप्रतिबन्धकभव and
> Dinakari) a certain मण्डूकवसाञ्जन (defect  
> of senses) what exactly this mean?
> how does it work? I want some reference from ayurveda or othter texts.
> Thanks in advance
>
> -- 
> Veeranarayana N.K. Pandurangi
> Head, Dept of Darshanas,
> Yoganandacharya Bhavan,
> Jagadguru Ramanandacharya Rajasthan Samskrita University, Madau, post
> Bhankrota, Jaipur, 302026.