[INDOLOGY] Ismail Jogi mantra

[Artur Karp]

Prof. Danuta Stasik, University of Warsaw, suggests that the spell relates
-rather - to the so called 'tertian/intermittent fever'.

Could someone give me, please, a word-for-word translation of this spell?

Artur Karp

2017-05-09 18:12 GMT+02:00 Artur Karp <karp at uw.edu.pl>:

> Five years ago I sent to the List this question:
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> << Mantras in popular Indian magic books - of indrajala type - invoke
> often two mysterious personages: Ismail Jogi and Nuna/Nona/Luna/Lona
> Chamarin.
>
> Has anyone written a paper on them. A monograph - perhaps?>>
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> ​There was no answer.
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> One such mantra runs as follows:
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> *Oṁ namo kāmrū des kāmākhyā devī*
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> *Tahāṁ base ismāil jogī*
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> *Ismāil jogi ke tīn beṭā*
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> *Ek toṛe ek pichoṛe*
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> *Ek śīt tijārī goḍe*
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> I am not sure about the meaning of this mantra.
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> Ismail Jogi (contradictio in adiecto) had three sons:
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> one aborted (?), one retarded (?)
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> one coolly (?) in your (?) womb.
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> I would be grateful for your comments,
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> Artur Karp (ret.)
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> Chair of South Indian Studies,
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> University of Warsaw
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> Polska
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> ​
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