Beautifying the body

Subhagankaranadi Prakarana

f one fails to attain the heart's desire by any of the methods described earlier, one can take recourse to different means of attracting others to accomplish the fulfillment of inner passions. One's fortune is also considerably improved by adopting the special measures described in the Tantra Shastra and the Atharva Veda.

Secret Formulae to Enhance Beauty

Good looks, good qualities, youth and liberality are the principal and most natural means of making a person agreeable in others' eyes. But in their absence, a man or woman can resort to secret recipes, charms, aphrodisiacs, artificial membranes and the artful application of cosmetics. Some recipes for these may be useful.

A paste made from the leaves of tagara, kashtha, and talisapatra, smeared all over the body increases physical beauty.

If a fine power made of the same plants is made into a wick mixed with bibhitaka oil and ignited, the result is kohl, eye-black. Applied to the eyelashes, this enlarges the appearance of the eyes, and makes the face most attractive.

The roots of punarnava, sahadevi, sariva, and kurantaka should be boiled with the leaves of utpala, in oil of sesamum. This oil massaged all over the body enhances the texture and sheen of the skin. A thick paste of these ingredients made into beads and worn as a garland at the same time, intensifies the effect.

If the stamen of the flowers of padma and utpala, white and blue lotus, together with nagakesara, is dried, powdered and mixed with honey and clarified butter, and sipped, it improves the complexion. If together with the oral concoction, the body is smeared with a paste of these ingredients, mixed with the powder of tagara, talisa, and tamalapatra, the effect is doubly augmented.

Efficacious and beautifying amulets are also recommended. A powerful talisman is the eye of a peacock sealed into a golden case at an auspicious moment. Other amulets are dried berries or the badaramani, gathered from the topmost branches, the stones removed and sorted. If a berry with a right hand opening like a shankhamani, conch, is found, it is most propitious and being very rare, should be consecrated by hymns from the Atharva Veda, by a skilled yogi adept in the science of magic.

By drinking milk mixed with certain ayurvedic ingredients a man can increase his sexual vigor and can become as virile as animals.

Giving a Courtesan's Daughter in Marriage

When a female attendant reaches the age of puberty, her master should keep her isolated, and when young men ardently desire her because her seclusion, and the difficulty of approaching her, he should bestow her hand on such a man as may endow her with wealth to prevent a rival from getting the better of him. This is a recognized means of increasing the maid's good fortune and happiness, the attributes of attractiveness and a loving nature.

Similarly, when a courtesan's daughter reaches the age of puberty, the mother should get together many young men of the same age, disposition, and knowledge as her daughter, and tell them she would give her in panigrahana, holding of the hands ceremony, to the boy who would give her presents of a valuable kind. After this the daughter is kept in seclusion as far as possible, and then given to the youth ready to give her the presents agreed upon. If the mother is unable to get so much out of him, she should display some of her own possessions as having been given to the daughter by her lover. Or the mother may allow her daughter to be attached to her lover privately, while feigning ignorance; then pretending it has come to her knowledge, give her consent.

When an ointment made of kokilaksha fruit is applied to the yoni of a Hastini woman, her yoni will contract for one night.

The daughter, too, should attract the sons of wealthy citizens, unknown to her mother, and make them regard her with affection. She should meet them when learning to sing, in places where music is played, and the houses of other people; then request her mother, through a female friend or servant, to be allowed to unite with the young man most agreeable to her.

When a courtesan's daughter is thus given to a lover, the relationship is to be observed for one year, and after that she is free to do what she likes. But even after the end of the year, if she is occasionally invited by her first consort to come and visit him, when otherwise engaged, she should go to him for the night.

Such is the mode of temporary union among courtesans, and of increasing their loveliness, and their value in the eyes of others. The same also applies to the daughters of dancing women, who should give them only to such persons as are likely to be useful to them in various ways.

Compelling Love and Enslaving Others

There are means of attracting others and raising one's prowess to enviable heights. If a man anoints his lingam with a mixture of the powders of dhatturaka, white thorn apple, pippali, long pepper, maricha, black pepper, and madhu, honey, and engages in sexual union with a woman, he makes her subject to his will.

If one fails to attain the heart's desire, one can take recourse to different means of attracting others to accomplish the fulfillment of inner passions. Some of these measures find their base in the Tantra Shastra.

An application of a mixture of the vatodbhranta patra leaves scattered by the wind, the flowers thrown on a human corpse to be burnt, and the powdered bones of the mayura, peacock, and jivanjivaka, swallow bird, enables the man to sexually satisfy the woman completely.

A paste made from the powdered remains of a kite which has died a natural death, cowdung ash and honey, if applied to the body before taking a bath, will enable the man to attract any woman.

Anointing the phallus with a salve made of the amalaka plant enhances the power of subjecting women to one's will.

A man who grinds the sprouts of the vajrasruhi into small pieces and dips them into a mixture of red arsenic and pure sulphur, dries them seven times, and applies this mixed with honey to his lingam, can subjugate a woman to his will during sexual union, or, if he burns these sprouts at night and sees a golden moon behind the smoke, he will be successful with any woman. If he mixes the powder of these sprouts with the excreta of a monkey, and throws this on a maiden, she will not be easily attached to anybody else.

If pieces of Vacha are dressed with amratailam, mango oil, and preserved for six months in a crevice in the forked trunk of the shimshapa, sissu tree, and are then made into a paste, and applied to the lingam before engaging in sexual union, this will subjugate women.

A camel bone dipped into the juice of bharingaraj is burnt, and the black pigment from its ashes placed in a box made of camel bone, and applied together with anjana, antimony, to the eyelashes with a sliver of camel bone. This pigment is said to be very pure and wholesome for the eyes, and subjugates others to the will of the person who uses it.

If one fails to attain the heart's desire, one can take recourse to different means of attracting others to accomplish the fulfillment of inner passions. Some of these measures find their base in the Tantra Shastra.

Recipes for Increasing Sexual Vigor

Men can increase sexual vigor by drinking milk mixed with sugar, the powdered root of uchchaata, chavya, and yashtimadhuka, liquorice, and become as virile as bulls.

Drinking milk, in which the testicles of a ram or a goat have been boiled and mixed with sugar, increases sexual stamina.

Seeds of long pepper with sugarcane roots, and vidari, pounded together and mixed with milk, act as a powerful stimulant.

Specific tantras are devoted to the mode of ritual of worship of Goddess Kali and the benefits that are to be gained from the worship. Here Kali stands stride Kama and Rati, the feminine and masculine principles lying conjoined beneath her feet and representing female ascendancy for the sake of creation.

If the seeds or roots of sringataka, kaseruka, and liquorice are pounded with kshirakakoli, a kind of onion, and the powder is put into milk mixed with sugar and clarified butter, and boiled on a moderate fire, the man who drinks this syrup will be able to enjoy innumerable women.

Similarly, if a man mixes rice with the eggs of a sparrow, boils this in milk, adds clarified butter and honey, and drinks it, he will enhance his sexual ability.

If a man soaks the outer covering of sesamum seeds with the eggs of sparrows, boils them in milk, mixed with sugar and clarified butter, adds the fruits of sringataka and the kaseruka plant, wheat flour and swayamgupta beans, and then drinks this concoction, he can enjoy countless women. If equal quantities of clarified butter, honey, sugar, and liquorice, the juice of the fennel plant, and milk are mixed together, this nectar-like composition is said to be holy, provocative of sexual vigour, a preserver of life, and sweet to the taste.

Tantric art provides for unique and unusual imagery.

Tonics for Health and Longevity

Extracts of shatavari, with shvadamshtra are mixed with treacle and boiled in thickened cow's milk with clarified butter; long pepper, liquorice, and honey are added, making a concoction delightful to taste. Taken every day starting when the moon enters the Pushya constellation, this is conducive to longevity and recuperative after excesses.

Boiling shatavari and shvadamshtra with the pounded fruits of shriparni, in water, and drinking this every day, is a recuperative tonic. Drinking boiled clarified butter in the morning during the spring, benefits health by providing strength, and is agreeable to the taste. If the powdered seeds of gokshura and barley flour are mixed in equal parts, and two palas of this in weight eaten every morning on waking up, it is beneficial.

If equal amounts of shatavari, gokshura, and shriparni are macerated, boiled in water and strained, the mixture is a powerful tonic for toning up the body and enhancing vigor. It should be taken in the cool weather every morning.

A woman's passion is often insatiable and artificial phalluses as also appendages wrapped around the lingam are invaluable. They have the effect of inciting fiery sexual urges in the highly passionate woman and then she can be satisfied.

There are also shlokas on the subject :

The means of producing love and sexual vigor should be learned from the science of medicine, from the Atharva Veda, the Tantra Shastras, and those who are learned in the arts of magic, and experienced alchemists. No means should be employed which are doubtful in their effects, likely to cause injury to the body, which involve the death of animals, and which bring us in contact with impure things. Such means should only be used as are holy, acknowledged to be good and approved of by Brahmins and friends.