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MAGIC SYLLABLES
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pathy and assure him how indignant I felt at the iniquitous
treatment to which he had been subjected.
There are certain majitra7?i.s which have a very special
They are called bija-aksharas, or radical
such, for instance, as hram. hrim, hrom, hroum,
hraha, &c.
To those who have the key to the true pro-
nunciation of them and know how to use and apply them,
nothing is impossible there is no limit to the miracles they
can perform. The following is an example
Siva had initiated a little bastard boy into all the mys-
The boy was the son of
teries of these radical letters.
a Brahmin widow, and on account of the stain on his birth
had experienced the mortification of being excluded from
a wedding feast, to which many persons of his caste had
been invited. He revenged himself by simply pronouncing
two or three of these radical letters through a crack in the
door of the room where the guests were assembled. Im-
mediately, by virtue of these marvellous words, all the
dishes that had been prepared fo