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मनुष्य करं वा वृक्षे रक्षो भयं प्ररूपयित्वा सिद्ध व्यञ्जनाः पौर जानपदानां हिरण्येन प्रतिकुर्युः ॥
Or by causing a false panic owing to the arrival of an evil spirit on a tree in the city, wherein a man is hidden making all sorts of devilish noises, the king's spies, under the guise of ascetics, may collect money (with a view to propitiate the evil spirit and send it back).
english translation
सुरुङ्गा युक्ते वा कूपे नागम् अनियत शिरस्कं हिरण्य उपहारेण दर्शयेत् ॥
Or spies may call upon spectators to see a serpent with numberless heads in a well connected with a subterranean passage and collect fees from them for the sight.
english translation
नाग प्रतिमायाम् अन्तश् छन्नायां चैत्यच् छिद्रे वल्मीकच् छिद्रे वा सर्प दर्शनम् आहारेण प्रतिबद्ध संज्ञं कृत्वा श्रद्दधानानां दर्शयेत् ॥
Or they may place in a borehole made in the body of an image of a serpent, or in a hole in the corner of a temple, or in the hollow of an ant-hill, a cobra, which is, by diet, rendered unconscious, and call upon credulous spectators to see it (on payment of a certain amount of fee).
english translation
अश्रद्दधानानाम् आचमन प्रोक्षणेषु रसम् उपचार्य देवता अभिशापं ब्रूयात्, अभित्यक्तं वा दंशयित्वा ॥
As to persons who are not by nature credulous, spies may sprinkle over or give a drink of, such sacred water as is mixed with anasthetic ingredients and attribute their insensibility to the curse of gods.
english translation
योग दर्शन प्रतीकारेण वा कोश अभिसंहरणं कुर्यात् ॥
Or by causing an outcast person (âbhityáktá) to be bitten by a cobra, spies may collect revenue under the pretext of undertaking remedial measures against ominous phenomena.
english translation