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Third Chapter
Darpanaadhikaranam: Mirrors & Lenses.
Maharshi Bharadwaaja:
☞ "Darpanaashcha" Sootra 1.
"Mirrors".
Bodhaananda Vritti:
This chapter deals with the mirrors and lenses which are required
to be installed in the vimaana. They are seven different ones. Their
names are
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given by Lalla in "Mukura-kalpa" as Vishwakriyaadarpana,
or television mirror, Shaktyaakarshana darpana or power-capturing
mirror, Vyroopya darpana or appearance changing mirror, Kuntinee
darpana, Pinjulaa darpana, Guhaagarbha darpana, and Rowdree darpana or
terrifying darpana.
Vishwakriyaa darpana is to be fixed on a revolving stand near the
pilot so that he could observe whatever is happening outside on all
sides. Its manufacture is thus described in Kriyaasaara:
Two parts of satva, 2 parts of shundilaka, one part of eagle bone,
5 parts of mercury, 2 parts of the foot-nails of sinchoranee, 6 parts
of mica, 5 parts of red lead, 8 parts of pearl dust, 18 parts of the
eyeballs of sowmyaka fish, one part burning coal, 8 parts of snake's
slough, 3 parts of eye pigment, 6 parts of maatrunna, 10 parts of
granite sand, 8 parts of salts, 4 of lead, 2 parts of sea foam, 3
parts of white throated eagle's skin, 7 parts of bamboo salt, 5 parts
of vyraajya or white keg tree bark, these ingredients should be
purified, and weighed, and filled in a beaked crucible and placed in
the furnace called chandodara and subjected to a 800 degree heat, and
when duly liquified, should be poured into the funnel of the
kara-darpana yantra or hand-mirror mould. The result will be an
excellent mirror in which will be reproduced minute details of the
phenomena outside.
Next Shaktyaakarshana darpana:
As the vimaana flies through the regions of the sky, three classes
of destructive forces tend to overcome it. This mirror is capable of
neutralising and overcoming their effects.
Dhundinaathaachaarya also says: The wind, solar rays, and fire are
known as trivargas. Each of the three has 122 evil effects on the
plane's pilot. Those evil forces this mirror will absorb and nullify.
Paraankusha also says: There are certain crucial regions in the air
routes of the vimaana, at which the wind, solar heat and fire have 366
malefic influences, and shaktyaakarshana mirror is meant to safeguard
against them. It is to be prepared as follows:
5 parts of haritaala or yellow orpiment, 5 parts of virinchi, 8
parts of salts, 4 parts of gingelly husk, 6 parts of diamond, 1 of red
mica, 8 parts of burning coal, 3 parts of sand, 2 parts of tortoise
egg, 3 parts of bhaarani, 3 parts of kanda, 5 parts of powshkala, 5 of
coral, 2 of pearl, 6 of sea-shell,
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[paragraph
continues] 8 of borax, 3 parts of Bengal quince seed,
and 5 of shankha or conch, cleaned, powdered, filled in swan crucible,
placed in mandooka furnace and boiled to 500 degrees and poured slowly
into vistritaa-mirror yantra will yield a fine shaktyaakarshana
mirror.
The Vyroopya--darpana Mirror:
When enemy planes with men intent on intercepting and destroying
your vimaana attack you with all the means at their disposal, the
viroopya-darpana will frighten them into retreat or render them
unconscious and leave you free to destroy or rout them. The darpana,
like a magician, will change the appearance of your vimaana into such
frightening shapes that the attacker will be dismayed or paralysed.
There are 27 such different shapes that are said to be possible.
Sammohana-kriyaa-kaanda, or the work dealing with the methods causing
insensibility, mentions 17 of them. They are fire, water, wind,
thunder, lightning, fumes, scorpion, bear, lion, tiger, and
giant-sized frightful birds.
The manufacture of this mirror is thus given in Darpana-prakarana:
5 parts of bone salt, 3 parts zinc, 3 of lac, 8 of iron, 3 parts of
shashabola, 2 of raajakurantika, 8 parts of charcoal ashes, 3 of
borax, 8 parts of nakhaa, 7 of sand, 6 of matrunna, 2 of sun-crystal,
3 parts of poora or lime, 25 of mercury, 3 of yellow orpiment, 4 parts
of silver, 6 of kravyaada, 8 of garada, 3 of pishta, 4 parts of
arshoghna root, 3 parts of vaaraaha pittha, 3 of ammonium chloride, 25
of liquorice oil, taking these and 7 times purifying, filling in
crucible, and placing in furnace and boiling it to 800 degrees and
pouring into Darpanaasya yantra, will yield an excellent Vyraajaka
mirror.
The Kuntinee Mirror:
We now consider the Kuntinee mirror. The wise say that the mirror
by the glare of whose rays people's minds get deranged is Kuntinee
mirror. Paraankusha says that in the region of the solar electric heat
waves of the sky, seven streams of poisonous whirl-winds derange the
mind. Scientists have discovered the Kuntinee mirror as a protection against
that evil effect.
In "Sammohana-kriyaa-kaanda," the evil forces are
described as follows:
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Fat, blood, flesh, marrow, bone, skin, intelligence are adversely
affected by the evil wind currents known as gaalinee, kuntinee, kaalee,
pinjulaa, ulbanaa, maraa, in the electric heat wave regions of the
upper sky.
The manufacture of this mirror is thus explained in "Darpana-prakarana":
5 parts of sowraashtra earth, 7 parts of snake's slough, 3 of
sea-foam, 5 of shanmukha seeds, 8 of zinc, 3 parts of rhinoceros'
nails, 8 of salts, 7 of sand, 8 of mercury, 4 of conch, 6 parts of
matrunna, 3 parts of yellow orpiment, 4 of elephant and camel salts, 7
parts of suranghrikaa, 5 of gingelly oil, 8 of pearl-shells, 3 of
sea-shells, 4 parts of camphor, purified and filled in shinjikaa
crucible, and placed in shinjeera furnace and boiled to 700 degrees,
the fluid poured into the Darpanaasya yantra, will form into a morning
sun-like kuntinee mirror.
The Pinjulaa mirror:
The conflicting inter-action of the solar rays is called pinjulaa.
It has deleterious effect on the black eye-balls of the pilots. The
pinjulaa mirror, by intervening will prevent the eye-balls being
blinded by the evil rays.
It is said in "Amsubodhinee", or the work on solar rays,
"There are four directions, east, west, north and south, and four
corner directions, south-east, south-west, north-east and north-west.
The solar force of each direction has got its own intensity, owing to
different fire-force, different seasonal force, the effect of the five
winds, combined with the vaarunee or liquid force of the clouds, and
the resulting tension gives rise to four evil forces, andha,
andhakaara, pinjoosha, and taarapaa, whose glows, known as rakta,
jaathara, taaraagra, and prabha, striking the eye-balls result in
blindness of both eyes. "
The manufacture of this mirror is thus described in "Darpana
prakarana":
6 parts of goat's milk, 5 parts of red-lead, 8 parts of salts, 7
parts of sand, 5 parts of tree-gum, 8 parts of borax, 2 parts of
dambholi essence, 8 parts of mercury, 2 parts of copper and 2 of lead,
4 parts of surolika essence, 8 parts of twak, 3 parts of vaardhyushika,
3 of kanda, 4 parts of pishta or gingelly husk, 3 parts of orpiment, 7
parts of Tinnevelli senna, 4 parts of vrikodaree seeds, these 18 to be
purified, powdered, and filled in crucible, and placed in furnace and
boiled to 700 degrees, and poured into Darpana yantra, will yield an
excellent pinjulaa mirror.
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Next Guhaa-garbha darpana:
"The conflict between the electricity in the clouds, wind, and
rays, generates forces harmful to pilots. The guhaa-garbha darpana, by
attracting them and projecting them by electric force against enemy
planes, renders the persons inside them physically disabled and
incapable of fighting."
"Prapanchasaara" also says:
"In the Middle of the two shells above kashyapa, there is
vaarunee force. Between the shell and vaarunee force 5000 wind
currents subsist. Similarly there are disease causing rays numbering
80 millions. The various winds and rays by mutual action result in
flows and counter flows. When the cloud force, wind force, and solar
force interplay they give rise to various harmful forces like
bubbles:"
Lallaacharya also avers, "In accordance with the 110th
principle, when the cloud-power, wind-power and sun-power meet with
force and collide, they produce poisonous effects which are dangerous
to mankind."
Vasishtha says in "Swatassiddha-Nyaaya" or
"self-evident truth", that when alien forces cross one
another, a poisonous flow will result naturally as an egg comes out of
a tortoise.
"Sammohana kriyaa-kaanda" explains:
"By the conflict of cloud force, wind force and solar forces,
305105 poisonous waves known as guha and others emanate, and cause,
kushtha, apasmaara, grihinee, khaasa, and shoola. Chief among them are
five, known as gridhnee, godhaa, kunjaa, roudree, and guhaa. By
accelerating them and directing them against the enemy, the
guhaa-garbha mirror disables them."
"Darpana prakarana " describes its manufacture thus:
7 parts of couries, 3 parts of manjula or madder root, 6 parts of
sea-foam, 8 parts of ranjaka or phosphorous, 6 parts of mandoora or
rust, 8 parts of mercury, 3 parts of orpiment, 7 parts of brahmika, 2
parts of lead, 8 parts of eye pigment, 6 parts of matrunnna, 8 parts
of sand, 6 parts of kishora, 5 of muchukunda, 2 parts of gingelly oil,
25 of lohika, 5 parts of mridaani garbha essence, 8 of sowraashtra
earth, 5 parts of sphatika, 3 of bones, 15 of indusatva or moonstone?,
and 5 of dambholi taakaa dwaya satva,
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taking these 22, purifying and powdering them and filling crucible,
and placing in furnace and boiling to 700 degrees, and cooled in
yantra, guhaa garbha darpana is produced.
Rowdree-darpana is a mirror or lens which liquefies everything that
it flashes against.
Paraankusha says that where Rudraanyosharaa and abhralinga come
into contact, a fierce force called roudree comes into being. Mingling
with solar rays it melts everything. "Sammohana kriyaa kaanda"
says:
"By the mixing of roudree and solar rays an evil force called
maarikaa is generated, and impelled by the solar electricity, it
destroys the enemy planes."
Darpanaa prakarana describes its manufacture:
8 parts of lead, 3 parts of shaalmali, 7 of durvaara, 8 parts
kudupinjara, 21 parts of droonee, 8 parts sun-crystal, 27 parts of
rudraanee-graavoshara, 6 parts betel leaves, 8 parts of kowtila, 30 of
veeraabhra linga, 8 parts of salts, 7 of sand, 6 parts of matrunna, 3
of dimbhika, 8 of zinc, 13 of ant-hill earth, 6 of gum, 3 of kumbhinee,
3 parts sweet oil, 27 of Tinnevelly senna, 6 of godhaamla, 8 of silk
cotton, 8 parts of virinchi satva, 5 parts of kanda, 3 parts of yellow
orpimet, 7 parts of kaarmukha, or brown barked acacia?, these 26,
powdered, purified, and filled in crucible and placed in furnace and
boiled to 800 degrees, and poured into Darpana yantra, will yield a
fine roudrikaa-uarpana.
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