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vashikaran

वशीकरण vaśīkaraṇa

Subjugation; one of the six acts (shatkarma), the bending of another's will to one's own. Classed within the tradition as lower and dangerous magic; the modern 'vashikaran specialist' trade that sells it as love magic is largely commercial fraud.

Where this term appears

  • The Shatkarma: The Six Acts of Tantric Magic Lineages

    And printed among the guarantees are two of the oldest words in the tantric vocabulary: vashikaran , and shatkarma .

  • The six acts Treatise

    Vaśya or vaśīkaraṇa , subjugation, brings a person under the practitioner's control; stambhana , immobilization, stops a person's activity; vidveṣa , enmity, creates dissension between two people attached to ea…

  • The word, reclaimed or not Treatise

    … 21, "The six acts", reports that the classical six-act grid, śānti , vaśīkaraṇa , stambhana , vidveṣa , uccāṭana , māraṇa , does not organise this corpus at all, and that the tradition carries its own ethical …

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