Protective rites and spiritual measures

For communities ruined by sorcery (kritya), poison, anger and unrighteousness, the text says, people should ward off the great calamities by devoting themselves to pacification rites, expiation, auspicious recitation, offerings, compassion and charity.

People are said to destroy by dharma the anger that arises from kritya (sorcery) and similar causes (the next words are garbled), such anger producing great calamities in the world; to ward them off, pacification rites, expiation, auspicious recitation, offerings, compassion and charity are to be practised.

The editor says one manuscript records a mantra to be recited when taking medicine, and quotes it: verses praying that, in a body much afflicted by disease, the medicine may be the supreme nectar and the physician the remover of the disease, like a sage who has gained all medicines, ending with a salutation to the glorious Jina, free from disease, who has conquered the disease of birth.