“One should take soil from the ocean, Make an image of a single nāga, Place the syllables hūṁ puḥ at its heart, And recite the mantra that begins hrīḥ ṣṭrīḥ. Rain will fall at times of drought By reciting the mantra ten thousand times,

“The vow-holder should mix cobra meat With leaves of the neem tree, Roll the mixture into a pill, Throw it into the ocean, And recite the mantra ten thousand times. This is the supreme means for arresting waves.

“One should take one hundred datura seeds, Mixed with beans and rice grains, And perform a fire offering with 800,000 recitations. One will then behold the deity.

“The vow-holder should draw an effigy With charred stick from a cremation pyre And smear it with datura fluid. After reciting the mantra 10,000 times the target will develop leprosy.

“One should take white mustard seeds, Recite the mantra 400,000 times, And scatter them over a person collapsed from snake bite. That person will recover—there is no doubt.

“One should take clay from a gulch And recite the mantra 100,000 times. Any headache will be cured By smearing this on one’s head.

“When one incants their hand seven times And uses it to rub their head, There will be no head pain— About this there is no doubt.

“One should make an effigy of Yamāri From the flesh of a brahmin And ash and soil from a charnel ground. He should have two arms and one face, Hold a large vajra in his right hand, And a human head in his left. He should be white and very frightening. All wicked beings can be destroyed with this.

“The yogin should offer bali daily, Using the five meats and the five nectars, And the make the request, ‘Annihilate my enemies!’

“When this is said at night, before sleep, The enemy will be dead at dawn. Or they will suffer from urinary blockage Or fall sick with another illness.

“One should take the enemy’s vairocanā And fill a human bone with it. Once full, and once the mantra is recited 100,000 times, One will be like a preta moving through treetops. One will attain every excellent siddhi And achieve the various goals.

This was the ninth chapter, “Fearsome Yamāri,” from The Tantra of Black Yamāri, the Body, Speech, and Mind of All Tathāgatas.