O Mitra, O Varuna, strip her of will power! I, I alone, wield power over the heart and mind of my beloved!
A woman, on the other hand, may secure a man’s love by the following supplication:
I am possessed by burning love for this man: and this love comes to me from Apsaras, who is victorious ever. Let the man yearn for me, desire me, let his desire burn for me! Let this love come forth from the spirit, and enter him.
Let him desire me as nothing has been desired before! I love him, want him: he must feel this same desire for me!
O Maruts, let him become filled with love. O Spirit of the Air, fill him with love. O Agni, let him burn with love for me!
A variant supplication directed toward a similar purpose is the following, from the same source as the two previous invocations:
By the power and Laws of Varuna I invoke the burning force of love, in thee, for thee. The desire, the potent love-spirit which all the gods have created in the waters, this I invoke, this I employ, to secure thy love for me!
Indrani has magnetized the waters with this love-force.
And it is that, by Varuna’s Laws, that I cause to burn!
Thou wilt love me, with a burning desire.
In its religious traditions, India has affinities with the earliest known forms of sacred rites, concepts, and views. In Hindu religious mythology, the cosmic power of creation, of the generative capacity, is symbolized by the duality of the hermaphrodite, the male and female intertwined, sharing the properties of each other, representing the passive and active principles that pervade all Nature.
From the testimony furnished by bas-reliefs in caves such as the Ajanta caverns, by temple carvings, paintings, and sculptural adornments, the cult of the lingam, throughout India, appears to date back to a very remote and undetermined antiquity.
Among certain sects, the supreme power is worshipped in the phallic form. In wayside lodges, on facades and shrines, the genital figure of masculine dominance is everywhere on view. In many instances this omnipresence and insistence of the symbolic phallus assume monstrously obscene forms and positions, writhing and contorted in erotic frenzy, or entwined in serpentine coils and performing abominations of the utmost lubricity in the name and under the aegis of the cosmic creative force.