The word is marana - death causing. Hindi speakers like to drop the last syllable if it is an *a*.
Just remember it as *mrita/amrita*- mortal/immortal. This word is contain in many mantras along with *phat*, the so-called weapon bija, used to burn away dross and the armor mantra *hum* (hoom/hoong). --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "WillyTex" <willy...@...> wrote: > > > > Bhairitu: > > This is how siddhis are used in my tantric tradition. > > For example we learn the maran siddhis to help someone > > who has supposedly had a maran spell cast on them... > > > That makes a lot of sense - casting a 'spell' on someone > who has had a spell cast upon them. A spell to get rid > of a spell. Yes, that's the ticket. Now, if you could > only learn to spell! > > maran: > > Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon: Search Results > No entries found. > > http://webapps.uni-koeln.de/cgi-bin/tamil/recherche >