Editing Abraham Kovoor's challenge (section)

==The challenge==
: ''I, Abraham T. Kovoor of "Tiruvalla", Pamankada Lane, Colombo-6 do hereby state that l am prepared to pay an award of 100, 000 [[Sri Lanka]]n rupees to any one from any part of the world who can demonstrate supernatural or miraculous powers under fool-proof and fraud-proof conditions. This offer will remain open till my death or till I find the first winner.''

[[Godman (Hindu ascetic)|Godmen]] and [[saint]]s who claim that they acquired miraculous powers through spiritual exercises and divine boons win this award if they can perform any of the following "[[miracle]]s"
# Read the serial number of a sealed up currency note.
# Produce an exact replica of a currency note.
# Stand stationary on burning cinders for half a minute without blistering the feet.
# Materialise from nothing an object I ask.
# Move or bend a solid object using [[psychokinetic]] power.
# Read the thought of another person using [[telepathic]] powers.
# Make an amputated limb grow even one inch by prayer, spiritual or [[faith healing]] powers, [[Lourdes]] water, blessing etc.
# Levitate in the air by yogic power.
# Stop the heart-beat for five minutes by spritual power.
# Stop breathing for thirty minutes by spritual power.
# Walk on water.
# Leave the body in one place and reappear in another place.
# Predict a future event.
# Develop creative intelligence or get enlightened through [[transcendence (philosophy)|transcendental]] or [[meditation]].
# Speak or understand an unknown language as a result of by being possessed by a spirit, holy or evil.
# Produce a spirit or ghost to be photographed.
# Disappear from the negative when photographed.
# Get out of a locked room by spiritual power.
# Increase the quantity by weight of a substance by divine power.
# Detect a hidden object.
# Convert water into petrol or wine.
# Convert wine into blood.
# [[Astrologer]]s and [[palmistry|palmist]]s, who hoodwink the gullible by saying that [[astrology]] and [[palmistry]] are perfectly "Scientific", can win my award if they can pick out correctly—within a margin of five percent error—those of males, females, and living and the dead from a set of ten palm prints or astrological charts giving the exact time of birth correct to the minute, and places of birth with their latitudes and longitudes.