DIVINATION BY LOTS. 



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But if you are sick it is somewhat bad. For travelling you should 

 first feed people and dogs. You will obtain a son and get temporal 

 power. Your wishes will ultimately be obtained. You have as an 

 enemy a thief. 



No. 2. The Turquoise Spring. — The dried valley will yield springs 

 and plants will become verdant, and timely rain will fall. The 

 absent will soon return. Do the c?pang-5sto6? worship of the Enemy 

 God (sgra Iha) and the worship of your sijecial god (wichhod Iha). It 

 is good for marriage. 



No. 8. The Conch Chaitya. — In the supreme Ok-min heavens it is 

 good for the lower animals. In the three worlds of existence is long 

 life and auspicious time. Your desires will be realized. Life is 

 good. If you are ill, whitewash the Chaitya and worship in the 

 Temple. The enemy is somewhat present. For merchants the time 

 is rather late, but no serious loss will happen. For health it is 

 good. 



No. 9. The Invalid. — If an actual invalid it is due to the demon of 

 the grand-parents. Agriculture will be bad. Cattle will suffer. To pre- 

 vent this, offer the "black" cake of the three heads (</tor nag mgb sum) 

 and do Yang-kuk or " calling for Luck." For your wishes, business, 

 and credit it is a bad outlook. For sickness do " Tse-dub" or " Obtain- 

 ing Long Life." Mend the road and repaint the ^^ ^lanV stones. 

 Household things and Life are bad. For these read the "do-mang" 

 (vide page 292), also Du-Kar and Dok. The ancestral devil is to be 

 suppressed by Sri-^non. Avoid conflict with the enemy and new 

 schemes and long journeys. 



The titles of the other numbers somewhat indicate the nature of 

 their contents, viz. — 



3. Golden Dorje. 



4. Painted vase. 



5. Turquoise parrot. 



6. Verdant plants. 



7. Lady carrying 



child. 

 10. White Lion. 



The above are the forms of dice-boards used by the laity and the 



lower clergy. The more respectable lamas use a 



Tweuty-eig . circular disc with twenty-eight divisions in the 



fonn of three concentric lotus flowers, each of the petals of the two 



outer whorls bearing a number which corresponds to a number in 



the divining manual which is called " Las-bye«? ??2thong-ba kun-Man," 



