336 MAGIC EITES. 



^^ House section. — All your household will be happy aud lucky, and 

 " for a timo your house will be safe; but where the cattle dwell, there 

 " a thief and rogue will perhaps come. To avoid this repeat, or get 

 "repeated (by lamas), 10,000 times the spell (.(/zung) of Arya Marici 

 " Phagpa-hod-zer-chan-ma — {vide page 288). 



" Favours section. — The favours you wish will be got gradually. To 

 " remove the difficulty in the way of getting these repeat, or get repeated, 

 " 100,000 times the ^zung of gra-lnga, and also of Devi 16-gyon-ma 

 " (this latter is Opi ! pisha-tsi par-na-sha-iva-ri sarha dso-la-ta-sha-ma-na-ye 

 " sioa-ha !), and do the Dug-kar with its contained Jzlog-^isgyur (clapping 

 " of hands) celebration. 



'■^Life [Srog). — This is good. But the ^'don demon from the east 

 "and south came with a blue and black article you got. To clear 

 " away this cloud do, or get done, 100,000 gribsel and do the Naga 

 " worship and read, or get read, 1,000 times Sherab-Nyingpo. 



'' Ifedical — Taking the medicine prescribed for you for a long 

 "time secretly you will recover. Also burn a lamp nightly from 

 " sunset to sunrise as an offering to the gods. 



" Enemy. — You will not suffer, as your god is strong and will 

 "protect you. 



" Visitors — probable. — They are coming, or news of their visit will 

 " soon be received. 



^^ Business. — If you quickly do business it will be profitable — 

 " delay will be unprofitable. 



" Travel. — The actual leaving of your house will be difficult, but 

 " if you persevere you will travel safely. 



'■'■ Lost property. — If you go to the north-west you will get the lost 

 "property, or news of it." 



A peculiar application of the dice is that for determining the succes- 

 sive regions and grades of one's future rebirths. 

 The gamble of Eebirth. pifty.gi^ or more squares of about 2 inches a side 

 are painted side by side in contrasting colours on a large sheet of cloth, 

 thus giving a chequered area like an ordinary draught or chess board. 

 Each of these squares represents a certain phase of existence in one 

 or other of the six regions of rebirth {vide page 239), and on it 

 is graphically depicted a figure or scene expressive of the parti- 

 cular state of existence in the world of man, or beast, or god, or in 

 hell, etc. Each square bears in its centre the name of its particular 

 form of existence, and it also contains the names of six other possible 

 states of rebirth from this particular existence, the names of each of 

 these grades of rebirth being preceded by one or other of the follow- 

 ing six letters: — A, S, R, G, D, Y, which are also borne on the six 

 faces of the wooden cube which forms the solitary dice for this 

 gamble. 



