380 DEMONOLATEY. 



" Hail to Lama Manjusri ! 



" The year of birth of this female was the Bull-year, with which 

 the Snake and the Sheep are in conflict ; 

 a grL^ li°^o^c°pe °f therefore those individuals born in the Snake and 

 the Sheep-year cannot approach the corpse. The 

 death-demon was hiding in the house inside certain coloured articles, 

 and he now has gone to a neighbouring house where there is a family 

 of 5 with cattle and dogs (therefore that other family needs to do 

 the necessary worship). The death-demon will return to the house of 

 the deceased within three months ; therefore must be done before that 

 time the ' za-de-kha-gyur' service. 



Iler Pakkha being Dva in relation to her death, it is found that 

 her spirit on quitting her body entered her loin girdle and a sword. 

 [In this case the affected girdle was cast away and the sword was 

 handed over to the lama.] Her life was taken to the east by Tsan 

 and King (gyalpo) demons, and her body died in the west ; therefore 

 small girls, cousins, sisters and brothers in that house will be harmed. 

 The deceased's death was due to Iron. And the death-demon came 

 from the south and has gone to the east. 



Her Mewa gives the ' 3rd Indigo blue.' Thus it was the death- 

 demon of the deceased's paternal grandfather and grandmother who 

 caused her death ; therefore take (1) a Sats-tsha (a miniature earthen 

 chaitya), and (2) a sheep's head, and (3) earth from a variety of sites, 

 and place these upon the body of the deceased, and this evil will be 

 corrected. 



The Day of her Death was Friday. Take to the north-west a 

 leather bag or earthen pot in which have been placed four or five 

 coloured articles, and throw it away as the death-demon goes there. 

 The death having so happened, it is very bad for old men and women. 

 On this account take a horse's skull ' or a serpent's skulP and place it 

 upon the corpse. 



Her Death Stae is ' Gre.' Her brother and sister who went near 

 to her are harmed by the death-messenger (shin-je). Therefore an 

 ass's skull and a goat's skull must be placed on the corpse. 



Her death HouE was soon after sunset. And in the 12th month 

 her life was cut. The death-demon therefore arrived in the earthen 

 cooking pot and bowl of a man and woman visitor dressed in red who 

 came from the soutli. Thus the deceased's father and mother are 

 harmed, and especially so if either is born in the Sheep-year. 



' A fragment of such a skull or its image made of dough is usually all that is used. 

 * Doagh also will do. 



