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Then arouud these figures strew morsels of every 



Food and drink ]^[^^ of eatables, grains, fruits, spices, including 



offerings. ^,^^ j^g^t and spirits; also a few small coins ot 



"^'Th^MlEg weapons are then enchanted for the conflict viz 

 pieces of iron, copper, small stones, preferably of 

 Enchanted weapons. ^^.^^ ^^^^ black colours, grains, the root ot ram- 

 pu ^ for the use of the lamas. And for the lay army of the household 

 and neighbours, a sword, knives, reaping hook, yak's tail, a rope of 

 vak's hair with hook at end as figured with the Fierce Gonpa-demons. 

 ^ When These preparations are completed and the sun has set-- 

 VY nen wt^ ^f or demons can only move m the darkness -then the 

 The act of exorcism, ceremony beo-ins. The head lama invokes his tute- 

 lary deity to assist him in the expulsion of the death-demon. He then 

 chants the following Sanskrit spell :— 



" Om ! dudtri maraya srogla bhyo! bhyo ! 

 Raia dudtri maraya srogla bhyo! bhyo . 

 Nagpo dudtri maraya srogla bhyo! h'lyo. ^ 

 Yama dudtri maraya srogla bhyo ! bhyo . 

 Immediately on concluding this spell, the lama with an impreca- 

 tory gesture bt^^ bis breath spiritualized by his tutelary deity upon the 

 im?Js And the other lamas loudly beat a large drum, cymbals, and 

 T^JhoiMm thi-h-bone trumpets. And the laymen armed with 

 th'^afore mSed Weapons loudly shout and wildly cut the air with 



"'' On Xce being restored the lama chants the following :- _ 



" Iluno ! Hear you eighty thousand demons !'^ In olden time in 

 -thecouftToflncHathe-King Chakra . ., . . ^ was taken ill being 

 "a tacked by all the host of god°, devils, ' eating-demons, and the acci- 

 << dent causiL * demons. B^it, learned and revered Manjusri by doing 

 - the followini worship reversed the devils and cured the king. With 

 '< he five precfous things he made a shapely image of the eating-demon 

 '4Xnt planted ' nam-mkha rgyang-bu, «.daj-khra and phang^^^^^ 



" and wr ting on slips of wood the y^..-.^^^. spells, he stuck them into 

 " the dimon's image and he heaped around it the nine sorts of eatables 

 «'a8 a lansom from the householder, the dispenser of gifts and he 

 -said 'now ! devil! the sun has gone. Your time too tor going 

 "has arrivid in the black darkness, and the road is good. _ Begone 

 44one lo the country of our enemies and work your wicked will 



' Swefit Calamus. 



3 Ikkor-lo-tuk-pa, " the noisy wheel." 

 * Sri. 



