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The following extract, taken from a book entitled 

 Manu Saingwah, or the Iron Ring of Manu, is offered 

 merely as a fpecimen of the notation here laid down. 

 It fcarcely, from its inflgnificancy, deferves a tranfla- 

 tion: however, one is fubjoined. 



Ma has a ma da man gri chat crawala sancliya praih 

 brain tain daih pit', ta taincfia hnaic chfiauh chye zab 

 tachfie shaich'pa zab tftaimmasail chaga do go era lo si lo 

 muga nain nac cri ga hlyan a'hri zo myachna mvCrwe 

 tamuh chk hma myathna chain' 'dwah pa na chfie gra- 

 o^rwe chah gre jwa colac co Jup satirwe sain shah jwa 

 zab co plirah wait cha taifCchfia chfiah bri zab amyo 

 le'ba pariVsaii do hnan che we cfirain rain lyac lac 

 up cfiyi hma radana sumba go hrfcAo'rwe braimma cha 

 zab nail sigra do go hri'cho taih^ dain u hma hlyan i 

 tachhe shaickpa thaimmasaii tar a chaga go mahasa- 

 mada man gri a era pe lo zab bna.* 



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And Manu faid, "0,mighty Prince, Mahasamada 

 if thou haft an inclination to hear and underftand the 

 words of the eighteen holy books which I brought 

 from the gate of Chatrawala,\ that enclofe and form a 

 barrier (to the earth) from thy palace; with thy face 

 turned towards the eaft, cleaning thy teeth; warning 

 thy eyes, mouth, cheeks, and ears, and wiping thy 

 body and hands; and with a purified perfon, and hav- 

 ing put on thy apparel and eat; and with the four 

 friends J ailembled, and forming a circle, clofing thy 

 hands, and making obeifance to the three ineftima- 

 ble jewels, § and proftrating thyfelf before Braimma, 



(and 



* For the original, fee Plate II. 



+ Steep and ftupendous mountains fabled to furround the 

 earth, and beyond which no mortal can pafs. 



t Man ; the two clafles of fupernatural beings, Nait and 

 Sigra. fuppofed to pofiefs the peculiar guardianfhip of mankind; 

 and BroLimmoL through an attribute, it would feem, of ubiquity. 



f Phura, Tu.ru. Sane hoi. The incarnate Deities, Divine Juftice, 

 and the Pricfts. 



