FROM THE CALICAPURAX. .,- 



If a noife, proceeding from the chattering of the 

 teeth of the victim's fevered head, or (happing of the 

 beak is perceptible, it indicates alarm. If tears pro- 

 ceed from the eyes of a human victim's fevered head 

 it indicates deftrudtion to the prince. 



If tears proceed from the fevered head of a buffalo 

 at the time of prcfenting it, it indicates that fomt: 

 foreign inimical prince will die. If tears proceed 

 from the eyes of other animals, they indicate alarm., 

 or lofs of health. 



If the fevered head of a human victim fmiies, it 

 indicates increafe of profperity, and long life to the 

 facrificer, without doubt ; and if it fpeak, whatever 

 it fays will come to pafs. 



If the found Hoonh proceeds from the human vic- 

 tim's fevered head, it indicates ' that the prince will 

 die, if phlegm, that the lacrificer will die. If the 

 head utters the name of a deity, it indicates wealth to 

 the facrificer within fix months. 



If at the time of prefenting the blood, the victim 

 difcharge feces or urine, or turns about, it indicates 

 certain death to the lacrificer ; if the victim kicks 

 with his left leg, it indicates evil, but a motion of This 

 legs in any other mode, indicates profperity. 



The facrificer mutt take fome blood between his 

 thumb and. third finger, and difcharge it towards the 

 fouth welt on the ground, as an offering to the du- 

 ties, accompanied by the Mehci Cawfici Mantra. 



Let the victim offered to Devi, if a buffalo, be 

 five years old, and if human twenty-five. 



Let 



