6d on the inhabitants of the 



relations ; and the third to any volunteer. The 

 three persons thus favoured, support the Ckumdahs 

 by cloth tied round their waists, and balance them 

 with their hands, dancing as long as they can : when 

 fatigued, they are relieved indiscriminately, without 

 any distinction ; and this amusement, with music, 

 continues all night. In the morning the Demauno and 

 suppliant pray at the middle supporter of the iatrer's 

 house, with the usual forms, when a cut goat is 

 brought as an offering, and sacrificed by a relation : 

 hence they repair to his held, taking with them the 

 Chmidah, and again pray near the stump of a tree, 

 where a small space is brushed and washed for the 

 purpose, and a branch of the fnuchnun planted, in 

 addition to the egg and rice deposited there by the 

 Dcnmuno and suppliant : a shrine for Kull Gosaih is 

 washed, rubbed with oil, red paint put on it, and 

 bound with a red silk thread, and placed close to the 

 imtckmuh-hraxich.) when a goat and two hogs are sa- 

 crificed by a relation, that the blood may fall or be 

 sprinkled on the shrine Chumdah and branch. For this 

 office he gets a rupee and a turban : the offerings 

 being dressed, are eaten with grain : the party having 

 feasted, return, bringing with them the Chwndahs % 

 which are carried five times round the suppliant's 

 house, and then placed against eaves, where they 

 remain five days ; at the expiration of which, a seer 

 of tahallone is served out to every person who applies 

 for it, at the suppliant's house ; but four men are sta- 

 tioned at each of the four doors, that every person 

 who goes out with the takalhne, may receive a blow 



with 



