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her ninety million bodily forms. The person now indulges in 

 a religious meditation (dhydna), in which he worships the 

 dsiiri-iAant as a goddess called the fearless wish-granter. There 

 are three parts of this meditation to be used in the morning, at 

 noon, and at night respectively. In the first, he thinks of the 

 goddess as having a hook in her hand, as adorned with all 

 ornaments, having a gracious countenance, and as seated on a 

 serpent in the padmdsana position, i. e., with the legs crossed, 

 one hand on the hearth with the thumb up, the other on the 

 left thigh, and the eyes fixed on a point near the end of the 

 nose. The second is similar, but she has a sword in the hand 

 and a half moon crest. In the third, she has a ' red-stone ' in 

 the hand, sits on a dead man, and wears garlands of mundd- 

 plant. A second version, given elsewhere in the MS., puts in a 

 discus, a trident, a white serpent, a white bull, etc., etc., and 

 describes the goddess as having three eyes, four mouths, a string 

 of pearls in the nose, and so on. * 



cheek. Era to the upper lip, Aim to the lower lip, Om to the upper teeth, 

 Aum to the lower teeth, Am to the cerebrum. Ah to the right shoulder- 

 blade, Kam to the elbow, Kham to the wrist, Gam to the roots of the 

 phalanges, Gham to the phalanges, iSTam to the nails, Cham to the left 

 shoulder-blade, Chham to the left elbow. Jam to the left wrist, Jham to 

 the roots of the left phalanges, Xam to the left nails. Tarn to the right 

 heels, Tham to the right knee-bone, Dam to the right ankle, Dham to the 

 roots of the phalanges. Lam to the tarsals. Similarly Tam, Tham, Dam, 

 Dham and Nam to the several parts of the left leg. Pam to the right 

 side, Pham to the left, Bam to the back, Bham to the navel, Mam to the 

 stomach. Yam to the heart, Kam to the right shoulders. Lam to the neck 

 bone, Vara to the left shoulders, Sam from the heart to the right hand, 

 Sham from the heart to the left hand, Sam from the heart to the right 

 leg, Ham from the heart to the left leg, Lam from the heart to the belly 

 Ksham from the heart to the mouth. 



* A meditation or prayer of the D u r g a P u j a may be compared, 

 with this, which reads as follows:— Om with locks of hair, braided and 

 flowing, and the forehead ornamented by the crescent m'-in, with three 

 eyes, with a face equal to the full moon in brightness, with a com- 

 plexion of molten gold, well-formed and lovely eyed, full of the fresh- 



