Vol. e a 10.] Miniature Tank Worship in Bengal. 495,- 
miniature tank for the Aranya Sasthi Paija om the 6th day 
and naibedya or rice offerings are placed on the banks. There 
is. music, and the relatives and friends of the children are 
ed. 
The chief tank ceremony of Asvin, variously known as 
Dviti-baman, Dvitiya-usa, Po-jeonta and Jimutbahan, takes 
‘ ; "" place on the 8th day of the dark half of 
Jimutbahen. the month, the day on which Dviti-baman 
or Jimutbahan, the son of the Sun, in whose honour it is held, 
was born. Its object, when performed by barren women, is 
to obtain children, and, when performed by others, to secure 
liminary ceremony after bathing on the previous day, when 
is made at cross roads. Above the tank is a bamboo roof covered 
with new cloth and hung with garlands. A cocoanut and a tulst 
plant are placed in the tank, a bundle of sugarcane is put at 
its side, and around it twenty-one kinds of edible fruit collected 
by each worshipper are arrange in_ baskets. e ceremony 
cooked, and, after a portion has been offered to Dviti-baman, the 
female kite and the female jackal, eaten by the worshippers and. 
their relatives. 
Elsewhere a square tank is dug in the courtyard, and 
