No. XIII, Remarks on Trans-Himalayan Boodhist 
Amulets. 
[J.A.S.B., Vol. IX, Part IL, p. 905 (1840).] 
With reference to the two scrolls which were sent to you 
from Almora, and which you had left with me, together with a 
letter from Mr. W. E. Carte, on the 17th ultimo, I beg leave to. 
inform you that both contain abstracts of some larger Tantrika 
works, or religious treatises, in Tibetan, interspersed with man- 
tras in Sanscrit. The first paper, eight feet five inches long, of 
which the figures take two feet five inches, and the text six feet, 
contains 244 lines (two and a half inches long each) in printed 
Tibetan character. I cannot exactly tell you what the figures 
may represent, but I think the first is the regent, or ruler of the 
year, figured by a victorious king. The second is a tortoise, with 
nine spots on the belly, representing the lucky and unlucky 
his minister, horse, elephant, soldier, sun, moon, eye, ass, etc 
Afterwards, from the head of a bird downwards, in two lines, 
there are Chinese symbolical figures, or characters, having per- 
aps the same meaning as the figures above designed. These 
symbolical characters were used 200 years before Jesus Christ, 
under the Han dynasty ; the Tibetans now also use them on large 
square seals. 
There are on this paper five different abridged Tantrika 
works, or siitras, under distinct titles, the Sanscrit being generally 
erronevusly written. 
1. Contents of the first sitra.. The salutation, only in Sans- 
crit, thus: Namo Shri Kalachakrayé (which should be thus : 
Namas Shri Kalachakraya. English: ‘‘ Salutation to the 
circle of Time.’’ The year, month, day, and hour, are figured 
by a prince, minister, soldier, and weapon. All the regents of 
the year, month, day, and hour ; those of the planets, constella- 
tions, stars, Nagas, and imps are requested to look on these 
symbolical figures, and be favourable to the person who wears 
