522 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XVIII, 
is a title, or may, at all events, sometimes mean augur, sooth- 
sayer, as in the table accompanying Bacot’s publication on 
the cries of the crow, J.A., 1913. 
215. ara ATA’ BAT (178). Guidebook to Lhasa. 
Evidently the work on which Waddell based his article in the 
J.A.S.B., Vol. 64 (1893): — of Lhasa cathedral.’ 
See also 8. a D. ten No. 2 
This work has recently be een edited and translated by 
A. Giinwadel: Heidelicts (Sitzungsberichte of the Heidelberg 
Academy), 1919. The full title is BTA ASAT AT 
ROAST Say dara s ay a (AQAATAT) This does 
not mean: ‘“ Ein kristallheller Spiegel : Katalog des Tempel- 
eyeaters: das durch iiberirdische Kraft Gétterwohnung ge- 
worden ist.”’ This is mere toias -translation. The render- 
ing should rather be ‘‘ Systematic description, clear (or pure) as 
crystal, of the convent (vihara) of (=founded by) the Incar- 
nation itr iene in (or of) the Town of the Gods 
\ —and especially five, on account of which 
there is the synonym Betsy —sacred images for which the 
town was famous and which gave rise to the name Lhasa). 
The short marginal title of the booklet is ANN SAY Bay 
and the volume or part number in the collection of which it 
forms part is & or 19. In titles Gass’, lit. crystal, 
means spotless (and especially perfect, without blemish, fault- 
less) ; and NAS, lit. mirror, means clear, perfectly intel- 
ligible. The English idiom clear as crystal (kristallhell) 
already accounts for the element 3'QjC’ The word ATA AAT 
represented by varna in the Sanskrit equivalent title, which 
almost certainly stands for var nana, means not much more 
than “ classification,” “ arrangement ’”’ or ‘“‘grouping.”” The 
idea seems that of sorting out clearly in separate and appro- 
priate heaps or bundles. Tibetans relate the syllable AY 
to BATA, bundle, tuft, bunch, cluster, but in connection 
with flowers, bouquet, nosegay, posy. If we similarly re- 
constitute the devaman in the Sanskrit title as devamana, 
then this Sanskrit title of the block-print evidently stands 
