194 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [ August, 1905, 
the Indian snake-charmer. They have attached to their turbans a 
few claws of bears or tigers and the talons of hawks or large birds 
of some kind. The snakes usually carried around are the Python 
molurus and two varieties of the cobra ; one with the spectacles and 
the other without them. he cobra with the mark on the head is 
seen on the snake to-day. ‘It shall bruise thy head, ete.’ . 
iii, 15. The Python molurus igs considered the most dharm 
(righteous) of all snakes. The reason is that it will never go out 
of its way to seek for its prey ; it lies quietly till the victim hap- 
away the time while watching his cattle. Now the Ashariy@ 
had often h h 
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hearing the music. Finding the raut asleep, he determined to 
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heard the sound of the herdsman’s flute just as before. The flute 
tion to all manner of reptiles to come to a feast which he h 
prepared. All the reptiles came in great numbers to this feast. 
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1 (Of. the Karin and Patani Mala. stories of the python (Mason’s Burma 
and Annandale, Fascic, Malay Anthrop. 1),—Ea.] dee 
