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wears or carries with him these symbols and mystical prayers, that 

 he may succeed in every undertaking. Many particular businesses or 

 works (religious, sacrificial, civil, and economical) are here enumerated, 

 and all classes of divinity are requested not to hinder him in any of 

 his occupations, but to assist him, that he may increase in prosperity, 

 and see all his works accomplished. Here also occur some mantras ; 

 that, at the end being thus : Om ! SupratiiMha Vajraye- Swdhdy 

 Mangalam. 



2. The second work contains in Sanscrit, short addresses to Shakya 

 Muni, to Vagishwari, to Manipadme, to Vajra Pani, and to Vajra Guru, 

 Padma Siddhi. 



3. The third contains one sloka and a half, in Tibetan, with a mystical 

 formula in Sanscrit, on the melodious recital of the several attributes of 

 Manju Shri, (in Tibetan, Jam-pal) the god of wisdom. — It is pretended 

 that this short sutra, taught by Shakya himself, and buried under 

 ground in the country of Lho-brag, in Tibet, by Padma Sambhava 

 in the 9th century after Jesus Christ, was taken out and divulged by 

 Guru Chos-kyi d,Vang phyug. 



4. This is called the venerable sutra, dispelling the darkness of the ten 

 corners of the world. The salutation is especially addressed to Jam- 

 pal (Manju Shri, in Sans.) and to the ten Buddhas in the ten corners 

 of the world. In each of the ten corners of the world (four cardinal, 

 four intermediate, the Zenith and Nadir) fancifully is named a Buddha 

 province, with a fancied Buddha in it. To each of them successively 

 is addressed a set form of salutation, with a short request, thus : 

 " If I go towards that corner, after having obtained my aim, grant 

 that I may quickly return home." Again a request to those Buddhas, 

 that he who carries with him this s(itra, may obtain, together with his 

 family, similar blessings to those granted to a handsome faced youth 

 by Shakya, when he first taught him this sutra. Then follow some man- 

 tras. Lastly, is stated by whom, and in what part of Tibet this sutra, 

 was found, and taken out from under-ground. 



5. This is styled the " Sutra of eight lights." The salutation is ad- 

 dressed to Buddha, religion, and holy priests, &c. There are several 

 mantras, or physical formulae in Sanscrit, to avert any unlucky 

 year, month, day, and hour, the influence of any malignant planet or 

 star. Other mantras for preventing any unlucky accident before and 



