1837.] Manuscript, lithographed in PI. IV. 983 



10. Fa-ka, god — again ; tdk-bd, having considered — said ; ru-mi-khdi, know- 

 ing — to become — Brahma (god). 



11. Bau-ru, I know not ; fri-deo, god — genius : fdn-mdn, ordered— to the 

 Brahma : heo-pdn-dai, gave— we received. 



12. Khcn-klang-rao, to remain irt^tf^, in the middle artffr, in the air, 

 without a prop f^cW : ndng-freng, like what — like a honeycomb. 



13. Pa-van, for this reason — and tang-ka, whole— all ; mung-rdm, coun- 

 try — eraka or desert or void confused. 



14. Freu-pdi, anybody — is not or existed not ; ndng- hit -bang, to be seated — 

 doer — umbrella-bearing ; 



15. Kang-ta, to govern or keep in subjection — only ; jeu-kdn, fibre — spider ; 

 Ink pin-fd, having transformed — became — heaven or sky. 



16. Han-fra-fak, one— stone or rock — white: rang-mung upholden — country 

 or land. 



17. Lai-lep, many — islands; ti-pi'm places — of world ; tejdo, all — and 



18. Khan-ta, by word — only ; mdn-pay, he — again ; jin-pin-fd, pattern — be- 

 came — heaven. 



19. Ring-lup, thousand — gilding; mun-khbm, Brahma — like gold; kai-leng t 

 only — yellow ; pin-mnng-khai, become — Brahma — like egg, f^j^. 



20. Fa-pin, god— became ;fe-an-din, having pervaded — first— earth, ^f&X } 



21. Klem-klem-ak, alone with brightness — came forth; cheng-ngdo, rays — 

 glorious. 



22. Khen-kldng-rdo, remained— in the middle— in the sky ; nang-freng, how ? 

 like honeycomb. 



Major Jenkins subjoins from the institutes of Menu, two passages 

 which seem to have been the original whence the Ahomese (Assamese) 

 version of the creation of the world was drawn. We have added the 

 translation of Sir William Jones. 



5. This universe existed only in the first divine idea yet unexpanded, as if 

 involved in darkness, imperceptible, undefinable, undiscoverable by reason, and 

 undiscovered by revelation, as if it were wholly immersed in sleep : 



?rf%»r5i% ^rw^r ^<§T3r fa-?n*?^: i <* i 



6. That seed became an egg bright as gold, blazing like the luminary with a 

 thousand beams ; and in that egg he was born himself, in the form of Brahma, 

 the great forefather of all spirits. 



The allusion to the earth and sky in the last two lines may probably 

 be better interpreted from the 12th and 13th verses of Menu. 



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