1865.] Description of a Mystic Play. 79 
the rulers of the burial-ground* proceeding with dancing, take up the 
corpse,} making the gesture of the trident. Heruka, a god holding in 
his right hand a lance with a flag, and in the left a man’s heart and a 
snare, { enters attended by the Lady mother (HrrvxKa’s wife) having in 
her right hand a club (KmaromxKa, Sanscrit Kuarwanaa) and in her left 
hand, a skull. 
Four incantations with bells and faces; four women, who carry a 
snare, a little child’s corpse,§ a heart, and a cymitar; their dress a wide 
human skin, a potka, and leopard skin petticoat. Dancing and music 
continue, while the last that enter are four Tiger coats, (warriors with 
bows and arrows). 
In the 4th act, the dancers are four Libators of Chang, and eight 
other performers ............ (some unintelligible words here follow.) 
A mask named “ Large mouth” with a censer, another with a drum 
and Hashang with his children|| now come on the scene and the 
MS. concludes with a number of cyphers indicating the number of 
the steps in each dance. 
* Viz. two male and two female demons, 
+ Lying on the triangle-shaped framework. 
{ A magic rope for catching noxious beings. 
§ Such things as the little child’s corpse and the human skin are not real, 
the former is a small figure, the latter a loose counterfeit made of silk or other 
stuff. 
|| HasuHane was originally a Chinese priest whom I find mentioned in Tibetan 
historical books as a preacher of heretical doctrines, Here in this play, Hashang 
seems represented as a sort of school-master masked asa very old man and 
attended by a lot of masked children, 
