MANTRA GAJAH. 19 



19. This is the mantra we use when we arrange the 

 noose to prevent it from afterwards slipping from an elephant's 

 foreleg. 



Om kaw kata changramai ku ikat pekarang ku 

 serta pegang kau perang lengan tangan kita serta 

 kaxchubkan kaki kita.* 



20. When we are about to noose a big elephant, and 

 are. putting the noose in position, and spreading it out, we pay 

 our respect to Nabi Noh, f and ask for permission to use the 

 tree to tether a raiat of Nabi Sleman. When the noose is spread 

 we sprinkle it with kunyit trus, and then draw the slip knot, 

 and after that has been done we repeat this mantra. It is a 

 rengab. 



Om bat ku chabat diradai bawbangkat ohang 

 paja nak kara i om maha bis i bu katabak 

 tan para kamtu. 



And again we sprinkle the kunyit trus. 



21. This is a perabun which we use when about to snare 

 an elephant in the enclosure, or about to snare a very cunning 

 elephant in the forest. . .. 



We repeat it when we have spead the noose, or we may 

 repeat it over the kunyit trus which we may then sprinkle 

 upon the noose. 



OM GENALING BATING TAMD1T BATKALING SALIK 

 SANTOM OM KAMIN PALAI RANG HA TAMKU LIMA- 

 PAINA KARKU LASANTOM. 



This is an alternative form. 



Om chaw taw palai rangka tamku limapaina 

 kailim parak nak tawta wanta. 



* Many of the words of this mantra are Malay, though they do 

 not form a sentence. Their general sense is "tie, hold our hand (or 

 foreleg) and fasten up our leg." 



f Nabi Noh (the patriarch Noah) is supposed by the Malays to be 

 in charge of all trees and plants. All animals are under Nabi Sleman 

 (King Solomon). 



K. A. Soc, No. 45, 1905, 



