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[Hail, Tepong tawar, pure flour ! Hail, all the mischievous 

 and evil influences ! Let all the mischievous and evil influences 

 and all misfortunes descend into the sea of Pauh Janggi. ] 



We then put thepannier on the elephant's back, and sprinkle 

 the water of a young green cocoanut, one over its head and 

 another over the base of its tail. We then throw the cocoanuts 

 at the elephant, the one at its head and the other at its back, 

 and take an augury from the manner of their falling : if they 

 fall on the part that has been opened it is a bad sign, but it is 

 a good sign if they fall with the open part uppermost. While 

 doing this we repeat this mantra. 



Dm pat mahapat chaila kupat karu hei chang- 

 rai mayu tawi sah. 



As soon as we have repeated this mantra we get up into 

 the pannier. 



80. This medicine will make our elephant come back to 

 our house of its own accord from the forest. 



From an abandoned house we take the cooking place, the 

 ladder that leads up to the house and the threshold beam. We 

 break them up and give fragments of them to the elephant to 

 eat with plantains or Indian corn, and do this for three conse- 

 cutive days or evenings. 



81. This will make an elephant brave in fighting. We 

 take a considerable quantity the roots of the ketub-ketub and 

 jjanggil-panggil and pound them into pulp, and give them to 

 the elephant in his food for three consecutive mornings or 

 evenings. This is. certain to make the elephant courageous. 



82. This will make an elephant sagacious. We take the 

 back of the ramanggi, the bark and ripe fruit of the tamarind 

 juice of the ordinary lime and of the variety of sugarcane, 

 known as tebu betong and add them to the elephant's food for 

 three consecutive days. Its effect is certain. 



When giving this medicine we repeat this mantra. 



SUKI TIMA SAPAHA CHARAU SOK SI RA AR ASAUPA 

 KATA YASA SIMA TONKHA TIRU KISARO ASAM PINTU 



R. A. Soc, No. 45, 1905. 



