38 MANTRA GAJAH. 



Before we administer any of the medicines mentioned above 

 we should breathe over the following mantra three times, in 

 order to prevent any harm happening to us or to anything con- 

 nected with us. 



OM BIRANDOK RAND A I KAPARAI PARA I RANDOM 

 SHAROK SAIIAROK NYAYOM LI OHAPALOK NAJAM 

 PALING CHAMCHAK IRAK KAN CHAMBOT NACHAM NO" 

 LANGMU TARANGKOK MITAROM CHANG TAPING TAR 

 PERIA LAMUNTARI PUAH RENGAB. 



This is an alternative mantra. 



OM CRATING CRATING HAKA TANGKAU CHANGKAN 

 BAT KAU TABAT NARIT KONKU SUROH LULOH LULAI 

 PIAH TAUTAR AU YARA WON SAT AHA TARA ONG 

 JIBAYON TAHOM BAAMAN MIOK KATA AUI. 



83. This is the remedy to use when a person has been 

 •iffected by ehemahang, which means in the Malay language the 

 evil influences attendant on elephants or trees, or Avhen a person 

 is affected by chahgrai or by strong bahdi. We take the resin 

 that exudes from the merbau tree and chamara petri and empelas 

 leaves, and water from the joints of trees and water from a pig's 

 wallow and ripe fallen limes ; we knead them to a pulp with 

 Which we besmear the sufferer. And, if God wills, he will recover. 



84. This chapter deals with the methods of telling a good 

 elephant from a bad one. 



We have to look at the elephant's shape, its stride, its ears, 

 its skin, and at any individual peculiarities or markings that it 

 may have. 



Ears so broad that they will meet, a long lobe to the ear, a 

 low forehead, a very long trunk, a tail that reaches to the 

 ground and sweeps its dust, a broad flank, a head that wags to 

 right and left as the animal walks, and tusks that reach down to 

 the ground ; if one finds all these points in one animal, it is, ac- 

 cording to the homos of old, a very bad sign, and such an ele- 

 phant will bring poverty upon its owner. 



It is very good to find in one animal long ear lobes that 

 lie close to the cheek, a long tip to the trunk and a high fore- 

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