MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 287 
THe CHIRI. 
In a paper contributed to the Journal of the Royal Asiatic 
Society in 1880, I gave an account of the Chir, an unintelligible 
formula recited in Malay Courts at the installation of Chiefs, and 
the versions in use in Perak and Brunei were compared with that 
which is to be found in the Sajarah Mulayu. 
Being in Colombo last Septemer, 1 shewed the three versions to 
my friend Mr. J. A. Swerrensam, C.S., who submitted them to a 
Pandit learned in Pali. Tae latter furnished an amended reading 
and translation of the Chiri as given in the Szjarah Milayu. 
The following is the Chiri as printed in the Journal of the 
Royal Asiatic Society, showing the different readings to be found 
in four separate manuscripts in the Library of the Society :— 
From MS. No. 89 in the Library of the Royal Asiatic Society. 
Se ee ob ole ede Ge Pete cles Gye Spold Teepe gal 
7 eyay? 5B Ly cw Lu RoE oly iN ye PU!) LSS » 3 Jb 
9 Made 753, ) ly Gy Poly Ube Rio UL) ESP 
Sys el Mebar er mre dye tt See SUF gays was 
N.B.—This is the passage alluded to on page 24 of Leyden’s Ma- 
lay Annals. 
1 MSS. Nos. 18, 35, and 59 have cases. 
2 MS. 18 has cic. 
8 No. 18 has an. 
* No. 18 has oS. 
> MS. 39 has .5,. M38. 18 and 39 agree with 80. 
6 MS. 35 has &-U3. MSS. 18 and 39 have gw. 
7 Ms. 18 has ,, a? 
5 No. 18 has ,)5. 
° MS. 18 has ,)). 
+0 MS. 18 has Soy. 
