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73 



The Siamese who ransacked the Malay Peninsula to 

 supply this surprising demand for elephants probably used the 

 Mantra Gajah that are recorded in these manuscripts. But 

 whether it was in the Seventeenth Century that the Malays 

 learnt these Mantras, or whether their acquisition of this lore 

 dates from a period before it or after it, can, until further 

 information on the subject is forthcoming, only be matter for 

 conjecture. 



Mantra Gajah. 



Bab ini hendak tiup tentang atau di-bacha pada batu di- 

 limpar-kan pada gajah itu. 

 Ini-lah di-kata-nya 



Om kundanga ding kundanga sai teluwang tekulin dipin- 

 tai rambut teluling di-hadapan tibalulon kakanan tibalulun 

 kakiri sikab piah nenek-mu. 



Hai gajah aku tahu asal angkau mula menjadi, 

 Merkubulia ka-mulia asal mu, - 

 Kau turut kata, 

 Jika tiada turut kata ku, 

 Mati di-bunoh Sri Kama ; 

 Jika angkau turut kata ku 

 Di-hidupi uleh Maha'Bisi. Kul. 

 Ini melembut-kan hati gajah di-bacha pada tebu tiga krat 

 Ini-lah kata-nya, 



Om darang muka-nya darang darang lang-li muka-nya 

 langli telon changku kan kusa mu hati-ku akan chucha-mu 

 lidah kau akan sangkal mu tendurong kakanan tenduron kakiri 

 tundok chinta kapada aku puah rab. 



E, 4- Soc, No. 49, 1907. 



