a*4 The LUNAR YE AIL 



with illuminations ®n trees and hoisfes 5 invocations are made at the "fame 

 time to Cuvb'&a. 



Rudra-d&era* 



«* On this -night, when the God«, having been delivered by Ce'sava, 

 * 8 were flumberiog on the rocks, that bounded the fea of milk s Lacshmi/ 

 " no longer fearing the Daityas, flept apars on a lotos*" 



Brdhnta* 



d. Flowers are alfo offered ®n this day to S?a'ma\ or the black, an 

 epithet of Bhava'ni, who appears in the Calijug as iz damjel twelve years 

 old. 



Vdrdnasi Panjkd. 



Torches and Aiming brands are kindled and confec rated,, t© burn the bo- 

 dies of kinfmen, who may be dead in battle or in a foreign country, and to 

 light them through the (hades of death to the manfion of Yama. 



Brahma, 



Thefe rites bear a linking .refemblance to thofc of Geres and ?rossr= 



PINE. 



