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2. O'm ! Mr. Rat ! Mr. Elephant is watching. May the rats 

 quit the paddy field, and go to another quarter. Let it be so ! 



3. O'm ! Mr. Rat ! Mr. Tiger is coming, Mr. Cat is watching. 

 May the rats leave this and go somewhere else. Let it be so ! 



4. O'm ! Mr. Rat-tiger is coming from the city of Indra. 

 May the rats leave this and go somewhere else. Let it be so ! 



II. — Against Worms. 



LUfr&o mir jspiLD <mnv^Q<5oQj5(^UL\Ln j)j<&@Lc>[T%ovu-}L£>[rLu 0ekQpsm 



t-jmm Quit ■sQ&j ^outraur , 



O'm! I went before the Supreme, and as he graciously permitted 

 me to go to the milk-hedge* forest, and cut milk-hedge and burn 

 all the worms that are in Brahma world, Vishnu world, Naga 

 world, Moon world, and the world of the Gods. I myself stood with 

 fire in my mouth and wearing a necklace of sacred beads. Let 

 these, viz., stinging worms, worms which fold, branch worms, 

 branch-eating worms, bob-tailed worms, short-necked worms, 

 worms which bend like a bow, white ants, jointed worms, grass- 

 hoppers, and all worms of any name whatever, quit this field and 

 go to another field. Let it be so ! 



(4). — Report by the Chief MutaliyAr and Irrigation 

 MutaliyAr on the Customs, &c, as regards Paddy 

 Cultivation in Batticaloa.I 



There are three kinds of harvest in the paddy cultivation 

 of this District, viz. : — 



1. The Munmari ; 



2. The Kalavellanmai ; and 



3. The Ettalai. 



* Euphorbia Tirucalli. Siijh., Nava-handi. 



f Administration Report, (ioverninent Agent, Eastern Province, 

 1870, pp. 171-3. 



