NO. 24.— 1881.] HU'NIYAM IMAGE. 121 



Maldive Mantras.* 

 No. 1. 



Gada istiri vari tura' kurakan haivakaru abaku de mihunge rufa 

 kurahai hadduru harruli nuvd gihi badili elagodi abu gahani. 



Translation. 



" To completely estrange a desirable woman (from her husband) — 

 make a teak nail (and) an image of both persons, (mutter) 1 hadduru 

 harruli nuvd gihi badili elagodi? f and drive in the nail." 



Glossary. 

 Abaku, abu, 'nail.' Cf. Malay pdku. 

 Istiri, ' woman,' ' wife' : S. £S2§ [stri.~] 



Kurahai, lit. 'having made,' = kurafd (Male), p. part, of kuran: S. &5<%> 

 \_karald] , 



Kurdkan — See tura' kurdkan. 



Gada, lit. ' health' : not improbably = S. qjcaq [agada] (<j>, negative, <s>q 



disease.) 



Gahani, 'strike': S. CftSNSDib \_gahanavd~\. 



Tura' (kurdkan) 4 to disunite' : S. q6<&$ 2Si6<£3& [turan karanda]. 

 Be, ' two,' 'both:' S. ®q [de]. 



Mihunge, gen. pi. of mihd; S. ©d3g£S}©Gf \minisunge], gen. pi. of 

 [minihd] 'man.' 



Rufa, 'image': S. d\& [rupd]. 



Vari, ? adv. 4 greatly': S, ©id [vera] ; but vari kuran ' to divorce' (Male). 

 Haivakaru, 'teak,' (Tectona grandis,Ij.). Cf. Hind, sdgaun. 



No. 2. 



Gada istiriye' liame karhi male' fari nuvanls kadagen au valie* 

 hanulaigen mi malu effurhu Al Kadr Sura lie ane' furhumati 

 Vajahatu lie mi malu rufa kuraha vahaka vara o]un lie Al Rahman 

 Sura huswaden lie' va' ronu' fas tan bede rakas bode' katilaeige lein 



* "Sorcery" is with the Maldivians fadita — S. a^^SS^ [pandita], — 'the 

 learned (science.)' 



f The mantra or incantation proper ; unintelligible. All else is " a sort of 

 rubric," as with Sinhalese charms(vide C.A.S. Journ., 1 865-6, p. 57), in which 

 the object is stated, and directions given for the jiwama, or " winding up." 



