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13. " Who by putting themselves too much [i. e. heavily, L.] on the 

 shoulder carry themselves, pushing the loins of the women, Indra, those 

 Bakshas destroy thou. 



14. "Who go before a wife, carrying horns in their hand, that are in 

 the oven, that mock, that make a light in the shrub, those from hence 

 let us annihilate. 



15. ^' Whose toes are back, whose heel before, — that are born on the 

 threshing floor, that are born in ^aka (?) and in smoke, the Urundas, 

 the Matmatas, the Kumbhandas (i. e. having testicles like jugs), inca- 

 pable of procreation, those, 0 Lord of prayer, annihilate in her by pra- 

 tibodha [i. e. conviction]. 



16. ''Those with turned eyes, those without vision, may they be 

 without womankind, eunuchs (?). 0 remedy, put him down, the un- 

 married one who wishes to be together with the woman who has a 

 husband. 



17. ''The TJpeshant, the copper-coloured, the Tundela, and the 

 Cadula, piercing the two feet, the two heels as a cow. 



18. "He who would touch thy embryo and who kills thy child, 

 Pinga may pierce him through the heart, he of awful bow. 



19. " Who in an unknown manner kill the born ones, who lie on the 

 pregnant women, may Pinga (i. e. tawny), drive them away, the wo- 

 men-enjoying Gandharvas as the wind a cloud. 



20. " may it not have been thrown down the loinband, 



and the bharyu (?). The two remedies may protect thy frait. 



21. "Against the Pavinasa, against the Tangalva, against the Sha- 

 dowlike, also against the Naked, may Pinga protect thee, in order that 

 thou mayest bring children to thy husband, against the Kimidin. 



22. "Against Double-mouth, Pour-eye, Five-foot, JN'o-finger, against 

 Vrnta that comes forth, and against Yarivrta protect thou. 



23. ' " Those who eat raw flesh, and human flesh, the ICe9avas eat the 

 embryos. We destroy them from hence. 



24. "Who from the sun skulk away, as a daughter-in-law from her 

 father-in-law, their Baja and their Pinga be killed in their heart. 



25. " Pinga, protect thou the child that is being born. Let them not 

 make a male into a female. The egg-eaters must not destroy the em- 

 bryos. Beat away the Kimidins. 



26. " Thy childlessness, thy (quality of) bearing dead children, the 

 adroda (?), the agha (evil), the non-conception, let it go away towards 

 thy enemy, like taking a flower bunch from a tree." 



The President, on behalf of the Eev. William Perceval, presented 

 a note-book, containing the original minutes of the JS'eosophical Society, 

 which preceded and gave rise to the Eoyal Irish Academy. These 

 minutes were kept by the father of the donor. Dr. Eobert Perceval, the 

 first Secretary of the Academy, who was also Secretary of the parent 

 Society. The ]N"eosophical Society used to meet at the houses of its 

 members in a fixed rotation ; and the President observed that the first 

 essay read was on the subject of Astronomical Observations, 



