'MAMKPE OATH. 



arising from murderers, rob l>ers. spirits of the ground, 

 of water, air, and tho woods. May the dev'atas 

 who adore Buddha, and the gods of the four 

 elements, harass and punish me, May bl^bcl per- 

 spire from my body, so that my crime may be ma- 

 nifested to all. May such evils overtake me within 

 three days hence; (or) may I sutler instantly— 

 and may the tyA of the sky [lightning] cut -mc in 

 twain. May one of tfie four preternaturallv-errdowed 

 lions devour me ; — or let me be poisoned h\ herbs or 

 bitten by venomous snakes. Let alligators, and 

 Hera, [a fabulous horned alligator] and Man.ukon, 

 [a fabulous Saurian animal mIucii, in Siamese as- 

 tronomy and mythology, represents Capricorn] and 

 Ktljge fishes, attack and devour me; — or may the dread 

 of such punishment* keep me for life a prisoner 

 fa my house, estranged from every pleasure. Let 

 me be a slave to a tyrant, and let me die by cholera 

 morbus* and then be hurled headlong fo Naraka, 

 (hell) there to go thro* innumerable kinds and gratia- 

 lions of torture; — such as carrying of water over these 

 framing regions id wicker baskets, to asstfnge rae heat 

 felt by TJian Wrtsooicati. when he .-liters the in !i rflfal 

 hall oi 'justice.— [He is one of the thirty judges of uarn- 

 ka who sit by rotation, and was once a king on earth.] 

 Thereafter, may I fall into the lowest pit of hHl;— 

 or, should these puirishments not be shotted me, then 

 may my soul after death migrate into the body of a 

 slave, and endure all the miseries attending the worst 

 condition of such a being, during -a period of 3 ears 

 measured by the sands of four seas; (or) may I animate 

 the body of a beast during tive hundred generating 



• Tin* oliotofa mOrtons, ia pcrliRp* »t* sporadic form, hat been vety long 

 known to the tndo-Obinw nations and ii not unfraqnt nt at tfje change! of 

 iJkj monsoon*. There on- itumerom case* of ihi* sod cvory f • \f btt tiwj KwJ- 

 dufi Coast- 



