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Tnake up the garment for you, if you please to let me have it. The 

 rkahdn then gives it to him, and he takes it to his house, and calls 

 a person who understands how to make up these garments, gives 

 him food, superintends the work, and sees that it is properly done. 

 When they are made up, he washes, dyes, and hangs them in the 

 shade to dry ; he then buys a thabike, and the rest of the eight 

 things necessary, and solicits the attendance of several priests— if in 

 a large town twenty, if in a small jungle- village nine. Then on the 

 full of the moon Tazownmown he is to take the eight articles" 

 to the thyne, and there give food to all the priests. Before going 

 to the thyne ^ the priest to whom these eight articles are to be of- 

 fered is to instruct the man who offers them in all that is necessary 

 to be done, and is to inquire if, all is right and according to the sa- 

 cred writings. At the thyne, the priest thus addresses the others ; 

 " My lords, I beg you to attend toirwhat I am going to say. These 

 things are brought here to be offered to me, so, in presence of this 

 company, I will put on these clothes, and by so doing bind myself 

 to observe the rules laid down in the sacred writings (for the wear- 

 ing of such) • I beg you therefore to take notice." Then two of 

 the company read from this writing, and ask, *' The man that of- 

 fers these things, and has called all these priests together, to him 

 and to the priest who receives them, and keeps the ordinances in 

 such cases required, to both of these persons what advantage will 

 arise?" Then they answer, and say : " The advantage promised 

 in the sacred writings. "(^o) " Therefore let the priest put on the 

 clothes, and let him not put them off nor change them, from the 

 full of the moon Tazownmovm to the full of the moon Tahown 

 (four months), and let him not be ashamed of so doing, and let him 

 eat but once a day, and let him reside in a place where there is 

 nothing to attract the eye or ear, and let him reflect on the thirty- 

 two elements of which his body is composed (blood, bones, flesh, 

 &c.), then at night let him repair to a burying-ground, apart from 

 where men pass to and fro, and there let him reflect on the forty 

 circumstances of mortal dissolution {i.e. he is to reflect oa the dif- 

 ference between man in his strength and comeliness, and man de- 

 ceased and resolving into his component elements) ; and before 

 daylight again, let him take his thabike and proceed to collect food 

 from house to house, standing before the door of each {i.e. take the 

 food, if offered ; if not offered, he must remain fasting) ; then 

 let him go to a secluded spot and eat, reflecting on the hundred 

 and eighteen qualities of the body (as to what agrees with and is 

 suitable for it, and the reverse)." 



