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History of the Ramoosstcs. 



[Oct. 



No 



Yeca 



Ee 



Yoo 



Jcstlia 



Yoh 



Yo 



Bhaw 



Bhcc 



Mooll 



Boo 



Dhaw 



Phaa 



Dwliaw 



Poorwashnra 



Bhe 



lUm 



Jaw 



Jee 



Outrashara 



J GO 



.Irh 



Jo 



Kb a 



Abbyjeet 



Khoe 



Khoo 



Khch 



Kho 



Shrawun 



Gaw 



Gee 



Goo 



Gch 



Dhunnesta 



Go 



Saw 



See 



Soo 



Shuttootarike 



Sfh 



So 



Ddaw 



Ddfc 



Poorwa l^linfl iiri")iid;i 



Ddoo 



Dneah 



Jl.aw 



Fhaw 



Ootra Bhadurpuda 



Ddeh 



Ddo 



Cha 



Chec 



Revetee 



The '28 Niikshutturs are divided off into equal portions to each 

 Zodiacal sign; so that when the Nukshuttur is known they refer to 

 the rass or constellation, and by discovering the day, the month, and 

 \ear are determined from the Junnum puttur. 



The Nukshutturs Mool, Asslesha, Jestha, Veeshak, and the first 

 churun or division of Muo^gah, are considered peculiarly inauspici- 

 ous to be born under. It is written, that if a boy is born during the 

 first churun of the mooll, the father will die in consequence, unless 

 the required propitiatory offerings and sacrifices are made. 



The evil effects of this birth, it is said, continue for seven years. 

 The consequences attending the birth of a girl are similarly fatal, 

 but the evil influence does not extend in her case longer than three 

 years. If a child is born during the second churun of the mooll ca- 

 lamities of a similar nature wait the mother, and when a child is born 

 in the third churun, all description of property belonging to its pa- 

 rents, will be destroyed, and if in the fourth churun the child v/ill 

 not be longlived. So that burnt offerings and oblations are wanted 

 to satisfy the priests. It is however to be remarked, that during the 

 months Magh, Ashar, Asswin, and Bhadurpuda, the Mooll is consi- 

 dered innocuous. 



A child born during the fourth churun of the Asslesha, will entail 

 the most fatal consequences on its father, and if in the third churun 

 it will prove fatal to the mother-in-law. However, the evil influence 

 is to be removed by timely donations. 



The Jestha is wholly unlucky; the first and second churuns to 

 the brothers-in-law. Offerings and charity will remove the evil con- 

 sequences. One of the many ways of trying to remove the evil in- 

 fluence supposed to arise on these occasions, by wealthy persons, is 

 thus ; they put the new born babe into a soop, (a basket,) and ha- 

 ving selected a good milk cow with a calf, the infant is placed before 



