No. 56. — 1905.] PADDY CULTIVATION CEKEMOJSIES. 425 
(garlic), peruiikdyan (assafoefcida), grind them together and 
put into a king cocoanut and take it to the field. Set up the 
rukattana stick; make with young cocoanut leaves five 
chains of five links each, and with them join the rukattana 
stick to five bamboo sticks set round about it. Then set the 
king cocoanut on the fork of the rukattana stick, and take 
three paddy plants from three sides and put the ears into the 
king cocoanut, and pour the five kinds of milk into it, and 
place seven kaduru leaves over it and tie iluk^ leaves, and 
go away without speaking to a lonely place. Three days 
afterwards go to the field and untie the aforesaid ears and 
come away. Then the milk will enter (^§0 0§). At the 
stile at the entrance to the field on either side of it fasten 
two young cocoanut-leaf chains of three links each. It is 
usual also to stick the king cocoanut on the fence. 
This kirikema is the charm referred to in verse 5 of the 
kamat'hella ; it is something like one described by Mr. Bell 
(Orientalist, loc. cit,) as being used at the same time and for 
the same purpose in connection with the cultivation of el-wi. 
(7) Charm against wild animals. — Write the following 
antra on an ola and put it at the fence where they come in : — 
ON© 
6V0 
699 
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Q/O 
(c)6) 
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IlnJt^ Imperaia arundinacea^ Cyr. 
