102 Sarat Chandra Das— Sacred Literature , etc. [No. 2, 
the Deb-thers or Historical records of Thibet in subject matter; besides 
they contain many literary and philosophical notices which come more 
properly under the heading of She-hu, Astrology or the art of Divination. 
The earliest written encyclopaedia of Astrology is the chief repository 
of Yeekvin, the first of the Uhu series. The art of divination called 
•j * 
Porthan which was brought into Tibet during the reign of the Than 
dynasty was obtained from this great work. In early times, as stated 
above, there reigned in China the Hun dynasty of three kings and that 
of Dili of five kings. During the reign of Fohi (whose name is also written 
as Hpushy), the first of the Hun kings, there came out from the great river 
He in the province of Henan (modern Ha-nan) a monster called Lun-ma 
having the body of a horse and the head of a dragon. On the back of this 
hideous monster there were eight figures or Mudras (called Pakwas in 
Chinese), curiously inscribed. The eight Pakwas being multiplied to 
64 by permutation, a work was written under the name of Lyan-shan 
(chief work). The figures on the back of the monster were called 
He-tho-hu; tho-hu in Chinese meaning “figures” and He being the 
river from which the monster issued. This earlier account of the origin 
of the Pakwais called the “ First Heavenly System.” Afterwards a learned 
man by the name of S'en-non wrote a work on the Porthan, called 
Ku-hi-tsan, based on the first work on divination. It is also said that 
it was brought down by an eagle from the mountain called Swan-ywan. 
It is related by some writers that there is a work which was composed 
from the cry of an eagle. The third monarch of the Hun dynasty named 
Yee-khyun (written as Yihi-shyin), by accurate observation of the heavenly 
bodies and by assigning the distinctive signs of male and female to the five 
elements, formed the ten fundamentals 3 (and gave the names of mouse, bull, 
&c., to the twelve concatenations or Denclals 3 named the divisions of time, 
viz., —years, months and days). All these were represented on a globe, 
2 The five elements of astrology— 
1. Tree, Male and Female. 
2. Fire „ 
3. Earth „ 
4. Iron ,, 
5. Water ,, 
3 The Sanskrit words corresponding to the 12 Dondals of the Tibetan astrology 
or causal connection on which the existence of the human soul depends are : — 
1 . 
Avidya. 
7. 
Yidana. 
2. 
Samskara 
8. 
Ilishna. 
3. 
Vijhana. 
9. 
Apadana. 
4. 
Namarupa. 
10. 
Bhava. 
5. 
Shadyatna, 
11. 
Jati. 
6. 
Sparsa. 
12. 
Jaramarana. 
