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holy syllable on, and followed by the word namah'adoration.' A number is attached to each invocation, No. 1 standing in the centre triangle, and Nos. 2 to 21 being arranged as on a dial-plate. The names Nos. 2, 11, 12, and 15 are synonyms of Bhauma (No. 13), and mean the son of the earth. With the epithet rinahartsi 'the destroyer of debts' (No. 3), compare rinántaka, a name of Mars, in the St. Petersburg Dictionary. Yama (No. 17), is elsewhere used as a name of the planet Saturn.
On vrishtihartrithe destroyer of rain' (No. 20), see Varahamihira's Brihatsashhitá, chap. VI, where Mars is repeatedly said to cause drought by his appearance.
Transcript. ओं मंगलाय नमः १ ओं भूमिपुत्राय नमः २ ओं ऋणहत्रे नमः ३ ओं धनप्रदाय नमः४ भों स्थिरासनाय [न]मः ५ ओं महाकायाय नमः ६ ओं सर्वकर्मावरोधकाय नमः ७ ओं लोहिताय नमः ८ ओं लोहिताक्षाय नमः ९
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आ धरात्मजाय नमः ११ ओं कुजाय नमः १२ ओं भौमाय नमः १३
भूतिदाय नमः १४ ओं भूमिनंदनाय नमः १५ ओं अंगारकाय नमः १६ ओं यमाय नमः १७ ओं सर्वरोगापहारकाय नमः १८ ओं वृष्टिकत्रे नमः १९ at Tee () 70 ओं सर्वकामफलप्रदाय नमः २१
NOTE ON THE SAME.
BY 8. M. NÄTEŚA SİSTRI. This Yantra is better known by the name of Angdraka-yantra. Angåra ka or Mars, the son of the earth and hence the name Bhauma, is the 3rd of the Navagrihah, or nine planets of the Hindu system. All these grihas have good or bad influences on the horoscope of a person according to their positions. Angåra ka (Mars) and Sani (Saturn), are the most dreaded for their malignant influences. Any person supposed to be thus afflicted gratifies these grihas by describing their names in Chakras or Yantras in a copperplate, and worshipping these diagrame in his house.
CHINGHIZ KHAN AND HIS ANCESTORS.
BY HENRY H. HOWORTH, F.S.A.
(Continued from p. 115 ante.) xxy.
settled empires of Eastern Asia, which borderChinghiz Khân was now the over-lord of ed upon the steppes he loved so well. He the Nomadic world of Asia. From the Yellow had given such staggering blows to the Kin Sea to Lake Balkhash he was accepted as empire and that of Tangut, that there was undisputed master; so undisputed that within little to fear from them if he determined to these limits we do not read that he had hence- turn his back on the East and try a more venforward any rebels to oppose or civil strife to turesome campaign against a power of equal appease. This vast area, the nursing ground of dignity with his own. He was now in fact to 80 many invaders of the West, had not fallen march his beardless, slant-eyed, yellow-skinned into his hands bit by bit, but it had previously, warriors across the fair plains of Irân, where as we have seen, been largely integrated into men had patiently for centuries collected the two or three important kingdoms, and when treasures of Eastern culture in art and literathese fell, there fell at once into the conqueror's ture and were little aware that a master of power large bodies of disciplined men and shepherds was at hand, who was to sweep it all large districts already organized. Further, away; to trample down the cynosure of Islâm Chinghiz had given crushing blows to the two and all its proudest monuments, and to leave
I am unable to explain this word.
The first of the two aksharas enclosed in brackets is read doubtfully,
the second obliterated.
