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Vrishabha, there will be gain; if in Maithuna
METHODS OF AVERTING Evil. or Kanyá, he will be blessed with a daughter; 1 In order to avert the evils arising from the if in Sinha, he will suffer loss of wealth; if in fall of a lizard, the sufferer should have Tulá or Vrischika, he will obtain rich clothes; recourse to the following means :- When if in Dhanus or Makara, wealth; if in Kumbha, touched by a lizard he should immediately great loss; and if in Mina or Karka, joy. bathe in the clothes he wore at the time; he Excepting at the Sula, Vajra, Vyatipáta,
should drink a mixture of the five products of Paridhi and Paidhriti yôgas (or junctions of
the cow, vis., dung, arine, milk, curds, and planets), the falling of a lizard at any of the
clarified butter, and, putting melted butter yogas is lucky.
into a cup he should look into it. Whether Excepting the periods of Nága and Chatush- weak or strong, if a man has any regard pada, when it occasions lamentation, and of for his welfare, this should be his first care. Bhadra, when it produces death, the falling of He should next perform the Punydha-vdchana a lizard during the astronomical period called ceremony, which is as follows:Karana, of which there are eleven, is lucky. A golden image of a lizard is made, ten pal in
If a lizard falls during Asvini, the first of weight, or as near it as the sufferer can afford. the twenty-seven lunar asterisms, it gives It is dressed in a piece of red cloth and worhealth and wealth; if during Bharani the shipped with sandal paste, flowers and grains of second asterism, it produces disease; during rice. In front of it are then placed an earthen Krittikd, loss of wealth; in Rohini or Mriga, jar on grains of rice decorated with cloth, wealth; in Ardra, death; in Punarvasú, gain flowers, and grains of rice, and filled with the of wealth; in Pushya, gain; in Abléshá, death;
five kinds of ambrosia (pañchámrita), viz. in Maghd, welfare; in Pârvd, an increase of milk, curds, clarified butter, honey and sugar; illness in the family, and in Uttará, Hastd, the five products of the cow (panchagavya), the Chitra and Swati, it is lacky; while in Vic five jewels (pancharatna), viz., gold, diamond, bakh 4 loss of wealth will be sustained. In amethyst, emerald, and pearl ; five kinds of Anuradha it gives a kingdom, in Jyéshthá it leaves (panchapallavas), vix., the four figs and causes ruin; and in Mila it gives happiness; I the mango; and the seven kinds of earth but in Parvd it causes death. In Uttara, (saptamsittika), vix. from an elephant's stable, it is lucky; in Sravana, it gives a kingdom ; ! from a horse's stablo, from a king's gate, from in Dhanish thá, it causes ruin; in Satatáraká under the khaskhas grass (andropogon muricait bestows happiness; in Révati, it gives & tum), from where four roads meet, from a cow's kingdom; and in Púrvabhadrá or Uttarabhadrú, stable, and from an anthill. The whole is it is lucky.
then worshipped with sandalwood, flowers, The fall of a house-lizard on a person, or grains of rice, turmeric, red and scented a field-lizard (sárdd) running up his body are powders, with offerings of sweet dishes, the both unlucky ; but if a house-lizard is found waving of incense, a lighted butter lamp and creeping up him, or a field-lizard falls upon camphor. The sacrificial fire is then lighted him, it is lucky. If a field-lizard falls on a and fed with wood of the khair (an acacia), person and tries to creep up him, it is luckier sesamum and clarified but'er; a prostration than when it merely falls upon him. If a before it is made with a low bow and joined field-lizard climbs up any one's body with its hands, and forgiveness is asked. By this face upwards, and an ordinary lizard (pal) act the worshipper is blessed with long descends down anyone with its face down. life, wealth, victory, health, prosperity and wards, then luck is instant.
posterity.
CHINGHIZ KHAN AND HIS ANCESTORS. BY HENRY H. HOWORTH, F.S.A.
(Continued from p. 92.) The division which Ogotai sent under the haj.i-Saraj tells us was the capital of the Sultans Noyan Ilji towards the mountains of Ghur and of Ghur. It had been attacked by the Mongols Herat apparently assailed Firuzkoh, which Min under the Juzbi Uklan in the year 1220, but
