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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[MAY, 1892.
Vritta | Modalolu kitt'-ikki Rattaruppalaruman=adatan Murjanam komdu dôr-gga
rbbada gurbbim yuddhadolu Pamohalana taleyuman kondu Chalukya-rajy-- spadaman kai-kondu nishkamtakam=enisidan kamgadir Srimukh-&bdam modal-&g=irppattu-nálkur barisam-akhiļa-bhachakraman Taila-bhûpa Il
TRANSLATION. Om ! Hail ! In the lineage of Soma (the Moon), the forehead-ornament of the loving woman the night, who was produced from the eye of Atri, the son of the divine Brahman who was the procreator of the universe, there is the glorious Chalukya race, which is the abode of truth, liberality, heroism, and other virtuous qualities, (and) which has destroyed the races of hostile kings by simply the quickness of its bannered armies. In that race :
(Verse):- To Vikramaditya (IV.), who was accounted the favourite of fortune (and) the favourite of the goddess of viotory over enemies, and to Bonthadevi who resembled the goddess Bri, there was born a son, king Taila (IL.).
(Metre):- Having first plucked up and destroyed some Rattas; having killed the valiant Hunja; having, by the terror of the pride of his arm, taken the head of Panchala in battle; and having possessed himself of the regal dignity of the Chalukyas, - king Taila, unaided, caused the whole circuit of the earth to be considered free from troubles for twenty-four years, beginning with the year Srimukha.
J. F. FLERT,
NOTES AND QUERIES. THE EVIL EYE.
SUPERSTITIONS AS TO CROWS IN MADRAS. A.-In Porsia.
The crow is held in high estimation by the It is the custom in Persis to keep a wild boar in
Brahmans of Southern India, as the following stable where valuable horses are kept, in order facts clearly show to keep the evil eye from them. In the same The Brahmans strictly observe the datly paja way almost every valuable horse has an amnlet or adoration of Siva. Towards the end of it the strung round his neck, to which may be also principal food prepared for the occasion is placed attached a boar's tusk, for the same object. in front of the god and by means of mantras he is S. J. A. CHURCHILL.
invoked in order that he may partake of the Tehran.
game, and for this invocation a handful of the
food so presented is taken and kept aside. After B.-In Bihar.
the pajd is over, it is pat on a tray in the open The ovil oyo or naar is very fatal to children
yard and the crows are invited to eat it. This
food is termed the baliannam, or the presented and animals. If a man looks steadily at any
food. It is only after the crows have eaten it .child or animal, and asys or thinks how beautiful it is, it will soon die. A blue thread round the
that the people of the house sit down for their animal or the child's waist will save it. Tiger's
breakfast. claws and old coins are also a great protection.
When a crow caws early in the morning in the It is not right to allow others to look on while open yard of the house, or when an unusual noise you are eating, - especially the hungry. The is heard in the oven of the kitchen, a guest is steady gaze of the hungry at a man eating causes always expected either for breakfast or dinner. indigestion or a disease in the stomach.
K. SRIKANTALITAR. You must never put your feet on the table. Ootacamund. cloth (dastarkhari), nor permit a glass of water to be put on it.
BAD OWENS IN MADRAS, The evil eye cast on food can be averted by If you hear anybody spoesing or you see any setting aside a spoonful of each dish and giving sudden putting out of a burning light jaat it to birds or to beggars, or simply by muttering at the time of contemplation there will be an • prayer.
utter defeat. SAYYID KHAINAYAT AHAD.
K. SRIKANTALIYAR. Gayd.
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